This is a list of cancelled military projects.

Argentina

Fuerza Aérea Argentina The Argentine Air Force (, or simply ''FAA'') is the air force of Argentina and one of three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic. In 2018, it had 13,837 military and 6,900 civilian personnel. FAA commander in chief is Brigadie ...

FMA I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I The I.Ae. 27 Pulqui I was an Argentine jet designed at the " Instituto Aerotecnico" (AeroTechnical Institute) in 1946. Only one prototype was completed; unsatisfactory performance led to the aircraft being superseded by a later design. Design a ...

* FMA I.Ae. 37 * FMA I.Ae. 48 * FMA IA 62 * FMA IAe 33 Pulqui II *

FMA SAIA 90 The FMA SAIA 90 was a cancelled air superiority fighter aircraft project, designed by the FMA ( Fábrica Militar de Aviones) with the collaboration of Dornier in the mid-1980s. The SAIA 90 was the last stage of the ACA (Avión Caza Argentino) p ...

I.Ae. 30 Ñancú The I.Ae. 30 "Ñancú" was an Argentine twin piston engined fighter designed by the '' Instituto Aerotécnico'' (AeroTechnical Institute) in the late 1940s, similar to the de Havilland Hornet,

Condor (Argentine missile) The Argentine Condor missile was a multinational space research program started in the 1970s. It involved significant contract work being performed by German company MBB (now a group within Daimler AG), but later developed into a ballistic miss ...

Australia

Royal Australian Navy The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) is the navy, naval branch of the Australian Defence Force (ADF). The professional head of the RAN is Chief of Navy (Australia), Chief of Navy (CN) Vice admiral (Australia), Vice Admiral Mark Hammond (admiral), Ma ...

Attack-class submarine The ''Attack''-class submarine was a planned class of French-designed submarines for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), expected to enter service in the early 2030s with construction extending until 2050.Department of Defence, ''2016 Defence Wh ...

Australian light destroyer project The Australian light destroyer project aimed to build a class of small destroyers for the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). The project began in 1966 with the goal of developing simple light destroyers (DDL) to support patrol boat operations. The pro ...

* Kaman SH-2G(A) Super Seasprite

Australian Army The Australian Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of Australia. It is a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF), along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Royal Australian Air Force. The Army is commanded by the Chief of Army ...

* LCM2000-class landing craft mechanised * Landing Ship Medium Mark II *

Project Waler Project Waler was an unsuccessful Australian defence procurement project which sought to replace the Australian Army's M113 armoured personnel carriers with more capable armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs). It was initiated in 1980 and cancelled ...

Royal Australian Air Force The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) is the principal Air force, aerial warfare force of Australia, a part of the Australian Defence Force (ADF) along with the Royal Australian Navy and the Australian Army. Constitutionally the Governor-Gener ...

AAC Wamira The AAC Wamira was a turboprop military trainer aircraft, designed for the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) by the Australian Aircraft Consortium (AAC). The project was cancelled shortly before the first prototype was completed. Design and dev ...

CAC CA-15 The CAC CA-15 was an Australian propeller-driven fighter aircraft designed and built by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation (CAC) during World War II. Due to protracted development, the project was not completed until after the war, and was can ...

* CAC CA-23 * CAC Woomera

Brazil

Exército Brasileiro The Brazilian Army (; EB) is the branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces responsible, externally, for defending the country in eminently terrestrial operations and, internally, for guaranteeing law, order and the constitutional branches, subordina ...

EE-T1 Osório The Engesa EE-T1 ''Osório'' was a Brazilian main battle tank prototype developed by Engesa. The tank was intended to be sold first to Arab and other Third World countries, jump-starting production — and enabling the Brazilian Army to later pla ...

Brazilian Air Force The Brazilian Air Force (, FAB) is the air branch of the Brazilian Armed Forces and one of the three national uniformed services. The FAB was formed when the Brazilian Brazilian Army Aviation (1919–1941), Army and Brazilian Naval Aviation, Nav ...

Baumgartl PB-60 __NOTOC__ The Baumgärtl PB-60 was a 1940s experimental single-seat rotor kite designed and built by Austrian designer Paul Baumgartl for the Brazilian Air Ministry. The PB-60 was unpowered and had to be towed to become airborne and fly. It had a ...

CBT BQM-1BR The BQM-1BR was a Brazilian unmanned aerial vehicle designed and built locally by Companhia Brasileira de Tratores for several kinds of sensing roles.Taylor 1986, p. 810 Design and development The BQM-1 BR was the first remotely controlled vehicl ...

CTA Convertiplano The Convertiplano is a cancelled Brazilian convertiplane project. It is based on the earlier Focke-Achgelis Fa 269. Henrich Focke revived the design in the early 1950s on behalf of Brazil's Centro Técnico Aeroespacial (CTA), at the time the air ...

Canada

Pre-Unification

Canadian Army

Velvet Glove The Velvet Glove was a short-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile designed by CARDE (today DRDC Valcartier) and produced by Canadair starting in 1953. 131 Velvet Gloves had been completed when the program was terminated in 1956, off ...

Bobcat (armoured personnel carrier) The bobcat (''Lynx rufus''), also known as the wildcat, bay lynx, or red lynx, is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus ''Lynx''. Native to North America, it ranges from southern Canada through most of the con ...

(1952–1963)

Royal Canadian Air Force The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF; ) is the air and space force of Canada. Its role is to "provide the Canadian Forces with relevant, responsive and effective airpower". The RCAF is one of three environmental commands within the unified Can ...

=Fighters

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Avro Canada CF-103 The Avro Canada CF-103 was a proposed Canadian Interceptor aircraft, interceptor, designed by Avro Canada in the early 1950s as a development, and possible replacement of the company's CF-100 Canuck, that was entering service at the time with ...

(1950–1951) *

Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft designed and built by Avro Canada. The CF-105 held the promise of Mach 2 speeds at altitudes exceeding and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's (R ...

(1953–1959)

=Missiles

= * Velvet Glove AAM (1953–1956)

Royal Canadian Navy The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN; , ''MRC'') is the Navy, naval force of Canada. The navy is one of three environmental commands within the Canadian Armed Forces. As of February 2024, the RCN operates 12 s, 12 s, 4 s, 4 s, 8 s, and several auxiliary ...

General Purpose Frigate (Canada) The General Purpose Frigate, or GPF, was a procurement project for the Royal Canadian Navy during the Cold War. The class was also known as the Tribal-class frigate. Intended as a replacement for the World War II, Second World War-era destroyers ...

Polar 8 Project The Polar 8 Project was a Canadian shipbuilding project intended to provide the Canadian Coast Guard with a large and heavy class icebreaker capable of operating year-round in the Northwest Passage. The project was developed as a means to assert ...

* ''Bras d'Or'' class (1960–1971) * ''Canada''-class submarine (1987-1989)

Canadian Forces The Canadian Armed Forces (CAF; , FAC) are the unified Military, military forces of Canada, including sea, land, and air commands referred to as the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force. Under the ''National Defenc ...

Land Forces Land, also known as dry land, ground, or earth, is the solid terrestrial surface of Earth not submerged by the ocean or another body of water. It makes up 29.2% of Earth's surface and includes all continents and islands. Earth's land surface ...

Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle The Multi-Mission Effects Vehicle (MMEV) was a dual-purpose short range surface-to-air and anti-tank platform intended for use by the Canadian Forces. It was based on Air Defense Anti-Tank System (ADATS) technology, and integrated onto an 8×8 whe ...

(2005–2007)

Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic

Vzdušné síly Armády

* Aero A.24

Egypt

Egyptian Air Force The Egyptian Air Force (EAF) () is the aviation branch of the Egyptian Armed Forces that is responsible for all airborne defence missions and operates all military aircraft, including those used in support of the Egyptian Army, Egyptian Navy ...

* Helwan HA-300

France

French Army The French Army, officially known as the Land Army (, , ), is the principal Army, land warfare force of France, and the largest component of the French Armed Forces; it is responsible to the Government of France, alongside the French Navy, Fren ...

* FCM 50t *

AMX-50 The AMX 50 (official designation) or AMX-50 is a French heavy tank designed in the immediate post Second World War period. It was proposed as, in succession, the French medium, heavy, and main battle tank, incorporating many advanced features. It ...

Lorraine 40t The Lorraine 40t was a prototype French medium tank of the Cold War. Development After the end of the Second World War, the French Army was in pressing need of a modern tank with heavy armament. In March 1945, French industry was invited to d ...

French Navy The French Navy (, , ), informally (, ), is the Navy, maritime arm of the French Armed Forces and one of the four military service branches of History of France, France. It is among the largest and most powerful List of navies, naval forces i ...

* ''Alsace''-class battleship * ''Joffre''-class aircraft carrier *

PH 75 PH 75 was a military development program in French Navy, France aimed at designing a nuclear propulsion, nuclear-powered amphibious assault ship during the 1970s. Design work was never completed by the time the project was cancelled in 1981. H ...

French aircraft carrier PA2 PA2 (, "Aircraft Carrier 2") was a planned aircraft carrier under development by Thales Naval France and DCNS for the French Navy. The design was based on the aircraft carriers developed for the Royal Navy. The project was cancelled in the 20 ...

French Air Force The French Air and Space Force (, , ) is the air force, air and space force of the French Armed Forces. Formed in 1909 as the ("Aeronautical Service"), a service arm of the French Army, it became an independent military branch in 1934 as the Fr ...

* Aero A.24 * Latécoère 550 * ANF Les Mureaux 120 *

ANF Les Mureaux 170 The ANF Les Mureaux 170 was a prototype French fighter aircraft of the 1930s. It was a single-engined, single-seat parasol monoplane, but only two were built, the type being rejected for service by the French Air Force. Design and development ...

ANF Les Mureaux 180 The ANF Les Mureaux 180 was a prototype French fighter aircraft of the 1930s. designed and built by Les Ateliers de Construction du Nord de la France et des Mureaux. It was a single-engined, two-seat, gull wing monoplane, only one was built and ...

ANF Les Mureaux 190 The ANF Les Mureaux 190 was a French prototype light fighter aircraft. In response to a program created by the French Minister of Air, the ANF Les Mureaux 190 was designed by André Brunet as a light fighter. The ANF Les Mureaux 190 was an all-me ...

* Arsenal VG 90 * Nord 2200 * Sud-Ouest Espadon *

SNCASO Trident The SNCASO SO.9000 Trident is a French jet and rocket powered interceptor aircraft built by aircraft manufacturer SNCASO during the 1950s. As part of a wider effort to re-build French military power during the late 1940s and to furnish France w ...

* SNCASE SE.212 Durandal *

Dassault Hirondelle The Dassault M.D.320 Hirondelle was a French 14-seat utility transport aircraft of the 1960s, designed and built by Dassault Aviation. Design and development In 1967 the French Air Force, investigating replacement aircraft for the Douglas DC-3 ...

* BAC/Dassault AFVG *

Dassault Mirage G The Dassault Mirage G, also known as the Mirage IIIG,Carbonel 2023. was a variant of the French Dassault Mirage series of supersonic warplanes, but with a variable-sweep wing. Three prototypes were flown; one single-engined G and two twin-engi ...

