Car extra small class ZAZ-965. 2008-the year of Reykjavik, the annual auto show antique automobile club of America. Acoountable to the surprise of the audience, the winner of the car class “ultra-retro-compact” became a Soviet car ZAZ-965 “Zaporozhets” from Kiev Alexei Martynenko. Keeping the car from the podium, he immediately established another record by selling it to some American millionaire in 365 thousand euros!
French carrier-based aircraft BREGUET Br.1050 Alize. The need for double decked multi-role aircraft, capable of reconnaissance, and search and destruction of submarines, came the Navy of France with the deployment of the construction of new aircraft carriers. The order for the development of such aircraft placed on firm Breguet, and such a choice of the contractor was not accidental. In 1946 — 1952 Breguet has worked to develop a plane Breguet Br.960 Vultur and its anti-submarine variant VG.962 AM. It is quite logical that the new aircraft began to design on the basis of tested machines.
The biplane I-15 upper wing type “Chaika” was a further development of fighter I-5. The first flight of an aircraft equipped with the engine SGR-1820 F-Z of the company “Wright-Cyclone”, performed by V. Chkalov in 1934, First production vehicles were completed with 480-horsepower engine, M-22, and since 1937 — the M-25 takeoff power 630 HP, the Aircraft was constantly improved. His first option was the I-15bis. different upper wing, located on the scheme parasol.
By the beginning of world war II, Soviet destroyers and leaders in its combat performance characteristics superior to the best ships of the same class built in other countries. Destroyers types of “Angry” and “Watchdog” and leader of the “Leningrad” was armed with 130-mm guns, three -, and four torpedo tubes, and twin anti-aircraft machine-guns had Paravan guardians carried on Board depth charges and mines boom. Power of artillery and volley firing range, these ships had a significant advantage over the latest at the time of the German destroyers series and 2 American style “Bristol”.
In 1921 – 1939 in Leningrad acted Special technical Bureau for military inventions (Sptecbureau), it was headed by engineer V. I. Bekauri. In 1934 in a 1st division Sptecbureau was formed by a group of dedicated submarines. Her first project embodied in the metal, was the midget submarine APSS (aerobody self-propelled projectile), representing odnostolpnoy the boat-the torpedo with a displacement of 8.5 tons. APSS was controlled by radio (VHF and LW) during visual tracking of a plane or ship. There was a possibility and manual control.
Four-passenger aircraft Il-18 was designed at OKB Ilyushin in 1956 4 July 1957 the prototype it with TVD NK-4 first took to the sky. It was designed to carry 75 passengers. In October of the same year Moscow plant № 30 was built the first production Il-18 for 89. In March 1958 completed factory and in August of the same year joint tests in NII VVS. In September, the Il-18A was exhibited at the world exhibition in Brussels, where he received a Gold medal. In the same month, the airliner has successfully completed the state testing.
Little micro-car BMW ISETTA. This has happened more than once. Crest of the economic crisis, the Great depression or the post-war ruin — and instead of the heavy limousine with big motors car company suddenly started to produce a compact and inexpensive cars that are in high demand from impoverished buyers. The result is a miniature sidecar pulled from the verge of bankruptcy that created them, car companies, and they, in turn, pulled out of the crises and the country’s economy.
Four-engine airliner Britannia started to be developed on the instructions issued in 1946, for long-haul flights to the outskirts of the British Empire. Originally it was going to equip with piston engines, but in 1949 they were replaced TVD “Proteus”. The first prototype flew on 16 August 1952 mass production of the Britannia was carried out between September 1954, However, forced landing in Uganda in operational trials in March 1956 delayed the introduction of the aircraft on regular routes. The first flight from London to Johannesburg, the plane made 1 Feb 1957
After her victorious Russo-Japanese war, Japan immediately moved to a new class of naval powers, occupying one of leading places. After the commissioning of the trophies of the Russian fleet was owned by quite an honorable fourth place in the world. But the number greatly exceeded the quality. Especially noticeable is the discrepancy was in the class of cruisers. In 1907, the Navy of the Mikado consisted of 25 units of this class — the number of earned the respect. But they all were outdated. Suffice it to say that the largest and most modern light cruisers was a former “Varyag”, which received a new name — “Soya”. He and his colleagues were a bunch of various ships that were built in all major marine countries. Even played an important role in the battles of the last war armored cruisers in a couple of years moved into the category of “linear” units is not the second but rather the third line.
The victory of the Soviet troops in the forty-second and forty-third years had tipped the scales of war in our favor. The enemy got an object lesson. Failing two consecutive critical operations such as “Typhoon” and “the Citadel”, where the rate was in the tanks, after losing the battle of Stalingrad, in which Soviet armored vehicles went far not last role, the fascist command was forced to seriously attend to the problems of his tank.