post-cold war

I don't know if you have more info about this. The French magazine RAIDS, dedicated its special issue N°73 to the "Secret Projects of the French Armoured Forces" published during winter 2019-2020. I haven't managed to get hold of the magazine yet, but it mentions the AMX-APX ALLARM project with...

NASA and Space X artist Tony Bela https://www.tonybela.com/page2.html Starship illustrations by Matthew Cushman https://www.behance.net/gallery/33225347/Cutaway-Illustrations-by-Matthew-Paul-Cushman Great English artist LESLIE ASHWELL WOOD - Eagle magazine. The best technical illustrations...

Nice origin story for the Meteor missile. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S225XR

So those trios of sigint/elint sats that US and China have in droves, what sort of signals can they detect? Infantry Battalion level Comms? Long range Comms (hundreds of km distance)? SAM battery targeting radar? Radar of a maritime patrol helicopter? Fighter jet radar? Large shipborne air...

During tests run by the USSR, it was determined that putting ERA on lightly armored vehicles was a bad idea, as it would break the hull. I see lots of people talking about "it's a vbied now lol" every time a photo shows ERA on a vehicle with less than BMP-3 levels of armor. But the thing is, we...

https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1035203 https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1167084 https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1167084

Not a journalist I place a lot of credence with so take with pinch of salt: Satellite photos reveal colossal airship hangar in Chinese desert Keen to know if other sources on this.

I've been thinking recently about exports of UK combat aircraft. What examples do people think were "successful"? In my mind success is some sort of function of export numbers relative to UK numbers, and numbers of different export countries. My list of "successes" from post WW2 is below...

Anyone interested in Australian attitudes to getting nuclear weapons should start with this thread that explains how difficult it is and the US role. https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/uk-thermonuclear-warheads.10419/post-98670 The UK experience with the US would be similar for Australia.

Thought there was a thread on this already, my apologies for the belated post. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62964177 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/science/valery-polyakov-dead.html https://www.astronomy.com/news/2022/09/valeri-polyakov-record-breaking-cosmonaut-dies-at-age-80...

I love airliners but hate the whole rigmarole of flying today..So here is another typical UK 75 thread. British Airways became one of the world's largest operators of the iconic Boeing 747 and even painted and.even painted one up in the colours of their predecessor BOAC. Imagine if instead of...

The one thing am curious about this radar is, could it have been made small enough to fit in a regular f-16 or was the increased size of the f-2 nessary inorder to fit it. And how much would that have effected its range because as is, iv seen the J/APG 1's range as described as in between the...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-09/queen-elizabeth-ii-dies-buckingham-palace-charles-king/100235860

https://thespacereview.com/article/4440/1

https://history.nasa.gov/sp4543.pdf This document published in 2009 contains a summary of published books about NASA history and also a guide to the collections and archives found at various NASA locations. Looks potentially useful for researchers.

I've been searching for quite a long time a reason(or reasons) for the UK, Canada and Norway to have dropped out of MIDS program in 1991, just before the signing of the MIDS PMOU. They were indeed a MIDS program members since phase one. Particularly interesting is the case of UK, since they were...

yes i know total off topic but it art book about the Legend Ron Cobb The guy who design ALIEN, ALIENS, ABYSS, BACK TO FUTURE, CONAN THE BARBARIAN, DARK STAR, THE LAST STAR FIGHTER, STAR WARS... Book will be 208 page and be out for sale at 13 September 2022...

Hi. Watching the other day an old video featuring the LM's Saber Warrior() what caught my attention was not the aicaft itself, but the CGI spaceplane transitioning to the logo shown at the end just as these last words are spoken: ..."the Saber Warrior is just one example of the many concepts...

Purely as a fact check exercise the only instance I could think of where armed forces from nuclear powers came to serious blows was between the Soviet Union and China on the Usuri river in 1969. I think there are regular clashes between Indian and Pakistani forces which have not been altered by...

A Swedish modeler named Björn Bäcklund ( https://baecklund.eu/scalemodels/ex72/modern.html ) created this 1:72 scale model of a hybrid Polish main battle tank combining the hull of a T-72 with the turret of a Leopard 2. Bäcklund created the model back when Poland had recently joined NATO in...