Your Favorite Abandoned Cold War Projects

AMF

The Swiss ground attack aircraft FFA P-16, a description can be found here,
might have been useful in other Western airforces.
The Soviet Tupolev Tu-125 supersonic bomber.

Many other defence projects, many of them from the Cold War Era, can be found at
http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/

Look under "Postwar Secret Projects" and find many impressive illustrations under "Planes Pictures: The Art of Jozef Gatial".
 

Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

Banned
The Swedish, Polish, Swiss, Yugoslav, Romanian, Spanish, Egyptian, Iraqi, Brazilian, Argentinian, Australian, and South Korean nuclear programs.
 

pieman3141

I miss the cold war. Good spy novels, the threat of nuclear destruction, jingoism, witch-hunts... *sigh* and now? frickin' nobodies able to do more damage to Western territory/morale faster than any Soviet plot ever did.
 
Michel Van

Michel Van

my favorits

Blue Gemini, MOL, Big Gemini, USAF Lunar Base
B-70 or B-71 (Sr-71 Bomber Version)

a lot of VTOL Aircraft

SLAM (Missile powert by a ramjet that used nuclear fission :eek:)
Waponsystem-125 (Bomber with Nuclear engine)

Land Train (very big Truck)
more on that

Submarine Aircraft Carrier
Navy submarine Base
 

Dr Pervez Hoodbhoy

Banned
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Dynamics_F-16XL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_YF-23
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XF-88_Voodoo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XF-85_Goblin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_YF-107
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-103
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_aircraft_carrier_Ulyanovsk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_1153_OREL
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_XF-109
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluton_(missile)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL-230_Skorpion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novi_Avion
 

The Dean

The P-1154 supersonic VTOL has been mentioned but nobody has mentioned the TSR-2 which was already flying and either meeting or exceeding all of it's design requirements.

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Another project that was dropped was the Conquerer tank which if you look at it's spec:-
Weight 66 tonnes (65 long tons) Length 11.9 m (39 ft) Width 4.0 m (13 ft 1 in) Height 3.2 m (10 ft 5 in) Crew 4 Armour 178 mm Primary
armament L1 120 mm rifled gun Secondary
armament 2×7.62 mm machine Guns Engine Rolls-Royce Meteor M120
810 hp (300 kW) Power/weight 12 hp/tonne Suspension Horstmann Operational
range 65 km Speed 34km/h
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apart from the speed it is remarkably similar to the main battle tanks of today yet it only served from 1955-66.

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The Soviets were astonished when it was withdrawn from service as they regarded it as a major barrier to any armoured assault mounted against it.
The reasons given for its withdrawal were it's weight and a reliability problem. Now MBTs exceed that weight and reliability problems can be solved.
 
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Berra

Sweden realised that the Soviets could invade Sweden if the ice. One fighting vehicle was suggested to meet this invasion. A slead with an aircraft propeller and armour and weapons like a tank.
 
Thande

Thande

Donor
Berra said:
Sweden realised that the Soviets could invade Sweden if the ice. One fighting vehicle was suggested to meet this invasion. A slead with an aircraft propeller and armour and weapons like a tank.
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Didn't the Soviets have one of those as well? I'm sure I remember seeing a picture of it... (Spike Milligan jokingly captioned it as a badly designed plane that had travelled 3000 miles across Siberia without taking off) ;)
 
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