By the mid 80-ies of XX century, the naval experts of the countries of the West had no doubt that the most advanced class of surface ships in the foreseeable future will remain the frigates. These versatile ships-rocket carriers have been very numerous in the seas and oceans under the flags of different countries at the time, swam at least 350 frigates, and their “population” continued to rise steadily. They actually replaced the cruisers and destroyers in most countries of the world, becoming the largest combat units in their fleets. Of course, the attitude towards them has changed: the design and construction of the frigate now began to approach more carefully, trying to avoid the rush and the use of untested solutions.
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He was born in the terrible days of August, forty-one. It was created for combat and was ready to fight. Fast, agile, and with powerful small arms and rocket weapons, finally, sheltered armor — that was this aircraft, attack with the index of the su-6, logical conclusion of a long search KB Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi.
The first Soviet Executive car was created in 1936 at the Moscow plant named after Stalin a team of designers under the direction of E. Vazhinsky. It was the ZIS-101 — seven-seater limousine, designed on the model of American car BUICK EIGHT. The following domestic Executive car was the ZIS-110, developed on the basis again of the American PACKARD 180 and the BUICK LIMITED and its modification armored ZIS-115.
The period between the two world wars represents a considerable interest to historians of technology, and first equipment of aviation. The aircraft of this time, the construction of which has absorbed the existing scientific, technical and technological achievements, remained nevertheless the bearers of the greatest characteristics of the airplanes of the First world war.
All fighter planes, created in OKB A. S. Yakovlev in the years of the great Patriotic war, represent a further development of the Yak-1. Continuous improvement of this machine led to the emergence of “sub-species”, which closed the Yak-9U with the engine VK-107A.
Mass Soviet car VAZ-2101. In the early postwar years the car fleet in the country has increased dramatically this occurred both at the expense of production of cars “Moskvich-400” and “Victory” M-20, and because of the reparation receipts of vehicles from defeated Germany. In the country for the first time appeared quite a large number of cars in private use of citizens. And the more familiar Soviet people with the pleasures of owning a car, the more it became a circle wishing to possess this miracle of technology.
Flight tests of the “Skimmer Zimmerman” was still in full swing, and BuAir has developed a specification for carrier-based fighter based on this unusual aircraft. In September received an order for two prototypes of the fighter.
The first car with this name was established in 1914 by Lionel Martin and Robert Bamperbol — owners of the workshop in the London district of Kensington. A number of cars of sports type, in 1924, the company was on the verge of bankruptcy, and 5,000 pounds was purchased by the engineer V. Renwick. Creating a good 1.5-liter engine with overhead camshaft, new head of the firm and its companion A. Bertelli made him the main for ASTON MARTIN until 1936.
BMW 1 series new car-class Golf. When in 1974, the company Volkswagen has released a compact front wheel drive VW GOLF, it was hard to imagine that this tiny three-door hatchback small class, the exterior of which was designed by the great Italian designer Giorgetto Giugiaro, will be the founder of a giant class of vehicles, called by the name of the very first “Golf course”. The reason for this was the tremendous popularity of cars in this class — for the first nine years of production of the VW GOLF they were released 6.8 million copies.
In 1951 the Board of FIAT at one of their meetings decided to replace produced from 1936 compact car TOPOLINO (“little mouse”) is more modern and comfortable machine. In the postwar years, the need of the population of Italy in an affordable and easy means of transport were enormous. At the same meeting were identified and the main characteristics of a compact car: speed over 85 km/h, with a capacity for 4 persons.