View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3F2odr2MsQ
From the comments thread:
By any chance does anybody have pictures of this, or other attempts to weaponise the rock cannon concept?
1940s
allen west and co
ardeer foundry company
british army
greatbritain
imperial chemical industries
recoilless gun
royal engineers
the armoured archives
world war ii
These are well worth a look. I wonder what FIXEDIT could do with a bigger budget!
View: https://youtu.be/VVjdFBZCRQc
View: https://youtu.be/zo8FhChnyq0
View: https://youtu.be/rTov2oSXR8M
View: https://youtu.be/4irbMNQc8As
If things get more interesting, what targets in the UK might Putin nuke? An interesting video, and some backup data:
UK Limited Nuclear War Target List
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWcgF4Wwog
The saga of HMS Hermes is well known. But it might have been different if the RN had followed the US example and kept her as an ASW carrier or interim Sea Control Ship.
The US were introducing the S3 Viking on to their attack carriers but were keen to get as many to sea as possible.
HMS Hermes...
I've been thinking recently about exports of UK combat aircraft. What examples do people think were "successful"?
In my mind success is some sort of function of export numbers relative to UK numbers, and numbers of different export countries. My list of "successes" from post WW2 is below...
Reading up on the GM 6046 diesel several years ago I was surprised to see the concept was sketched up by the British purchasing commission as a power option for a proposed US built version of the Matilda II.
The very limited information I have read indicated that the US was not interested in...
Last year the Vickers Machine Gun Collection and Research uploaded several Summary Reports for the President of the Ordnance Board, the vast majority of them freely available. Although lacking detail (by their nature as summary reports) they cover the Aircraft Ordnance Fuses, Projectiles (Land...
Not something I think fits in the alt-F11 thread but related to it, kind of. The RN is going to spend 16 million rebuilding Eagle, picking Tiger saves about 20-25 million over F-4 combine those two figures as your budget to build a new carrier with a 30 year hull life rather than spending 16 of...
From Air Pictorial 1955,
- For this contest,many companies entered in it,and essentially these proposals were involved;
Avro-723,English Electric P.7,Hawker P.1098 and Percival P.87.
- I suggest those projects;
Armstrong AW.170,Blackburn B.105 & B.106,Bristol-187,Handley-Page Reading...
2022
20th century
21st century
british commonwealth
british empire
british royal family
greatbritain
modern elizabethan era
second elizabethan age
united kingdom
In the late 1950s the US deployed a bewildering range of tactical nuclear weapons in Western Europe.
The US Army had its spectacular 280mm atomic cannon mounted between two trucks. It then had smaller 8" warheads for the M115 howitzer which were made available to the UK and other NATO allies...
I've been searching for quite a long time a reason(or reasons) for the UK, Canada and Norway to have dropped out of MIDS program in 1991, just before the signing of the MIDS PMOU. They were indeed a MIDS program members since phase one. Particularly interesting is the case of UK, since they were...
This is not an unbuilt project, but it is an enigmatic mystery that perhaps members here might be able to add more to.
The Volta was a 19-ton electric-powered submarine armed with two 12in torpedo tubes, built by Rennie Forrestt Shipbuilding, Engineering & Drydock Co. Ltd at Wivenhoe, Essex...
The English Electric Canberra became the UK's light strike bomber in both nuclear and conventional roles. It served long after it was obsolete in the face of Russian fighters and air defences.
The RAF realised this and embarked on a programme to replace Canberra in the early 1960s. As we all...
G'day folks, I am trying to find good reference material on the following gun systems.
RO QF 17 pounder
RO QF 20 pounder
Rarde EXP 7 to 28 110mm
I have a sort of project to convert a Centurion tank (Card/Paper) to various types/marks and possibly produce a Chieftain with the 110mms as an...
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