SD Forum's Quizz of the Week Thread
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Okay, I am game.View attachment 7062
OK since no one responded I'll jump in and post.... hope to revive this thread....
I have to crop this picture somewhat otherwise it'll be too easy for us naval warfare experts....
Hmmm...let's see. I'd say that looks exactly like a Spanish BAM (Buque de Acción Marítima ) offshore Patrol Vessel. In fact, say, the Spanish Meteoro (P-41) as revealed in its entirety in THIS picture...hehehe:
Actually pretty nice vessels. They have built four Batch 1 vessels, and are planning five more, which will be Batch 2.
Spanish BAM Class OPV, P42, Rayo
Displace: 2,500 tons
Length: 94 m
Beam: 14.2 m
Draft: 4.2 m
1 x 76mm main gun
2 x 25 mm auto cannons
2 x .50 cal machine guns
1 x NH-90 Helo
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Oops. I saw escobar already answered that...now I'll have to deal with the new one.
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Okay.
That is the DINFIA IA 38 experimental, four engine (prop) flying wing built in Argentina in 1959 and flown in 1960. It was a cargo aircraft based on research and designs of Reimer Horton regarding shoulder-wing swept monoplane flying wings. It had the fuselage and the transport chamber located below the forward crook of the wing. The transport chamber was designed to carry a whopping 13,450lbs of cargo. But it was severally underpowered and was cancelled. It was on display at the Agentine Aeronautical School until being destroyed in a fire.
My turn?
Okay.
I'll start with something not too terribly hard. Here it is:
What it is, whose was it, and what type of engine was it designed to have?
Yes! Outstanding!
I told you it was easy.
The SLAM, which was part of Project Pluto, was never built, but the nuclear ram jet engine was tested...mounted to a railroad car. The longest burn was for five minutes or more. Clearly the engine was going to work. But the problem was, the reactor was unshielded and when the thing flew, it was going to spew out radioactive waste. That made the testing very difficult. They would have to test it at sea...but when the fuel was expended, it was not made to land, so would have to crash into the sea with a few tons of dirty radiaoctive reactor on it. So, they cancelled it. Besides, ICBMs were coming into play by that time, which were able to deliver the wepaons much faster.
Oh well, my next one will be harder.
But now, it is your turn. Go for it!
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MwRYum
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Looks like Chinese DF-1 or the Soviet-supplied R-2, which is a copy of the German V-2...by the uniform it looks like PLA operating it.
If that's the DF-1, its first successful test launch was 5/11/1960.