“…In the snow two wide pits. In the middle of their wooden houses to install guns the muzzles up. Log cabins are easy to rotate and allow you to hit a flying airplane” — says in “Notes from the war,” the writer Valentin Kataev.
Sports BMW M5 super-sedan release in 2004. Sports BMW M5 super-sedan release in 2004. Among car owners can always find many of those who have gambling, sports in nature — they prefer cars with ordinary appearance hides a family car racing car. For the first time the beauty of owning such a supercar has been brilliantly described in the novel by Erich Maria Remarque “Three comrades”, whose protagonists are equipped with a racing car the most common, is not a racing body. “Charles — Ghost highway” that could develop a top speed of 200 km/h, was on the German autobahn out of the competition…
It is well known that warships is not only a means of waging war at sea. And in peacetime the Navy has to solve a wide range of tasks — carry out protection of territorial waters to combat violators of the state border, to carry out diplomatic missions, to “show the flag” and demonstrate the power of his country in “hot spots” of the planet.
In 1921 pyatnadcatiletnij student Alexander Yakovlev read a book on the history of technology. In one of the chapters talked about the emergence of aviation, there was a model description of the airframe and was given his scheme. And here’s the apartment… turned into a workshop. Smells like glue, the floor littered with shavings and scraps of paper. No games, walks, entertainment. More than a month was built by Alexander of thin pine planks, obtiva them with paper and fastening with nails and glue glider model.
The cold war, which lasted for several decades, was one of the most devastating in the history of mankind. Huge forces and means were involved in research and development of high-tech weapons, which was to deprive the enemy of the chance to win.
It is natural that interest to the transport plane, superior in its basic parameters of Li-2, has long mastered the air force showed the military. March 11, 1947 issued a decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, OKB-240 was instructed to build on the basis of passenger Il-12 and transfer in July 1947, the state tests a troop transport plane with the specified characteristics (see table).
This car’s coefficient of drag to 0.32, a compact engine with a power of 250 HP and all wheel drive! In addition, the car comes with a DSG transmission, consisting of two automated manual transmission, each of which has its own clutch. This box (it is called double clutch) allows you to transfer the power flow from the engine to the wheels without interruption during the switching.
At first glance, this car is a standard “bug” — it only seems unusual advertising coloring. However, a closer look, you can find red and blue machines are a lot of differences from the original prototype. Moreover, from this “Bug” replicar was only a platform, the rear lights and rear side Windows. Everything else had to do it again, or to borrow machines from other brands in accordance with the style of the car body of the prototype.
The first phase of the German tank building is well known to the reader — it covers the period of the First world war ends 1918. In the description of subsequent phases usually just jump in 1933 in Nazi Germany Might get the impression that between 1918 and 1933 the Germans were not engaged tanks. However, they do the job, the Treaty of Versailles prohibited, just not advertise it. It was in those years was created by a “gross-tractor” — the most interesting of the German war machine 1920-ies.
This is one of the photos since the beginning of the great Patriotic war. Comments can be found in the diaries of the chief of the General staff of the Wehrmacht F. Halder, who noted: “Autumn, and especially winter 1941, unkind met part of the Wehrmacht. Difficulties with the supply of led motorized units in the disabled state, adversely impact on their mobility. Impassable mud were forced to stop even tracked vehicles”. The inability of the automotive transport in these conditions has sharply raised the value of animal-drawn transport in the German army.