The first all-wheel drive model of the firm Willis was created in 1941 in accordance with the supply contract for the US army light army vehicles of class “quarter-ton”. The SUV, called the Willis-MB, after the war became the prototype of the series of Jeep Wrangler, which they inherited from the predecessor of the army high reliability, Spartan simplicity and ruggedness.
The Yak-130 is designed for replacement of the main UTS of the Russian air force L-39. First flight on a double Yak-130D (“Demonstrator”) with two engines RD-35 took place on 25 April 1996. In the production of Yak-130 established new engines AI-222-25 with a thrust of 2500 kg and designed and implemented a fully digital “Board”. The Yak-130 is equipped with an integrated digital-wire control system allowing, for training purposes, to change its characteristics of stability and controllability, depending on the type of the simulated aircraft.
The first multi-purpose four-wheel drive car with the name HONDA CR-V was released in 1995 and in 11 years of mass production sold in 160 countries with a circulation of 2.5 million copies, becoming the best-selling Japanese car company Honda. By the way, the car is outside the Country of the rising sun — it is released in the United States, Canada, England, Thailand and the Philippines.
Opel Antara 2006 model. The fashion for SUVs-crossovers swept the European car market in the late 1980-ies. Many car companies began a race to create a machine of this type, and only Adam Opel AG has gone the other way. We should remind readers that at the time, but her part of the concern General Motors has also included the Japanese firm Isuzu, who had considerable experience of creating a four-wheel drive multipurpose vehicles. In 1989, Isuzu launched the Rodeo four-wheel drive—this car is called Opel Frontera and began to produce in 1991, the English company of General Motors.
In October 1962, during the armed conflict with China, Indian troops were surrounded. At the end was ammunition and food. It seemed a few days — and the Indians suffer a great defeat. However, this did not happen, to help the troops came air truck An-12, recently mastered the Indian pilots. Thus occurred the first baptism of one of the most famous Soviet military cargo planes.
Latest military aircraft, developed in OKB Mikoyan. Developed on a competitive basis with the Yak-130. Designed to prepare pilots for the fighters of the fourth generation type MiG-29 and su-27. The first flight in the MiG-at with two French engine “Larzac” thrust of 1440 kgf was held in March 1996
The creation of powerful airborne forces in Germany and the Soviet Union did not go unnoticed in the United States, and in February 1941, the Americans commenced their formation. And to provide the paratroopers with the support of armored vehicles, it was decided to develop a light tank weighing not more than 7.5 tonnes can be transported by air. For participation in competition were invited to the Corporation “General motors”, the famous designer George. W. Christie and company “Marmon-Herrington”. The last seemed the most appropriate, and in may 1941 she ordered a prototype light tank under the designation T9. At the same time began the development of the aircraft, able to take on Board this war machine.
All-wheel-drive car BMW X5 2006. Not so long ago we introduced readers to a BMW X5 of the company Bayerische Motoren Werke, first unveiled at the 1999 Detroit auto show. The first in the history of the company four-wheel drive SUV with a distinctive sporty character caused a sensation in the automotive world. However, the producers didn’t call him neither a jeep nor an SUV nor a crossover: BMW X5, they took to the specially designed class of vehicles called SAV (Sports Activity Vehicle), which translated to English means something like “sports-active car”.
The main aircraft for training pilots in the great Patriotic war was the U-2 (Po-2) and produce the resource UTI-4. Double export fighter I-7B, Yak-9 and La-7UTI in flight schools were a rarity — they didn’t even spare regiments, and training pilots on them was expensive. In this regard, in the war years in OKB-115, led by C. A. Yakovlev, began the future development of the Yak-18, which replaced the At-2 as a “school” pilots. However, future air fighters needed the aircraft for training their shooting at air targets and bombing.
Few ocean giants — “Rurik”, Gromoboy and Rossiya, though it presented a menace to navigation “ancestral enemy” — Britain in the case seemed such a possible war, but the scale of such threats were clearly insufficient. Three ships, even very powerful, did not make the weather. Cruisers need to have a lot; this postulate was confirmed by the experience of past wars and the logic has not yet occurred.