Dassault Mirage 4000 The Dassault Mirage 4000 (sometimes called the Super Mirage 4000) is a French prototype twinjet fighter aircraft developed by Dassault-Breguet from their Mirage 2000. Design and development The Mirage 4000 was noticeably larger and heavier t ...

Germany

Military of the German Empire

Imperial German Navy The Imperial German Navy or the ''Kaiserliche Marine'' (Imperial Navy) was the navy of the German Empire, which existed between 1871 and 1919. It grew out of the small Prussian Navy (from 1867 the North German Federal Navy), which was mainly for ...

German aircraft carrier I (1915) The aircraft carrier I was the first planned aircraft carrier conversion project of the German Imperial Navy (''Kaiserliche Marine'') during World War I. The Imperial Navy had experimented previously with seaplane carriers, though these earlier ...

* ''Ersatz Yorck''-class battlecruiser * ''Mackensen''-class battlecruiser

Wehrmacht The ''Wehrmacht'' (, ) were the unified armed forces of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It consisted of the German Army (1935–1945), ''Heer'' (army), the ''Kriegsmarine'' (navy) and the ''Luftwaffe'' (air force). The designation "''Wehrmac ...

Heer

* Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte

Kriegsmarine The (, ) was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official military branch, branche ...

* ''H''-class battleship proposals * ''O''-class battlecruiser * ''Graf Zeppelin''-class aircraft carrier * ''Jade''-class aircraft carrier

Luftwaffe The Luftwaffe () was the aerial warfare, aerial-warfare branch of the before and during World War II. German Empire, Germany's military air arms during World War I, the of the Imperial German Army, Imperial Army and the of the Imperial Ge ...

Ural bomber The Ural bomber was the initial aircraft design program/competition to develop a long-range bomber for the Luftwaffe, created and led by General Walther Wever in the early 1930s. Wever died in an air crash on June 3, 1936, and his successor Alber ...

Amerikabomber The ''Amerikabomber'' () project was an initiative of the German Ministry of Aviation (''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'') to obtain a long-range strategic bomber for the ''Luftwaffe'' that would be capable of striking the United States (specificall ...

* AEG helicopter *

Albatros D.IV The Albatros D.IV was an experimental German fighter aircraft built and tested during World War I. Design and development The D.IV was designed to test a geared version of the 120 kW (160 hp) Mercedes D.III engine. Unlike the ungeared v ...

Arado Ar 198 The Arado Ar 198 was a prototype reconnaissance aircraft, developed by Arado Flugzeugwerke, with backing from the Luftwaffe, who initially preferred it over the Blohm & Voss BV 141 and the Focke-Wulf Fw 189. However, when flight tests were carrie ...

* Arado E.560 * Arado E.340 * Arado E.381 * Arado E.555 * Arado E.583 *

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* Blohm & Voss P 196 * Blohm & Voss P 197 * Blohm & Voss P 204 *

Blohm & Voss P 211 The Blohm & Voss P 211 was a design proposal submitted by Blohm & Voss to the ''Volksjäger'' jet fighter competition of the ''Luftwaffe'' Emergency Fighter Program towards the end of the Second World War. History During the latter part of 1944, ...

* Blohm & Voss P 214 * Blohm & Voss P 163 * Blohm & Voss P 170 *

Blohm & Voss P 178 The Blohm & Voss P 178 was a German jet-powered dive bomber/fighter-bomber of unusual asymmetric form, proposed during World War II. Overview This asymmetrically-designed dive bomber had one Junkers Jumo 004B turbojet located under the wing to t ...

* Blohm & Voss P 184 * Blohm & Voss P 192 *

Blohm & Voss P 193 The Blohm & Voss P 193 was a design study for a dive bomber/ground attack aircraft intended to replace the Junkers Ju 87. Its single-engine pusher design featured a variable-incidence wing, which could rotate for takeoff without risking ground im ...

* Blohm & Voss P 198 * Blohm & Voss P 203 *

Blohm & Voss P 208 The Blohm & Voss P.208 was a design project for a tailless swept-wing propeller-powered interceptor designed by the German company Blohm & Voss towards the end of the Second World War. It was the first of several such "arrow-wing" designs, the l ...

* Blohm & Voss P 209 *

Blohm & Voss P 212 The Blohm & Voss P 212 was a proposed jet fighter designed by Blohm & Voss for the Emergency Fighter Program Luftwaffe design competition during the Second World War. History In early 1945, a replacement was sought for the Heinkel He 162 ''Volksj ...

Blohm & Voss P 213 The Blohm & Voss P 213 was a submission to the ''Miniaturjäger'' (Miniature Fighter) programme of the ''Luftwaffe'' Emergency Fighter Program towards the end of the Second World War. The ''Miniaturjäger'' was to be powered by a pulse jet but th ...

* Blohm & Voss P 215 * Blohm & Voss P.202 *

DFS 228 The DFS 228 was a rocket-powered, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft designed by the '' Deutsche Forschungsanstalt für Segelflug'' (DFS - "German Research Institute for Sailplane Flight") during World War II. By the end of the war, the aircr ...

* Dornier Do 13 *

Dornier Do 19 The Dornier Do 19 was a German four-engine heavy bomber that first flew on 28 October 1936. Only one prototype flew, and it was converted to a transport in 1938. The other two were scrapped. The ''Luftwaffe'' lacked an efficient heavy bomber f ...

* Dornier Do 29 (1934) *

Dornier Do 31 The Dornier Do 31 is an experimental, jet propulsion, jet-propelled, VTOL, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) cargo aircraft that was designed and produced by West Germany, West German aircraft manufacturer Dornier Flugzeugwerke, Dornier. The ...

* Dornier Do 32 *

Dornier Do 214 The Dornier Do 214 was a proposed large long-range flying boat, developed by Dornier in World War II. Development Originally designed as the Do P.93 for passenger transatlantic service from Lisbon to New York, the Do 214 was redesigned as th ...

* Dornier Do 231 *

Dornier Do 317 The Dornier Do 317 was a prototype German medium bomber of World War II. Design and development In 1939, Dornier produced plans for a further development of the Do 217, which would have a pressurized cabin and more powerful engines (DB 604, ...

* Dornier Do 417 * Dornier Do 635 * Dornier P 256 *

Emergency Fighter Program The Emergency Fighter Program () was the program that resulted from a decision taken on July 3, 1944 by the Luftwaffe regarding the German aircraft manufacturing companies during the last year of the Third Reich. This project was one of the ...

EWR VJ 101 The EWR VJ 101 was an experimental West Germany, West German fighter aircraft, jet fighter vertical takeoff/landing (VTOL) tiltjet aircraft. VJ stood for ''Versuchsjäger'', (German language, German for "Experimental Fighter"). The 101 was one of ...

Fieseler Fi 157 The Fieseler Fi 157 was an unsuccessful attempt at developing a radio-controlled, full-sized anti-aircraft target. Design and development In 1937, the Ministry of Aviation (Germany), Reichsluftfahrtministerium (RLM) contracted Fieseler to produ ...

Fieseler Fi 166 __NOTOC__ In the early 1940s, Erich Bachem, Fieseler Aircraft's technical manager, developed two designs for a rocket-launched fighter that could reach high altitudes quicker than conventional fighters. Design one Design one involved a strai ...

* Fieseler Fi 168 * Fieseler Fi 333 *

Focke Rochen The Focke Rochen (engl.: Focke Stingray), also known as ''Focke-Wulf Schnellflugzeug'' or ''Focke-Wulf VTOL'' was a Nazi Germany, German VTOL aircraft project. Designed by Heinrich Focke of the Focke-Wulf company towards the end of World War II, th ...

Focke-Achgelis Fa 269 The Focke-Achgelis Fa 269 was a tiltrotor VTOL aircraft project designed by Henrich Focke. Development Conceived as a single-seat fighter, the Fa 269 project resulted from a design study order issued by the Reich Air Ministry to Focke-Achgelis ...

Focke-Achgelis Fa 284 The Focke-Achgelis Fa 284 was a project to develop a large transport helicopter, designed in 1943 by Focke-Achgelis for use by the Luftwaffe. The helicopter was powered by two BMW 801 The BMW 801 was a powerful Nazi Germany, German Air-coole ...

Focke-Wulf Flitzer The Focke-Wulf ''Flitzer'' ("streaker" or "dasher", sometimes incorrectly translated as "madcap") was a jet fighter under development in Germany at the end of World War II. Development The design, also called Entwurf VI (Sketch VI), had a centra ...

* Focke-Wulf Fw 42 *

Focke-Wulf Fw 57 The Focke-Wulf Fw 57 was a prototype Germany, German heavy fighter and fighter-bomber. Prototypes were built in 1936 but never entered production. Design and development In 1934, the Reich Air Ministry (RLM) declared a requirement for a ''Kampfz ...

Focke-Wulf Fw 300 The Focke-Wulf Fw 300 was a proposed very-long-range civil airliner, transport, reconnaissance aircraft and anti-ship aircraft, designed by Focke-Wulf in 1941 and 1942. The design was intended to replace the Focke-Wulf Fw 200 ''Condor''. Design ...

* Focke-Wulf Project I * Focke-Wulf Project II *

Focke-Wulf Project VIII __NOTOC__ The Focke-Wulf ''Peterle'' was a design study for a turboprop-powered Strike fighter, fighter-bomber, undertaken in Nazi Germany, Germany during World War II. Development It was based on the work previously done on Focke-Wulf Flitzer. ...

* Focke-Wulf Super Lorin * Focke-Wulf Ta 153 *

Focke-Wulf Ta 154 Moskito The Focke-Wulf Ta 154 ''Moskito'' was a fast twin-engined night fighter aircraft designed by the German aeronautical engineer Kurt Tank and produced by the aircraft manufacturer Focke-Wulf. It was unofficially named ''Moskito'' due to its simila ...

Focke-Wulf Ta 183 The Focke-Wulf Ta 183 ''Huckebein'' was a design for a jet-powered fighter aircraft intended as the successor to the Messerschmitt Me 262 and other day fighters in Luftwaffe service during World War II. It had been developed only to the extent ...

* Focke-Wulf Ta 254 * Focke-Wulf Ta 283 *

Focke-Wulf Ta 400 The Focke-Wulf Ta 400 was a large six-engined heavy bomber design developed in Nazi Germany in 1943 by Focke-Wulf as a serious contender for the Amerikabomber project. One of the first aircraft to be developed from components from multiple coun ...

Focke-Wulf Triebflügel The Focke-Wulf ''Triebflügel'', or ''Triebflügeljäger'', literally meaning "thrust-wing hunter", was a German concept for an aircraft designed in 1944, during the final phase of World War II, as a defence against the ever-increasing Allied b ...

Focke-Wulf Volksjäger The Focke-Wulf ''Volksjäger'' (German: "people's fighter"), was a German emergency fighter project for the ''Luftwaffe''. It was designed by Focke-Wulf towards the end of World War II as part of the defense effort against the devastating Alli ...

* Heinkel He 119 *

Heinkel He 277 The Heinkel He 277 was a four-engine, long-range heavy bomber design, originating as a derivative of the He 177, intended for production and use by the German ''Luftwaffe'' during World War II. The main difference was in its engines. While the ...

