cold war

Quoted by Gary Paul Johnston and Thomas B. Nelson in "The World's Assault Rifles" - This rather curious and unusual weapon was part of a program during the 1970s to develop a very high rate of fire assault rifle (RFCT: Rifle à Forte Cadence de Tir ). Firing rate experiments were carried out by...

After reviewing various resources, I found information, about battleship Strasbourg, after the end of the war, was proposed to be rebuilt as a light aircraft carrier. But there is very little information and this is at the level of "mentions". Now I wondered if there was such a project or did it...

I was thinking if it is plausible to get a mobile launcher for either Thunderbird or Bloodhound missiles on a Centurion tank chassis.

The seller does not state whether this is an original company model. https://www.ebay.com/itm/325276872562?hash=item4bbc032f72:g:tvsAAOSwIsNixd6Q

According to the American Fighting Vehicle Database (http://afvdb.50megs.com/), both the M41 Walker Bulldog and the M47 Patton shared the same turret ring diameter of 73.0 inches / 185.42 centimeters. That got me thinking: Has there ever been any real-life proposals to retrofit the turret of...

My attempt to "Brasilianize" the Mapinduzi logo. A badly done NO Barbarossa timeline. A Greater/Longer Afghanistan. Considering Taliban aspirations I wouldn't be surprise if it becomes a reality ONE day. A collapsed Ethiopia someone did for me in alternatehistory,com. Another flag I...

Primarily Cold War era. https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/category/cold-war-canadian-prototypes/

So I was reading " concorde and the Americans" and one of the things that caught my eye was that neither Britain or France were each others first choice. Britain originally wanted to work with America inorder to build the first supersonic jet, but the Americans were set on there mach 2.7 speed...

Source: View: https://mobile.twitter.com/DevinAshwell/status/1536098880357548033 Does anybody know anything about this missile?

A thread to tie together some of the various export programs for the M1 Abrams FOVs.

From late Curtis Peebles collection at SDASM Flickr collection

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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What happens if Dassault gets his hands on a jet engine that fits the Etendard and allows it to become a properly supersonic fighter? Could this tip the balance and see them ordered instead of F8 Crusaders?

Hey everyone! I was wondering what sort of information people had on the MPWS/MPGS Piranha. This was an early 1980s submission by General Motors of Canada into the USMC MPWS, and later joint Army-Marine MPGS program. I possess LETE Annual Historical Reports covering its trials at the LETE...

So, after my mom's fifth session of chemotherapy, things are...slightly but decisevly better, not only I got back to study for my last three exams but time to read what I like about : horror podcasts, alternate history and more. So, I browsed the net and I got inspiration from this article ...