When February 10, 1904 Japan officially declared war on Russia, first shots have already sounded: the Russian ships were suddenly attacked at Port Arthur and Chemulpo neutral. Initial successes provided the insidious attack that has caused some neglect to a completely new and, at that time still very primitive tool like submarines. Contributed messages agents. So, the captain of 1 rank Kaburagi reported the results of its mandated mission – to see the small submarines. Designed for deployment on ships, in these terms: “Personally inspected submarines; consider them to be quackery and absolutely not fit for fighting”. However, this opinion is quite clear: it refers to the miniature submarines.
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In fact, it all started with the bike. Or rather, since that day in the small town of Mlada Boleslav in the North-East of the Czech Republic released a Bicycle equipped with a small engine. To us, the current owners of mopeds, motorcycles and cars, became a little clearer as to why an ordinary phenomenon gave impetus to our conversation, explain that it was at the end of the last century, at the dawn of the automotive industry.
Family compact MPV OPEL MERIVA. One of the most promising directions in the production program of the German company Adam Opel AG will be in a future edition of one-volume cars. And it’s quite reasonable — today, a growing number of Europeans buy such cars as a family car. Judge for yourself: if in 2002 the share of such cars in Europe amounted to 1.2 million copies (or 7.7%), for 2007, marketers are predicting that increase to 2.3 million copies (13%).
Universal multipurpose coaxial helicopter Ka-226 can be used in the transport, medical, agricultural and patrol variants. The multiplicity of application is provided not by modifying the model, and directly to the same specific machine — a large set of easy-to-assemble equipment installed on the fuselage of the machine, which acts as a universal base.
A regular bus service in Moscow was opened in August 1924. Then the Russian plants has not yet produced buses – the capital had to be bought abroad. In 1938 the car plant in Moscow has rolled out new bus ZIS-16, which is its streamlined shape is strikingly different from its predecessors. The bus is equipped with tires of high load capacity and brakes with vacuum booster. And to make the bus more smoothly, the front suspension used the shock absorbers of bilateral action.
The first flight of the new military troop transport helicopter, which later received the name Mi-24, was held on 15 September 1969, and in 1970, began its mass production. In the military machine became available in 1973. In the 70-ies of the Mi-24 was the fastest helicopter in the world — on one of its options was an absolute record of speed of 367 km/h.
The replacement of the ZIS-154 was simpler to manufacture, but less capacious 8-foot ZIS-155 (June 26, 1956-ZIL-155), the design which used the elements of the body of the ZIS-154, and assemblies of the truck ZIS-150.
No prior war had given such a diverse experience of sea action as the first world. Never before has combat experience has not been studied so carefully. And never before this experience is not done the conclusions so contradictory.
When in 1947 the head of the laboratory helicopteros Department of TSAGI Mikhail mil proposed for consideration of the interdepartmental Commission on development of the helicopter in the USSR, his project single-rotor helicopter GM-1, the Commission’s decision was clear: to instruct the M. L. Mile the development of the said helicopter with special education KB. And on December 12 of the same year the USSR Council of Ministers issued the corresponding decree on creation of OKB’s helikopterservice; its chief designer was appointed M. L. Miles.
Far from the flares in Europe, the war, even the Americans in 1940 still did not think about creating your own escort destroyers. They continued to build its “big fleet”, which included a huge number of destroyers: believed that these versatile ships will be able to solve all the problems. As for specialized anti-submarine defense forces, have refused them for financial reasons: inexperienced designers managed to create a kind of “miracle of technology”, which had a displacement of just 775 tonnes, but that cost almost as much as a full 1850-ton destroyer of the “Benson”-“Glows”! It is not surprising that the squadron destroyers and favored.
