world war i

A friend of mine shared me these few images showing Schneider et Cie Gun designs of 305, 351 and 381mm or 12", 14" and 15" calibre from likely the WW1 era.

[I have taken the liberty of moving this discussion to its own new thread, to avoid stepping on the toes of Oberon_706's Australia-oriented thread.] Dilandu points out that Canada had 2 coasts to defend in the first half of the 20th century, although I believe that was considered in Ottawa to...

Ever since the first Zeppelin raids in World War 1 the vulnerability of the civilian population of the UK to attack from the air has been a major factor in shaping our armed forces. The tile "Air Defence of Great Britain" comes from the organisation set up to meet the only air threat imagined in...

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/library-and-archive/archive-hidden-treasures/first-military-forecast

I'm looking for data on the following questions: - Production of smokeless powder in USA during WW2, by years - Production of artillery in Britain during WW1, by types and years (it seems that there was some kind of British publication that contained accurate data on the production of all guns...

Are there any lesser known WW1 or WW2 never-built warship designs?

In a patent dated October 20, 1914, entitled Fallgeschoß für Luftfahrzeuge, Walther Lentz presents a type of projectile, an aerial torpedo dropped from airships by means of an ejection device on a descending trajectory.The aerial torpedo has a simple shape, with two slender wings attached to the...

View: https://youtu.be/2LKS2kR4LJY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R38-class_airship

A detailed description of the Torpedo Protection System for this ship is held by the University of Tokyo and has been digitised. I have downloaded, and uploaded here, the description and the diagram of this system. It goes without saying that the presence of this document in Japan is a very...

This thread was long overdue, actually way long overdue. I don't know why didn't I posted these until now. So here it is, the capital ship projects of the Kaiserliche und Königliche Kriegsmarine aka the KuK Kriegsmarine or the Austro-Hungarian Navy Some designs were already posted here...

Hello! The book French Battleships 1922-56 mentions that for the Alsace-class battleship designs, studies for 400, 406, and 420mm guns were ordered. Additionally, a 406mm naval gun was created by the Schneider company for the Soviet Union, and a 431mm naval gun was created: the elusive Canon de...

https://www.navypedia.org/ships/austrohungary/ah_ss_u48.htm https://www.navypedia.org/ships/austrohungary/ah_ss_u50.htm https://www.navypedia.org/ships/austrohungary/ah_ss_u52.htm https://www.navypedia.org/ships/austrohungary/ah_ss_u101.htm...

Introduction: John Arbuthnot Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, Commander, Captain, Admiral, Second then First Sea Lord, one if not the most influential and prominent naval commander of the Royal Navy. His ideas, views and dedicated work allowed the modernization of the Royal Navy to remain in first...

I'll start the topic with an experienced Finnish infantry gun 76 PK 27/38 1943-1944.

One of my continuing interests and a strength of this site is information about Royal Navy ships that never left the drawing board. Recently.not so much has been published about these designs so I thought I would start this thread. Many projects have there own threads and are well known to...

Wandered into this from another board https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_unmanned_aerial_vehicles_of_World_War_I Archibald Low stated "in 1917 the Experimental Works designed an electrically steered rocket... Rocket experiments were conducted under my own patents with the help of Cdr...

Hi, does anyone know these two aircraft ( Avis 4 Cagno & Avis 5 Serra Zanetti0,and what was Avis company ?

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To start this thread off, a 2020 Top Gear story on the development of the Royal Enfield Model RE airborne forces motorcycle, better known as the Flying Flea: https://www.topgear.com/car-news/british/small-motorbike-helped-win-ww2 (You will notice a few, mostly minor errors in the article.)

Fokker Dr. I Genesis/Brief Summary of Leon Bennett's Perspective Hi everyone, I recently read "Three Wings for the Red Baron" by Leon Bennett. Quite a fascinating and surprising book, but I'm not sure how much of it is speculation and how much can is based on a solid foundation of verifiable...