Target Collection (page 5)

Miles M25 Martinet used as a target tug by the Svensk Flygtjae

Turana an Australian target drone
Turana, an Australian target drone

Royal Aircraft Establishment Aerial Target (AT) circa 1924. Date: 1924

Boulton Paul Defiant target tug

The Beech 1013 reconnaissance drone was adapted from the Beech 1001 (US Navy XKDB-1) target drone

Beech XKDB-1 target drone

Radioplane OQ-19A radio-controlled target demonstrated at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, after returning to the ground by parachute

Radioplane OQ-19 radio-controlled target under test at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico

Radioplane TDD radio-controlled target of the US Navy

Radioplane OQ-3 radio-controlled target runs up its launcher at the Mojave, California, Naval Base

Radioplane OQ-3 radio-controlled target

Temco XKDT-1 Teal target drone under the wing of an F3H

Northrop RP-76 rocket-powered target drone in flight

A Northrop RP-76 rocket-powered target drone after launch from a Northrop F-89 Scorpion

Northrop RP-76-4 rocket-powered target drone

Northrop RP-76 rocket-powered target drone

Lockheed Kingfisher supersonic guided target missile

A technician checks over a Lockheed Kingfisher guided missil
A technician checks over a Lockheed Kingfisher supersonic guided target missile at Sunnyvale, California. The missile is without its solid booster. June 1958. Date: 1958

These photographs from the Woomera range in Australia show how an Armstrong Whitworth Seaslug ship-to-air missile destroys its target

English Electric Canberra TT18 WK143
English Electric Canberra TT18, WK143, with a Flight Refuelling multi-flare target

English Electric Canberra U10 target drone WD961
English Electric Canberra U10 target drone, WD961

English Electric Canberra U10 target drone WH733
English Electric Canberra U10 target drone, WH733

Fairey Battle Target Tug prototype L5598
Fairey Battle Target Tug prototype, L5598

Radioplane OQ-19A target drone circa 1947 perches on its 60ft catapult prior to take off

The narrowing target. Illustration shows a woman standing against a wall with many arrows stuck around her; Cupid tells a man standing nearby that he is doing his best. Date 1914 February 14

Chute prochaine de la fille a Target. Print shows a hay wagon driven by a monk behind three horses, la Guerre, la Bangueroute et un Marie Jacobin, who are harassed by Jokais of the constitution

Medieval jousting event, Cornwall
A medieval jousting event taking place in Cornwall, with a large crowd of spectators. A jouster gallops along, aiming his jousting pole at a metal target in the shape of a man. Date: circa 1980s

Crashed RAF aircraft - WWI
A crashed RAF Saulnier monoplane - The Joan of Arc - which brought down the German biplane Albatros at Vaudemanges, France. Date: circa 1915

Rifle Practice
The target is pointed out to a young recruit during rifle practice, Italy. Date: 1929

Poster advertising wartime savings -- Salute the Soldier -- to help support the war effort. The soldier is given a movable arm to indicate the total raised to date. 1940s

Britannia Cunarder 2
Cunard passenger liner which starts the first regular transatlantic mail service; in 1849 she is sold to Germany and ignominiously ends her career sunk as a target ship. Date: launched 1840

Newgate Prison / Photo
Originally the principal west gate of London, Newgate was the target of Elizabeth Frys efforts to improve prison conditions. The exercise yard for condemned men. Date: circa 1900

Double page spread in a diary for 13-18 June
A double page spread in a young persons diary for 13-18 June. Each day is given a small illustration, relating either to the season, or to the anniversary of an historical event

Scene on a shooting range, with collapsed tent
Scene on a shooting range, where men have been doing target practice before the outbreak of the First World War. A gale has blown one of their tents down

Male archers in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Male archers take part in a competition during the annual Naadam Festival in the stadium at Ulaanbaatar (or Ulan Bator), capital of Mongolia

Female archers in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Female archers take part in a competition during the annual Naadam Festival in the stadium at Ulaanbaatar (or Ulan Bator), capital of Mongolia

Patient playing darts, Medical Centre, Hendon
Scene at the Metropolitan Police Medical Centre, Hendon, north west London, showing a patient in dressing gown and pyjamas playing darts in a rest room

Aerial torpedoes designed by an Australian engineer, Mr A Dunbar Wigram. They were expected to revolutionise the methods of modern warfare, by speeding over land and sea with a deadly aim

Men with bows and arrows, Madhya Pradesh, India
A group of native men with bows and arrows in Madhya Pradesh Province, Central India. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Russia - Bayonet Practise for members the Preobrajensky Guard Regiment

German Ultra-Heavy Artillery, Second World War, 1945
Photograph showing British and American soldiers examining some German gun barrels, each 28 yards long, captured in Essen, Germany, 1945

German Explosive Motorboat; Second World War, 1944
Photograph showing a German explosive motorboat being craned into the water, 1944. Controlled by one man, these craft were steered towards the target

Captured Nebelwerfers in Tunisia; Second World War, 1943
Photograph showing Allied soldiers inspecting captured German Nebelwerfer guns in Tunisia, North Africa, 1943. The Nebelwerfer was a six-barrelled mortar on a mobile carriage

Torpedo-shell
A French soldier about to fire a torpedo-shell from a trench-gun. The winged shell kept a straight course and exploded laterally, causing widespread damage to its target

Indian Mutiny, Soldiers
Loyal Indian sepoys at rifle practice

Anarchist Outrages 6
Churches, perceived as symbols of repression and the old regime, are a legitimate target for anarchists : the eglise Saint-Joseph at Paris is victim of a bomb attack

Anarchist Outrages 7
Churches, perceived as symbols of repression and the old regime, are a legitimate target for anarchists : the eglise Saint-Joseph at Paris is victim of a bomb attack

Fire Control Top of an American Warship, 1910
Illustration of an American battleships Fire Control Top, November 1910. In battle, the officers in these elevated positions would pick targets for their gun crews

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