Space Transporter concept "BORAS" – Bolkow Raum Transporter. Bolkow Developments KG Two stage space transporter with horizontal take-off. First stage uses 8 high – pressure ejector rocket engines. Each engine has 248 kN thrust. Upper stage has 2 rocket engines and a payload of 3 t. Launcher mass...
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ALL HANDS MAGAZINE
SEPTEMBER 1961
PAGE: 39
"OPERATION CRYSTAL BALL"
In 1961 RADM Roy S. Benson asked everyone in the sub force to submit ideas for "future" submarine weapons etc.
Some ideas
- "depth charging" surface craft
- underwater submarine tender
- sailless submarines
- addition of...
i found 2 sst designs , one made by spanish toy company Hojalata and one by an unknown chinese toy maker callet "st-1 rocket plane"
heres the chinese one.
And heres the spanish one.
Althought intrestingly unique vessels and pride of our naval building capacities, the Turunmaa class Gunboat (or corvette in more international sense) never attracted any foreing sales,
as didn't anything else we tried to market. Some proposals do have appeared, mostly just with different...
HMS Alliance was modified for SIGINT/ELINT work during a yard period in the late 1950s (1958-1960), in particular for monitoring the Soviet Northern Fleet, at least according to the Daily Telegraph obituary of Rear Admiral Martin Wemyss linked below...
I am cleaning up the wiki articles on Swingfire and TOW. One source mentions that in the early 1960s when the US decided to move ahead with TOW, after promising the British they wouldn't, they argued there was no point continuing Swingfire because the French were replacing ENTAC with a...
A previous thread suggested that Orange William fed into Swingfire. I am not sure how this might be.
OW was a command-guided weapon using a complex two-sight system, a computer, and IR links to the missile to control its flight through rear-mounted control surfaces. The rest of the system was...
In the 1960s, the RAF started to examine options for land-based AEW aircraft. NASR.6166 was a joint RAF/RN requirement issued in 1962, for a carrier-borne AEW aircraft that would also be used from land bases. This requirement specified an FMICW radar.
That didn't stop companies from offering...
My friend said that during the first two decades of the early Cold War. The British STT has designed a series of very distinctive blueprint tanks and a small number of prototype vehicles actually built.
These new tanks used to meet the needs of the new era of warfare and against the Soviets...
I have come across an article from Air Force Magazine (link below) about the F-5 dated December 1964 that briefly talks about two variants of the F-5 apparently being offered at the time.
First, an improved F-5A with slightly higher thrust ("J85-13/J5", 4300 lbf, 220 lbf higher than the...
Meant to create a topic on this after creating the one on the Kenworth-Boeing gas-powered turbine truck earlier in the year. Like that program this one had its origins in an USN requirement, albeit a later one.
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tODsl0-oW0Q
View...
1960s
cold war
ford motor company
ford motor company heavy trucks division
freightliner corporation
gas turbine
united states
united states marine corps
united states navy
1960s
cold war
dounreay nuclear power development establishment
great britain
nuclear power
royal navy
united kingdom
united kingdom atomic energy authority
vulcan naval reactor test establishment
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LRdmSgUDaQ
Looks like the requirement was for a heavily protected defence orientated tank, employing ambush tactics (similar in a number of respects to the S-Tank), for use by the British Army On the Rhine (BAOR). IIRC, default NATO strategy in the event...
1960s
cold war
general staff operational requirement
gsor 1008
liquid armour
ministry of defence
swingfire missile
the armoured archives
united kingdom
As a result of a December 1964 request from the Indian Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shustri in London for a joint US-Soviet nuclear guarantee, the UK Foreign Office drew up a discussion paper with the Ministry of Defence on British nuclear forces outside of the NATO area. A follow-up Foreign...
I found info about the A118 compound helicopter project (circa 1960) in a book (in Italian) on history of Italian contributions to mechanical engineering, with an interesting chapter devoted to helicopters. Further material, including the real blueprints, should be available at the museum of...
I found this on Fleabay the other day- delighted to happen across it. I'd be interested to hear thoughts on the likelihood of this coming to fruition.
I believe BEA were getting cold feet regarding the Rotodyne at this stage and Westland were trying hard to push the Belvedere derivative as a...
1930s
1960s
a4-class steam locomotive
london and north eastern railway
national railway museum
railways
steam engine
train
world record
world steam record
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