1990s

  1. R

    1990s Thai "helicopter carrier" proposals

    Context: I've had a chance to browse part of Royal Thai Naval Institute archive (which is open to public but doesn't allow digital copies to be made), and stumbled upon the helicopter carrier project which later became HTMS Chakri Naruebet (CVH-911). This includes funeral book of Admiral Praphat...
  2. L

    Chinese carrier program without Varyag?

    Let's suppose for whatever reason China doesn't manage to get Varyag. My preferred TL is for it to somehow get under russian control, eventually refurbished and serving alongside Kuznetsov. With that out of the way, wonder what will be the options/development path for the chinese carrier...
    • lancer21
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    • 1990s 2000s aircraft carrier alternate history naval aviation people's liberation army naval air force people's liberation army navy people's republic of china plan post-cold war vstol carriers
    • Replies: 17
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  3. Grey Havoc

    Hulk Hogan RIP

    https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/hulk-hogan-dead-wwe-wrestler-actor-1236469089/ https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cwyqq7z2z2wt https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyzyr4d2rzo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0k7kry6pd6o https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cq6m696lgr8o Rest In Peace. :(
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s actor cold war ichiban japan movie star popular culture post-cold war professional wrestling terry gene bollea united states world championship wrestling world wrestling federation wrestler wwe championship wwe hall of fame
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: The Bar
  4. Grey Havoc

    SL-7EXPO Project

    https://www.marinelink.com/news/society-marine-port-engineers-provides-528024
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1970s 1980s 1990s algol-class vehicle cargo ships cold war fast sealift ship maritime administration military sealift command museum ship post-cold war ready reserve fleet sea-land sealift united states united states navy
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Military
  5. Dilandu

    Merging NATO and Warsaw Pact technology

    A purely techno-speculative thread, frankly. What I wanted is to speculate: what if NATO and Warsaw Pact schools of military technology were forced to merge together by, say, a common (and big!) threat, arising during the late Cold War? So the question: what could be achieved if late Cold War...
    • Dilandu
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    • 1980s 1990s alternate history asia british commonwealth cold war north atlantic treaty organisation pacific ocean sino-korean-japanese commonwealth soviet union united states warsaw pact western europe what-if
    • Replies: 40
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  6. World B4

    Znamya Space Mirrors

    This deserves its own thread, the Znamya program was a Russian attempt to repurpose solar sail research into a space mirror. It consisted of: Znamya 1, tech demonstrator, remained on Earth for its testing Znamya 2, subscale prototype, successfully flown on a Progress mission in 1993 Znamya 2.5...
    • World B4
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    • 1990s cccp cold war commonwealth of independent states post-cold war rosaviakosmos rossiyskoye kosmicheskoye agentstvo russian federation russian space agency solar-powered soviet union space age
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  7. Grey Havoc

    'Norm' from Cheers (George Wendt) passes away

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2xx998102o https://www.instagram.com/cheersboston/?hl=en Rest in Peace. :(
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1980s 1990s actor cheers early 21st century golden age late 20th century movies popular culture primetime emmy awards tv series
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Bar
  8. R

    EuroGripen – What If the Gripen Succeeded in Central and Eastern Europe?

    Let’s assume that in the mid-1990s, the governments of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary signed a joint agreement to purchase around 250 new fighter jets. Such a large order would likely attract the attention of the European Eurofighter consortium. Due to limited availability of...
    • RedLegion
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    • 1990s eurofighter europe fighter fighters gripen jas ng/in kingdom of sweden poland polish air force post-cold war republic of poland saab siły powietrzne wojsko polskie
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  9. GTX

    Famous European Aircraft - Sepecat Jaguar: A Development and Operational History

    https://crecy.co.uk/product/sepecat-jaguar
    • GTX
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    • 1970s 1980s 1990s advanced trainer aéronavale armeé de l'air british aircraft corporation close air support coin cold war france french fifth republic great britain light strike marine nationale post-cold war royal air force sepecat société des ateliers d'aviation louis bréguet tactical reconnaissance
    • Replies: 53
    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  10. Jemiba

    Radar imaging of sea bottom topography and submarine wrecks

    Sorry for the somewhat cumbersome title, I've just used the title of the research paper of the "Federal Armed Forces UnderwaterAcoustcs and Marine GeophysicsResearch Institute". I ordered it from the library, triggered by the keywords "radar" and "submarine". Actually, as the title alreay says...
    • Jemiba
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    • 1990s european community european economic community (eec) federal republic of germany marine science and technology (mast) programme post-cold war
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Avionics and Military/Naval electronics
  11. Flyaway

