late 1930s

I honestly tried to put it into "Fictional warships in movies" thread, but it just refused to work with images at all. If moderators would be able to move this thread into proper place, I would be grateful. So the 1939 Soviet war movie "Moryaki" (rus. Sailors). The movie itself is rather...

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Is there information which proves whether or not the Payne Sky Kitten went beyond the drawing stage? Info on that elusive machine can be found at https://archive.org/details/sim_flying_1936-09_19_3/page/42/mode/2up?q=payne&view=theater

This "design" apparently did exist as a specification for the Maru 6 program -- but since the plan was pretty much shelved with the defeat at Midway, nothing came of it. Assumedly, most (if not all) records of its existence were destroyed. Certainly, no official drawings survived (if they ever...

The twin-boom Caproni Ca.150 was an attack-fighter ordered in 1936 but subsequently cancelled. The current Caproni auction at Mallams has enabled the emergence of some really interesting material, such as these Ca.150 documents which show two different design iterations (Ca.150 and Ca.150/2)...

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I found this article, concerning the Vickers PV bomber, and would be interested to know more about it. https://www.keymilitary.com/article/british-behemoth

Hi everyone, This thread will be dedicated to the discussion of French cavalry vehicles in the intended 1940-1942 period, namely: - AM 39 Gendron-Somua - Laffly heavy/powerful armored car - Bucciali heavy/powerful armored car - AMX-40 heavy/powerful armored car - late Panhard AMD 178...

Hi everyone, New topic based largely on my research in the French archives, this time on one of the more elusive prototypes of late 30's France: the ARL self-propelled gun, also sometimes called the ARL V 39. Preliminary history: The story of French self-propelled 75mm guns date back at least...

Everyone knows about the Dormier P.85 aircraft project, a Do17Z with, among other differences, floats and straight wings. It wasn`t included in the attached table, taken from a BA/MA file on the contest for a seaplane bomber, known as "Kampfflugzeug See" or as See-Stuka, as may see. There were...

Those who tought, like me, that all the German engineering expertise on hardware airships ended with the Hindenburg, are wrong. The BA/MA in Freiburg has a file (included in RM 7/2382), dated 12.2.1938,and stemming from the Kriegsmarine, refering to a proposal, serious enough to the point of...

Hi everyone, This thread is about the French tanks designed or contemplated for the new tank program drawn up by the French Inspector of Tanks in December 1939-February 1940, Général Keller. This wartime program was intended to organize development of tanks in control of the infantry branch...

A one-off design by Ernst Jachtmann who had famously set endurance records in gliders including a 41 hour flight in 1937, he can be seen in the cockpit in the media below.

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The Navweps site on these two guns has some passing mentions that lead me to other questions: -135 mm/45 (5.3") Models 1937 and 1938: There is this statement: "A twin AA version for the Etna class cruisers and for the rebuild of the damaged battleship Conte Di Cavour were only in the...

i did a quick search of this site for the above mentioned vehicle and found nothing so if there is a preexisting topic i am sorry for failing to discover its thread i was looking for any info and/ or pics about this vehicle or these vehicles ( i know of the DP-2 ( the one which almost...

Hello! The book French Battleships 1922-56 mentions that for the Alsace-class battleship designs, studies for 400, 406, and 420mm guns were ordered. Additionally, a 406mm naval gun was created by the Schneider company for the Soviet Union, and a 431mm naval gun was created: the elusive Canon de...

https://naval-encyclopedia.com/ww2/uk/king-george-v-class-battleships.php?amp=1 According to the site, I'm looking for three KGV-class designs designed in 1935 with nine 15-inch guns, but I couldn't find them no matter how much I looked. Is there anyone who knows more details about the design?

In 1939, France's Edgar Brandt & Company offered the French Army a series of three HEAT grenades...a 50mm-diameter design to be fired from standard infantry rifles, a 60mm design to be fired from the rifle-caliber medium machine gun in single shot mode, and an 80mm design to be fired from the...