late 20th century

Sadly, Vangelis passed away yesterday in France: https://apnews.com/article/vangelis-dead-chariots-of-fire-b7a98666ff96ca049dbe7964da98d44d My guess is that a bit of all of us went with him. View: https://youtu.be/uPe27x0_W2M Rip in the new eden world.

I have just heard, via the latest Hawker Association newsletter, that Roy Braybrook passed away last June. Another of the great authors who got me, and probably many on this forum, interested in aircraft has gone to the great aviation library in the sky. He was also, of course, a designer in...

One of the must have expensive toys of the mid 60s in the US and UK was the Johnny Seven One Man Army. Read what it was here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Seven_OMA Seems a bit far fetched, but at about the same time there was this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_63

https://www.reuters.com/world/afghanistan-pullout-spurs-eu-revive-rapid-reaction-force-2021-09-01/ A bit of background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU_Battlegroup

https://thespacereview.com/article/4228/1 The little satellite that could How a vice president’s dream led—after a very long delay—to the DSCOVR spacecraft by Dwayne A. Day Monday, August 16, 2021 If satellites had personalities, DSCOVR would be a scrappy little fighter: battered, bloody, but...

Mike Machat shows some of R G Smith's incredible artwork on his Youtube channel. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S4R4B3GxD4

I once read that there were rumors that the DPRK would begin domestic production of a MiG-21 type design in the early 1990s, but those projections obviously never came true. They did assemble MiG-29s from parts supplied by the Soviets and other countries throughout the late 1980s and early to...

2020:what a nefarious year https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Prowse

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b84Wzh-kH_s https://www.darpa.mil/attachments/TestimonyArchived(April%2020%201999).pdf

The artist Ron Cobb, known for his work for many science fiction movies and TV series, has passed away. :( Source : View: https://twitter.com/TheSpaceshipper/status/1308071692296740864?

AI will help solve problems with nuclear fusion or so at least the US Federal government seems to believe. https://www.energy.gov/articles/department-energy-provide-21-million-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning-research...

At the end of the Cold War it looked as if the M113 and FV432 would leave service either not to be replaced or to be replaced by more suitable vehicles. Thirty years later, they still serve in many forms and much refurbished. A bit like a London Taxi the simple box on tracks is right for the...

Dear Colleagues, although this subject appeared in numerous discussions and publications, can you explain to a layman how an SNR-125 Low Blow managed to get a lock on an F-117 and to shoot it down on 27 March 1999? Can this kind of radar operating on the I/D band indeed lock on a stealth plane...

The venerable FV432 and M113 troop carriers have been around for more than half a century. I have never seen a realistic comparison of the types from the soldiers' point of view. Anyone know more?

In the Gerry Anderson series Space 1999 nuclear weapons are stored on the moon along with other nuclear waste after a limited nuclear war/ terrorist act in Switzerland in the 80s. The Anderson derived comic had already created a World Government in 2028 following a limited nuclear war in Europe...

Okay, noticed the TR-3 thread was bumped again, and I was gonna make this a post there, but as it concerns a bit of a broader spectrum than just the (probably fictional) TR-3, I may as well make a thread out of it. I've been doing some thinking on the whole concept of the F-117 Companion and its...

This is an idea that seems to be coming back into fashion. I have a bit of a suspicion that with the concept below, someone may have looked up the old hard engineering data from the production of Waterworld as part of their background research...

From Icare 1969, here is ONERA VTOL Transport Aircraft Project of 1969