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Assuming that this is not an ill-judged April Fools joke on the part of someone at the Daily Telegraph, this does not bode well at all for the survival of NATO: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/04/01/donald-trump-strongly-considering-pulling-us-out-of-nato/

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/07/french-navys-first-new-offshore-patrol-vessel-breaks-cover/ View: https://youtu.be/d9a_-9JN1HY

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2025/07/16/army-europe-chief-unveils-nato-eastern-flank-defense-plan/

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/07/france-unveils-its-defense-strategy-for-the-arctic/

A purely techno-speculative thread, frankly. What I wanted is to speculate: what if NATO and Warsaw Pact schools of military technology were forced to merge together by, say, a common (and big!) threat, arising during the late Cold War? So the question: what could be achieved if late Cold War...

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/cae-looks-to-rebuild-aerodrome-of-democracy-in-canada/163426.article

https://newatlas.com/military/ramjet-engine-turns-artillery-rounds-supersonic-missiles/ https://www.janes.com/osint-insights/defence-news/weapons/future-artillery-2025-tiberius-unveils-sceptre-ramjet-155-mm-munition (Subscription or registration may be required)...

Hello to you all, i am a new member to this forum & i like a lot of what i see & read here & fulmars !(Feeble naval pun/typo intended!) full marks to you all, however, its only fair that i chip in as well. So here goes it. If you cast your mind back to the air shows of the late 70s & early...

As some of you will know I inhabit a version of the 1970s where all my favourite stuff entered service. One of these is the AH56 Cheyenne helicopter. This machine looks futuristic even half a century later.

Is anyone familiar with this book on the C-5 Galaxy (ISBN 1681624389) published a good quarter of a century ago? I would be interested in a table of contents. Unfortunately, I can't find the book in any German library.

There's an interesting referendence in the May 1982 International Defense Review, p626: "British Aerospace, which was the prime contractor for the now cancelled NATO 6S vertically launched missile ..." The context is the first public showing of vertical launch Seawolf and the suggestion that...

As it becomes clear that Europe and Canada will need to take on the running of NATO's main command on the continent, it will be necessary to find a significant figure who can deal effectively with the military and political challenges ahead as SACEUR. As the principal military power in Europe...

They give this up I cannot see the US ever getting it back. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-admin-considers-giving-nato-command-exclusively-american-eisenho-rcna196503

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg1z42pkj8o https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0318/1502596-hemingway/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/18/john-paddy-hemingway-last-pilot-battle-of-britain-dies-105/...

Part 1 of the Air Historical Branch's history of Typhoon https://www.raf.mod.uk/what-we-do/our-history/air-historical-branch/post-coldwar-studies/eurofightertyphoonpart1coldwarorigins1983-1990/

Via Stuart Galbraith over on TankNet: View...

I have two questions related to the Ground-directed bombing (GDB) systems: (1) Were the radar-based Ground-directed bombing (GDB) systems used during the Cold War in the European Theater? I mean something like the AN/MSQ-77 or similar? If yes, which aircraft were fitted with equipment to...

See https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/02/uk-sets-out-project-cabot-ambition-to-deploy-autonomous-asw-screen-in-the-north-atlantic/ TLDR: Project Cabot proposes as Phase 1 "Atlantic NET" coverage of GIUK gap using a COCONO (contractor owned, contractor operated, naval oversight)...

It probably is a somewhat strange topic, more of a mental and visual experiment than anything else (feel free to move it to artwork, if it's more appropriate there). In some sense my primary "enemy" in envisioning this setting is the 1966 Defense Review, which I want to circumvent and reverse...

Via Financial Times. Thoughts?