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    Unbuilt/Cancelled/Rejected Canadian Aircraft/Helicopter Carrier Design

    Aside from the cancelled Essex acquisition around the 1950s (even that still leaves me with some confusion). I haven't been able to find much on the other Canadian aircraft carrier design and proposal I have came across (documents pulled from the internet mainly). Here's a list of design and...
  2. Grey Havoc

    Polaris Rampage / Polaris UTV

    Aka, the 'Twin-Track Fully-Suspended Amphibious Terrain Vehicle' (at least in the case of the Rampage). From 2016: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hWE5mGN6cw From 2024: https://www.rideapart.com/news/719125/polaris-utv-tank-tracked-side-by-side-patent/...
  3. Grey Havoc

    The Vegemite wars

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1j86xydjpro
  4. Flyaway

    Tsunami warnings for US, Japan, Philippines and China after one of biggest ever quakes off Russia

    When I saw that news about tsunami warnings for the US & Japan etc on my phone I thought it was fake news until I saw it being reported on proper news channels that’s an incredibly powerful quake at 8.8!!! According to the BBC it’s one of the biggest in modern history...
  5. Grey Havoc

    Aerodrome of Democracy

    https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/cae-looks-to-rebuild-aerodrome-of-democracy-in-canada/163426.article
  6. StraGen410

    My Anime OCs And Their Tactical Fighter Aircrafts

    Hello, my neighbourhood in Secret Project, I am StraGen410 and I am a fan to both anime and aerospace. I would like to present you some of my anime OCs and their custom tactical fighter aircrafts below : Tapuah Tristar ( Alien Elf Girl ) / RCAF CF-104G Starfighter Japanese Artist : N / A...
  7. StraGen410

    Avro CF-105 Arrow what-ifs

    I have been reconsidering about the potential of Avro Arrow and its related Canadian made weapon systems After looking at its early cold war era background history for multiple times, I have come to this conclusion below: To be honest, it was really difficult to find an effective combat role...
  8. Owens Z

    Canada's naval strategy?

    [I have taken the liberty of moving this discussion to its own new thread, to avoid stepping on the toes of Oberon_706's Australia-oriented thread.] Dilandu points out that Canada had 2 coasts to defend in the first half of the 20th century, although I believe that was considered in Ottawa to...
  9. Grey Havoc

    Edward B Johnson, the other CIA officer who pulled off the Argo rescue of US diplomats from Iran (The Daily Telegraph)

    Meant to post this last week: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/12/edward-johnson-argo-iran-america-diplomats-affleck/ Rest In Peace :(
  10. blockhaj

    Lieutenant Norman Samuels' "super-heavy tank"

    So a dude on the War Thunder forums, "Whelmy", found some docs on this Canadian "super heavy tank" a number of years back, designed by a Canadian dude named (lieutenant) Norman Samuels. Unfortunately i only saved one of the documents from his posts, but he did publish a number of them back in...
  11. Schneiderman

    Library and Archives Canada

    If anyone is seeking copies of Air Ministry Specifications from the inter-war years and finds it tricky to find them in the National Archives and costly to order, then I thoroughly recommend looking to the Library and Archives Canada...
  12. X

    ATM-05 Black Widow

    Hi Chaps. In the '80ies there was a ATGW development in Canada from E.S. Mantis Research Corporation. Someone here who knows more about this project?
  13. Moose

    ICE Pact

    The US, Canada, and Finland have announced a new Icebreaker Collaboration Effort pact to pool their combined technical and industrial capabilities on Icebreaker design and construction. View: https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1811407613160010099?t=74SAS5inq6qeuz7W9MranQ&s=19 Bollinger, which is...
  14. fightingirish

    RIP Donald Sutherland 1935 - 2024

    The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland has passed away. May he rest in peace. :( Here a few of my favourite movies with him as an actor: The Dirty Dozen (1967) M*A*S*H (1970) The Eagle has Landed (1976) Eye of the Needle (1981) JFK (1991) Space Cowboys (2000) Sources...
  15. T

    1935-45: airforce on a tight budget & schedule

    Everybody and his brother were trying to have as good as aiforce/air-service as possible, and especially in the specified time frame, but many times the available budget was a serious brick wall between the desires and reality. What kind of aircraft should a not-rich, but a reasonably developed...
  16. Voltzz

    Autonomous Marine PowerSource (AMPS)

    I found short article in MILTECH on the AMPS, a Canadian project for a small scale nuclear reactor for use as air-independent-propulsion in submarines. Further research turned up a couple of interesting studies, which i attached to this post. THE AMPS 1000: AN ADVANCED REACTOR DESIGN FOR MARINE...
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    Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP, Victoria-class replacement)

    Since the only Canadian submarine related thread is in the alternative history section (https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/canadas-next-submarine.41251/#post-590211), I've decided to make a new dedicated thread for the actual, very real program.
  18. I

    Canada's Next Submarine

    Folks, Everyone knows Canada is in the early stages of replacing its surface fleet with a Type-26 derivative to be equipped with TLAM. It's purchasing 88 F-35s. Lot's of politics in their current defense procurement plans. How should it refresh its submarine force? Canada briefly flirted with...
  19. X-39

    Space Engine Systems"SEXBOMB" Hypersonic Demonstrator

    LOL. Looks like this company didn't shy away from getting a bit creative with the naming scheme, because of course a drone that proudly displays a "SEXBOMB" livery traveling at hypersonic speeds while the surface temperature of its skin raises sounds sexy :D...
  20. Grey Havoc

    Canada buys land in France's Juno Beach due to condo plan (BBC News)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-63177891
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