1940s
allen west and co
ardeer foundry company
british army
great britain
imperial chemical industries
recoilless gun
royal engineers
the armoured archives
world war ii
The Ohama and her sister ship Okashi were laid down as target ships, successors to the Hakachi. Ohama was completed as an escort vessel, and Ohashi collided with Yamashio Maru and sunk before completion, but would have been given the same treatment. I can't find any illustrations of their...
1940s
empire of japan
imperial japanese navy
imperial japanese navy technical department
ōhama-class bombing target ships
pre-world war ii
project number j36
world war ii
Designed in 1942 by the American Ordnance Company, an old-established gun-making concern of Bridgeport, Connecticut, the M3 half-track carrier, known as the 40mm Gun Motor Carriage T68 (GMC T68) and featured unusual gun layout. The guns were placed, one above the other, a configuration with an...
I'm putting together an article on the Wireless Set No. 10, which deserves to be MUCH better known - it was the first TDM and PCM comms system in the world. Sadly there is very little info on it, but I know that "Wireless for the Warrior" had a relatively detailed description including post-war...
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjxaJgxXavc
Note that this video was made before the current Covid-19 related model making renaissance had really gotten underway.
1940s
a 25 harry hopkins
british airborne forces
british army of the rhine
department of tank design
fighting vehicles proving establishment
spg
tank board
vickers-armstrongs
world war ii
Fighter project, 1943
The Airspeed firm suggested to the Admiralty the transformation of the radio-controlled flying-boat target aircraft AS-37 into a scaled-up jet fighter, powered by one de Havilland Halford H.1 centrifugal-flow turbojet with 1,225 kgf static thrust in the forward area of the...
I am looking for information on the development of the J-27, specifically if any portions of the aircraft were ever constructed (even at a mockup stage).
I know the plane was never completed but I don't know if any parts were made - can someone help me with that?
(also any other info will be...
I've read in a few places that there were a couple of proposals (one from the US and another by the French after the war's end) to turn the unfinished French battleship Jean Bart into an aircraft carrier (which were obviously refused). Tzoli seems to have made a mockup of how it might've looked...
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WTJAP_WWII.php#61_cm_%2824%22%29_F3_%28Experimental%29
Came across this again today while trying to find information on possible use by the JSDF of Mark 32 torpedo tubes (built under licence by Watanabe Iron Works) as shore based torpedo launchers. It's...
1940s
1989
1991
atomic lake
chernobyl
nuclear explosions for the national economy
semipalatinsk-21
soviet atomic bomb project
soviet nuclear weapons program
soviet union
1940s
2020
concentration camps inspectorate
final solution
holocaust memorial day
konzentrationslager
red army
ss-wirtschafts-verwaltungshauptamt
todeslager
vernichtungslager
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