    PARCAE (ocean surveillance satellite program 1976-2008)

    https://spectrum.ieee.org/reconnaissance-satellite
    • Flyaway
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    • 1980s 1990s cold war electronic warfare elint late 1970s maritime reconnaissance national reconnaissance office naval ocean surveillance system office of naval research post-cold war satellite sigint signals intelligence strategic reconnaissance united states united states navy white cloud
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  12. Apophenia

    Otto Funk, Peter Funk, & Bücker und Funk Designations

    In the late 1950s, Otto Funk was the director of apprentice-training at the Heinkel plant in Speyer. As an exercise for apprentices, airframes were designed for assembly using a variety of construction techniques. In 1990, Otto's son Peter Funk (along with Dirk Breitkreuz) founded B&F Technik to...
    • Apophenia
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    • 1990s cold war federal republic of germany late 20th century people's republic of china post-cold war west germany
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Designation Systems
  13. TheKutKu

    Chinese orbital launcher projects

    I noticed there wasn't a general thread for this, so I created this since there are a lot of unrealised chinese launcher projects. Starting with one that's already described on astronautix, but I'm posting a source, taken from Xiandong Bao "A Modular Space Transportation System" (IAF-92-0857)...
    • TheKutKu
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    • 1990s 2000s aerospace industry china aerospace science and technology corporation china national space administration early 21st century heavy lift vehicle late 20th century ministry of aerospace industry (prc) people's liberation army people's republic of china post-cold war satellite communications satellite phones
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  14. Grey Havoc

    History of Hughes Missile Systems Company

    https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php/?story_fbid=640201012836732&id=622758154581018
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 1996 2013 2017 cold war early 21st century hughes aircraft company hughes missile systems company hughes missile systems group hughes tucson late 20th century post-cold war
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  15. uk 75

    Could NATO Frigate 90 have been made to work?

    Perhaps the most ambitious NATO programme of the 1980s was an attempt to design a common escort ship platform for NATO navies: NATO Frigate 90. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/nfr-90-and-other-pre-horizon-aaw-projects.923/ The project foundered as it became too expensive and failed to...
    • uk 75
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    • 1980s 1990s alternate history anti-air warfare anti-submarine warfare anti-surface warfare bundesmarine cold war frigate marina militare marine nationale maritime command (canadian armed forces) north atlantic treaty organisation royal navy royal netherlands navy royal spanish navy united states navy
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  16. Voltzz

    Matra BAe Dynamics ARAMIS

    Does anyone have more information on the Matra BAe Dynamics ARAMIS powered (?) glide bomb? Afaik it was offered for the french AASM program and was fire-and-forget using an imaging-ir seeker and INS/GPS.
    • Voltzz
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    • 1990s bae bae dynamics guided weapons division british aerospace plc cold war federal republic of germany france french fifth republic great britain matra post-cold war sead west germany
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  17. Z

    A-12 Avenger Scenario(s)

    What happens if the USN A-12 Avenger enters service and how might that come about? Could this require a different design? Does the USN have to change requirements? What's the effects of having a LO Attack platform entering service in the late 90's to early 2000's? How does this affect the...
    • zen
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    • 1990s 2000s all-weather attack aircraft alternate history cold war general dynamics grumman mcdonnell douglas naval aviation northrop post-cold war stealth united states united states navy vought what-if
    • Replies: 115
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  18. I

    MX Missile (Peacekeeper/ LGM-118) Transporter Emplacer (TE) Fate?

    Does anyone know the final disposition of the Terex MX Transporter Emplacer (TE)? This vehicle was designed to support MX deployment in a system of multiple protective shelters linked by above ground roads, the so-called "Racetrack" proposal. In 1979, President Carter announced that 200 MX...
    • Ironmiked
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    • 1980s 1990s cold war general motors general motors terex division icbm late 1970s mx program post-cold war strategic air command united states air force
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  19. Grey Havoc

    FORM (computer algebra system)

    Via Slashdot: https://www.quantamagazine.org/crucial-computer-program-for-particle-physics-at-risk-of-obsolescence-20221201/
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 1980s 1990s cold war computing early 21st century kingdom of the netherlands late 20th century national institute for subatomic physics nikhef post-cold war
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  20. World B4

    Stand-off mini-torpedo

    On this page, http://www.hisutton.com/Warships sunk by sneak attack.html, I see this line "Combat swimmers with stand-of mini-torpedo" used to explain the sinking of the PC 176 Mukos. I had no idea this was a type of weapon fielded, and am super duper curious. View...
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