MERCEDES-BENZ SLK 230

MERCEDES-BENZ SLK 230Double sports cars in Western Europe are sold annually about 100 thousand. A significant share of this market sector since 1996, holds MERCEDES-BENZ model SLK (abbreviation from the German words “sport”, “lightweight”, “compact”), the Main difference from competitors — a unique mechanism of folding metal roof. The actuator raises or lowers it for only 25 seconds. A significant drawback of the car is a small useful volume of the trunk when there’s a hidden roof.

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’95 FORD EXPLORER

95 FORD EXPLOREREvery year in the U.S., sold to 450 thousand SUVs this model, which gives reason to talk about him as “popular” American jeep. The growing popularity of this car in Russia. The first FORD EXPLORER came into the family Ford models in 1990, but in 1995 it underwent a major modernization, which was largely in the improvement of the exterior, replacement of rigid front axle with leaf springs on the independent suspension and the failure of conventional u-joints in favor of the CV joints in front wheel drive.

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“REICHENBERG” — A PLANE FOR THE GERMAN BOMBERS

In 1943 the situation of the Reich was not yet threatening: the front was far from his borders, and the Wehrmacht, with varying success, was fighting on foreign soil. However those soldiers who were not completely affected by Nazi propaganda, knew that in order to save Germany from defeat, you must not only defeat the Soviet Union, but also to keep the allies from being thrown across the channel and thus prevent the danger of opening a second front. These officers understood that when the level of development of science and technology only the projectile, a person giving a guarantee of reliable defeats the purpose. There is therefore nothing surprising in the fact that the group of senior officers of the Luftwaffe, the idea was to create a unit manned flying bombs, capable of finding and hitting any important target, especially the heavy ships of the allies preparing for the invasion.

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PORSCHE CARRERA GT

PORSCHE CARRERA GTThe first car brand PORSCHE 356, released on 8 June 1948, was a two-seat Roadster created using components and assemblies of the legendary “Beetle”. And in 1951 started his career as a sports PORSCHE with a 44-strong engine working volume of 1100 cm3, which developed a speed of 160 km/h.

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“DESTROYERS” AND “SHREDDERS”

The end of the First world war and the subsequent Washington agreement significantly changed the situation in world shipbuilding. The moratorium on new capital ships led to the fact that in the hierarchy of the military fleets of space battleships in some way took heavy cruisers, and the cruisers — destroyers. This sposobstvoval and objective process of evolution of the torpedo class ships. The destroyers and especially the leaders by the time it is grown — both in size and in a circle of solved tasks — until the armored cruisers of twenty years ago. For many countries in the “second tier” that the destroyers were the biggest and powerful fighting units in their fleets.

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The Yak-30 (USSR)

Yak-30 (USSR)Designing a training jet aircraft Yak-30 began in the Yakovlev design Bureau in 1957, In 1960 it was built two prototypes, which were tested from may 1960 to March 1961, there were performed 82 flight a total duration of 43 hours 36 mins No difficulties in the operation of the airplane and engine did not arise.

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