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Schienenkampfwagen SK 1 (roughly translates to Rail Combat Vehicle SK 1). Series of Panzer III tanks fit with a set of retractable railroad wheels allowing the vehicle to travel on land and rail. They were used for railroad patrol in Eastern Europe starting from 1943, and had a maximum speed (on...

Proposal to increase the speed of Zeppelin travel up to 150km/h+ by utilizing one or multiple towing aircraft. Alternatively, a "Zeppelin train" consisting of multiple Zeppelins and unpowered balloons being towed by the combined propulsion of both the Zeppelins and the fixed-wing aircraft. This...

I remember read year's ago there were plans to have built a Roland missile or spaa on a leopard 2 chassis and Idk if I'm just I'm misremembering or it's true , but I'm also if wondering if there we're other plans or ideas drawn up for specialized leopard 2 variant's , like they had for the...

Early mockups of the Do X that I found. They are of an unknown date, and appear to have between 10 - 12 engines in various configurations. Apparently the fuel tanks were to be positioned between the passenger cabins. Does anyone have any more info or sources for the images? Thank you.

Hi everybody I have found a very unusual Project from the Germans in 1945. It should be called the "MANTA" It should be a Submarine-Catamaran-Glider designed by Hellmuth Walther. Able to drive on land, drive at high speed on water and also to submerge . SOME DATA length: 15m, breadth: 6m ...

Guten Tag! I really like the VJ-101C, it is like a German version of VTOL capable F-104G Starfighter clone without T-tail. It seems to be promising with a lot of potential. What will happen if it became a real operational military grade VTOL fighter jet instead of a short lived experimental...

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8v6len093o

Interesting documents : https://maritime.org/doc/id/oni220-german-japan-subs/index.php#toc

Hi all. I'm looking for information about unsold tanks from Germany from the 50s to the 70s (maybe some MBTs, interesting versions of the Europanzer program tanks or prototypes of the Leopard 1?) If you know interesting vehicles from this period, please send them here!!! Thanks in advance!!!

i just found a pdf in Hungarian with information on two Bundeswehr mine warfare projects. Google translate is mediocre and the images are atrocious, but they seem to be the Skorpion mine laying system mounted on a Bv206 and the area defense mine "TARANTEL" build by Dynamit Nobel. i had never...

My question is this; Was there ever any such engine design? I've viewed the write up of Daimler Benz known engines and there are two that rarely if ever get listed and they are the following; Db608 Db611 No after done internet snooping I've found that the Db608 was a larger displacement...

Hello, heres Markus, and since I was a child I love everything about board games, video games, and aircrafts and combat games and movies. Maybe you remember Crimson Skies? We never have had such a game setting again I guess so a friend, Bernhard and I came up with the idea to launch a new game...

The introduction of the Airbus Helicopters H145M LUH SAR into the Bundeswehr to replace the venerable legacy Bell Dornier UH-1D SAR in the Heeresflieger over the last couple of years, it is auf wiedersehn. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHWewWxI4l0 If it was not for Covid, last year...

Usual caveats apply, full size cutaway at http://www.hisutton.com/Type-XXI-U-Boat-of-World-War-Two.html The Type-XXI was important in a lot of ways, but had the Ursel rockets made it into service I think it could have further reshaped Cold War submarine equipment, at least in the immediate...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhN-o2ame-4

Translated from German. https://www.dlr.de/content/de/artikel/news/2020/03/20200714_dlr-mikrolauncher-wettbewerb-drei-teams-sind-eine-Runde-weiter.html German Aerospace Center (DLR)German center for aerospace 14 July 2020 DLR micro-launcher competition: three of These Teams next round Jury...

Budget is a whopping 1.5 million Euro so I'm not sure where they are going with this. The picture accompanying the article even has a Zumwalt type ship firing the railgun. I guess for 1.5 million Euro you don't want to waste money on artwork...

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51104579 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51109166

B&Voss 155 B Initial upper wing radiator

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/usaf-northrop-harassment-weapons-1817855401