* Heinkel He 343 * Heinkel He 519 *

Heinkel Lerche The Heinkel Lerche () was the name of a set of project studies made by German aircraft designer Heinkel in 1944 and 1945 for a VTOL fighter and ground-attack aircraft. The ''Lerche'' was an early coleopter design. It would take off and land si ...

* Heinkel P.1073 * Heinkel P.1078 *

Heinkel Wespe The Heinkel Wespe () was a project study by the German company Heinkel for a tail-sitting, vertical take off and landing-interceptor aircraft. The aircraft did not have conventional wings, but instead featured a large rotor. Completed in 1945, it ...

Henschel Hs 127 The Henschel Hs 127 was a German bomber that was built as two prototypes, but cancelled without entering mass production. Design and development In 1935, the RLM (''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'' - German Ministry of Aviation) published requests ...

Henschel Hs 130 The Henschel Hs 130 was a German high-altitude Aerial reconnaissance, reconnaissance and bomber aircraft developed in World War II. It suffered from various mechanical faults and was never used operationally, only existing as prototype airframes. ...

* Horten H.XVIII *

Junkers Ju 89 The Junkers Ju 89 was a heavy bomber designed for the ''Luftwaffe'' prior to World War II. Two prototypes were constructed, but the project was abandoned without the aircraft entering production. Elements of its design were incorporated into lat ...

Junkers Ju 268 The Junkers Ju 268 was the un-manned bomber component of the Mistel V parasite bomber project designed in Germany during 1944. Development The Mistel V was a composite bomber comprising a Heinkel He 162A-2 piloted component and a specially d ...

Junkers Ju 288 The Junkers Ju 288, originally known within the Junkers firm as the EF 074, was a Nazi Germany, German bomber project designed during World War II, which only ever flew in prototype form. The first aircraft flew on 29 November 1940; 22 develo ...

Junkers Ju 390 The Junkers Ju 390 was a German long-range derivative of the Junkers Ju 290 aircraft, intended to be used as a heavy transport aircraft, maritime patrol aircraft and long-range bomber. It was one of the aircraft designs submitted for the aborti ...

* Lippisch Delta VI *

Lippisch P.13 The Lippisch P.13 was a 1942 design for a high-speed bomber aircraft by Josef Hubert. Of highly unconventional configuration, it was a tail-less, swept-wing design with an engine and propeller mounted at both the front and rear of the aircraft. ...

Lippisch P.13a The Lippisch P.12, P.13a and P.13b were related design projects for a ramjet-powered delta wing interceptor aircraft studied in 1944 by German designer Alexander Lippisch. The P.12 and P.13a were unarmed, relying on reinforced wings to ram its ...

* Lippisch P.15 * Lippisch P.20 *

MBB Lampyridae The MBB Lampyridae (Latin for Firefly) was a low-observable medium missile fighter (MRMF) developed during the 1980s by the West German aerospace company Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB).

* Messerschmitt Bf 109TL *

Messerschmitt Bf 162 The Messerschmitt Bf 162 was a light bomber aircraft designed in Germany prior to World War II, which flew only in prototype form. Design and development The Bf 162 was designed in response to a 1935 RLM (''Reichsluftfahrtministerium'', Reich ...

Messerschmitt Me 261 The Messerschmitt Me 261 (unofficially nicknamed ''Adolfine'') was a long- range reconnaissance aircraft designed in the late 1930s. It looked like an enlarged version of the Messerschmitt Bf 110. It was not put into production; just three Me 2 ...

Messerschmitt Me 264 The Messerschmitt Me 264 was a long-range strategic bomber developed during World War II for the Nazi Germany, German ''Luftwaffe'' as its main strategic bomber. The design was later selected as Messerschmitt's competitor in the ''Reich Air Min ...

* Messerschmitt Me 265 * Messerschmitt Me 310 *

Messerschmitt Me 328 The Messerschmitt Me 328 was a prototype pulsejet-powered Fighter aircraft, fighter aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Messerschmitt AG. The Me 328 arose out of design studies for the Messerschmitt P.1079, P.1079 ...

* Messerschmitt Me 329 *

Messerschmitt Me 509 The Messerschmitt Me 509 was an all-metal fighter project, underway in Germany during World War II. Development Not much information about this project has survived. It was based on the Me 309 but with the engine located behind a pressurized c ...

* Messerschmitt Me 609 * Messerschmitt P.1079 * Messerschmitt P.1099 * Messerschmitt P.1103 * Messerschmitt P.1106 * Messerschmitt P.1108 * Messerschmitt P.1110 *

Messerschmitt P.1111 The Messerschmitt P.1111 was a jet fighter/interceptor project, designed by Messerschmitt for the ''Luftwaffe'' near the end of World War II. History The innovative design of the Me P.1111 was completed in January 1945, and was intended as an i ...

Messerschmitt P.1112 The Messerschmitt P.1112 was a proposed Germany, German jet fighter, developed by Messerschmitt AG during the closing stages of World War II, and intended for use by the Luftwaffe. The progress of the war prevented the completion of a prototype ...

Škoda-Kauba P14 The Škoda-Kauba SK P14 was a ramjet-powered emergency fighter project for the ''Luftwaffe''. It was designed by the Škoda-Kauba industries towards the end of World War II as part of the Third Reich defense effort against the devastating allie ...

Sombold So 344 The Sombold 344 ''Schußjäger'' (Shoot Fighter) was a rocket-powered aircraft designed in 1943/44 by engineer Heinz Sombold in Naumburg/Saale, Germany. The project came about when the ''Luftwaffe'' was seeking an emergency interceptor to combat ...

VFW VAK 191B The VFW VAK 191B was an experimental German VTOL, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) strike fighter of the early 1970s. VAK was the abbreviation for ''Vertikalstartendes Aufklärungs- und Kampfflugzeug'' (Vertical Take-off Reconnaissance and St ...

Zeppelin Fliegende Panzerfaust The ''Fliegende Panzerfaust'', meaning 'flying tank fist' (literally 'Flying Armor Fist') in the German language, was a project for a Third Reich very-short-range interceptor designed by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin. The ''Fliegende Panzerfaust'' proje ...

Zeppelin Rammer The Zeppelin Rammer () was a design proposal by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin intended to use aerial ramming against the allied bombers attacking Nazi Germany during World War II. Description A rocket-powered small aircraft with straight, constant- ch ...

* ZSO 523

Other

German nuclear weapons program Nazi Germany undertook several research programs relating to nuclear technology, including nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, before and during World War II. These were variously called () or (). The first effort started in April 1939, ju ...

Bundeswehr The (, ''Federal Defence'') are the armed forces of the Germany, Federal Republic of Germany. The is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part consists of the four armed forces: Germ ...

German Army The German Army (, 'army') is the land component of the armed forces of Federal Republic of Germany, Germany. The present-day German Army was founded in 1955 as part of the newly formed West German together with the German Navy, ''Marine'' (G ...

MBT-70 The MBT-70 (German: or ) was an American–West German cancelled joint project to develop a new main battle tank during the 1960s. The MBT-70 was developed by the United States and West Germany in the context of the Cold War, intended to counte ...

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German Air Force The German Air Force (, ) is the aerial warfare branch of the , the armed forces of Germany. The German Air Force (as part of the ) was founded in 1956 during the era of the Cold War as the aerial warfare branch of the armed forces of West Ger ...

Dornier Viper The Dornier Viper was a West German/Norwegian air-to-air missile project, intended to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder, in ''Luftwaffe'' service from 1975/76. The Viper was developed by Bodenseewerk and Dornier Systems, using an infrared seeker and a n ...

India

Indian Air Force The Indian Air Force (IAF) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the air force, air arm of the Indian Armed Forces. Its primary mission is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during armed conflicts. It was officially established on 8 Octob ...

HAL HF-73 HF-73 also known as Hindustan Fighter-73 was a proposed twin engine strike fighter intended to be operated by the Indian Air Force. It was a joint venture project undertaken by India's Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Bloh ...

Iraq

Project Babylon Project Babylon was a space gun project commissioned by then Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. It involved building a series of " superguns". The design was based on research from the 1960s Project HARP led by the Canadian artillery expert Gerald ...

Israel

Israel Defense Forces The Israel Defense Forces (IDF; , ), alternatively referred to by the Hebrew-language acronym (), is the national military of the State of Israel. It consists of three service branches: the Israeli Ground Forces, the Israeli Air Force, and ...

Aviation

IAI Lavi The IAI Lavi (, "lion") is a single-engined fourth-generation jet fighter, fourth-generation multirole jet fighter developed in Israel, by Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI), during the 1980s. The decision to develop the Lavi was controversial, bot ...

IAI Nammer The IAI ''Nammer'' (נמר ''"Leopard"'') was a fighter aircraft developed in the Israeli aerospace manufacturing Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The programme was pursued as a private venture and the re ...

Italy

Regia Marina The , ) (RM) or Royal Italian Navy was the navy of the Kingdom of Italy () from 1861 to 1946. In 1946, with the birth of the Italian Republic (''Repubblica Italiana''), the changed its name to '' Marina Militare'' ("Military Navy"). Origin ...
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Italian Navy The Italian Navy (; abbreviated as MM) is one of the four branches of Italian Armed Forces and was formed in 1946 from what remained of the ''Regia Marina'' (Royal Navy) after World War II. , the Italian Navy had a strength of 30,923 active per ...

Francesco Caracciolo-class battleship The ''Francesco Caracciolo''-class battleships were a group of four Super-dreadnought, super-dreadnought battleships designed for the (Royal Italian Navy) in 1913 and ordered in 1914. The first ship of the class, ''Francesco Caracciolo'', was la ...

Regia Aeronautica The Royal Italian Air Force (''Regia Aeronautica Italiana'') (RAI) was the air force of the Kingdom of Italy. It was established as a service independent of the Regio Esercito, Royal Italian Army from 1923 until 1946. In 1946, the monarchy was ...
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Italian Air Force The Italian Air Force (; AM, ) is the air force of the Italy, Italian Republic. The Italian Air Force was founded as an independent service arm on 28 March 1923 by Victor Emmanuel III of Italy, King Victor Emmanuel III as the ("Royal Air Force ...

* Fiat BGA * IMAM Ro.51 *

Caproni Ca.165 The Caproni Ca.165 was an Italian biplane fighter developed just before World War II, but produced only as a prototype, as the competing Fiat CR.42 ''Falco'' was selected for series production. Design Although known for three-engine heavy bom ...

* Caproni Ca.335 * Savoia-Marchetti SM.88 * Caproni Ca.350 * Caproni Ca.355 * Caproni Ca.356 * Piaggio P.119 * Savoia-Marchetti SM.89 * Savoia-Marchetti SM.91 * Savoia-Marchetti SM.92 * Savoia-Marchetti SM.105 *

Fiat G.80 The Fiat G.80 was a military jet trainer designed and produced by the Italian aircraft manufacturer Fiat Aviazione, Fiat. It has the distinction of being the first true jet-powered indigenous aircraft to be flown by Italy. The G.80 was designed ...

Aerfer Ariete The Aerfer ''Ariete'' ( Italian for ''Ram'' or ''Aries'') was a prototype fighter aircraft built in Italy in 1958. It was a refined derivative of the Aerfer Sagittario 2 The Aerfer Sagittario 2 (Italian language, Italian for ''sagittarius (co ...

