The launching of another ship of the MEKO family of corvettes “Amatola” for the Navy of South Africa — at first glance, were not fraught with anything unusual. Nevertheless, this event, held on 7 June 2002 at the Hamburg shipyard “Blohm und Voss”, attracted attention of specialists from different countries of the world And it was not only that the new draft MEKO-A200 predicted a great future in the international market for naval armaments of the South African Corvette was noteworthy in several respects, clearly describing trends in modern shipbuilding.
SHIPS OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM
We can safely say that the class of the ship ejection of seaplanes was the most short-lived in the history of Soviet aviation. There are many reasons, but chief among them is that in the heyday of ejection aviation fleet of the Soviet Union played a secondary role. In its structure there were only a few ships equipped with ejection systems.
Walter Chrysler, linking his life with autostructure and occupy considerable positions in well-known US companies, dreamed, however, of creating your own car. With the help of three talented designers – Fred Zedera, Owen Skelton and Carl Breera – in 1924 the machine was designed, it meets Chrysler’s ideas about technical perfection and top-class comfort of the vehicle. Vehicle CHRYSLER poluchivshii title 70 was a huge success at the time of the buyers -. More than 300 thousand cars were sold in 1924.
The VW PASSAT sixth generation. As you know, the trade winds — it’s steady air currents in tropical latitudes over the ocean. They say that the strength and consistency of these winds are the reason that family classic German car company Volkswagen was at one time given the name of the wind — PASSAT.
The first American car company Cadillac, founded in 1902, was a machine, practically do not differ from those produced workshops of Henry Ford. However, since 1909 the company went into the part of General Motors, began to produce cars with a more powerful 4-cylinder engines. In the future, the Cadillac firm specialized in the production of the most prestigious and comfortable limousines, and CADILLAC, the brand became a sign of wealth of the owner of the car, the entertainment machine, usually become carriers of new trends in automotive engineering. It is on the limousines CADILLAC introduced the electric starter and electric lighting (1912), V-shaped 8-cylinder engines (1915), dynamic system balancing, crankshaft and brakes on all four wheels (1924), as well as synchronized transmission (1929).
Flying boat Fairchild F-91. This small flying boat designed in 1934 by the American firm Fairchild, was calculated for mass production, but, despite its excellent flight characteristics, she never went into big series. The firm has managed to produce only seven units of the machine. However, the fate of these seaplanes were interesting enough. They had a chance not only to visit most of the continents of the globe, but also to participate in hostilities and, in particular, in the civil war in Spain.
Carrier-based fighter Grumman FF-1. Aircraft manufacturing firm Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation began work with the U.S. Navy in the late 1920-ies First, she collected the floats for seaplanes, and then began to build airplanes in their own projects, trying to use in their designs the most modern technology the First two seaplane G-1 and G-2, the proposed military was intended to perform reconnaissance tasks of the Machine all-metal construction was fitted with a retractable landing gear with a very original mechanism of their release, interested experts from the Bureau of Aeronautics of the Navy (BuAer): they rightly felt it necessary to use it on combat aircraft to reduce drag and increase speed flight, Especially needed in this chassis carrier-based fighter.
During the Second world war in the West, fighters, modified to destroy ground targets, became known as fighter-bombers. After the war they were further developed. This contributed to a widespread adoption of leading aviation powers on a much more expensive jet technology, the emergence of tactical nuclear weapons and the reduction of the fleet of combat aircraft. For nuclear strikes from low altitudes in fighter-bombers practiced bombing kupirovaniya, and cars equipped with special sights In this period, the fighter-bombers became the basis of tactical aircraft of NATO countries.
Hardly anyone would dispute that the twentieth century was for the engineers of gold in the literal and figurative sense. Discoveries and inventions made in those years will be used more by many generations of earthlings, and some of them will be further developed.
We left Britain in the midst of the “great war” as it was called by the British the First world war. Pretty pinched with German “u-bots” merchant fleet. But with huge military, which now has quite a prominent role began to play and the submarine. And the variety: the richest Empire could afford to actively experiment with a new kind of naval forces, which has gradually become almost a favorite.