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Hello, I am wanting to look at WoWs again and remove their creative liberties once more by asking about the British Battlecruiser designs they have and the designs are based on what their real specs were and if they still hold true to what they are in any extent at all: - Rooke from what WoWs...

Hey, I am relatively new here, and decided to make an account generally to join this community as a ship enthusiast. Specifically, I am interested in Royal Navy Heavy Cruisers. I saw Tzoli's Post on British Large Cruisers back in March of 2021, but wanted to know if there is more. I ask this...

Hello, My name is TaskForce51, and I’m a 3D modeler working on what I hope will become the world’s largest 3D model library of World War One aircraft. I’ve currently modeled nearly 250 aircraft, with plans to surpass 300. These aircraft will be implemented into Minecraft, allowing players to...

History of the British Fighters

While I was at the National Archives I stumbled across a 1986 presentation setting out BAe's proposal for their CABER air-launched anti-armour weapon. It seems to have been proposed by BAe as a cheaper alternative to an SR(A) 1238 compliant weapon. I've never heard of this weapon before, and...

An interesting 'road not taken', the basic story of this weapon, the first bullpup firearm intended for military use, goes back to the second Boer War and the criticism of the 'long Lee-Enfields' a process that ultimately ended in the creation of the Rifle, Short, Magazine, Lee-Enfield (aka...

So it appears the Belgians had APDS for their M24 Chaffee but no one really knows were such ammo came from. From recent evidence (image 1) the round appears to bear British markings and resembling APDS munition for the British QF 17pdr and QF 77 mm (see image 4). Did the British ever developed...

The Centenary Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society 1866 - 1966 (Vol 70, No 661, January 1966) carries a piece (pp.235-242) by Raoul Hafner on "British Rotorcraft". He compiled his history by getting first-hand accounts from his helicopter-making colleagues (for he was among them), right...