late 1970s

Ive been looking for information regarding the AVCR1360-2 Variable Compression Engine, I know its a diesel inline 6 but thats about it, ive also had a brief memory of it being used in the General Motors XM1 Tank prototype, although this could be a Mandela effect any more information would help...

https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history/2025/june/recalling-bird-dogs-heroic-carrier-landing https://navalaviationmuseum.org/honoring-heroism-and-humanity/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Midway_(CV-41)

https://spectrum.ieee.org/reconnaissance-satellite

Meant to post this last week: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2024/09/12/edward-johnson-argo-iran-america-diplomats-affleck/ Rest In Peace :(

A detail look on piece of film history View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NojWAMpHHPs

In the late 1970s Sandia explored the design of a maneuvering glide bomb, the Extended Range Bomb: "Aerodynamic Design of an Extended Range Bomb" https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/10.2514/3.57916 "TIGER -- A technology to improve the delivery capability of nuclear bombs and the survivability of the...

The British B.A.E. Kingston P1214-3 Xwing Fighter Interceptor is the only aircraftdesign that was really an X-Wing version. It was designed by Hawker Design Team at Kingston in the late 70's for RAF as Advanced-Short-Tak-Off / Vertical Landing Fighter.. The aircraft had 3 adjustable thrusters...

Érase una vez sólo dos bandos (y sabías qué esperar) y había un país llamado Unión Soviética. Y el portaaviones era la especie dominante en los mares (Cuanto más grande era el portaaviones, más felices eran los almirantes), pero este tipo de barcos son muy caros, tan caros que parecía que iban a...

From 1979 to 1980, the United States Navy proposed updating their remaining obsolete FRAM Gearing class destroyers in the Naval Reserve Force as escorts to protect trans-Atlantic convoys against Soviet submarines. Some of the proposed modernization included replacing the WWII-era 5"/38 twin-gun...

Briefly mentioned here, I remember stumbling across this system on another, now defunct, website covering US sea mines. If I remember, the project dated from the 1970s, and included two variants of rising mine, one based upon a small torpedo, the other rocket-propelled.

Here's a consolidation of the information I've found so far. Komatsu B78 IFV Built by Komatsu, the JSDF in the late ’70s started a project to design an Infantry Fighting Vehicle that would aid troops in the field while also providing armored fire support. Mitsubishi and Komatsu both built...

Alexis Rocher (aka MIRAGE 4000 on SPF), current editor-in-chief of the French monthly Le fana de l'aviation, informed us a few days ago of the forthcoming release of his book on the Dassault Super Mirage 4000. He also informed us that the book will exist in an English version...

Does anyone know the final disposition of the Terex MX Transporter Emplacer (TE)? This vehicle was designed to support MX deployment in a system of multiple protective shelters linked by above ground roads, the so-called "Racetrack" proposal. In 1979, President Carter announced that 200 MX...

HM-45 tank. It was a deep modernisation of the T-54 and T-55 tanks proposed by the Polish industry in the second half of the 1970s - comparable to the PT-91 (compared to the T-72) in terms of the scope of changes. It was abandoned by the Ministry of National Defence in favour of the USSR...

For those interested, the Angry Planet (formerly War College) podcast has an extensive interview with Steve Jackson about his legendary Ogre game. https://play.acast.com/s/warcollege/sponsored-the-mega-tank-of-the-future Today’s episode is brought to you by Auroch Digital, makers of many fine...

Grumman were apparently quite keen to sell the A-6E Intruder to Venezuela: https://archive.org/details/State-Dept-cable-1975-260091/mode/1up

Source: p474-p475, US Amphibious Ships and Craft, Norman Friedman The Center of Naval Analyses (CNA) compared a number of different ship designs for the role of the Maritime Prepositioning Squadron (MPS). One of these was the PD-214 "Security Class" (C8-M-MA134), a conceptual mobilisation ship...

What if the Iranian revolution never succeeded.. either changes were made that prevented it from occurring, or that it occurred but failed. How would it affect US relations with Iran? Would they still continue to import US weapons? Iran relations with other Mid-East countries? would there...

There's a lot of conflicting information on the ACEVAL and AIMEVAL programs in published accounts. ACEVAL was focused on the relative effects of force size with a red force of F-5s versus blue force F-14 and F-15s. It was limited to visual engagements only and the AIM-54 was prohibited...

the Falklands war occurred in 82 Ark Royal (or another ship of the same class?) was decommissioned in 79 What if they had opted to delay the decommissioning by a few years but then the Falkland war occurred anyways Would the Ark Royal have been sent? would it have contributed differently than...