This thread is to examine the aircraft, systems, and networks that were involved in the 'electronic barrier' that was part of the McNamara Line, a defensive line developed to block North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers from accessing South Vietnam along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. The aircraft...
coin
coin aircraft
cold war
defense intelligence agency
democratic republic of vietnam
department of defense
drone
electronic warfare
north vietnam
remote sensing
republic of vietnam
rpv
south vietnam
united states
united states air force
united states navy
vietnamwar
Gonna park this in the Bar for now, if there's a better spot the mods can move it.
I'm looking for a good book on PT boat operations in WW2, and a separate book about Swift Boats in Vietnam (I doubt there's one book that covers both).
Anyone got some suggestions? Books written by PT or Swift...
Admin suggestion: if there is an appropriate existing thread, please combine.
The RAN has had a very spotty track record after 1945 with regards to actually landing forces on any of the islands in its neighborhood outside of existing port facilities.
This first post is to establish what...
alternate history
amphibious warfare vessel
australian army
british commonwealth
cold war
commonwealth of australia
pacific ocean
post-world war ii
royal australian engineers
royal australian navy
vietnamwar
One of my hobbies is collecting waterline ship models in 1/1250 or 1/1200 scales covering the Cold War era.
I have been trying to find the composition of USN units on the Yankee and Dixie Stations off Vietnam and Gonzo station in the Arabian Sea.
Does anyone know a source?
1969
aeronautical systems division
air force aero propulsion laboratory
air force materials laboratory
air force systems command
bureau of mines
cold war
late 1960s
limited war office (asj)
limited war/special air warfare
project 1559
united states air force
vietnamwar
Good Afternoon everyone, hope you are all doing well
Lately i have been having a lot of thoughts about engine capabilities and i thought long and hard in regards to Orenda and other smaller engine manifacturers of the 50s and 60s, i thought about the Iroquois engine a lot and not only because of...
So as part of as a what-if scale model, I wrote up a backstory (if you want to see the whole build process check out whatifmodelers https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=53008.0). The interesting part was I wrote up a basic story and then used Google Gemini AI to re-write and basically...
chuting stars
cold war
cuban missile crisis
navy parachute demonstration team
special forces
special operations
u.s. navy seal teams
united states
united states navy
vietnamwar
I am currently writing a book on the Short Skyvan. I wonder if anyone has information (description, drawings etc) on Shorts project P.D.50 described as a "Skyvan VTOL test-bed", and P.D.62 listed in the Putnam as "Skyvan with B.L.C" but elsewhere as "Skyvan Feeder Liner". Both seem quite...
cessna aircraft company
coin aircraft
cold war
great britain
republic of vietnam
republic of vietnam air force (rvnaf)
short brothers plc
short skyvan
south vietnam
stol
transport aircraft
united states
united states army
vietnamwar
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...
As we all know, the USAF went into Vietnam without a dedicated air superiority fighter and suffered for it, particularly in the early years with unreliable sparrows/sidewinders, no cannons on the Phantoms, and inadequate BFM training. Que the arrival of the F-4E, along with better missiles and...
In a Washington Special Actions Group Meeting on 15 May 1972, five days after the start of the Linebacker I, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Admiral Thomas Moorer said North Vietnam introduced a new mobile SAM, the SA-4 Ganef...
1972
air defence
battlefield air defence
cold war
democratic republic of vietnam
early 1970s
eastern bloc
north vietnam
north vietnamese army
people's army of vietnam
soviet union
spaam
surface-to-air missile
vietnamwarwarsaw pact
One of Harold Wilson's achievements as Prime Minister was to resist President Johnson's pressure for Britain to make some visible military contribution to the Vietnam War.
Wilson had only narrowly beaten a Conservative Government in 1964. The Conservatives may well have resisted Johnson too on...
alternate history
british army
cold war
democratic republic of vietnam
eastern bloc
fleet air arm
great britain
north vietnamese army
republic of vietnam
royal air force
royal marines
royal navy
united states
vietnamwar
We know how much influence the Vietnam War had on US (and other countries) aircraft developments. But what if the Vietnam War had never happened? How would aircraft programs been affected in that scenario?
Let's assume in this scenario the Geneva Accords of 1954 end up in a single united...
aerospace industry
aircraft design
alternate history
cold war
democratic republic of vietnam
great britain
north atlantic treaty organisation
south korea
soviet union
united states
vietnamwar
west germany
what-if
world war iii
Just a random idea in passing...
In the 50's some aircraft carriers and heavy cruisers were converted for Regulus 1 launches. Then the much improved Regulus II was cut short by Polaris.
Whatif
- Regulus I and, most importantly, Regulus II were developped in non-nuclear variants ? and later...
australian army
evelyn owen
freddie kunzler
john lysaght (australia) pty ltd
korean war
owen gun
owen machine carbine
vietnamwar
vincent wardell
world war ii
This was a project intended to provide three (correction, four) atomic powered high speed container ships for use on Essential Foreign Trade Route No. 12, between the U.S. Atlantic Coast and the Far East. The ships would have used the AEC Maritime Reactor, a clean sheet gas-cooled reactor design...
1950s
33000-ton tanker
aec
american export isbrandtsen line
atomic energy commission
atomic ships
atoms for peace
cold war
contract ma-1893
high speed container ships
isbrandtsen co.
maritime administration
naval reactor
nuclear powered vessels
u.s. congress
united states
vietnamwar
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