cold war ii

Our esteemed forum comrade ‘flateric’ made the last post in the ‘Dassault/SAAB/Alenia nEUROn UCAV’ thread on 3 July 2022. Since then, Dassault has launched a new UCAV programme to meet an Armée de l’Air et de l’Éspace requirement, for an unmanned collaborative combat aircraft or ‘Remote Carrier’...

everyone who is a fan or enthusiast of the US Navy, keep moaning about the issues with US shipbuilding. the only reasonable way to revitalize this industry is by buying smaller vessels that can be built in smaller yards. a single basic hull form that can be mass produced, and then have...

https://www.wired.com/story/europe-prepares-for-the-space-race-with-a-new-legal-and-financial-framework/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/nyregion/new-york-nuclear-power-plant.html

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2025/july/case-next-generation-heavy-bomber?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLTWvRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHotLMT_i9jMwbZHJqk57gZUYwX_rYjyERzBKI5Hp9oMEvUj93GvkIKuHtVbz_aem_K2fkdp5_6sDVHy2Wk9nWMw Still think a BWB arsenal plane makes the most sense. Then leverage the design into...

With the marines partially shifting to focus on island hopping and helping the navy with sea control, including placing sensors on some of these small islands, I was thinking an LAV, or future ARV variant with a powerful, but off the shelf commercial marine radar could be useful. Give the...

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2025/06/armys-not-sure-what-its-new-executive-innovation-corps-will-actually-do/406325/

Austal USA, located in Mobile Alabama, uses a unique procedure to float ships. After module construction, modules are transported a short distance down the road to two final assembly halls. Once final assembly is complete, the hulls are rolled onto a barge. The hulls are then floated down the...

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Yet another new round of turf battles is commencing, it would seem. EDIT: Or perhaps I should have said full-fledged turf wars.

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/1llmzcb/russian_vikhr_whirlwind_unmanned_ground_combat/ Basically a UGV based on the BMP-3. The name will inevitably invite confusion with the AT-16 Scallion ATGM.

Blue Spirit Rolls Out Its Prototype On June 10, Blue Spirit Aero rolled out its full-scale hydrogen-powered Dragonfly prototype and completed the world’s first H2 refueling of a light aircraft directly from an airport station in Le Mans, France, site of the famous 24-hour endurance car race...

View: https://www.reddit.com/r/TankPorn/comments/1lkv0jd/chinese_pj26_76mm_spaag_vehicle_prototype_on_a/ https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/pj26.htm

Hello all, I was working a time ago on a design book for planes, I always loved drawing planes. And I like the lines on stealth aircraft. So I was wondering if anybody knows all the rules for designing a stealth aircraft? This forum is a great resource for finding out about a lot of the...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0rvq1eg8w9o

If that happens and the unit price drops enough do you think the RAF might purchase enough B-21s for a squadron or two?

Watching this, and hearing how digitized the jaguar is, I was thinking about Ukraine, and how fast things get chewed through. Particularly munitions. In the modern era should militaries have lower tech fall back designs that can be built quicker and much cheaper than things like the jaguar...

Given that in the wake of Ukraines attack on Russian strategic bombers the topic came up several times in other threads, I figured it may be appropriate to dedicate a specific thread to the topic. The topic being the implications of widespread availability of drones and how they can be utilized...

Apparently the US just hit Fordow and two other Iranian nuke sites. Speculation running high MOPs were used.