Hello again everyone,
I am not sure how rare this is, yet I stumbled across the following link while looking for inspiration: https://www.panzer-modell.de/berichte/brencarrier/bren.php
At first, I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek story invented for a model, similar to the likes of Luft46...
In some sources, a Romanian remote-controlled demolition vehicle - supposedly, a version of Sd.Kfz 302/303 "Goliath" tracked mine - is mentioned. According to a few available data, though, this machine was much larger, about 2 tons, and supposedly radio-controlled. It was tested in 1944...
Thought we already had a thread on the Goliath robot demolition vehicle, aka tracked mine. Oh well.
A reasonably good though short overview (though it overlooks the reusable version):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_tracked_mine
Hello folks,
Hope this is not old news or wrongly placed – if so, many apologies: for all that the illustration below is an artist's impression, I decided to try this in 'Early Aircraft' (as opposed to ‘Theoretical and Speculative’) because there were at least scale-model versions of this idea...
Wingknut
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I came across the Saro P.200 brochure at Kew and a file of related correspondence.
The P.200 was designed in 1957 to meet an Admiralty requirement.
The hull was a normal planing bow with a tunnel aft to carry a Pentane A/S homing torpedo. The hydrofoils and rudders were separated to allow the...
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