cold war

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.)

One of the odder moments of the Reagan Gorbachev relationship which seems to be true is that both men were concerned by reports of unidentified flying objects and took them seriously enough to exchange what they knew. I dont know how true these stories are. Given the advanced state of the US...

New Scott Manley video. Computers Were So Slow Scientists 'Painted' The First Close Up Image Of Mars View: https://youtu.be/nSQlM6yGh7k

https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/11/20/1558240/hard-science-fiction-master-greg-bear-dies-at-age-71 Rest In Peace. :(

As Christmas is still over a month away I thought we could use something to lighten the mood in these darkening days. Normally you could not count on General Secretary Breshnev and President Richard Nixon to lighten the mood but for a brief moment in June 1973 at St Clemente the mood did...

I found this Bofors poster of the Indonesian Armed Forces' day commemoration of 1986. The poster suggests this is a SPAAG vehicle named Trinity, or at least some parts of it were. Quick search results in several examples of the Bofors Trinity turret being installed on the MOWAG Shark chassis...

I'm stunned to find out that, unless several searches failed to work properly, there is no thread for the Martin "EGRESS" (EMERGENCY GLOBAL RESCUE, ESCAPE, AND SURVIVAL SYSTEM) capsule. This was a modification of the ejection capsule used on the B-58... fitted with a heat shield, de-orbit motor...

Looks like an awesome film! I love the Corsair which is featured in the film. In fact out of the 12 flyable Corsairs in the world the film crew obtained 6 aircraft for filming. The movie debuts in theaters November 23rd! View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvBBd8pU1s

https://vk.com/wall914417_13541 http://epizodyspace.ru/bibl/glushko/izbran-rab-glushko/3/01.html

From, Project Cancelled,by Derek Wood.

https://thespacereview.com/article/4479/1

I've read that the Chieftain was supposed to have a demolition gun on its AVRE variant before it was cancelled. Does anyone know where I could find design drawings/models of this?

Confess that this one has me stumped. What is under the port wing? My guess is that it is some kind of a drone, but it is far smaller than the only two-engine drone I can think of (CT41) other than modified Bomarc. The rest of the load-out is pretty eccentric as well - Harpoon, Maverick and is...

Hi, I have been studying the details of the cancelled projects in the past and drawing artwork of they. Many projects have not been drawn or drawn incorrectly, and my dream is to complete them. Harbin H-5 Light bomber re-engine project: The feature of this project is that the original...

This is one of several allegedly true tales on the military ghost stories channel 'Wartime Stories', however this one deals with current events and if true raises all kinds of interesting questions, while at the same time defying an easy explanation. Back in the late 1990s, early 2000s I can...

RIP Frank https://robinsonheli.com/press-releases/helicopter-pioneer-frank-robinson-passes/?fbclid=IwAR1gXT23VVaZLR6XC3yQtWiI81tx8VaQFeU5S6iPIvUdbItPQI_dEpP0W1I As it is i fly R44 and 66 …was in Cologne for European Rotors this week so here my pics below All the best

I just found a very interesting picture on wikipedia, and i dont know where else to post it. All information i have for now is from wikipedia so take it with a grain of salt. i found it on the LRAC F1 article so maybe it was an alternative proposal for that program. In the image the rocket...

Thread for unbuilt RAM launcher concepts (aside from the standard Mk 49 and SeaRAM launchers) This morning, I reminded myself of an unusual concept to mount Rolling Airframe Missile launchers on the sides of a Mark 45 gun turret. The idea was to use the gun drives and gun fire control to point...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63612017 :( RIP.

i just found a pdf in Hungarian with information on two Bundeswehr mine warfare projects. Google translate is mediocre and the images are atrocious, but they seem to be the Skorpion mine laying system mounted on a Bv206 and the area defense mine "TARANTEL" build by Dynamit Nobel. i had never...