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Iowa and Midway unrepping

 

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US New Mexico-class battleship in floating dry dock, World War II Pacific.

 

[grelmar]

Ju-87G-2

For when the enemy is building tanks faster than you can.

 

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FB111A

 

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Interesting story about the KFIR, the plans were stolen from the Swiss who were building them under licence from France. It took about a year or more as there were about 5,000 separate plans to copy! The conduit was a disaffected senior member of the company building the plane who had access to the plans!

Here is the other half that flew in together with the KFIR

 

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[Dark Alley Dan]

Let's rewind the clock a bit. The Dutch designed and built Fokker D.1:

Pretty credible heavy fighter when it came out, but soon wildly outmatched. The Germans managed to spare a few for their own use:

 

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Cruiser Alaska (top) and Battleship Missouri (below)

 

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Strasbourg seen from atop the Mer-el-Kebir fortress (the middle ship) with sister ship Dunkerque in the forground. Note how the funnels have been painted to allow the ships to be easily distinguished from each other. One stripe for Dunkerque, two for Strasbourg.

Photograph: Mers-el-Kebir Association.

 

[Gibbs505]

One of the first helicopters AH-1G “Huey Cobras” in Vietnam, November 1967.

 

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Cruiser Submarines
Surcouf

HMS X1

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I'm liking the French material, Diopter. Thety had some very interesting ideas back when.

To continue the naval theme, here's the Latecouere 298 torpedo bomber:

Dig this crazy sharkmouth:

Quite a pretty bird, I think. Good lines.

 

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Is it just me or does Mitsubishi know what it's doing!

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