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.
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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.
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.
Spanish car firm Sociedat Espanola de Automoviles de Turismo (SEAT), which translated from Spanish means “Spanish society of cars for tourism”, was founded in 1919 as a branch of the Italian concern FIAT.
“Mal Zolotnik Yes roads” — says a Russian proverb, and this fully can be attributed to the representative of small-artillery — mortar. And roads it is the fact that for over a hundred years a faith and truth serves our artillery. Russian craftsmen have always been famous for their ingenuity, especially in difficult times when we must resist and win. So it was during the Russo-Japanese war 1904 — 1905 years, where it took a simple and effective defensive artillery. Brilliant idea, captain L. N. Kobato realized in the invention “apparatus for artillery fire at close range”. “Apparatus for throwing mines”, including the marine, were designed at that time hastily from scrap materials. They had a small firing range, but strong explosive action. For a century the brainchild of L. N. Kobato has undergone several evolutionary stages and has shown itself in interaction with artillery a formidable weapon, proven in two world and many local wars.