world war ii

At the end of WW2 the myriad RAF & USAAF combat aircraft were drawn down, scraped or in the UKs case “given back” (either literally to the US or again scraped in the UK). But what would the out of service dates be of these iconic aircraft if the war continued to 1950 or later. Frontline...

CONTENTS Compressibility buffeting The research sites of the Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me 262 Interzeptor Messerschmitt Me 262 Heimatschützer BMW 109-003 R (TLR) rocket/turbojet BMW 109-718 rocket Rocket propellants composition Messerschmitt Me 262 Hochgeschwindigkeits Rennkabine...

In the US Carriers book, Friedman mentions that after the war, considerations had to be made in carrier designs for a "14-inch rocket", that did not progress far enough to enter service: The only information on this rocket I could find comes from the Wikipedia article on the Tiny Tim: (I would...

The Iwo Jima (CV-46) of the Essex class was cancelled incomplete after the war. But according to Friedman, there were plans to redesign the ship to alleviate the deficiencies of the Essex class (the plans died with the cancellation of the carrier): Does anyone have information on this redesign?

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZgi1O1Vb4 Some background on decoy airfields: https://www.aviationmuseum.net/AirfieldDecoys.htm

Interesting documents : https://maritime.org/doc/id/oni220-german-japan-subs/index.php#toc

Is the water-alcohol injection R-2800 on the P-47s, so they can make 2300-2600-2800 HP instead of 2000-2100 HP, also cheating? Engineer in ww2: we've managed to make our engines do extra 15-20-30% HP more, with reasonable reliability. 21st century enthusiast: cheater! Three things: - there...

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From a couple of days ago: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kuEujDjEM

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...

The Invention Of The Jet Engine: Hans Von Ohain, One Of The Fathers Of the Turbojet

https://www.airforcetimes.com/veterans/military-history/2024/05/20/bud-anderson-americas-last-world-war-ii-triple-ace-dies-at-102/?utm_source=sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=air-dnr Bud´s Old Crow aircraft https://toflyandfight.com/the-p-51-mustang/the-old-crow/ RiP

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

Vladas Kensgaila was born on September 23, 1933 in the village Bikavėnai, in the Šilutė district of Lithuania. Vladas was very proud that this was also the year that his heroes Stephen Darius and Stasys Girėnas flew across the Atlantic (a landmark which would have a strong impact on his career...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j544ELauus

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Hello again everyone, I am not sure how rare this is, yet I stumbled across the following link while looking for inspiration: https://www.panzer-modell.de/berichte/brencarrier/bren.php At first, I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek story invented for a model, similar to the likes of Luft46...

Just finished the book "Thunder Below" by Admiral Gene Fluckey who commanded the USS Barb on 5 cruises during WW2. It was a Gato class submarine. They mentioned having to 'Degauss' the submarine right before leaving Midway (after fuel/torpedo reload) for the sea of Okhotsk. I knew degaussing was...

The Navweps site on these two guns has some passing mentions that lead me to other questions: -135 mm/45 (5.3") Models 1937 and 1938: There is this statement: "A twin AA version for the Etna class cruisers and for the rebuild of the damaged battleship Conte Di Cavour were only in the...