Other

Italian nuclear weapons program The Italian nuclear weapons program was an effort by Italy to develop nuclear weapons in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Italian scientists such as Enrico Fermi and Edoardo Amaldi had been at the forefront of the development of the technology ...

Japan

Imperial Japanese Armed Forces The Imperial Japanese Armed Forces (IJAF, full or Nippon-gun () for short, meaning "Japanese Forces") were the unified forces of the Empire of Japan. Formed during the Meiji Restoration in 1868,"One can date the 'restoration' of imperial rul ...

Imperial Japanese Navy The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: Shinjitai: ' 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or ''Nippon Kaigun'', 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, Potsdam Declaration, when it was dissolved followin ...

* Design A-150 battleship

Pakistan

Pakistan Air Force The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) (; ) is the aerial warfare branch of the Pakistan Armed Forces, tasked primarily with the aerial defence of Pakistan, with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and Pakistan Navy when re ...

Project Sabre II Project Sabre II was the Pakistan Air Force's program to develop a feasible and low-cost multirole combat jet based on an existing design—the Chengdu F-7 Skybolt, a Chinese variant of the MiG–21. The Pakistan Air Force (PAF) initiated ...

Poland

Polish Air Force The Polish Air Force () is the aerial warfare Military branch, branch of the Polish Armed Forces. Until July 2004 it was officially known as ''Wojska Lotnicze i Obrony Powietrznej'' (). In 2014 it consisted of roughly 26,000 military personnel an ...

PZL-230 Skorpion The PZL-230 Skorpion (''scorpion'') was a proposed Polish low-cost attack aircraft. It was being developed by Polish manufacturer PZL Warszawa-Okecie in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In the late 1980s, PZL started developing a new aircraft int ...

Polish Navy The Polish Navy (; often abbreviated to ) is the Navy, naval military branch , branch of the Polish Armed Forces. The Polish Navy consists of 46 ships and about 12,000 commissioned and enlisted personnel. The traditional ship prefix in the Polish ...

Gawron-class corvette The Gawron class () or Projekt 621 was a planned class of multipurpose corvettes ordered by Polish Navy. The Gawron class was a variant of the MEKO A-100 project developed by the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Germany. Construction of the first ship of ...

Romania

Romanian Air Force The Romanian Air Force (RoAF) () is the air force branch of the Romanian Armed Forces. It has an air force headquarters, an operational command, five air bases, a logistics base, an air defense brigade, an air defense regiment and an ISR (Intel ...

IAR 95 The IAR 95 Spey was a Romanian project to produce a supersonic Fighter aircraft, fighter jet for the Romanian Air Force. The project was started in the late 1970s and cancelled in 1981. Shortly after, the project was restarted again. The projec ...

Other

* Danube Program

Russia/Soviet Union

Soviet Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republi ...

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Republic and, from 1922, the Soviet Union. The army was established in January 1918 by a decree of the Council of People ...
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Soviet Army The Soviet Ground Forces () was the land warfare service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces from 1946 to 1992. It was preceded by the Red Army. After the Soviet Union ceased to exist in December 1991, the Ground Forces remained under th ...

* Hovercraft tank *

Anti-tank dog Anti-tank dogs ( ''sobaki-istrebiteli tankov'' or ''protivotankovye sobaki''; or ''Hundeminen'', "dog-mines") were dogs taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles, and other military targets. They were intensively trained by the So ...

T-42 super-heavy tank T4 or T-4 may refer to: Airports and airlines * Heathrow Terminal 4 * Tiyas Military Airbase, also known as the T-4 Airbase Biology and medicine * T4 phage, a bacteriophage * Thyroxine (T4), a form of thyroid hormone * the T4 spinal nerve * the fo ...

SMK tank The SMK was an armored vehicle prototype developed by the Soviet Union prior to the Second World War. It was named after Sergei Mironovich Kirov, a Communist Party official assassinated in 1934. The SMK was discovered and classified by German i ...

T-43 medium tank The T-43 medium tank was a prototype Soviet medium tank developed during the Second World War as a possible replacement for both the T-34 medium and KV-1 heavy tanks. The project's aim was to build a medium tank with heavier armour, but German ad ...

T-100 tank The T-100 was a Soviet twin-turreted heavy tank prototype, designed in 1938–39 as a possible replacement for the T-35 heavy tank. The T-100 was designed by N. Barykov's OKMO design team at S.M. Kirov Factory No. 185 in Leningrad. The T-100 was ...

* KV-13 *

SU-14 The SU-14 was a prototype Soviet heavy self-propelled gun that started out as an open topped vehicle, with the armor being added later on when it was converted into a direct-fire assault gun in 1941. The original prototype, using a modified T-28 ...

SU-100P The SU-100P (Russian: СУ-100П, GABTU index "Object 105") is a Soviet experimental 100-mm self-propelled howitzer, and is designed by OKB-3 of the heavy machine construction division of Uralmash. The main designer of the SU-100P is Lev Gorlitsky. ...

SU-100Y The SU-100Y, initially designated T-100Y,Pasholok was a Soviet prototype self-propelled gun, developed from the chassis of the prototype T-100 tank. It was developed during the Winter War with Finland to include a 130 mm gun to destroy conc ...

* RPG-1 * Uralmash-1 * Obiekt 140 * Obiekt 187 * Obiekt 279 * Obiekt 292 * Obiekt 416 * Obiekt 490 * Obiekt 490A * Obiekt 770 * Obiekt 775 * Obiekt 785 *

2B1 Oka 2B1 Oka, ( - ''"Oka River"''), is a Soviet self-propelled heavy mortar. 2B1 is its GRAU designation. It was designed to deliver tactical nuclear payloads, however it was plagued by technical issues caused by the sheer size of the gun and the m ...

Kh-45 The Kh-45 Molnija "Lightning" was a USSR, Soviet hypersonic flight, hypersonic anti-ship missile, anti-ship air-to-surface missile project. It was developed from 1971 as the main armament for the MKB Raduga, ICD "Raduga"'s T-4 (aircraft), T-4 miss ...

* 2A3 Kondensator 2P *

SU-152 "Taran" The Object 120 SU-152 "Taran" () was a fully enclosed Soviet tank destroyer built in 1965, which never progressed past the experimental stage. History In the early 1960s, the Soviet military concluded that the armor-piercing ammunition used by ...

SU-152G The SU-152G (, GABTU index "Object 108") was a Soviet experimental 152-mm self-propelled howitzer or , and was designed by OKB-3 of the heavy machine construction division of Uralmash. The main designer of the SU-152G was Lev Gorlitsky. The SU-1 ...

* S-51 Self-Propelled Gun * 1K17 Szhatie * 2S15 Norov * Soviet laser pistol

Soviet Navy The Soviet Navy was the naval warfare Military, uniform service branch of the Soviet Armed Forces. Often referred to as the Red Fleet, the Soviet Navy made up a large part of the Soviet Union's strategic planning in the event of a conflict with t ...

* ''Sovetsky Soyuz''-class battleship * ''Kiev''-class destroyer * ''Kronshtadt''-class battlecruiser * ''Stalingrad''-class battlecruiser * Soviet aircraft carrier ''Riga'' * Soviet aircraft carrier ''Ulyanovsk'' * Project 1231 * Project 1153 Orel * Project 11780

Strategic Rocket Forces The Strategic Rocket Forces of the Russian Federation or the Strategic Missile Forces of the Russian Federation (RVSN RF; ) is a military branch, separate combat arm of the Russian Armed Forces that controls Russia's land-based intercontinenta ...

Global Rocket 1 The Global Rocket 1 (GR-1; ) was a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) developed but not deployed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The system also was given the NATO reporting name SS-X- ...

Burya The ''Burya'' ("Storm" in Russian; ) was a supersonic, intercontinental cruise missile, developed by the Lavochkin design bureau (chief designer Naum Semyonovich Chernyakov) under designation La-350 () from 1954 until the program cancellation in ...

R-46 (missile) The R-46 was an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) design by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The R-46 concept was to launch a very large hydrogen bomb into orbit as a fractional orbital bombardment system (FOBS). The existence of th ...

Soviet Air Force The Soviet Air Forces (, VVS SSSR; literally "Military Air Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"; initialism VVS, sometimes referred to as the "Red Air Force") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Sovie ...

Alekseyev I-21 The Alekseyev I-21 was a Soviet twin-engined jet fighter, built in the late 1940s. Two prototypes were constructed with the designation of I-211, of which one was converted into the I-215 with more powerful engines. A third aircraft was built ...

* Alekseyev I-212 *

Antonov A-40 The Antonov A-40 ''Krylya Tanka'' (, meaning "tank wings") was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide onto a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane, to support airborne forces or partisans.Winchester 2005, p. 62 A prototype was ...

Ayaks The Ayaks () is a Hypersonic flight, hypersonic waverider aircraft program started in the Soviet Union and currently under development by the Hypersonic Systems Research Institute (HSRI) of Leninets Holding Company in Saint Petersburg, Russia. S ...

Bartini Beriev VVA-14 The Bartini Beriev VVA-14 ''Vertikaľno-Vzletayushchaya Amfibiya'' ( vertical take-off amphibious aircraft) was a wing-in-ground-effect aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the early 1970s. Designed to be able to take off from the wa ...

* Belyayev DB-LK *

Beriev S-13 The Beriev S-13 was a Soviet reverse-engineered copy of the Lockheed U-2C, developed in the Soviet Union in the early 1960s. History On 1 May 1960, Francis Gary Powers flew a U-2 espionage mission from northern Pakistan over the Soviet Union. W ...

Bratukhin B-5 The Bratukhin B-5 was a prototype Soviet transverse rotor helicopter designed by the Bratukhin Bratukhin, or OKB-3, was a Soviet aircraft design bureau created in 1940 from within TsAGI to develop helicopters. Headed by Ivan Pavlovich Bratukhin ...

Bratukhin B-11 The Bratukhin B-11 was a prototype Soviet twin-rotor transport helicopter and the last design of the Bratukhin Bratukhin, or OKB-3, was a Soviet aircraft design bureau created in 1940 from within TsAGI to develop helicopters. Headed by Ivan Pavl ...

Bratukhin Omega The Bratukhin Omega (also known as the 2MG) was an early Soviet helicopter, the first product of a new Soviet design bureau, OKB-3 that was created from within TsAGI specifically to develop rotary-wing aircraft. Bratukhin's design was a transv ...

Chyetverikov SPL The SPL (''Samolyet dlya Podvodnikh Lodok'' – aeroplane for submarine boats) (a.k.a. OSGA-101, and Gidro-1) was a submarine borne flying boat designed and built in the USSR from 1931. Development After successful trials by the Royal Navy, wi ...

* Chyetverikov TA *

EKIP EKIP (translated from , the Russian acronym for "", which means "Ecology and Progress") is the Soviet and Russian project of a multifunctional aerodrome-free aircraft, built according to the "flying wing" scheme, with an elliptically shaped fus ...

Ilyushin I-21 The Ilyushin I-21, (''Istrebitel''-21, fighter-21), also known as TsKB-32, was a single-engined, single-seat Fighter aircraft, fighter produced in the USSR in 1936-7 in response to a government specification. Design and development The I-21 was ...

