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    Boeing 2707 / United Wall Art - Thrift Store Find

    Hello everyone, new here, created an account to post this since I don't see many other places discussing the 2707. I was at the local thrift store(Cleveland, OH, USA) the other day and came across this pretty cool wall art. It's about 5 feet wide and features a blueprint of the 2707 along with a...
  2. Grey Havoc

    DUCES - Tactical Data in Use Security (U.S. Army)

    https://breakingdefense.com/2025/02/army-says-duces-to-cyber-hackers-new-rfi-looks-for-tactical-edge-zero-trust-solutions/
  3. E

    Hudson Mk.V Defensive Armaments

    Hello, recently I've come across a 1942 Data Sheet for the Lockheed Hudson Mk.V aircraft, and in this sheet it lists the aircraft having: * 2 x Fixed forward Firing .303s (500 rounds per gun) * 2 x .303s in Dorsal turret (2000 rounds per gun) * 1 x .303 in a ventral Position (1000 rounds per...
  4. overscan (PaulMM)

    Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program: Manned Aircraft Progress Report 1956-1958 (video)

    View: https://x.com/whatisnuclear/status/1886397754143867189 https://whatisnuclear.com/news/2025-02-03-declassified-nuclear-powered-aircraft-progress-update-manned-flight-film.html View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-8q8INxQEY This is an excellent video with lots of information on the...
  5. E

    Virgin Galactic and Redwire partner on suborbital research capabilities

    https://spacenews.com/virgin-galactic-and-redwire-partner-on-suborbital-research-capabilities/
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    Washington DC air collision (January 2025)

    American Eagle Flight 5342, a CRJ-700, has collided with a US Army Blackhawk out of Fort Belvoir near Reagan International Airport in D.C. Current reports say both the helicopter, and the two halves of the CRJ, are in the Potomac River. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cy7kxx74yxlt
  7. Grey Havoc

    3/4-Ton 4x4 Cargo-Personnel Carrier, XM443E1 (U.S. Army)

    I don't think I have come across this one before: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ordnance-report-90589389
  8. Michel Van

    Expulsive Nuclear-Electric Manned Astroliner (ENEMA)

    The Source at Flickr label it as: Expulsive Nuclear-Electric Manned Astroliner (ENEMA) launch. Convair/General Dynamic artist’s concept. (1960-1962) View: https://www.flickr.com/photos/apollo4ever/54280085188/in/photolist-2qGxCeJ got someone more info about this ?
  9. hesham

    Egyptian Tu-16 vs American aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in 1972

    Hi, The photo dates back to 1972, specifically November, when the American aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy approached the Egyptian coast. The Tupolev Tu-16 strategic bomber came out and approached it closely, flying over the aircraft carrier. A Phantom F4 fighter from the carrier was...
  10. M

    Warsaw Pact Britain - naval strategy and other considerations

    It probably is a somewhat strange topic, more of a mental and visual experiment than anything else (feel free to move it to artwork, if it's more appropriate there). In some sense my primary "enemy" in envisioning this setting is the 1966 Defense Review, which I want to circumvent and reverse...
  11. aim9xray

    Superstar engineer John Hart-Smith skewered Boeing’s strategy | Obituary

    embedded links: Hart-Smith paper on Boeing Outsourcing 2003 reaction to Hart-Smith Paper
  12. Forest Green

    DARPA's Gunslinger - Missile with Cannon

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG52_HOzsXw
  13. Forest Green

    McDonnell Douglas GRM-29A Rocket-Powered Bomber

    View: https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1874984691633414466 View: https://x.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1874990524895203505
  14. uk 75

    Parallels between the decline of the USN and the RN

    Watching the decline in size and construction problems encountered by the USN since 1991 I am reminded of the fate of the Royal Navy after WW2. At first sight the US has done rather better. It still has the world's largest force of nuclear strike carriers and its nuclear submarines remain the...
  15. LogicalEnemyResponse

    Unusual mid 80s armed robotic sentry.

    I’ve been searching quite a lot lately for publications(specifically books and magazines)with information on the so-called “PROWLER” robot designed built and tested by Robot Defense Systems of Thornton Colorado around 1985. Nasty piece of tech with twin M60 machine guns,armor-plated chassis,Mark...
  16. Z

    NATO defence spending

    Via Financial Times. Thoughts?
  17. E

    OpenAI, Anduril partner on AI drone-defense plan

    Skynet anyone? https://www.axios.com/2024/12/04/openai-anduril-ai-drone-defense-pentagon
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    AN/ARN-92 LORAN

    I am looking for technical information on the AN/ARN-92 LORAN-C/D navigation system, particularly for the sketches or photos of the cockpit control unit and display panels if they existed. This system was used, inter alia, on the F-4D, RF-4C and F-105D, and reportedly provided an approximate...
  19. Michel Van

    ELON MUSK (Tesla, Boring, Neurolink etc)

    The Rules: Everything (Tesla, Boring, Neurolink etc) except SpaceX that own Discussion here: https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/spacex-general-discussion.13774/ Keep down politics and be Polite to each Other, please ! Otherwise this will shut down and locked Thanks let show begin...
  20. hesham

    Search Helicopter Towed Rescue Boat,1965

    From Naval Aviation News 1965.
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