early 1970s

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New video from NASA to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the mission. View: https://youtu.be/XhvliTtzQXY

Just bought the 1968/9 and 1969/70 Jane's Fighting Ships and found two interesting West German naval projects which were planned for the 1970s but were different from the final vessels. The first is for 16 missile equipped fast patrol boats. These would carry the Tartar missile system in...

I have been looking for the attached picture for years and found it in the US Navy section of Jane's Fighting Ships 1969/70 . It shows the range of guns planned for US service in the 1970s. From left to right we have: 8 inch Major Calibre Lightweight Gun (MCLWG). 5 inch 54cal Mk 42 gun for DD931...

My friend said that during the first two decades of the early Cold War. The British STT has designed a series of very distinctive blueprint tanks and a small number of prototype vehicles actually built. These new tanks used to meet the needs of the new era of warfare and against the Soviets...

Just got email from Leonardo regarding 50 years of AW109 as on this day in 1971 the first prorotype flew...

This is one of the steps on the road to the Hubble Space Telescope. At this point in the process the telescope contains a lot of Apollo legacy hardware and was designed so that the shuttle could be docked with it to allow maintenance and instrument swap-outs to take place in a shirtsleeve...

Early 1970s design for a Synchronous Earth Observation Satellite (SEOS) that bears a surprising resemblance to Hubble, it just points in the other direction. The intention was to provide improved coverage of mesoscale weather phenomena like tornadoes, ground fogs, clear air turbulence and other...

Vintage NASA film was produced in early 1970's and intended to paint a picture of NASA in 1985. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pthkn9A6M#t=118

G'day gents Just been reading an extract from The Bradley and How It Got That Way: Technology, Institutions, and the Problem of Mechanized Infantry in the United States Army by by W. Blair Haworth I found it interesting that "The U.S. Army Tank Automotive Command (TACOM) conducted a...

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This is one of strangest Music record i have ever heard View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1AbEFosgtE a Satirical view on Lockheed "Starfighter Affair" as concept album by Robert Calvert, just after he was abandoned by HARKWIND in 1974. 01. Franz Josef Strauss, Defence Minister, reviews...

A January 1974 (draft final) report for the Office of Naval Research, prepared by the Boeing Vertol Company: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/777988.pdf

Once again a question derived from “The Pentagon Paradox. The development of the F-18 Hornet” by James Perry Stevenson (ISBN 1557507759), Shrewsbury, 1993 'In Col. Everest E. Riccioni, USAF brief on his “Falcon Brief”, which had acquired the title, “Advanced Fighter Aircraft Study – Avenging...

G'day Gents! Once again I've been flicking through one of my favourite books “The Pentagon Paradox. The development of the F-18 Hornet” by James Perry Stevenson (ISBN 1557507759), Shrewsbury, 1993. In this book it talks about the following program: 'Commander Ernie Waller USN’s theoretical...

Does any one know why the name of Mikhail Gurevich was dropped from the Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau in 1970 becoming the Mikoyan Design Bureau? Does this also mean that Western aviation books that identify aircraft designed and manufactured after 1970 with the name Mikoyan-Gurevich are...

In 1972 the US speculated that if India had gone nuclear at that time, India could "use aircraft in its current inventory such as Canberras or reconfigured Boeing 707's or 747's, as delivery vehicles, but these would be a rudimentary affair, essentially for one-way missions."...

AQUILINE was a CIA project to develop a low-flying surveillance RPV in the late 60s/early 70s. From "Air Force UAVs The Secret History": "The CIA developed a few UAVs through the Directorate of Science and Technology’s Office of Development and Engineering rather than through the NRO. The...

At http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_Ship_Medium_Mk_II there is an article on an abortive Australian landing ship project. It says nothing however about the dimensions etc. of the ship as well as it contains no images. Does anyone here know more on this project? Any info, esp. regarding the...

Artist's impression of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) light destroyer (DDL) project from 1966 to 1972. Source: http://www.shipmodels.info/mws_forum/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=54420 For more information. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_light_destroyer_project