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    Francisco Garcia Pazos "Convertible Volante" Spanish hybrid vtol rocket powered SST patents. 1952

    Found these in the Spanish online patent repository in the aircraft related patent clasif. it was hard for me at first to understand the design as i havent seen much aircraft like this before but it has retractable blades on the side of the plane that spins like a helicopter to make vertical...
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    Messerschmitt Jet Fighters

    CONTENTS Compressibility buffeting The research sites of the Luftwaffe Messerschmitt Me 262 Interzeptor Messerschmitt Me 262 Heimatschützer BMW 109-003 R (TLR) rocket/turbojet BMW 109-718 rocket Rocket propellants composition Messerschmitt Me 262 Hochgeschwindigkeits Rennkabine...
  3. uk 75

    Postwar Spain without Franco

    Since Franco's death Spain has become a key player in the EU and NATO. Reading how the dictator resisted attempts to have Spain play a more active role in WW2 alongside Germany and Italy got me wondering. Franco decides that Gibraltar is worth the risk of joining the Axis. As a result in 1945...
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    Did the Spanish have any plans on replacing Dedalo I?

    As we know, Dedalo was a German merchant ship confiscated during WW1 and converted by the Spanish into a seaplane tender in 1922. Dedalo well demonstrated the utility of an aircraft capable ship by supporting the Spanish-French landings at Alhucemas during the Rif War in Morrocco in 1925. In...
  5. Grey Havoc

    Project 138 Heavy Cruiser (Spain, late 1930s)

    (h/t cattalonX) https://forum.worldofwarships.eu/topic/5987-spanish-heavy-cruiser-project-138/
  6. klem

    The Menneking Prototype: A Forgotten Spanish Assault Rifle.1950

    Like the other nations of Europe, Spain also wanted to acquire a high-performance assault rifle by recruiting former German engineers. For this purpose, the CETME center was created, which brought together former members of Rheinmetall and Mauser. Hartmut Menneking's group had already been...
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    Project 148-A: Spain's Mogador Half-Sibling

    Designed in April 1942 after a contract was designed for designs of the machinery from the Mogador class, Project 148-A was also similar in dimensions, though with a deeper draft. The design had a profile extremely similar to Mogador, but with much enhanced AA, as well as dual purpose 120mm...
  8. Tzoli

    Argentinian Never-Were Warship Designs and Proposals

    Do you guys know any other never-weres or proposed warships for the Argentinian Navy? I know only these so far: TR-1400 class Submarines from the 1980's San Luis class Destroyers of 1910 (British built, finished as Aetos class for Greece) Mendoza class Destroyers of 1910 (Finished as...
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    Spanish unbuilt naval projects

    I've been doing a report on the pattern of the high seas, the navy and I was thinking about the possible numbers that had no physical vessels (projects not left the drawing tables). I've always missed the lack of paragraph F-90, possibly a replacement for the Discovery and the NFR-90. Also the...
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    Spanish/German LINCE

    Lince was a paper project, not very known. In 1974 -Franco still alive- arrived to Spain the first 19 AMX-30, made in France, to be quickly deployed in Spanish Sahara. The agreement with France included the license to manufacture this tank by Empresa Nacional Santa Bárbara. So, AMX-30 became...
  11. Antonio

    SCS evolution into Príncipe de Asturias

    Found this profiles on Spanish magazine "Flaps" Nº254: "El portaaeronaves español Príncipe de Asturias. Origen y desarrollo. by Albert Campanera i Rovira"
  12. GTX

    CVV concepts of the '70s

    Hi folks, Does anyone have any information on the USN CVV concepts of the 1970s? Apart from some brief references in books, I have found the following information on the web: "CVV was the major program, an outgrowth of Zumwalt's earlier T-CBL, proposed by Ford and championed by Carter. It...
  13. hesham

    Aerotécnica Helicopters

    From spain, Aerotecnica AC-15 :that project was developed from AC-14 with a 260 hp Lycoming O-435-V engine. Aerotecnica AC-21 :12/14 seat larger helicopter in Aerotecnica series with Turbomeca Turmo III turbines and a massive ducted-air tailboom,project only.
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    Spanish/Egyptian HA-300 supersonic fighter project

    HA-300 1:1 wooden scale model Initial design of the HA-300 Derived twin-engine H-310
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