* Ilyushin Il-1 * Ilyushin Il-6 *

Ilyushin Il-8 The Ilyushin Il-8 was a Soviet ground-attack aircraft developed by Ilyushin to replace the Ilyushin Il-2. The first two prototypes were significantly faster than the older aircraft, but proved to be less maneuverable. It was redesigned, incorpora ...

Ilyushin Il-16 The Ilyushin Il-16 (Cyrillic Илью́шин Ил-16) was a Soviet lightweight armored ground-attack aircraft developed at the end of World War II by the Ilyushin Design Bureau. It was in essence a scaled-down version of the Ilyushin Il-10, but ...

Ilyushin Il-20 (1948) The Ilyushin Il-20 was a Soviet prototype for a heavily armored ground-attack aircraft to replace the Ilyushin Il-10. It featured a number of innovative concepts including a cockpit mounted on top of the engine, directly behind the propeller, a ...

Ilyushin Il-22 The Ilyushin Il-22, USAF/ DOD designation Type 10,Parsch, Andreas and Aleksey V. Martynov"Designations of Soviet and Russian Military Aircraft and Missiles."''designation-systems.net,'' 2008. Retrieved: 21 August 2011. was the first Soviet jet- ...

* Ilyushin Il-26 *

Ilyushin Il-30 The Ilyushin Il-30 was a Soviet turbojet-powered tactical bomber designed as a higher-performance, swept wing version of the Ilyushin Il-28, in the late 1940s. Its thin wing and engine nacelles necessitated the use of tandem landing gear, the fi ...

Ilyushin Il-32 The Ilyushin Il-32 was a Soviet heavy military glider developed after World War II to deliver of cargo. To facilitate loading and unloading, the glider's nose and tail sections were hinged to swing sideways. The Il-32 required a four-engined airc ...

Ilyushin Il-40 The Ilyushin Il-40 (NATO reporting name: Brawny) was a two-seat Soviet jet-engined armored ground-attack aircraft. The first prototype flew in 1953 and was very successful except when it fired its guns, as their combustion gasses disturbed the ...

Ilyushin Il-46 __NOTOC__ The Ilyushin Il-46 was a jet-engined bomber produced in the USSR during 1951-2, as the result of a directive to redesign the Ilyushin Il-42, Il-42 project (half the drawings had already been completed). The revised specification was for ...

Ilyushin Il-54 The Il-54 was a transonic bomber developed in the USSR in the 1950s. Only two examples were built before the project was abandoned. Design and development The Council of Ministers issued a directive to OKB-115, for a transonic bomber prototyp ...

* Ilyushin Il-90 *

Ilyushin Il-102 The Ilyushin Il-102 is a Soviet experimental jet-powered ground-attack aircraft designed by Ilyushin. This aircraft was never chosen for production, being surpassed by the Su-25. Only a few development prototypes were built. Design and deve ...

* Ilyushin Il-106 *

Kalinin K-7 The Kalinin K-7 () was a heavy experimental aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. It was of unusual configuration, with twin booms and large underwing pods housing fixed landing gear and machine gun turrets. In th ...

* Kamov V-50 *

Kamov V-80 The Kamov V-80 was a design study designation for an attack helicopter that eventually evolved into the single seat Kamov Ka-50 family of aircraft. Design and development Design of the V-80 (later Ka-50) began at the Kamov Helicopter Plant in 197 ...

Kamov V-100 The V-100 was a projected side-by-side twin-rotor compound helicopter combat aircraft from Kamov. It had a pusher propeller In aeronautical and naval engineering, pusher configuration is the term used to describe a drivetrain of air- or water ...

Lavochkin La-150 The Lavochkin La-150 (also known as the ''Izdeliye'' 150 – Aircraft or Article 150,All Lavochkin's jet aircraft were referred to in-house, and at government level, as "''Izdeliye'' 150", etc. USAF/ DOD designation Type 3), was designed by the ...

Lavochkin La-168 The Lavochkin La-168 was a Jet engine, jet Fighter aircraft, fighter developed for the USSR. Like the better known Mikoyan MiG-15 which was ultimately selected and went on to become one of the most successful jet fighters of its era, the Lavochki ...

Lavochkin La-190 The Lavochkin La-190, (a.k.a. Aircraft 190), was a swept wing jet fighter designed and manufactured by the Lavochkin Design Bureau from 1950. Design and development The La-190 was an all-metal aircraft with a bicycle undercarriage and mid set wi ...

Lavochkin La-200 The Lavochkin La-200 (a.k.a. Aircraft 200) was a two-seater, swept winged, night/all-weather jet prototype designed as an interceptor and manufactured by the Soviet Union's Lavochkin Design Bureau from 1948. Design and development In response ...

Lavochkin La-250 The Lavochkin La-250 "Anakonda" was a high-altitude interceptor aircraft prototype developed in the Soviet Union by the Lavochkin design bureau in the 1950s. Its nickname "Anaconda" was invented during the flight test and referred to both the ...

Mikoyan MiG-33 MiG-33 was the development designation of the aircraft that was eventually delivered as the MiG-29. Certain variants of the MiG-29 were designated MiG-33. The designation MiG-33 has been associated with two different Mikoyan fighter designs. It ...

Mikoyan Project 1.44 The Mikoyan Project 1.44/1.42 (; NATO reporting name: Flatpack) is a multirole combat aircraft, multirole fighter technology demonstrator developed by the Mikoyan design bureau. It was designed for the Soviet Union's MFI (''Mnogofunksionalni Fro ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS The Mikoyan-Gurevich DIS (/ ''Dalnij Istrebitel' Soprovozhdenya'' – "long-range escort fighter") was a prototype Soviet heavy fighter of World War II, envisioned to serve primarily in the escort fighter role. The service designation MiG-5 was ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-3 The Mikoyan-Gurevich I-3 was the first of three interrelated fighter prototype programs developed by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union in the mid/late 1950s – starting with the I-3, continuing with the I-7 and finally evol ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-7 The Mikoyan-Gurevich I-7 was a development of the Mikoyan-Gurevich I-3 experimental fighter. Planned as a Mach 2-class aircraft, the I-7 was the second of a series of three experimental fighter aircraft from the Mikoyan-Gurevich design Bureau. Lik ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-75 The Mikoyan-Gurevich I-75 was the final design of a series of three experimental aircraft, experimental swept-wing interceptor aircraft, interceptors developed in the Soviet Union in the mid-late 1950s by the Mikoyan, Mikoyan-Gurevich design bure ...

* Mikoyan-Gurevich I-211 *

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 The Mikoyan-Gurevich I-250 (''Samolet N''), aka MiG-13, was a Soviet fighter aircraft developed as part of a crash program in 1944 to develop a high-performance fighter to counter German turbojet-powered aircraft such as the Messerschmitt Me 262 ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-270 The Mikoyan-Gurevich I-270 (Design Ж ("Zh") under Mikoyan-Gurevich's in-house designation sequence, USAF/DoD designation: Type 11) was a response to a Soviet Air Forces requirement in 1945 for a rocket-powered interceptor aircraft for the po ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-320 The Mikoyan-Gurevich I-320 ( USAF/DoD designation: Type 18) was a prototype Soviet long-range all-weather interceptor aircraft of the late 1940s-early 1950s. Only two were made, with no production following. Design and development In January 194 ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich I-350 The Mikoyan-Gurevich I-350 (''Samolet M''), was a Soviet Cold War-era experimental fighter aircraft. It was the first Soviet aircraft able to maintain supersonic speed. Design and development From 1947, work began on a new axial-flow turbojet by ...

* Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-6 *

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8 The Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-8 was a supersonic jet fighter developed in the Soviet Union, intended to replace the MiG-21 (originally named ''MiG-23''). Only two prototypes were built in 1960–61. The original MiG-21's air intakes were moved under th ...

Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 family The Mikoyan-Gurevich Ye-150 family was a series of prototype interceptor aircraft designed and built by the Mikoyan, Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union from 1955. Design and development To fulfil the needs of the ''Protivo-Vozd ...

* Mil Mi-36 *

Mil Mi-42 __NOTOC__ The Mil Mi-42 was a projected assault/transport helicopter featuring the NOTAR concept, fit to replace the Mi-40 program. The Mi-40 did not attract that many customers. Because of this and other reasons, the Mi-42 program (originally ...

* Mil V-5 *

Mil V-7 The Mil V-7 was an experimental four-seat helicopter with AI-7 ramjets at the tips of the two rotor blades. It had an egg-shaped fuselage, skid undercarriage, and a two-bladed tail rotor on a short tubular tail boom. Four aircraft were built in th ...

Mil V-16 The Mil V-16 was a Soviet heavy cargo/transport helicopter project of the late 1960s. The Mil V-16 was designed by Mil Design Bureau, a Moscow helicopter plant. The original scheme described a heavy side-by-side twin-rotor aircraft with two So ...

* Moscow Aviation Institute BB-MAI * Moskalyev SAM-13 *

Myasishchev M-18 The Myasishchev M-18 was a design for a Soviet supersonic bomber with a variable-sweep wing. The aircraft was developed in response to a Soviet 1972 program for a new multi-misson, supersonic, variable geometry wing strategic bomber, with a maxi ...

Myasishchev M-50 The Myasishchev M-50 (; NATO reporting name: Bounder) is a Soviet prototype four-jet engine supersonic strategic bomber which never attained service. Only one flightworthy prototype was built, which was first flown in October 1959. The M-50 w ...

* OKB-1 140 *

OKB-1 150 The OKB-1 150 was a jet bomber designed and produced in the Soviet Union from 1948. Development At the end of World War II, many German engineers were 'seconded' by the Soviet government to continue their advanced research under direct supervi ...

Polikarpov NB The Polikarpov NB (''Nochnoi Bombardirovshchik''—Night Bomber) was a Soviet twin-engined bomber designed during World War II. Only a single prototype had been built before the program was terminated upon the death of Nikolai Nikolaevich Polikarpo ...

* Polikarpov SPB (D) *

Polikarpov VIT-1 The Polikarpov VIT-1 (— Flying Tank Destroyer) was a Soviet twin-engined multi-purpose aircraft developed before World War II. One prototype was built in 1937, with an extremely heavy armament for ground attack duties. That was the only example ...

Polikarpov VIT-2 The Polikarpov VIT-2 (''Vozdooshny Istrebitel' Tahnkov''—Flying Tank Destroyer) was a Soviet twin-engined ground attack aircraft developed before World War II. A single prototype was built in 1938 for evaluation purposes. Although a promising de ...

Post-PFI Soviet/Russian aircraft projects The Soviet post-PFI projects are several Soviet Air Forces, Soviet and Russian Air Force projects initiated to replace the PFI-era aircraft. During the mid-1970s, the Soviets initiated the I-90 fighter project, Sh-90 attack aircraft project, B- ...

* Putilov Stal-11 *

Sukhoi P-1 The Sukhoi P-1 was a prototype Soviet interceptor. Development Sukhoi began design studies for what was to become Izdeliye P in 1954 to meet an urgent request from the Ministry of Aviation Industry (MAP – ''Ministerstvo Aviatsionnoy Promyshlen ...

* Sukhoi Shkval * Sukhoi Su-1 *

Sukhoi Su-5 The Sukhoi Su-5 or I-107 was a Soviet mixed-power (propeller and motorjet) prototype fighter aircraft built toward the end of World War II. Development The appearance of the German turbojet-powered Messerschmitt Me 262 near the end of World War ...

