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  1. hesham

    Boeing Two Small Aircraft to ID

    From Boeing magazine 1950, what was these two Boeing designs ?,maybe a generic or ?.
  2. GTX

    MC-55A Peregrine

    View: https://twitter.com/sr_planespotter/status/1701290701605003416?s=51&t=WcFuJ85g5OrePshaUNn-8g
  3. hesham

    Boeing Incredible Aircraft Design of 1961 ?

    From Boeing magazine 1961, can anyone ID this beast ?,may the number 733 was for its model,because we know that designation had been used for different concepts !.
  4. P

    Nemesis MBT development

    I can't find any thread on here regarding the Nemesis MBT, a British project with some US/Commonwealth contributions. https://tankhistoria.com/experimental/nemesis-mbt/?utm_content=cmp-true This article makes mention of a variety of considered versions in both the mounting of the gun...
  5. E

    US forces with a second JFK term and shorter/no Vietnam war?

    Hi everyone, We have already discussed a shorter/no Vietnam scenario already so I will not ask for changes related to this. However, what I was wondering about is whether having a second JFK term (due to no assassination) instead of a Johnson term would affect 1963-1968 procurement in any way...
  6. Tzoli

    US Missile Launcher Designations

    I've thought I collect here the Guided Missile Launcher Systems or GMLS designations the US Armed forces used, mostly the navy but there seems to be many missing launcher designations and sequences. If anybody knows more designations from the missing sequences feel free to post here or inform me...
  7. that_person

    Rumsfeld's Alternative Fleet Architecture Design and the Weapon Ship/Combat Systems Ship (X-WPS)

    Hello all. Today I was doing some research into the AGS's LRLAP shells, trying to confirm a hunch I have that the original unit price was drastically lower than the stated $800,000-$1,000,000. I sort of confirmed that, as well as finding information saying the AGS was supposed to fire other...
  8. Michel Van

    Keyhole satellite projects

    This here is overview of several projects for NRO Keyhole Spy Sats like DORIAN, SPARTAN, SAMOS or FULCRUM MOL aka KH-10 DORIAN KH-11 KENNEN The SPARTAN reconnaissance satellite program Proposal to use NRO camera on Apollo Mission Source material...
  9. M

    "Faked" SDI test from the 1980s

    I'm trying to track down references to an SDI test that I'm pretty sure used the MIRCL laser and SeaLite beam director. The test is mentioned here: https://www.csmonitor.com/1985/1106/zstar3.html I recall this being on the nightly newscasts. After much hype about SDI, little had occurred and...
  10. R

    MARAD PD-133 "Pacer" Austere Cargo Ship

    In 1966, the Maritime Administration began design work on a general purpose cargo-liner to be built in large enough numbers to be useful in national emergencies and replace war-era vessels serving in non-subsidized trade, with the idea that they be designed for minimum cost. As specified in a...
  11. Voltzz

    Low Cost Anti-submarine Weapon (LCAW)

    LCAW was a NATO program for an small torpedo, cheap/expendable enough to be use against unidentified/unverified sonar contacts. It was supposed to have both rocket-launched and helicopter-dropped version. At first it was a trilateral US, German Norwegian project, but some point ~1990 The US...
  12. Tzoli

    CVAN-67 the Nuclear Kennedy

    It is known that originally the 4th member of the Kitty Hawk class carriers the USS John F. Kennedy were to be nuclear powered variant of that class and would had been the 2nd nuclear carrier in the USN and in the world using a new Westinghouse A3W reactor design though there were plans to build...
  13. isayyo2

    Colt-Fairbanks Morse 38A20

    Creating this thread to hopefully uncover more information about the 38A20 family of opposed-piston diesels developed in the late 1960s. What I know so far: Maritime Reporter February 15, 1969 Courtesy of Lufkin Foundry and Machine Company's magazine Lufkin Line, we discover 38A20 started...
  14. 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.
  15. L

    Soviet vs US radar processors comparison

    Been trying to find out more on this subject, but there seems to be frustratingly little. I'm interested in finding out data on 1970s-1980s soviet and american radar processors to form an idea about the oft-mentioned gap between the two in this domain. i'm not a computer man so anything detailed...
  16. Hanse

    PteroDynamics X-P4

  17. E

    TikTok

    I'm taking my dog off my account immediately. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65126056
  18. TomS

    PXM -- A modern subchaser for the USN

    A few months ago, I posted a thread on a briefing with several more or less obscure frigate concepts for the USN. One of the designs included in that brief is the PXM, which I described at the time as a rabbit hole. This thread is my attempt to chase that rabbit as far as I can go, starting from...
  19. shin_getter

    US UGV/UGCVs (unmanned ground combat/vehicles)

    Should we start a RCV thread? View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD6YhuU0id0 View: https://youtu.be/aDK5c2GmGM4 Looks like RTS unit so much.
  20. uk 75

    Moon 1970s

    As the US looks to go back to the Moon with Artemis my question here is, what might have been feasible in the 1970s to keep the US sending manned expeditions to the Moon? Clearly, the main obstacle was a political one. With no Soviet manned lunar programme once the US had got to the Moon first...
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