HOTOL: Britain’s Spaceplane
by
Dan Sharp
Now available for pre-order here:
HOTOL: Britain's Spaceplane
Tempest Books
ISBN: 9781911704294
Format: Hardback
Pages: 300
The start of Space Shuttle operations in 1981 marked a new era in spaceflight – with the five orbiters launching numerous...
1980s
british aerospace plc
cold war
department of trade and industry
early 1990s
great britain
ministryofdefence
post-cold war
rolls-royce
royal aircraft establishment
single-stage-to-orbit
space age
space race
spaceplane
ssto
strategic defense initiative
Thirty-plus years in the making, this is a must-have for anyone researching postwar British aircraft. It's from Air-Britain, so you know it will be good. Pricey, even for members, but this time next year you'll wish you'd bagged one...
In the 1960s, the RAF started to examine options for land-based AEW aircraft. NASR.6166 was a joint RAF/RN requirement issued in 1962, for a carrier-borne AEW aircraft that would also be used from land bases. This requirement specified an FMICW radar.
That didn't stop companies from offering...
In THIS THREAD, the re-equipment of the Red Arrows has been touched upon, so I thought it would be a good idea to break out a thread to discuss this subject.
What should the Red Arrows use after the Hawks are retired?
Should the Red Arrows continue after the Hawks are retired?
cheers,
Robin.
2021
21st century
afghan air force
afghan relocation and assistance policy
afghan war
bagram airfield
british army
cold war
frontal aviation
islamic emirate of afghanistan
islamic republic of afghanistan
ministryofdefence
post-cold war
red army
royal air force
united kingdom
united states air force
war on terror
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LRdmSgUDaQ
Looks like the requirement was for a heavily protected defence orientated tank, employing ambush tactics (similar in a number of respects to the S-Tank), for use by the British Army On the Rhine (BAOR). IIRC, default NATO strategy in the event...
1960s
cold war
general staff operational requirement
gsor 1008
liquid armour
ministryofdefence
nuclear battlefield
swingfire missile
tank design
the armoured archives
united kingdom
We have covered individual projects and the infamous Sandys 1957 White Paper in some depth but I wanted to draw together what we have learnt with some open questions:
Which missile projects across the board: Malkara to Blue Streak would you bin or save?
Which Foreign systems would you have...
ORIGINAL CAPTION: The CarbSAR concept could fly as a demonstration in 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47787598
From earlier this year:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47030052
https://www.sstl.co.uk/
https://oxford.space/
A British start-up company, Aeralis, is trying to secure £1 mil via crowdfunding to design a concept fuselage demonstrator for a “modular” family of military jet trainers in time for September’s DSEI defence show. They are billing this as the first all-British military aircraft since the Hawk...
Issued back in February it announced an industry day for LANCA (though it didn't use that name) which should have occurred on the 13th March:
https://www.defenceonline.co.uk/2018/02/27/gb-high-wycombe-lanca/
Rolls-Royce Limited/Rolls-Royce (1971) Limited/Rolls-Royce plc 'RB' Designations
(Moderator: I have placed this listing here because its emphasis is on the designation system rather than details of the engines themselves. If this is positioning is deemed inappropriate, please move or delete...
air ministry
cold war
directorate of air ministry factories
great britain
ministryof aircraft production
ministryof aviation
ministryofdefenceministryof supply
power jets
rolls-royce
rover company limited
world war ii
I've done a search. and I'm surprised that there's no thread for this...
Following the partial replacement, in 1959, of the British Ministry of Supply by the Ministry of Aviation, the iconic 'Rainbow Code' system for projects was also replaced, by a new system of two letters, and three numbers...
Via HP&CA, a new MOD concept for the Royal Navy:
Detailed specs
Joint Concept Note 1/12
This concept is probably DOA. Someone should have told the MOD that Transformation and the like is dead and buried. 'Systems not platforms' is what brought about such disasters as the LCS.
On page 241 of "The Decline of British Seapower" by Desmond Wettern, the
then Minister of Aviation (Julian Amery) told a Business Dinner on 9 September 1964
that the Government were considering building an ocean-going "hovership" for the
RN. His Ministry and the MOD would make preliminary...
cold war
fleet air arm
great britain
hovercraft
hoverfrigate
ministryofdefence
nuclear powered vessels
royal navy
surface effect ship
westland helicopters
1990s
2000s
bae systems
early 2010s
early 21st century
late 20th century
maritime patrol aircraft
ministryofdefence
nimrod 2000
nimrod mra.4
post-cold war
replacement maritime patrol aircraft
royal air force
staff requirement (air) 420
united kingdom
war on terror
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