Sukhoi Su-6 The Sukhoi Su-6 was a Soviet ground-attack aircraft developed during World War II. The mixed-power (rocket and piston engines) high-altitude interceptor Su-7 was based on the single-seat Su-6 prototype. Design and development Development of t ...

Sukhoi Su-9 (1946) The Sukhoi Su-9 (; USAF/DoD designation: Type 8) was an early jet fighter built in the Soviet Union shortly after World War II. The design began in 1944 and was intended to use Soviet-designed turbojet engines. The design was heavily influe ...

Sukhoi Su-10 The Sukhoi Su-10 or ''Izdeliye Ye'' () was a Soviet turbojet-powered bomber aircraft built shortly after World War II. Development On 26 February 1946 OKB-134 was tasked with developing and building a bomber powered by four Lyul'ka TR-1A or ...

Sukhoi Su-12 The Sukhoi Su-12 (Aircraft RK) was a prototype Soviet Union, Soviet reconnaissance and artillery spotter aircraft developed during World War II. Development In November 1943, the Sukhoi OKB designed an artillery spotter aircraft based on the Ge ...

Sukhoi Su-15 (1949) The Sukhoi Su-15 (Aircraft P) was a prototype Soviet all-weather interceptor which never reached production. Development The Su-15 was an early attempt at an all-weather jet-powered interceptor. Its development was ordered by the Soviet govern ...

Sukhoi Su-17 (1949) The Sukhoi Su-17 (Aircraft R) was a prototype Soviet fighter. The name was later reused for an entirely different fighter-bomber, see Sukhoi Su-17. Development The Su-17 was designed to closely match the theoretical TsAGI calculations for supe ...

Sukhoi T-3 The Sukhoi T-3 was a prototype Soviet fighter aircraft. Development Starting in the early 1950s, the development of the T-3 proceeded in parallel with the S-1 which would eventually become the Sukhoi Su-7. While the S-1 was a conventional swept ...

Sukhoi T-4 The Sukhoi T-4, or "Aircraft 100", or "Project 100", or "Sotka" is a Soviet high-speed reconnaissance, anti-ship and strategic bomber aircraft that did not proceed beyond the prototype stage. It is sometimes called the Su-100. Design and develo ...

Sukhoi T-49 The Sukhoi T-49 was a prototype Soviet fighter aircraft. Development The Sukhoi T-49 was a modernized version of the Sukhoi Su-11 with new radar and modified armament. The project was officially launched on August 6, 1957. The maiden flight of ...

* Sukhoi T-60S * Tairov OKO-7 *

Tsybin RSR The Tsybin RSR (''Reactivnyy Strategicheskiy Razvedchik'', Cyrillic ''Реактивный Стратегический Разведчик'', Russian for "jet strategic reconnaissance") was a Soviet design for an advanced, long-range, Mach 3 stra ...

Tupolev ANT-16 The Tupolev ANT-16 (also known as the TB-4; – ''Heavy Bomber'') was an experimental heavy bomber aircraft designed and tested in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Design and development Conceptually representing evolution of the Tupolev AN ...

Tupolev ANT-30 The Tupolev ANT-30 was a mid-1930s project for a reconnaissance/strike 'cruiser-type' aircraft by the Tupolev Design Bureau Tupolev ( rus, Туполев, , ˈtupəlʲɪf), officially United Aircraft Company Tupolev - Public Joint Stock Compan ...

Tupolev DB-1 The Tupolev DB-1 (ANT-36) was a Soviet long-range bomber developed in the 1930s. It was developed from the Tupolev ANT-25 distance record-breaking aircraft. Development was prolonged and it was recognized as obsolete by the time it was in productio ...

Tupolev Samolyot 135 The Tupolev Samolyot 135 was a designation that was used for two different strategic bomber projects in the Soviet Union in the late 1950s and early 1960s, neither of which progressed beyond the drawing board. Design and development The first, ...

Tupolev TB-6 The Tupolev TB-6 (internal designation ANT-26; ) was a proposal by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the 1930s for a super-heavy bomber. Had it been built, it would have been the biggest-ever Soviet bomber and the largest aircraft by wingspan of its ...

Tupolev Tu-75 The Tupolev Tu-75 () was a military transport variant of the Tu-4 bomber, an unlicensed, reverse engineered copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The Tu-75 was similar to the Tu-70 airliner, both using a new, purpose-designed fuselage. The fir ...

Tupolev Tu-80 The Tupolev Tu-80 () was a Soviet prototype for a longer-ranged version of the Tupolev Tu-4 bomber, an unlicensed, reverse engineered copy of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. It was cancelled in 1949 in favor of the Tupolev Tu-85 program which o ...

Tupolev Tu-95LAL The Tupolev Tu-95LAL experimental aircraft () which flew from 1961 to 1965 was a modified Tupolev Tu-95 Soviet bomber aircraft, analogous to the United States' earlier Convair NB-36H. It was intended to see whether a nuclear reactor could be use ...

Tupolev Tu-107 The Tupolev Tu-107 was a prototype Soviet military transport aircraft developed from the Tupolev Tu-104. It featured a rear ramp loading door and was intended to carry light vehicles, artillery pieces, or up to 70 paratroop A paratrooper ...

Tupolev Tu-125 The Tupolev Tu-125 was an unrealized project to develop a new long-range supersonic bomber for the Soviet Air Force. Development commenced in 1958 to replace the newest Tu-22. The "Tu-125" designation was an internal one used by the Tupolev desig ...

Tupolev Tu-360 The Tupolev Tu-360 was a proposed hypersonic strategic bomber conceived by the Tupolev design bureau in the 1980s. It used most of the same technologies as the Tupolev Tu-2000.Gordon, Yefim; Komissarov, Sergey (2013). Unflown wings : Soviet and Ru ...

* Tupolev Voron * Yakovlev VVP-6 *

Yakovlev Yak-8 The Yakovlev Yak-8 was a Soviet utility aircraft developed during World War II. It was not accepted for production, but received the NATO reporting name "Crib" anyway. Development The Yak-8 was an improved version of the Yakovlev Yak-6. It was s ...

* Yakovlev Yak-16 *

Yakovlev Yak-25 (1947) The Yakovlev Yak-25 was a Soviet military aircraft, an early turbojet-powered fighter aircraft designed by the Yakovlev OKB. The designation was later reused for a different interceptor design. Tasked by the Council of Ministers in a directive ...

Yakovlev Yak-30 (1948) The Yakovlev Yak-30 was an experimental Soviet interceptor from the late 1940s. Derived from the Yak-25, from which it differed primarily in having wings sweptback 35° at quarter chord, the Yak-30 retained the fuselage, tail surfaces and unde ...

Yakovlev Yak-30 (1960) The Yakovlev Yak-30 (NATO reporting name Magnum), originally designated Yakovlev 104, was Yakovlev's entry in a competition for the first military jet trainer aircraft designed for Warsaw Pact nations. Designed to succeed the Yak-17UTI, it also ...

Yakovlev Yak-32 The Yakovlev Yak-32 (NATO reporting name Mantis) is a single-seat version of the Yakovlev Yak-30 (1960), and was claimed by the OKB to be the world's first sporting aircraft with an ejection seat. This version was designated Yak-104PS. Neither th ...

* Yakovlev Yak-33 * Yakovlev Yak-35 *

Yakovlev Yak-43 The Yakovlev Yak-141 (; NATO reporting name "Freestyle"), also known as the Yak-41, is a Soviet supersonic VTOL, vertical takeoff/landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft designed by Yakovlev. Intended as a replacement for the Yak-38, it was designed as ...

* Yakovlev Yak-44 * Yakovlev Yak-45 *

Yakovlev Yak-50 (1949) Yakovlev Yak-50 was an early experimental turbojet interceptor aircraft designed in 1948 by the Yakovlev OKB in the USSR. The aircraft was essentially a stretched version of the Yakovlev Yak-30 (1948), with a more powerful engine and greater wing ...

Yakovlev Yak-60 Yakovlev Yak-60 (known as Yak-32 in some sources) is the possible designation for an experimental Yakovlev tandem-rotor heavy-lift helicopter design of the late 1960s. This design never progressed beyond the model stage. Development This helic ...

Yakovlev Yak-100 The Yakovlev Yak-100 was a single-engine transport helicopter developed in the Soviet Union, USSR in 1948. This was the Yakovlev, Yakovlev Design Bureau's second helicopter. Design and development The Yak-100 (initially designated Yak-22) was de ...

* Yakovlev Yak-140 *

Yakovlev Yak-141 The Yakovlev Yak-141 (; NATO reporting name "Freestyle"), also known as the Yak-41, is a Soviet supersonic VTOL, vertical takeoff/landing (VTOL) fighter aircraft designed by Yakovlev. Intended as a replacement for the Yak-38, it was designed as ...

* Yakovlev Yak-200 *

Yakovlev Yak-1000 The Yakovlev Yak-1000 was a Soviet supersonic technology demonstrator intended to evaluate the aerodynamic layout and field performance of the cropped delta wing discussed in captured German documents in combination with the new Lyulka AL-5 turb ...

Zveno project Zveno (Russian: Звено, a military unit "Flight") was a parasite aircraft developed in the Soviet Union during the 1930s. It was the brainchild of the aviation engineer Vladimir Vakhmistrov. It consisted of a Tupolev TB-1 or a Tupolev TB-3 hea ...

Russian Armed Forces The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, commonly referred to as the Russian Armed Forces, are the military of Russia. They are organized into three service branches—the Russian Ground Forces, Ground Forces, Russian Navy, Navy, and Russi ...

Russian Ground Forces The Russian Ground Forces (), also known as the Russian Army in English, are the Army, land forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The primary responsibilities of the Russian Ground Forces are the protection of the state borders, combat on land, ...

* Object 640

Russian Air Forces

MiG 1.44 The Mikoyan Project 1.44/1.42 (; NATO reporting name: Flatpack) is a multirole combat aircraft, multirole fighter technology demonstrator developed by the Mikoyan design bureau. It was designed for the Soviet Union's MFI (''Mnogofunksionalni Fro ...

South Korea

* South Korean nuclear weapons project

Sweden

Swedish Air Force The Swedish Air Force ( or just ) is the air force Military branch, branch of the Swedish Armed Forces. History The Swedish Air Force was created on 1 July 1926 when the aircraft units of the Army and Navy were merged. Because of the escalatin ...

Saab 36 __NOTOC__ The Saab 36 (also known as Projekt 1300) was a cancelled Swedish supersonic bomber planned by Saab AB during the 1950s. The aircraft was intended to be able to carry an 800 kg free-falling nuclear weapon, but the Swedish nuclear ...

Saab 38 __NOTOC__ The Saab 38 (also known as B3LA or A 38/Sk 38) was a single-engine jet trainer and attack aircraft planned by Saab during the 1970s. The project was a collaboration between Saab and the Italian aircraft manufacturer Aermacchi. It w ...

Other

Swedish nuclear weapons program After World War II, Sweden considered building nuclear weapons to defend themselves against an offensive assault from the Soviet Union. From 1945 to 1972 the government ran a clandestine nuclear weapons program under the guise of civilian de ...

