Military experts, specializing in the use of armored vehicles on the battlefield, is among others one burning question. In military conflicts, in anti-terrorist operations are widely used armored personnel carriers, infantry vehicles, armored cars. Often on the March, the nomination for appointed positions, with participation in the patrol raids, reconnaissance actions on their roofs, the buildings, the sides are soldiers infantry, paratroopers, reconnaissance, preferring the roofs of armored compartments and parlors, the places inside the body. They, not without reason, believe that there is more likely to survive if the car gets into an ambush or a RAID on the mine and will start firing from all sides, or even hit from a grenade. This is especially justified if the movement occurs in an open area. But to find the enemy off the roof easier than using glass or prismatic devices, besides being in a confined space.
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Runabout created in 1957, little known at the time to a wide audience by engineer Alec Issigonis of the British Motor Corporation, justly called a masterpiece of design and autocostruzione. The urgent need for such a vehicle began to be felt in the large cities of great Britain in the mid 1950s due to increased car ownership and lack of space for Parking. That’s why an inexpensive, compact and economical car, capable to drive and Park there, where there is no place for a full-size, could find demand among buyers.
In the early 1950-ies of the countries of Western Europe is flooded with a variety of subcompact cars: Germany — Heinkel-Kabine and Zundap Janus, France — Citroen 2CV, England — Mini, Italy — Bernardo and FIAT-600. Firm FIAT has a considerable experience of creating compact cars, its first mass minicar FIAT-500 Topolino firm produced from 1936 to 1955. The decision to replace FIAT-500 more modern model was adopted in 1951, and since 1955 has begun mass production of the model “600”. Quadruple machine with a total length of 3,215 m was equipped with a 21.5 horsepower engine and a top speed of 95 km/h.
Perhaps the most part, even far from the sea and naval Affairs readers will agree that the word “submarine” the first thing comes to mind is the thought about German. Dark grey body, emerging from the waves and drowning defenseless transport goods or people torpedoes or shoot his target from a cannon. What can you do Germany and its leaders have done much to leave this not very honorable, but terrible mark in both world wars.
This year — 100 years since the birth of S. P. Korolev, the father of the Soviet space program, the outstanding designer of the first artificial satellites and spacecraft, the Creator of Russian strategic missiles. His interest in rocketry could arise even during his studies (he graduated in 1930 Bauman.Bauman), and finally strengthened with the creation of the public organization gird (Hoppy the study of reactive motion), where he developed and tested the first Soviet rocket “gird-9” and “gird-X”.
Not so often we have to meet on city streets the car “coupe” or “convertible”. However, at the dawn of its existence, almost all cars were just that — open, with soft rising tent. In the future, the Foundation of the world fleet amounted to more prestigious and therefore more expensive cars with closed bodies. Well, coupe and cabriolets became the exception and, to the surprise of okaloacoochee the public, again significantly more expensive.
By the end of the XIX century, England was the only major Maritime powers, still ignore one of the major trends in cruise shipbuilding — the desire to cover “workers of the ocean” side armor. Armored cruisers were built all France, almost completely abandon deck protection circuits; Russia, whose armoured giants — “Ryurik”, “Rossiya” and “Thunder” made so much noise in the corridors of the Admiralty that he had heard “shipbuilding vassal” Britain — Italy. Appeared the ships of this class and the ocean, in the United States. And is rapidly gaining speed in a race war at sea Germany has laid a powerful and well protected combat units.
Multi-purpose helicopter Ka-26 made according to the coaxial scheme with two-keel plumage in the form of a flying chassis. Two engines placed in nacelles on the sides of the fuselage. The pilot is in a separate cabin and payload — in removable modules. The passenger module is designed for six people. In the agricultural version of suspended hopper for chemicals (900 kg) and accessories for spraying.
Accumulated by the end of 1950-x years experience of operation of the first anti-aircraft missile systems has shown that to combat low-flying targets they were of little use With great clarity evident when experiments began to overcome air defense systems aircraft at low altitude In this regard, several countries started research and development of compact low-altitude anti-aircraft missiles (SAMS), is intended to cover both stationary and moving objects. Requirements, device to them in different armies was in many respects similar, but, first and foremost, they equally argued that SAM should be completely automated and compact, to accommodate more than two cars of high passability (otherwise they deployed is unacceptably high).
To develop a single-rotor Mi-2 helicopter with two turboshaft engines, designed to replace Mi-1, launched in 1960, its First flight took place in September 1961 Serial production began in 1963 in Poland at the PZL Swidnik factory and lasted until 1992 Only built more than 5250 helicopters. Mi-2 can accommodate eight passengers or four stretcher patients and accompanying persons, and on an external sling carries a weight of 800 kg. On the basis of Mi-2 created more than 20 models, including military.