Dear All,
did you have any useful information about the Italian SLBM Alfa missile?
It was developed during '60s, when Italy had some nuclear ambition (see nuclare submarine project named "Guglielmo Marconi", or the logistic ship named "Enrico Fermi") and was designed and produced by SNIA BPD...
Reported in Ground Defense International Dec-1980. Article showed drawings of two new projwcts that oro melara was working on. One was a new battle tank equiped with a 'vickers 105mm gun' and the engine positioned at the front, the second an ICV armoured with a 90mm gun, said to be a cpncept...
I found this drawing on an advertisement published on Aviation Magazine International Number 516 15-June-1969 (the same issue where I found the Mirage Mach 3 :))
There is no other info but the drawing. Please could you give more info about this unbuilt project?
Thanks in advance
(I wasn't sure if this should be included under the Horizon thread, as there were at least 8 projects between Type 42 and Type 45 in the UK alone, let alone any other nations, and Horizon was just one of those)
(Note that the image is resized by the forum code and is actually 994 * 582...
The below artwork came from an early 90s Aermacchi advertisement in AW&ST.
What is it?
It appears to be a supersonic advanced trainer.
The advertisement featured similar illustrations of the MB-339 and AMX, and there was a reference to a "international military program" referred to as "PTS...
Italy has a long tradition in producing of aircraft, but there are many gaps in the list of type designations. Let’s start with the best-known company Fiat. I restricted the enumeration for the time after WWII. Skybolt and tanino (other Italian readers here?), please help to fill the gaps...
cold war
cold war ii
early 21st century
federal republic of germany
france
great britain
italy
kingdom of spain
late 20th century
north atlantic treaty organisation
post-cold war
west germany
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