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Found that profiles at my old mags. (Aviation & Marine International Sept. 1979) The quality is awful (it can hurt your eyes) as it was a second hand magazine and I had no choice to get a better copy. Could any of our German members post decent drawings and brief data of the Bo 125? And can...

Hi all, can you translate or name this three projects(?)... Thanks Maveric

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In the early to mid 1970's the German navy was experimenting with the navalization of both the Gepard SPAA gun system and the ROLAND-II surface to air missile system. I was wondering does anyone know if these systems were ever tested successfully and ever used? I remember seeing them in a old...

in beginn of 1988, the German Media show picture of a unusual German Prototype Grob Werke D-450 Egrett-1 a propeller plane with extrem long wings [picture 1] this was joint Luftwaffe-USAF program "LAPAS" - called in U.S. "Senior Guardian" Luftgestütztes, abstandsfähiges Primär-Aufklärungssystem...

The recent discussion about HERMES on Ariane 4 triggered a memory of another reusable lifting vehicle planned to be launched by Ariane 4 – the PLATO Platform Orbiter. The PLATO concept of a small uncrewed winged reentry vehicle was developed by MBB-ERNO in the late Eighties to provide Europe...

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...

UAU! In 1976!! http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1976/1976%20-%200763.html

Hi, here is a picture for Hamburger HFB.370 Hansa Jet electronic countermeasure trainers aircraft,ity was actually built,but the Model HFB.370 was real or it was misprint ?. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1979/1979%20-%203890.html

Developed as the first of the West German Army KW 90 vehicles in the 1980s (the others being the PZH 2000 and a new tank) was the Krauss Maffei Marder 2. The design won a competition in 1988 and two prototypes were built. German Army requirements published in 1984 were: Same mobility as Leopard...

I found this proposal for a British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) Rapier SAM system incorporated into a West German Marder MICV chassis, in a copy of a 1972-73 Jane’s Weapon Systems, which I purchased the other day in a second hand book shop. This Rapier/Marder project looks a very thorough thought...

Hi everybody Here the Sänger antipodal bomber http://www.luft46.com/misc/sanger.html I am searching for details of the armament ! Are there any projects ? Many Thanks for all replies in advance

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...

Than the "Weser-Flugzeugbau GmbH" was active also after wwii ! :o :o

title says all. It seems that Tony Buttler did it again! Along the mythical Avro 732 "supersonic Vulcan" he mention a Vulcan with a Diamant rocket under wing. (I've seen a pic, but I won't post it here) More info on the context and specs of this project ? I've checked Diamant A/B/BP-4 at...

Probably no need to post more infos about this HS30 derivative, just 3 additional photos of the Kanonen-Jagdpanzer and another use of the 90mm gun in the prototype of the "Spähpanzer mit Turm und 90mm Kanone" (Recce tank with turreted 90mm gun) (all photos from Werner Oswald "Kraftfahrzeuge und...

The following information has been copied from Jane’s Light Tanks and Armoured Cars 1984 by Christopher F. Foss. It is posted here for educational purposes: APE Amphibious Engineer Reconnaissance Vehicle Development In the early 1960s EWK (Eisenwerke Kaiserslautern Göppner GmbH) developed a...

Hi gents Many years ago I remember reading and seeing an article about a West German SPAAG system then in development (1980’s I think?). I think it was called the ‘Wildcat’ (?) I looked as if it used the chassis of the TPz Fuchs 6x6 APC, with a turret that was armed with 2x30mm cannon and radar...

Hi, I aware that my dear Boxkite mentioned this aircraft before here; http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2924.msg23631 and here is its model from Flightglobal; http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1987/1987%20-%200980.html