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PZL M-19 Very surprised @eswube never produced these, but here are PZL's designs to bring the Piper Pa-35 Pocono to market as the airliner it should have become. https://i.imgur.com/58qpIxa.png As Piper's partner in Eastern Europe, PZL saw the potential of the Pocono design and were willing to ...

Tried posting into the brief window that the original forum came back, but that posting was lost in the move. Trying again now things seem to be stable again :) Piper PA-35 Pocono One of Piper's largely forgotten models, their first attempt to move out from the light aircraft market into the small ...

Writing On The Wall The attack on Khorasan dealt a deathblow to any Iranian hope of a positive outcome to the developing conflict. The Shah ordered a meeting with his general staff and government ministers, and in fury blamed them for the poor performance of the Iranian military. General Arfa did ...

Polikapov I-16 I found the I-16 selection in the archive was a little bland, so here is a collection of some of the more interesting colur schemes and major subtypes. https://i.imgur.com/7afQBnk.png The I-16 was the fourth aircraft produced by the GAZ-39 factory at Khodynka, so the first production ...

Soviet Invasion Of Khorasan While the Soviets had attacked along their western border with Iran, their eastern border had remained silent. No orders had been received from Tehran, but the commanders of the Iranian 9th and 10th Divisions had taken proactive steps to protect their areas of ...

reytuerto wrote: ↑July 3rd, 2024, 1:46 pm Very nice drawings!

Thanks buddy. Unfortunately as my project has been running for so long I've got a big backlog of unposted machines, I'd drawn up both Soviet types before youd made your versions.

British Position While Soviet troops were pouring virtually unopposed in to northwestern Iran on the 9th September, British forces were were having a much harder time in the southwest. The armoured thrust towards Kermanshah through the Paitak Pass had bogged down due to stiff resistance from the ...

Ilyushin Il-4 "Bob" The Ilyushin IL-4 started life as a major upgrade to the DB-3 planned in 1938. https://i.imgur.com/8xDn3Ox.png While outwardly similar to the DB-3, the new model was a complete redesign, incorporating the new constuction methodologies of Douglas in the USA. This meant the new DB ...

Bandar-e Pahlavi Before the sun rose on the morning of the 10th the Caspian Sea Flotilla commenced bombarding Bandar-e Pahlavi, while the Iranian artillery returned fire with their 75mm field guns. With dawn the naval bombardment stopped and Soviet bombers arrived overhead. The Iranian artillery ...

Tehran News of the Soviet assault caused consternation in both Tehran and London. Britain considered their advance into southwestern Iran as no more than a “policing action” to protect vital British assets. The reports of the size of the Soviet forces however, made it clear than their intentions wer ...