strategic reconnaissance

  1. Mike Pryce

    TSR2 60 years ago today

    It's 60 years since the infamous event View: https://x.com/MichaelJPryce/status/1908792157692903689 And this thread https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/tsr2-conference-cosford-13-may-2023.41350/ Was it really the turkey we all now say it is?
    • Mike Pryce
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    • british aircraft corporation cold war great britain nuclear battlefield raf bomber command royal air force strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  2. Grey Havoc

    Challenger 650s for Australian ISR?

    It is unclear if they are being leased out to the RAAF or another government agency, though on reflection, the wording makes it seem more like the company itself will providing ISR coverage under contract/s?: https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/bombardier-challenger-australia Interesting...
    • Grey Havoc
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    • australia cold war ii commonwealth of australia isr strategic reconnaissance
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    • Forum: Military
  3. A Tentative Fleet Plan

    US Mid-1960s Ocean Reconnaissance Ship

    From Norman Friedman's US Small Combatants, pages 319-323 (most of those pages are pictures of PBRs, a Coast Guard 82-footer and a 57-ft Minesweeper Boat) Table 12-5. Schemes for Ocean Reconnaissance Ships, 31 March 1966 A B C D E May 1967 LBP (ft) 317.5 311 311 315 — 374 LOA...
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    • 1960s anti-submarine warfare cold war late 1960s maritime reconnaissance oceanographic research research ship sonar strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance u.s. navy united states navy
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  4. R

    Alternative RAAF fleets.

    A comment in another thread abut how Australia should have transferred RAN A4s to the RAAF instead of selling them to New Zealand reminded me of a bunch of other Australian decisions. Meteor for Korean War service when we were building Nene-Vampires. Authorising 30 F104s in early 57, cancelling...
    • Rule of cool
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    • alternate history anti-submarine warfare close air support cold war commonwealth of australia electronic warfare fighters royal australian air force royal australian navy strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  5. Flyaway

    PARCAE (ocean surveillance satellite program 1976-2008)

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/reconnaissance-satellite
    • Flyaway
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    • 1980s 1990s cold war electronic warfare elint late 1970s maritime reconnaissance post-cold war satellite sigint signals intelligence strategic reconnaissance united states united states navy white cloud
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  6. Mike Pryce

    Happy Birthday TSR2!

    60 today, and still shifting books like a teenager. Thread 'TSR2 Conference - Cosford 13 May 2023' https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/tsr2-conference-cosford-13-may-2023.41350/
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    • 1964 aerospace industry british aircraft corporation cold war english electric company limited gor.339 great britain ministry of supply north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield or.343 raf bomber command royal air force strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance vickers-armstrongs
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  7. Dew

    Republic Aviation Recoverable Booster Airplane proposal for SR-181 'Strategic Orbital System'

    from ARDC TR-59-64 Advanced Concepts Study, Final Report. from USAF FOIA reading room. (edit: PDF split & now attached) A JT11-7A powered Booster Airplane launches a rocket vehicle & satellite payload with two solid fuelled stages and a storable liquid propellant third and fourth stages...
    • Dew
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    • cold war republic aviation corporation space weapons strategic air command strategic reconnaissance united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  8. B

    Feasibility Study For A Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft - Hawker Siddeley Aviation Advanced Projects Group - 1962

    What it says on the tin...
    • Barrington Bond
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    • anti-submarine warfare cold war early 1960s elint great britain hawker siddeley aviation ltd maritime surveillance raf coastal command royal air force strategic reconnaissance supersonic variable geometry
    • Replies: 21
    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  9. boxkite

    They Also Serve - RAF Reconnaissance and Support Projects Since 1945

    Have I missed something? Have I overlooked something? See Chris Gibson's (new?) Avatar ...
    • boxkite
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    • air-sea rescue cold war cold war ii electronic warfare elint great britain nuclear battlefield post-cold war post-world war ii raf air support command raf bomber command raf germany raf search and rescue force raf strike command raf transport command royal air force royal air force marine branch sigint strategic reconnaissance world war ii
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    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  10. Y

    A-12/SR-71 astro-inertial navigation system

    The A-12 and the later SR-71 used the NAS-14v2 astro-inertial navigation system (ANS) from the 1960s, which was particularly interesting in the pre-GPS times. The set apparently looked like this...
    • yahya
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    • a-12 astro-inertial navigation system central intelligence agency cold war great britain jet age nas-14v2 northrop nortronics nortronics division (northrop) space age sr-71 strategic air command strategic reconnaissance united states air force
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    • Forum: Avionics and Military/Naval electronics
  11. T

