Enlisting in the First world war, the warring countries have moved from a flat ground-water surface warfare in three-dimensional space: clumsy aircraft, recently entertained the public at fairs began to turn into a formidable fighting machine. While “under the gun” was supplied all flying equipment — including lighter-than-air: balloons became the eyes of the army and Navy, but better airships turned into bombers.
The command of the Bundeswehr started the revival of its airborne forces in the late 1950s, However, as in the days of the Wehrmacht, look at VDV was still as highly mobile light infantry without any means of “motorization”, not to mention the armor.
Guided missile “air — air” RS-1-U. In the late 1940-ies the main Soviet fighter-interceptor was an aircraft cannon. They can be used effectively to strike aircraft at distances not exceeding a few hundred meters. However, the rapid development of combat aircraft, the advent of nuclear weapons demanded that the fighters qualitatively new possibilities.
The Crimean war clearly demonstrated the decisive superiority of steam ships over sailing. However, in tactical and in strategic terms, the role of the fleet has not changed. Admirals still believed that fighting at sea can be won only through a General engagement of the opposing squadrons. It took another war, this time civil, in order to understand how the situation could change if the idea of war cruising on the ocean trade routes.
Resolution of the State Defense Committee (GKO) on the seventh of May 1944 No. 5822 by the Red Army was adopted 100-mm field gun of the sample of 1944 with the assigned name of the BS-3. Among domestic ground forces artillery systems wartime weapon has a special status, defined in terms of “first” and “only” a number of technical and historical circumstances. BS-3 – the most powerful anti-tank gun of World War II.
Mercedes-Benz S-Class 2005 issue. Increased attention okoloavtomobilnoy public to high-end machines are difficult to explain from the perspective of common sense, as these luxury limousines can not be evaluated in terms of practicality. But with the addition of the terms “most-most” – the most comfortable, the most expensive, most powerful, fastest – they are difficult to apply. After all, there will always be faster sports cars, cars from kutyure – expensive limousines and pokomfortabelnee.
Designers and military experts, given the agile nature of modern warfare, and sought ways of creating machines that are able to provide diverse requirements and similar equipment.
About the British car firm Jaguar have seriously started talking after the creation of its sports car JAGUAR XK-120 with 6-cylinder engine capacity of 160 HP, which was first unveiled at the London motor show in 1949. A year later, the company released a luxury car JAGUAR Mk-V has become one of the most prestigious in the UK.
the First British battleship “warrior” with his appearance in 1861 changed naval “table of ranks” in the most radical way. He and other armored frigates suddenly swept from the stage as the wooden ships of the line, and although armed with powerful artillery, but unprotected counterparts. Typical of the cruiser, in fact, become the new battleships. It is not surprising that the designers soon had the idea to do the same operation with units of smaller size.
In December 1921 on the initiative of a group Krasnotsvetov (so called in those years, military pilots of the red Army) — the staff of the research version of the Air fleet was organized the first Soviet club “Soaring flight”. Among the most active of its members were B. I. Cheranovskii.