United Kingdom

British Army The British Army is the principal Army, land warfare force of the United Kingdom. the British Army comprises 73,847 regular full-time personnel, 4,127 Brigade of Gurkhas, Gurkhas, 25,742 Army Reserve (United Kingdom), volunteer reserve perso ...

BSA Welgun The Welgun was a prototype submachine gun developed by the British irregular warfare organisation, the Special Operations Executive. Although it performed well in tests, it was never adopted, and was produced in small numbers only. Development Whe ...

* Elkins Automatic Rifle *

EM-2 rifle The EM-2, also known as Rifle, No.9, Mk.1 or Janson rifle, is a British assault rifle. It was briefly adopted by British forces in 1951, but the decision was overturned very shortly thereafter by Winston Churchill's incoming government in an ef ...

* Farquhar-Hill rifle * FN FAL Bullpup .280 * Howard Francis machine carbine *

L64/65 The L64 (also called the ''Enfield Individual Weapon'') was an intermediate calibre British bullpup layout prototype assault rifle developed in the 1970s. At one time it was known as the 4.85 Individual Weapon, a reference to the calibre of the ...

Sterling SAR-87 The Sterling SAR-87 is a military assault rifle of the late 20th century. The Sterling Assault Rifle (SAR), which included elements from Sterling's earlier Light Automatic Rifle (LAR) design, was jointly engineered by Sterling Armaments Company ...

Royal Air Force The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...

* Armstrong Whitworth AW.681 *

Avro 730 The Avro 730 was a planned Mach 3 reconnaissance aircraft and strategic bomber that was being developed by Avro Aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It had been originally envisioned as a very high-speed aircraft to perform aerial reconnais ...

BAC TSR-2 The British Aircraft Corporation TSR-2 is a cancelled Cold War strike and reconnaissance aircraft developed by the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC), for the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The TSR-2 was designed ...

BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4 The BAE Systems Nimrod MRA4 was a planned maritime patrol and attack aircraft intended to replace the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod MR2. The rebuilt aircraft would have extended the operating life of the Nimrod fleet by several decades and signific ...

* British Aerospace Nimrod AEW.3 * British Aerospace P.125 * Hawker P.1103 * Hawker P.1121 * Hawker Siddeley P.1154 *

Vickers Type 559 The Vickers Type 559 was a supersonic interceptor aircraft design by the British aircraft company Vickers-Armstrongs and was their submission for Operational Requirement F.155 in 1955. It was not accepted for further consideration; the most va ...

Royal Navy The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...

CVA-01 CVA-01 was a proposed United Kingdom aircraft carrier, designed during the 1960s. The ship was intended to be the first of a class that would replace all of the Royal Navy's carriers, most of which had been designed before or during the Second ...

Hawker Siddeley P.139B The Hawker Siddeley P.139B was a proposed airborne early warning aircraft intended to operate from aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy. The P.139B formed part of the a major equipment procurement plan for the RN in the 1960s intended to give th ...

* ''Lion''-class battleship * ''Malta''-class aircraft carrier *

Type 43 destroyer The Type 43 was a proposed destroyer class for the Royal Navy. It was intended to follow on from the Type 42 but armed with the Sea Dart Mark II missile. The primary role of the Type 43 was to protect a task force from air-launched missile att ...

Type 82 destroyer The Type 82 or ''Bristol''-class destroyer was a 1960s guided missile destroyer design intended to replace s in the Royal Navy. Originally eight warships were planned to provide area air-defence for the four planned CVA-01 aircraft carriers. ...

Project Habakkuk Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies) was a plan by the British during the Second World War to construct an aircraft carrier out of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, for use against German U-boats in the mid-Atlantic, which w ...

United States

United States Army Air Corps The United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) was the aerial warfare service component of the United States Army between 1926 and 1941. After World War I, as early aviation became an increasingly important part of modern warfare, a philosophical ri ...

Bombers

Huff-Daland XB-1 The Huff-Daland XB-1 was a prototype bomber aircraft built for the United States Army Air Corps. The XB-1 was the first aircraft named using just a ''B-'' designation. Prior to 1926, the U.S. Army used ''LB-'' and ''HB-'' prefixes, signifying ...

Douglas Y1B-7 The Douglas Y1B-7 was a 1930s American bomber aircraft. It was the first US monoplane given the ''B-'' 'bomber' designation. The monoplane was more practical and less expensive than the biplane, and the United States Army Air Corps chose to expe ...

Fokker XB-8 The Fokker XB-8 was a bomber built for the United States Army Air Corps in the 1930s, derived from the high-speed Fokker O-27 observation aircraft. Design and development During assembly, the second prototype XO-27 was converted to a bomber pr ...

* Boeing Y1B-9 * Douglas YB-11 * Martin XB-13 * Martin XB-14 *

Boeing XB-15 The Boeing XB-15 (Boeing 294) was a United States bomber aircraft designed in 1934 as a test for the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) to see if it would be possible to build a heavy bomber with a range. For a year beginning in mid-1935 it w ...

Martin XB-16 The Martin XB-16, company designation Model 145, was a projected heavy bomber designed in the United States during the 1930s. Design and development The XB-16 was designed to meet the United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) request for a bomber ...

Douglas XB-19 The Douglas XB-19 was a four-engined, piston-driven heavy bomber produced by the Douglas Aircraft Company for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during the early 1940s. The design was originally given the designation XBLR-2 (''XBLR'' deno ...

Boeing Y1B-20 The Boeing Y1B-20 (Boeing 316) was designed as an improvement on the Boeing XB-15. It was slightly larger than its predecessor, and was intended to use much more powerful engines. It was presented to the Army in early 1938, and two orders were p ...

North American XB-21 The North American XB-21 (manufacturer's model designation NA-21) and sometimes referred to by the name "Dragon", was a prototype bomber aircraft developed by North American Aviation in the late 1930s, for evaluation by the United States Army Air ...

* Douglas XB-22 * Martin XB-27 *

North American XB-28 The North American XB-28 (NA-63) was an aircraft proposed by North American Aviation to fill a strong need in the United States Army Air Corps for a high-altitude medium bomber. It never entered production, with only two prototypes being built. ...

Fighters

Douglas XP-48 The Douglas XP-48 was a small, lightweight fighter aircraft, designed by Douglas Aircraft in 1939 for evaluation by the U.S. Army Air Corps. Intended to be powered by a small v-12 engine, inline piston engine, the contract was cancelled before a ...

Lockheed XP-49 The Lockheed XP-49 (company Model 522) was an advancement on the P-38 Lightning for a fighter in response to U.S. Army Air Corps proposal 39-775. Intended to use the new 24-cylinder Pratt & Whitney X-1800 engine, this proposal, which was for an ...

* Grumman XP-50

United States Army Air Forces The United States Army Air Forces (USAAF or AAF) was the major land-based aerial warfare service component of the United States Army and ''de facto'' aerial warfare service branch of the United States during and immediately after World War II ...

Bombers

Lockheed XB-30 The Lockheed XB-30 (company model L-249)Stringfellow and Bowers 1992, p. 31. was the design submitted by Lockheed after the request by the United States Army Air Forces for a very heavy bomber, the same request that led to the Boeing B-29 Superfo ...

Douglas XB-31 The Douglas XB-31 (Douglas Model 332) was the design submitted by Douglas after the request by the United States Army Air Forces for a very heavy bomber aircraft, the same request that led to the Boeing B-29 Superfortress, Lockheed XB-30, and ...

*Consolidated

B-32 Dominator The Consolidated B-32 Dominator (Consolidated Model 34) was an American heavy strategic bomber built for the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. A B-32 was involved in the last air combat engagement of the war, resulting in the ...

*Martin XB-33 Super Marauder *Boeing

YB-40 Flying Fortress The Boeing YB-40 Flying Fortress was a modification for operational testing purposes of the B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft, converted to act as a heavily armed gunship to support other bombers during World War II. At the time of its deve ...

Gunship *Consolidated XB-41 Liberator Gunship

Fighters

*Vultee

XP-54 The Vultee XP-54 ''Swoose Goose'' was a prototype heavy fighter built by the Vultee Aircraft Company for the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). Design and development Vultee submitted a proposal in response to U.S. Army Air Corps request ...

* Curtiss XP-55 Ascender *Northrop

XP-56 Black Bullet The Northrop XP-56 Black Bullet is a unique prototype fighter interceptor built by the Northrop Corporation. It was one of the most radical of the experimental aircraft built during World War II. Ultimately, it was unsuccessful and did not ente ...

*Lockheed

XP-58 Chain Lightning The Lockheed XP-58 Chain Lightning was an American long-range fighter developed during World War II. Although derived from the successful P-38 Lightning, the XP-58 was plagued by technical problems with its engines that eventually led to the pro ...

* Lockheed L-133 Starjet *Bell

P-59 Airacomet The Bell P-59 Airacomet is a single-seat, twin jet-engine fighter aircraft that was designed and built by Bell Aircraft during World War II. It was the first jet produced in the United States. As the British were further along in jet engine ...

* Curtiss XP-62 *McDonnell

XP-67 Bat The McDonnell XP-67 "Bat" or "Moonbat"It is unclear if either name was an official USAAF designation; both are used in various sources. It is possible that both are informal nicknames that refer to the aircraft's unique appearance. was a prototy ...

Republic XP-72 The Republic XP-72 was an American prototype fighter-interceptor developed by Republic Aircraft as a progression of the P-47 Thunderbolt design. The XP-72 was designed around the Pratt & Whitney R-4360 Wasp Major 28-cylinder air-cooled radial e ...

*Fisher (General Motors) P-75 Eagle * Bell XP-76 *

Northrop XP-79 The Northrop XP-79, USAAF project number MX-365, was a rocket and jet-powered flying wing fighter aircraft, designed by Northrop. The pilot operated the aircraft in a prone position, permitting much greater ''g''-forces to be resisted by the ...

* Convair XP-81 *

Bell XP-83 The Bell XP-83 (later redesignated XF-83) was a United States prototype jet aircraft, jet escort fighter designed by Bell Aircraft during World War II. It first flew in 1945. As with most early first generation jet fighter, first generation je ...

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...

Bombers

* XB-35 *

YB-49 The Northrop YB-49 was an American prototype jet-powered heavy bomber developed by Northrop Corporation shortly after World War II for service with the United States Air Force. The YB-49 featured a flying wing design and was a turbojet-powered d ...

XB-70 Valkyrie The North American Aviation XB-70 Valkyrie is a retired prototype version of the planned nuclear-armed, deep-penetration supersonic strategic bomber for the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command. Designed in the late 1950s by North Am ...

* B-1A *

FICON project The FICON (Fighter Conveyor) program was conducted by the United States Air Force in the 1950s to test the feasibility of a Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber carrying a Republic F-84F Thunderstreak, Republic F-84 Thunderflash Parasite aircraft, para ...

* B-72 (

WS-125 The WS-125 was an American super-long-range strategic bomber project during the Cold War to develop a nuclear-powered aircraft. Development In 1954, the United States Air Force (USAF) issued a weapons system requirement for a nuclear-powered bo ...

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Convair X-6 The Convair X-6 was an experimental aircraft project to develop and evaluate a nuclear-powered jet aircraft. Experiments were carried out on a testbed aircraft named Convair NB-36H, based on the B-36 bomber. The program was canceled before t ...

Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion The Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion (ANP) program and the preceding Nuclear Energy for the Propulsion of Aircraft (NEPA) project worked to develop a nuclear propulsion system for aircraft. The United States Army Air Forces initiated Project NEPA o ...

Fighters

Northrop YA-9 The Northrop YA-9 is a prototype attack aircraft developed for the United States Air Force A-X program. The YA-9 was passed over in preference for the Fairchild Republic YA-10 that entered production as the A-10 Thunderbolt II. Design and dev ...

Lockheed YF-12 The Lockheed YF-12 is an American Mach number, Mach 3+ capable, high-altitude interceptor aircraft, interceptor prototype, developed and manufactured by American aerospace company Lockheed Corporation. The interceptor was developed duri ...

Republic XF-103 The Republic XF-103 was an American project to develop a powerful air-to-air missile, missile-armed interceptor aircraft capable of destroying Soviet Union, Soviet bombers while flying at speeds as high as Mach number, Mach 3. Despite a prolong ...

North American F-107 The North American F-107 is a prototype aircraft that was North American Aviation's entry in a United States Air Force tactical fighter-bomber design competition of the 1950s, based on the F-100 Super Sabre. It incorporated many innovations and ...

XF-108 Rapier The North American XF-108 Rapier was a proposed long-range, high-speed interceptor aircraft designed by North American Aviation intended to defend the United States from supersonic Soviet strategic bombers. The aircraft would have cruised at s ...

Bell XF-109 The Bell D-188A (unofficial military designations XF-109/XF3L) was a proposed eight-engine Mach number, Mach 2–capable VTOL, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) tiltjet fighter that never proceeded past the mock-up stage. Development In 195 ...

*Northrop

F-20 Tigershark The Northrop F-20 Tigershark (initially F-5G) is a prototype light fighter, designed and built by Northrop. Its development began in 1975 as a further evolution of Northrop's F-5E Tiger II, featuring a new engine that greatly improved overal ...

Northrop YF-23 The Northrop/McDonnell Douglas YF-23 is an American single-seat, twinjet, twin-engine, Stealth aircraft, stealth fighter aircraft, fighter technology demonstrator prototype designed for the United States Air Force (USAF). The design team, wit ...

Other

Project Pluto Project Pluto was a United States government program to develop nuclear-powered ramjet engines for use in cruise missiles. Two experimental engines were tested at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) in 1961 and 1964 respectively. On 1 January 1957, th ...

Supersonic Low Altitude Missile The Supersonic Low Altitude Missile or SLAM was a U.S. Air Force nuclear weapons project conceived around 1955, and cancelled in 1964. SLAMs were conceived of as unmanned nuclear-powered ramjets capable of delivering thermonuclear warheads deep ...

BGM-75 AICBM The ZBGM-75 Advanced Intercontinental Ballistic Missile, also known as Weapons System 120A (WS-120A), was a program to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), proposed by the United States Air Force in the 1960s as a replacement for ...

WS-124A Flying Cloud Weapon System 124A, given the codename Flying Cloud, was a project of the United States Air Force to use high-altitude balloons to deliver bombs and weapons of mass destruction on enemy targets. Tested in late 1954, the project was found to be un ...

Blue Gemini Blue Gemini was a United States Air Force (USAF) project first proposed in August 1962 for a series of seven flights of Gemini spacecraft to enable the Air Force to gain crewed spaceflight experience prior to the launch of the Manned Orbital Dev ...

Manned Orbiting Laboratory The Manned Orbiting Laboratory (MOL) was part of the United States Air Force (USAF) human spaceflight program in the 1960s. The project was developed from early USAF concepts of crewed space stations as reconnaissance satellites, and was a succ ...

Peacekeeper Rail Garrison The Peacekeeper Rail Garrison was a railcar-launched ICBM that was developed by the United States Air Force during the 1980s as part of a plan to place fifty MGM-118A Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles on the rail network of the Uni ...

Safeguard Program The Safeguard Program was a U.S. Army anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system designed to protect the U.S. Air Force's Minuteman ICBM silos from attack, thus preserving the US's nuclear deterrent fleet. It was intended primarily to protect against ...

United States Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare, maritime military branch, service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is the world's most powerful navy with the largest Displacement (ship), displacement, at 4.5 millio ...
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United States Marine Corps The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is responsible for conducting expeditionar ...

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Attack Aircraft

* Douglas A2D Skyshark * North American A2J Super Savage *

McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II The General Dynamics/McDonnell Douglas A-12 Avenger II was a proposed American attack aircraft from General Dynamics and McDonnell Douglas. It was to be an all-weather, carrier-based stealth bomber replacement for the Grumman A-6 Intruder in ...

Fighters

* Grumman

XF5F Skyrocket The Grumman XF5F Skyrocket was a prototype twin-engined shipboard fighter interceptor. The United States Navy ordered one prototype, model number G-34, from Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation on 30 June 1938; its designation was XF5F-1. T ...

* Goodyear F2G * Douglas

F6D Missileer The Douglas F6D Missileer was a proposed carrier-based fleet defense fighter designed by Douglas Aircraft Company in response to a 1959 United States Navy requirement. It was designed to be able to loiter for extended periods at a relatively lo ...

* Grumman

XF10F Jaguar The Grumman XF10F Jaguar was a prototype swing-wing fighter aircraft offered to the United States Navy in the early 1950s. Although it never entered service, its research paved the way toward the later General Dynamics F-111 and Grumman's own F- ...

General Dynamics F-111 The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark is a retired supersonic, medium-range, multirole combat aircraft. Production models of the F-111 had roles that included attack (e.g. interdiction), strategic bombing (including nuclear weapons capabiliti ...

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Convair F2Y Sea Dart The Convair F2Y Sea Dart is an American seaplane fighter aircraft that rode on twin hydro-skis during takeoff and landing. It flew only as a prototype, and never entered mass production. It is the only seaplane to have exceeded the speed of sou ...

Rotorcraft

Lockheed Martin VH-71 Kestrel The Lockheed Martin VH-71 Kestrel was a variant of the AgustaWestland AW101 (formerly the EH101) that was being manufactured to replace the United States Marine Corps' Marine One U.S. Presidential transport fleet. Originally marketed for var ...

Ships

Aircraft Carrier (Medium) The Aircraft Carrier (Medium) (CVV) was an American design for a conventional-powered (i.e. non-nuclear-powered) aircraft carrier proposed in the 1970s. It was to be smaller and cheaper than the contemporary nuclear-powered . A single example wa ...

CG(X) The CG(X) program, also known as the Next Generation Cruiser program, was a United States Navy research program to develop a replacement vessel for its 22 s. Original plans were for 18–19 ships, based on the 14,500 ton with additional ba ...

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Sea Control Ship The Sea Control Ship (SCS) was a small aircraft carrier developed and conceptualized by the United States Navy under Chief of Naval Operations Elmo Zumwalt during the 1970s. Currently the term refers to naval vessels that can perform similar d ...

Strike Cruiser The strike cruiser (proposed hull designator: CSGN) was a proposal from DARPA for a class of cruisers in the late 1970s. The proposal was for the Strike Cruiser to be a guided missile attack cruiser with a displacement of around , armed and e ...

* battleship *

United States Army The United States Army (USA) is the primary Land warfare, land service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution.Article II, section 2, clause 1 of th ...

Small arms

* Model 45A * Gyrojet Assault Rifle *Olin/Winchester Salvo Rifle *

Thompson Carbine The Thompson Light Rifle was an attempt by the Auto-Ordnance Company to manufacture a light rifle for the United States Armed Forces. The overall weapon was based on their well proven .45 ACP submachine gun, although the original .30 Carbine cali ...

*Heckler & Koch XM8 *Heckler & Koch

XM29 OICW The XM29 OICW (''Objective Individual Combat Weapon'') was a series of prototypes of a new type of assault rifle that fired 20 mm HE airbursting projectiles. The prototypes were developed as part of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon p ...

Heckler & Koch HK CAWS The Heckler & Koch HK CAWS (Close Assault Weapon System) is a prototype automatic shotgun—designed as a combat shotgun—co-produced by Heckler & Koch and Winchester Repeating Arms Company, Winchester/Olin Corporation, Olin during the 1980s. It ...

Special Purpose Individual Weapon The Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) was a long-running United States Army program to develop, in part, a flechette-firing "rifle", though other concepts were also involved. The concepts continued to be tested under the Future Rifle Progr ...

Heckler & Koch G11 The Heckler & Koch G11 is a non-production prototype assault rifle developed from the late 1960s to the 1980s by ''Gesellschaft für Hülsenlose Gewehrsysteme'' (GSHG) (German for "Association for Caseless Rifle Systems"), a conglomeration of co ...

Armor

Future Combat Systems Future Combat Systems (FCS) was the United States Army's principal modernization program from 2003 to early 2009. Formally launched in 2003, FCS was envisioned to create new brigades equipped with new manned and unmanned vehicles linked by an unpr ...

Artillery

XM2001 Crusader The XM2001 Crusader was to be the United States Army's next-generation self-propelled howitzer (SPH), designed to improve the survivability, lethality, mobility, and effectiveness of the artillery as well as the overall force. It was initially ...

M247 Sergeant York The M247 Sergeant York DIVAD (Division Air Defense) was a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG), developed by Ford Aerospace in the late 1970s. Based on the M48 Patton tank, it replaced the Patton's turret with a new one that featured twin ...

Aviation

AH-56 Cheyenne The Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne is an attack helicopter developed by Lockheed for the United States Army. It rose from the Army's Advanced Aerial Fire Support System (AAFSS) program to field the service's first dedicated attack helicopter. Lockh ...

Boeing Vertol YUH-61 The Boeing Vertol YUH-61 (company designation Model 179) is a twin turbine-engined, medium-lift, military assault/utility helicopter. The YUH-61 was the runner-up in the United States Army Utility Tactical Transport Aircraft System (UTTAS) compe ...

Boeing Vertol XCH-62 The Boeing Vertol XCH-62 (Model 301) was a triple-turbine, heavy-lift helicopter project designed for the United States Army by Boeing Rotorcraft Systems, Boeing Vertol. Approved in 1971, one prototype reached 95% completion before it was cancel ...

* RAH-66 Comanche * Bell ARH-70

Other

Project Iceworm Project Iceworm was a top secret United States Army program of the Cold War, which aimed to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The goal was to install a vast network of nuclear missile launch si ...

United States Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an United States federal executive departments, executive department of the federal government of the United States, U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and superv ...

Project Camelot Project Camelot was the code name of a counterinsurgency study begun by the United States Army in 1964. The full name of the project was Methods for Predicting and Influencing Social Change and Internal War Potential. The project was executed by ...

Yugoslavia

Yugoslav Air Force The Air Force and Air Defence ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздушна одбрана, Ratno vazduhoplovstvo i protivvazdušna odbrana ; abbr. sh-Cyrl-Latn, label=none, separator=/, РВ и ПВ� ...

Novi Avion The Novi Avion (Serbian Cyrillic: Нови Aвион ) was a fourth generation multi-role combat aircraft programme that was to be built by Yugoslav aircraft manufacturer SOKO. The Avion featured a cropped delta- canard configuration and was ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cancelled military projects

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