tactical reconnaissance

I came across this very interesting article, and other material, at the Quiet Aircraft Association's YO-3A website: http://www.yo-3a.com/ Night Stalkers U.S. soldiers in Vietnam heard rumors of ghosts; the Viet Cong chalked it up to bad luck. By Roger Warner Air & Space Magazine, May 01, 2004...

Hell-For-Leather After their nuclear attack against a Soviet industrial target, the crew of this TSR2 dive back to the relative safety of supersonic low-level flight. With the bomber’s cover now broken, a “Shilka” self-propelled anti-aircraft gun is the first enemy unit to respond. As they...

North American Rockwell OV-10D NOS (Night Observation Surveillance) Bronco Source: http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?65214-OV-10-Bronco-commercial-catalog-%28issue-1964%29/page2

Since the debate on capabilities and such was begining to overcome the LHX thread I thought I would attempt to move it here. To start the conversation I found this little bit over at AW&ST (...

Sounds like "The Great Book Of Modern Warplanes": http://www.amazon.com/Great-Book-Modern-Warplanes/dp/B000RERZXY Martin

Hi, in 1959,the Air Ministry issued a competition for VTOL strike recce aircraft, the tenders were English Electric P.31 and Gloster P.505,I don't know if there was anther contenders or not,but I ask for more info about those two projects.

I must preface this first look review by saying that, while I'm interested in space technology, its not my speciality, so I'm approaching this book from this angle. Bill Rose has put together a well written and nicely illustrated book on various military space projects. Its 192 pages long and...

Hi, the RAF selected the Caproni C.22J for the military Specification as light trainer aircraft,the Caproni also planed to develope a single seat version as recce and light attack models and single seat anti-helicopter version armedwith Shorts air-to-air Blowpipe missiles...

Lockheed produced several initial designs leading to the Hummingbird. One of them was the GL-224-2 concept. Is there anyone who can help with a decent three view drawing or an other illustration about? The 'X' plane book No.5 -HPM Publications haves an illustration but in my copy the drawing...

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From a brochure I missed on Ebay: DH.110 Tactical Bomber / Photographic Reconnaissance Aircraft (March 1957) The seller had these brochures: DH110 Tactical Bomber Aircraft (RCAF Requirements) (November 1958) Sea Vixen Development with RB163 engines (February 1960) Which he sold privately to...

FIAT G91 was one of the most succesful Italian aeronautical products of '60s. A lot of the were produced and utilized at least by AMI, Luftwaffe and Portoguese Air Force. FIAT G91 was a close support light STOL fighter-bomber, with some recce capabilities despite its not optimal flight...

Flying Review March 1966

Flight's 9 April 1964 was a TSR.2 special issue, with lots of adverts and one of the first in depth articles. Front page http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1964/1964%20-%200984.pdf Article http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1964/1964%20-%201014.pdf through to...

Can someone identify this US UAV concept?

Curious to know if Concorde was ever considered in a military role, maybe as a recce aircraft or cruise missile platform? Would this have been feasible?

I was wondering if anyone has any more information on the version of the Tomcat II shown in the image below? It's obviously stealthier than the standard version and has inlets similar to the F-22, but I was wondering if anyone here has all three views or any renderings or pictures of models of...

Some years ago, my friend Thomas from Germany and me, managed to identify this helo as the Sikorsky S-68. Source is: Stealth Technology. The art of black magic by J Jones. 1989. ISBN 0-8306-8381-X "Early 1970s proposal by Sikosrsky for Army's armored aerial reconnaissance vehicle program"...

... several quite different from Grumman !