As we know, Dedalo was a German merchant ship confiscated during WW1 and converted by the Spanish into a seaplane tender in 1922. Dedalo well demonstrated the utility of an aircraft capable ship by supporting the Spanish-French landings at Alhucemas during the Rif War in Morrocco in 1925. In...
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Hello, I am doing a research project on Spanish military vehicles, and was wondering if people could help me find any Spanish aircraft projects from civil war to modern day. What I am looking for are military vehicles, something that had designed or was planned to have been built with some sort...
I've just read this in the Battleships Axis and Neutral Battleships in World War II book by William H. Garzke and Robert O. Dulin about a proposed modernization of the 2x Espana class battleships.
Does anybody know anything more about this project?
also
The first batch of 31 Polikarpov I-16 Type 5 fighters (the strength of a Soviet Fighter Regiment) arrived in Spain at the end of October 1936.
The Republican ground crews in charge of assembling the aircraft called the new fighter Mosca (fly) because of the Russian word MOCKBA written on the...
Georges Sablier (and Aviación Vizcaína SA) Type Designations
Designation Style: some current sources display Sablier designations as S-xx. Contemporary documents, including Sablier plan pamphlets always display designations as Sablier type xx.
At some point in the mid-1930s, Georges Sablier...
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