    Project Verticon

    Hi, from the CIA archive (link) a detailed report about the Verticon project, a photo recce payload to be used with Aerobee rockets.
    • Temistocle
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    • battlefield reconnaisance central intelligence agency cold war covert operations defense products division fairchild camera and instrument corporation meteorological survey photo-recce photographic reconnaissance rocket strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance united states vertical firing rockets weather reconnaissance
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    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  12. Deltafan

    Dassault Albatros

    Hi, from the French magazine Le Fana de l'Aviation for the month of April (free Facebook page of the magazine):
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    • airborne sampling aircraft cold war dassault nuclear sniffer nuclear testing société des avions marcel dassault strategic reconnaissance
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    • Forum: Secret Postwar Aircraft Projects
  13. Foo Fighter

    TSR2 SLEP

    G'day folks, consider this. The TSR2 goes into service and later requires a SLEP, what engines are avaulable and could a big wing be fitted/would it be an improvement?
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    • alternate history cold war great britain north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield raf bomber command raf strike command royal air force strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance united kingdom
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    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  14. overscan (PaulMM)

    NAA B-70 Valkyrie Variants Article by Tony R. Landis

    https://media.defense.gov/2020/Nov/23/2002540204/-1/-1/1/B-70%20VARIANTS.PDF This is nice :)
    • overscan (PaulMM)
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    • cold war heavy bomber north american aviation nuclear battlefield strategic air command strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance united states united states air force usaf v/stol vstol
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    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  15. Flyaway

    Applied witchcraft: American communications intelligence satellites during the 1960s

    Another cracking article from Mr Day. https://thespacereview.com/article/4051/1
    • Flyaway
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    • 1960s cold war comint satellites elint imperial japanese navy leo satellite low earth orbit national reconnaissance office sigint signals intelligence soviet union strategic reconnaissance united states world war ii
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  16. CJGibson

    Strategic Air Command in the UK - Robert S. Hopkins III

    Robert's latest book has gone to print and should be available, alongside the man himself, on the Crecy Publishing stand at IPMS Telford on 9th November 2019. Strategic Air Command in the UK Throughout its 46-year history, Strategic Air Command (SAC) was inextricably linked to the United...
    • CJGibson
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    • cold war cruise missile great britain irbm north atlantic treaty organisation nuclear battlefield raf bomber command raf strike command royal air force strategic air command strategic bomber strategic reconnaissance tactical nuke tanker aircraft united kingdom united states air force
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    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  17. Flyaway

    Top Secret DAMON: the classified reconnaissance payload planned for the fourth space shuttle mission

    http://www.thespacereview.com/article/3748/1 Top Secret DAMON: the classified reconnaissance payload planned for the fourth space shuttle mission by Dwayne A. Day Monday, July 1, 2019 The first military/intelligence payload ever scheduled to fly aboard the Space Shuttle was a top-secret...
    • Flyaway
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    • cold war early 1980s late 1970s nasa national reconnaissance office space age space race space shuttle space transportation system spy sat strategic reconnaissance united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  18. overscan (PaulMM)

    CASC Caihong-7 (CH-7) UCAV

    Via https://twitter.com/HenriKenhmann Length 10m, wingspan 22m, MTOW 13t, cruise at 13km / 0.6Ma, Vmax 0.75Ma. Positioning: Strategic recognition and strikes high value targets. First flight 2019, serial production 2022.
    • overscan (PaulMM)
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    • 2018 2020s airborne early warning close air support cold war ii drone electronic warfare late 2010s people's liberation army people's liberation army air force people's republic of china sead strategic reconnaissance ucav
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  19. Flyaway

    Black Ops And The Shuttle

    http://thespacereview.com/article/3390/1 Black ops and the shuttle (part 3-1): Recovering spent HEXAGON reconnaissance satellites with the space shuttle by Dwayne A. Day Monday, December 11, 2017
    • Flyaway
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    • 1980s cold war national reconnaissance office space age space race space shuttle space transportation system space weapons spy sat strategic defense initiative strategic reconnaissance united states air force
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  20. Flyaway

    Public Release of SIGINT Phase II Records

    More on link below including the declassified documents themselves. http://www.nro.gov/foia/declass/SIGINT_PhaseII.html
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    • central intelligence agency cold war electronic warfare lockheed national reconnaissance office national security agency photographic reconnaissance post-world war ii rand corporation signals intelligence space age space race spy sat strategic reconnaissance tactical reconnaissance united states united states air force
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
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