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I’ve been researching the Royal Navy’s coastal forces build up during the Korean War, I have decided to attempt to collect and catalogue existing classes and shore bases while attempting to uncover more details about the “could have beens” during the period. I will explain the reasoning behind...

I was reading my copy of Rebuilding the Royal Navy by D. K. Brown and George Moore. Whilst browsing the second page of the minor war vessels chapter i came across the following statement. “A minehunting variant of the CMS (Thorpe) Class was designed and three ordered , but they were cancelled...

https://www.facebook.com/TheFriendsofTheTankMuseum/posts/chieftain-sabre-the-sabre-spaag-system-was-a-project-between-ro-and-thompson-csf/1859698144250194/ (Image below is from tanks-encyclopedia.com, original credit jedsite [now JED])

I've posted my work on this so far: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Friend But I'm wondering if anyone here has Air Pictorial back issues? Google mentions this article...

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/sea-king-helicopters-ends-49-years-of-service/

The names of the ships from trade involved in the Falklands operation are well documented. However, as someone interested in merchant ships I was wondering if a) anyone has records of STUFT in operations post WW2 from Korea through Suez to the Gulf Wars b) the Falklands STUFT seemed to be well...

In the late 1980s, research started on the new next-generation tank gun. It was quickly determined that it needed to be 140mm calibre. Initially it was to fire the same projectiles as the 120mm gun but at a higher velocity from a similar smoothbore barrel. My question - what was the British...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/19/hail-deborah-british-tank-smashed-german-defences-100-years/

KENDALL CRABPOT and K.1 The initial version of this sailplane, known as the Crabpot, was designed by H. Kendall for the 1947 B.G.A. Two-seat Sailplane Competition. Conventional wooden construction, apart from the wing which had several spanwise webs and few ribs. The webs were 15 mm. thick, and...

Hi! Miles M23. http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4178.0 "M.23 Fighter Projects In 1941 a proposal was submitted to the Ministry of Aircraft Production for a high-speed single-seat fighter powered initially by a Rolls-Royce Merlin engine, then in full production, and later by a...

Not trying to provoke either side of the current debate but I am old enough to remember a time when the 6 original members of the European Community discussed the setting up of a full blown EDF in the 1960s. It was never a runner politically but had it been, I imagine the following equipment...

In July 1945 Supermarine had not yet finalised their design for the Type 392 Attacker. This drawing (39200 116) shows one of the alternatives considered; note the design of the tail surfaces, the repositioned air intakes, the four cannon mounted alongside the cockpit, and, of course, the...

Hi, S. Helmy was Egyptian and he lived in UK,he designed the Aerogypt-I,it was a four-seat low-wing light transport airplane,powered by three 22 hp Douglas Sprite engines,appeared in 1939 and later flown as Aerogypt-II without hanged roof, and in 1940 flown as Aerogypt-III with end plate fins...

BAC's military side appears to have a well defined designation system, primarily following on from English Electric's, but the civil side, at least as published, seems to have just 'press friendly' names or numbers (as Boeing). Here are the civil projects that come to mind. Does anyone have any...

Is this the F-117A that they are referring to here? https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/30/margaret-thatcher-us-french-military-technology-national-archives-top-secret?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Was leafing through a book in a German bookshop in a series on army weapons and with the title British Army Nuclear Missiles and Artillery in German. I came across an official drawing of a Blue Water missile mounted on an FV4020 chassis. This is the first time I have seen, what was presumably a...

The australian GAF factory build the AVRO Lincoln under licence. The production started to late because the war in the east was almost the end. The Lincoln was based on the AVRO Lancaster. In Australia they build it as the Mk.30 and later the Mk.31. Its difficult to find good information. Who...

I came across a piece of interesting video on Liveleak. video source given: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ca5_1297178630&comments=1&use_old_player=1&safe_mode=on Check the attachments and let's see what we got... The short clip tells about Malkara missile, but the missile in the...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/11/armistice-day-two-minute-silence-to-be-observed-to-remember-the2/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37938047