Trying to figure out which countries could actually handle the cost of light fleet carriers in 1946-60, so do we have any actual data at what prices the Colossus and Majestic class ships were sold by Britain in 1946-60? And for that matter how much their modernization with angled fight decks and...
1950s
aircraft carrier
armada de la república argentina
cold war
director of naval construction (royal navy)
directorate of naval construction
early 1960s
great britain
indian navy
late 1940s
light fleet carrier
marine nationale
marinha do brasil
post-worldwarii
royal australian navy
royal canadian navy
royal navy
royal netherlands navy
royal spanish navy
united states navy
The three Tiger class cruisers arouse strong opinions.
As the only major non-carrier RN warships built after WW2 they mark the transition of the RN from a force built round its battleships' big guns to a missile dominated navy.
The 6" and 3" guns fitted to them were supposed to be a new approach...
anti-submarine warfare
cold war
command cruiser
command ship
cruiser
east of suez
falklands war
fleet air arm
gun cruiser
helicopter and command cruiser
helicopter cruiser
naval fire support
north atlantic treaty organisation
nsfs
post-worldwarii
royal navy
vstol carriers
world warii
Ho,
for this competition,the main tenders were; SARO P.104,P,162,Blackburn B-78,Supermarine 524
and Shorts PD.2,has anyone a drawings to Blackburn and Shorts proposals ?.
1948
cold war
flying boat
great britain
late 1940s
maritime patrol aircraft
maritime reconnaissance
post-worldwarii
raf coastal command
royal air force
saunders-roe
supermarine aviation ltd
Part of the one documentary threads on this channel. States it’s considered one of the worst aircraft to fly with the RAF.
View: https://youtu.be/OO_t3HFGrhw?si=BJGkVc9QwQeiINZa
1950s
air ministry
cold war
f.105d
fighter
great britain
interceptor
korean war
late 1940s
ministry of supply
north atlantic treaty organisation
post-worldwarii
raf fighter command
royal air force
specification e.41/46
super-priority
supermarine aviation ltd
tactical reconnaissance
transonic
type 541
I'm posting this in the post war section, but it is possible, given it's title that it may be a interwar project. I came across this proposal from Short Bros for an eight-engined long range flying boat. I have checked throughout the site but without any luck. Wonder if anyone can fill in the...
I an sure I will call down a whole host of ‘trouble’ on my head for raising this, but,
Here we go…
We all know that the Royal Navy post WW2 was in an invidious position regards available finance and the shifting sands of changing priorities.
One thing I think was the (in retrospect at least)...
1950s
british commonwealth
british empire
cold war
fleet air arm
great britain
late 1940s
north atlantic treaty organisation
post-worldwarii
royal navy
world wariii
Due to the jet age, various super props never go to production despite their high performance. Among those, it can be said that XP-72 and Spiteful F.16 were the most high capable design.
So let say if these prototype got to production stage, which would be the ultimate piston fighter?
XP-72...
allies
british commonwealth
fighters
fleet air arm
great britain
post-worldwarii
pursuit aircraft
royal air force
royal navy
united states
united states army air forces
world warii
alternate history
cold war
fleet air arm
great britain
hawker aircraft
hawker aircraft limited
hawker siddeley aircraft
post-worldwarii
royal navy
what-if
world warii
Recently I've gone down the rabbit hole of the few Scottish built Military aircraft, and recently the Scottish Aviation Pioneer has caught my eye, despite initially being designed as a STOL transport aircraft they appear to have seen a fair amount of Field modifications in Malaya and Aden that...
armaments
british empire
coin
cold war
federation of south arabia
great britain
malayan auxiliary air force (raf)
malaysia
pioneer
post-worldwarii
royal air force
royal colony of aden
royal federation of malaya air force
scottish aviation
south arabian air force
state of aden
stol
straits settlements
twin pioneer
Very little info seems to exist on these weapons. If anyone has any additional info this weapon (or weapons, maybe they are different from each other?) that would be great, such as ammunition types used, rate of fire, etc. Below is the info I've compiled so far,
There seems to be a small...
Just came across Operation Downfall, and was pondering. What might be the political situation that would warrant the plan coming to fruition? What projects would be pursued and put into production, and what wouldn't? Who would win the war?
Perhaps the 3rd world war would be caused by a...
1948
alternate history
baor
cold war
great britain
north atlantic treaty organisation
nuclear battlefield
post-worldwarii
soviet union
special forces
stay behind troops
stay-behind
ussr
warsaw pact
west germany
world wariii
I heard rumour that TsAGI analysis found that the Ta-183 Design II would have shed its tail (although the IAe 33 Pulqui II seems to have eventually managed to make a somewhat similar t-tail work). What other issues did late war WWII designs have?
Ju EF 128 intakes might have had a lot of duct...
1940s
jägerstab
luftwaffe
nazi germany
post-worldwarii
reich ministry of armaments and war production
reichsluftfahrtministerium
soviet union
tsagi
world warii
T34 Heavy Tank
Developed in 1945 as a modernization of the T30 heavy tank. The vehicle was equipped with the 120 mm T53 gun and the new Continental AV-1790 engine. Because of the decline in heavy tank development after the end of World War II, the T34 never entered service. The prototypes were...
At the end of WW2 the myriad RAF & USAAF combat aircraft were drawn down, scraped or in the UKs case “given back” (either literally to the US or again scraped in the UK). But what would the out of service dates be of these iconic aircraft if the war continued to 1950 or later. Frontline...
I have come across some information on the proposed VC.4 three-engined transatlantic airliner project of 1949.
Information on the VC.4 was used to demonstrate aerodynamic drag issues in a Royal Aeronautical Society lecture by E. J. Edwards on 24 November 1949 entitled A Review of Aerodynamic...
In the US Carriers book, Friedman mentions that after the war, considerations had to be made in carrier designs for a "14-inch rocket", that did not progress far enough to enter service:
The only information on this rocket I could find comes from the Wikipedia article on the Tiny Tim:
(I would...
The Iwo Jima (CV-46) of the Essex class was cancelled incomplete after the war. But according to Friedman, there were plans to redesign the ship to alleviate the deficiencies of the Essex class (the plans died with the cancellation of the carrier):
Does anyone have information on this redesign?
1935
1940s
air ministry
civil aviation
great britain
interwar period
k site
late 1930s
london underground
lullingstone airfield
post-worldwarii
pre-world warii
q site
royal air force
the southern railway
world warii
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