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  1. Grey Havoc

    Afghanistan withdrawal, Bagram Air Base

    https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57692303 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2021/07/02/bagram-afghanistan-biden-war/ https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-left-afghan-airfield-night-173121460.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-57682290...
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    • 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 ministry of defence post-cold war red army royal air force united kingdom united states air force war on terror
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    • Forum: The Bar
  2. Grey Havoc

    G.S.O.R. 1008.

    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...
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    • 1960s cold war general staff operational requirement gsor 1008 liquid armour ministry of defence swingfire missile the armoured archives united kingdom
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    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  3. Grey Havoc

    Royal Navy XLUUV program (Manta-class drone submarine)

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/hisutton/2020/03/05/royal-navy-to-get-first-large-autonomous-submarine/#338120f1f0b6 https://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/manta-the-royal-navy-gets-its-first-extra-large-autonomous-submarine/
  4. Grey Havoc

    Future Littoral Strike Ship (FLSS)

    https://www.savetheroyalnavy.org/a-closer-look-at-the-littoral-strike-ship-concept/
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    • 2019 bmt littoral strike group ministry of defence mrss mrv prevail partners royal navy transformation fund united kingdom
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  5. Grey Havoc

    CarbSAR ultra low cost radar satellite (United Kingdom)

    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/
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    • carbonite ministry of defence mod national space technology program oss project oberon radarsat sstl synthetic aperture radar united kingdom
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    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  6. covert_shores

    RN warship 2050: project Startpoint

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-34077719 :)
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    • 2015 2050 dreadnought 2050 hms dreadnought t2050 ministry of defence royal navy t21 united kingdom
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  7. robunos

    The 'AB.123' project designation system...

    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...
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    • 1960s 1970s air ministry cold war late 1950s ministry of aviation ministry of defence ministry of technology united kingdom war office
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    • Forum: Designation Systems
  8. Grey Havoc

    ‘BLACK SWAN’ Class Sloop-Of-War

    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.
  9. uk 75

    Saunders Roe Hovercraft Aircraft Carrier

    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...
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    • hovercraft hoverfrigate ministry of defence royal navy surface effect ship westland helicopters
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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