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  1. K

    Iraqi arms acquisition plans before 1990 and 2003

    What if Saddam never invaded Kuwait and never being throw up??? What would be the state of Ba'ath Iraqi armed forces?
  2. overscan (PaulMM)

    Secrets of the D-30F6 Turbofan

    I've always wondered about how the Perm D-30F6 turbofan is able to power the MiG-31 to Mach 2.83, when it appeared to be a relatively conventional adaptation of the D-30 commercial turbofan family. Source is ENGINES OF RUSSIAN COMBAT AIRCRAFT by Kotelnikov V. R., Khrobystova O. V., Zrelov V...
  3. Flyaway

    UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

    The UK/US base will remain. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98ynejg4l5o
  4. L

    MiG-21 countermeasures

    Trying to find the earliest year the MiG-21 received the SPS-141 ECM pod, and ASO-2 chaff/flare dispensers. First, for the SPS-141 there is the only the vague 1970s period usually mentioned online. But is there info as to what year exactly did the SPS-141 (SM-1 or SPS-141-100?) became...
  5. R

    Does 'Flexible Response' NEED 'massive Retaliation' first?

    The 'Massive Retaliation' era ~1957-1967 appears to have skewed Defence Projects and Procurement compared to what occurred previously and what occurred in the 'Flexible Response' era where conventional forces were given much greater priority compared to nuclear forces. This made me think that if...
  6. W

    Belyayev pusher fighter?

    A German report on Allied aircraft discovered by Gregory D. Heuer at NARA and published at the Luft46 Facebook public group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/678300375530524?locale=pt_PT, showing what I believe is a Soviet Belyayev design, sharing many "EOI" or "PBI" features. Comments are...
  7. M

    Soviet amphibious assault ship

    Can the Soviets develop or modify an existing design into an amphibious assault vessel ? I think Moskva class aviation cruisers will be a great choice Can anyone suggest what changes will be needed to modify them ? And if a new vessel what do you think such a vessel will look like given...
  8. M

    Soviet amphibious assault

    Can the Soviets develop or modify an existing design into an amphibious assault vessel ? I think Moskva class aviation cruisers will be a great choice Can anyone suggest what changes will be needed to modify them ? And if a new vessel what do you think such a vessel will look like given...
  9. J

    Gelled fuels: Luminal-A, Alumizin, etc

    Michel Van: "One Moment Luminal-A ? was Glusko also in Alumizine propellant ?!" Right, luminal-a is soviet analog of american alumizine. Some theoretical works was conducted at OKB-456 (chief designer V. P. Glushko; today NPO "Energomash"), then conducted some static fire tests. OKB-456 has...
  10. R

    Soviet 57mm Aircraft cannons (N-57/OKB-16-57)

    Very little info seems to exist on these weapons. If anyone has any additional info this weapon (or weapons, maybe they are different from each other?) that would be great, such as ammunition types used, rate of fire, etc. Below is the info I've compiled so far, There seems to be a small...
  11. Gentleman’s Astronautics

    Flashpoint - Cold War gone hot, 1948

    Just came across Operation Downfall, and was pondering. What might be the political situation that would warrant the plan coming to fruition? What projects would be pursued and put into production, and what wouldn't? Who would win the war? Perhaps the 3rd world war would be caused by a...
  12. Avimimus

    Critique of 1945 German aircraft designs - where were the mistakes?

    I heard rumour that TsAGI analysis found that the Ta-183 Design II would have shed its tail (although the IAe 33 Pulqui II seems to have eventually managed to make a somewhat similar t-tail work). What other issues did late war WWII designs have? Ju EF 128 intakes might have had a lot of duct...
  13. Stargazer

    Krasnodar SKh-2 "Challenger": a unique agricultural aircraft prototype

    This story fascinates me... It shows what can be done when you have little resource but a lot of creativity... Unfortunately, the page which I took this article from had been saved onto my computer, and doesn't seem to be only any longer. Only one forum topic (in Russian) deals with this...
  14. J

    Fake Soviet Fighter

    In 1948 y 1951 two illustrations of a new unknown jet fighter, with pointed nose and belly mounted turbojet, were published by L'Ala D'Italia. In November 1949 Flying published a different illustration of the same aircraft as “Undesignated fighter”. And in 1951 Air Trails published three views...
  15. Grey Havoc

    Soviet Venus probes

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydibFhTuimY
  16. Stargazer

    Oleg Cheremukhin's "Poisk-01 A" air-cushion aircraft

    © Aviatsiya i kosmonavtika, No 8, Aug 1992. Article by A. Shubalov under the rubric "Conversion of the VPK [Military-Industrial Complex]: Day by Day": "Places Where a Geologist Will Not Go..." Translated version from Central Eurasia AVIATION & COSMONAUTICS No 8, August 1992 — JPRS-UAC-93-002 —24...
  17. M

    Antonov An-24 bomber

    Can the Soviets in the 1970s convert a version of An-24 as a night bomber to be used by third world countries. Whose opponents had little or no night fighting capabilities back then
  18. axlzed3301

    Postwar Soviet Experimental Tanks

    On 20.5.1952, Ministry of Defense industry of USSR organized a meeting with tank constructors and with the marshal of tank forces, I.S.Bogdanov, to discuss the future of armored forces development. The result of this meeting was a set of tank requirements from 18.6.1952. The resulting tank was...
  19. T

    1935-45: airforce on a tight budget & schedule

    Everybody and his brother were trying to have as good as aiforce/air-service as possible, and especially in the specified time frame, but many times the available budget was a serious brick wall between the desires and reality. What kind of aircraft should a not-rich, but a reasonably developed...
  20. YourChair

    French 400, 406, 420, and 431mm naval gun designs from the late 30s

    Hello! The book French Battleships 1922-56 mentions that for the Alsace-class battleship designs, studies for 400, 406, and 420mm guns were ordered. Additionally, a 406mm naval gun was created by the Schneider company for the Soviet Union, and a 431mm naval gun was created: the elusive Canon de...
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