From British Civil Aircraft since 1919,
Mr. F. W. Broughton built a single seat parasol wing light monoplane,powered by one 30 hp Carden,developed from Perman Parasol,called Broughton-Blayney Brawney.
One of the hallmarks of the postwar RN was its continuing love affair with the gun cruiser. This leads to three gun equipped Tigers and HMS Belfast still being in service in the early 60s. Had the conversions worked, Swiftsure and Superb would have joined them (Triang Minic ships in 1/1200 scale...
More or less unnoticed in the mid 60s the Royal Navy was able to replace the wartime very fast Minelayer "Manxman" with a new build ship.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Abdiel_(N21)
Abdiel served nearly to the end of the Cold War in1988. Unlike the famous UK mine countermeasures vessels...
aeritalia
aeronautica militare
british aerospace plc
british aircraft corporation
cold war
daimler-benz aerospace ag
daimlerchrysler aerospace ag
federal republic of germany
greatbritain
italian republic
italy
luftwaffe
mbb
messerschmitt-bölkow-blohm
panavia aircraft gmbh
post-cold war
royal air force
royal saudi air force
united states air force
west germany
Back in the Cold War the France, Germsny and the UK embarked on an ambitious programne to produce a family of third generation anti tank missiles. The only survivor is the long range helicopter launched version
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PARS_3_LR.
Like the SP70 gun and RS80 (described in...
1980s
1990s
anti-tank missile
armée de terre
british army
bundeswehr
cold war
federal republic of germany
france
french fifth republic
greatbritain
north atlantic treaty organisation
post-cold war
united kingdom
west germany
Rover developed gas turbines for automotive applications, development continued after the marque's absorption by Leyland in 1967. In addition to automotive applications Rover also produced gas turbines for APU applications, as described here. They also went as far as testing them in aircraft...
It is one of the great what-ifs of recent history, what would have happened if Argentina had waited until John Nott's defence cuts had been implemented and invaded the Falklands in March 1983?
With only Illustrious working up and Ark Royal still under construction, the Royal Navy had sold...
1980s
alternate history
argentina
argentine republic
cold war
falklands conflict
falklands war
greatbritain
guarnición militar malvinas
operation rosario
what if
I should know the answer to this. When does Lance first emerge as a likely replacement for Honest John and Sergeant and even Corporal, given its range. I only ask because Lance does seem to make Blue Water pretty pointless as it has better range and more mobile with its M548 based launcher...
As the UK wrestles with the issue of whether to build the HS2 high speed rail link from London to the North I had to revisit the world of the late Gerry Anderson as drawn by the artist Graham Bleathman.
Like a lot of 60s ideas monorails looked cool but were expensive and impractical- how would...
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We all know the Alvis Unipower variant of BR-90 Brigde System, but M-series had a whole family of vehicles as mentioned in this link:
https://www.trucksplanet.com/catalog/model.php?id=1149
Does anyone has blueprints with dimensions, brochures etc?
There was also a 12x8 variant which...
Hi everyone, I stumbled upon this piece of info in the Centurion Main Battle Tank Manual:
Does anyone have more info on and maybe drawings of this engine? And do you know about any modifications approved during the Centurion Mk 7 program that were never applied, like the Action X mantletless...
The Royal Navy's second 16" armed battleships history was a long and bumpy road of large number of designs and the inability on the Admiralty's side to actually start and continue it's work on them or choose a design to produce.
First I present the 1938 designs:
Design 14A-38
This is the first...
Robert's latest book has gone to print and should be available, alongside the man himself, on the Crecy Publishing stand at IPMS Telford on 9th November 2019.
Strategic Air Command in the UK
Throughout its 46-year history, Strategic Air Command (SAC) was inextricably linked to the United...
cold war
cruise missile
greatbritain
irbm
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear battlefield
raf bomber command
raf strike command
royal air force
strategic air command
strategic bomber
strategic reconnaissance
tactical nuke
tanker aircraft
united kingdom
united states air force
We have covered individual projects and the infamous Sandys 1957 White Paper in some depth but I wanted to draw together what we have learnt with some open questions:
Which missile projects across the board: Malkara to Blue Streak would you bin or save?
Which Foreign systems would you have...
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