special operations

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Hello all, been a minute I am not sure where to post this, but has anyone heard of the Welbum? It's in the same league as the Welrod, Welwand, Welfreighter, and Welman when it comes to British convert R&D at Station IX in WW2. I saw the name pop up while reading about the Welwand and I...

https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2024/06/19/first-black-navy-seal-william-goines-dies-at-88/ Rest In Peace. :(

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Stukas over Panama? In addition during 1943 plans were hatched to fly two Ju-87B stukas from St Martin Cay near Nicaragua to bomb the Panama canal. These were to be taken there by U-boat. I read this--on this very forum I believe--a fair wee while ago while hunting around Google for...

Suppose that operational helicopters were delayed several years beyond the original time line. Airborne operations are still limited to parachutes and assault gliders. What direction would assault gliders develop? Would they be limited to delivering small squads (say 10 men) to capture...

An interesting midget submarine that became a vital part of an even more interesting operation of the Decima Flottiglia MAS that came close to fruition in 1943 (it was ultimately scheduled for December of that year, but events intervened). Development of the CA-class had begun pre-war, in 1938...

The Youtube comments are well worth a look.

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The Vought Archive at the University of Texas in Dallas contains quite a strange series of entries: This clearly indicates that Scaled Composites conducted a study in 1991 for the rapid prototyping of a SOFTA aircraft. Strange is the way the XC-142 seems to be associated to the same report...

Project G - 'Submergible motorboat', originally intended for coastal defence (a 'fighter' concept, armed with two 450 mm torpedoes), prototypes later modified for special operations with the 10th Light Flotilla [Decima Flottiglia MAS]. First batch (prototypes) CA 1 - Scuttled at La Spezia...

Because of a little disagreement over in Naval Projects, I did a bit more digging on this program and found some interesting facts that I thought merited a new topic (here for the moment, rather than Military, since the prototypes don't seem to have been built yet). The Combatant Craft, Heavy...

North American Rockwell OV-10D NOS (Night Observation Surveillance) Bronco Source: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?65214-OV-10-Bronco-commercial-catalog-%28issue-1964%29/page2

Model of Lockheed Martin and Gibbs Technologies Ltd. Amphibious Combat Craft/Expeditionary (ACC/E) vehicle on display at the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) Winter Symposium and Exhibition 2007. NOTE: Original images reduced in size. Source...

Started in 1968, the Quiet One, an OH-6A Loach was modified to conduct a classified mission in December of 1972, to deploy a group of trained Laotian commandos into North Vietnam to tap into communication lines connecting NVA commanders. All operations were to be conducted at night. Pictures...

does anyone have any three views and cross sections views of the C-5

Hi, The Lockheed had old project called C-130J,it was developed from C-130E with increase aileron and rudder chords,wider u/c track,improved braking system and additional armoured protection; do you have a drawing to it ?,(of course I know there was a new project to lockheed in 1996 called...