The Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) guided missile destroyer was known as the DDX program from 1978-79 and the DDGX program from 1979-1980. The DDX program should not be confused with the DD(X) program building the Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer.
Line drawing of an early DDGX design...
A thread to discuss Type 23 variants (Originally European / UK AAW projects that arose after the split in the Horizon project (I thought there already was a thread on this, but I couldn't find it), but changed to reflect actual content).
Firstly, the "stretched" Type 23 proposed by Yarrow in...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fleet-Air-Arm-Carrier-War/dp/1844159035/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1252920230&sr=8-1
http://www.pen-and-sword.co.uk/?product_id=2050
I have no specific info on this book but Kev Darling has written some good books before.
Splendid Vision, Unswerving Purpose:
Developing Air Power For The United States Air Force
During The First Century Of Powered Flight
History Office
Aeronautical Systems Center
Air Force Materiel Command
Air Force History and Museums Program
United States Air Force
Wright-Patterson Air Force...
aeronautical systems center
aeronautical systems division
air material command
air research and development command
cold war
early 21st century
late 20th century
post-coldwar
united states air force
wright air development center
Space transfer concepts and analysis for exploration missions. Implementation plan and element description document. Volume 1: Major trades. Book 1: Draft final
Abstract:
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19930013159_1993013159.pdf
Space transfer concepts and analysis for...
Advanced Transportation System Studies Technical Area 2(TA-2): Heavy Lift Launch Vehicle Development. Executive Summary; Volume 1 prepared by Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Company for the Launch Systems Concepts Office of the George C. Marshall Space Fllight Center, July 1995.
Abstract...
Hi,
here is some aircraft and one airship fpr the Lockheed-Martin as VLST Very
Large Subsonic Transports aircraft,notice the Lockheed-Dornier one.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19960023624_1996039479.pdf
The Heckler & Koch G11 is a non-production prototype assault rifle developed during the 1970s and 1980s by Gesellschaft für Hülsenlose Gewehrsysteme (GSHG) (German for "Corporation for Caseless Rifle Systems"), a conglomeration of companies headed by firearm manufacturer Heckler & Koch...
In the late 1980s, FMC (Food Machinery Company) Corporation, later becoming United Defense Industries and now BAE Systems Land and Armaments, developed the Close Combat Vehicle - Light (CCV-L) and the US Army selected a modified version to meet its requirement for an Armored Gun System (AGS). A...
I was browsing Google Books and found a preview of Iowa and Alaska Class Conversion Projects 1942-1962: An Illustrated Technical Reference by Wayne Scarpaci. I thought it was too cool not to share. ;D
http://books.google.com/books?id=L4z8UIRymR4C&printsec=frontcover
As a further contribution to the ongoing debate on future US SLBM, a document from twelve years ago to modify Los Angeles subs to vertically launched TACMS missiles. Here (grab it fast, you never know): http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA318774
although no pictures exist there is supposed to be a model of the proposed RFA replenishment ship with nuclear power in the massive Greenwich collection. I have never been able to get to see this model, but based on some small drawings of mercantile UK reactor designs in an old Airfix magazine...
20th century
21st century
admiralty research department
atomic energy authority industrial group
atomic ships
cold war
great britain
nuclear powered vessels
nuclear royal fleet auxiliary
post-coldwar
royal navy
united kingdom
I am sure that many remember this Popular Mechanics article or one of the many like it back then on a rumoured type of Russian concrete sub with 200 mph Shkval rocket torpedoes:
Concrete Submarines
Cheap and deadly, these stealthy boats could shift the balance of naval power.
December 1998...
OK. Gents. I finally found my old pictures from the heady days of the early 90's when DENEL had a project for everything.
Anyone have any more information about this NOTAR style testbed that was show (static display only) at one of the 1'st SA Arms expo's?
I only have what's in the photos
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