Il-76TD-90VD

Il-76TD-90VDDespite the high performance, engines and avionics of the Il-76 aircraft leave much to be desired. Excessive noise and emission of pollutants to the environment, made it impossible for flights of Il-76 over the border. In this regard, the engines D-30KP replaced with PS-90A-76, reinforced center section and updated equipment. In particular, instead of flight, navigation and sighting complex K-II-76 established “Kupol-III-76M-VD” shown on two multifunction liquid crystal display. Use PS-90A-76 is allowed to increase the capacity of the machine to 2 t, the height of the airfield up to 3000 m above sea level and a range of almost 1,000 km.

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GRANDNEPHEW

GRANDNEPHEWCompact car Polski FIAT 126 p. The present publication, we complete the story of the glorious cohort of Italian runabout, initiated by FIAT-500 Nuova, designed by the famous avtodizayner Dante Giacosa. Ideologically, the car became the successor of pre-war double minicar FIAT-500 Topolino, but structurally, it was a completely different car.

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THE FIRST ALL-METAL, THE LAST TRANSPORT

THE FIRST ALL-METAL, THE LAST TRANSPORTTaking into account the experience of glider landing operations of the allies during the Second world war, the Soviet government also decided to provide for their airborne troops in large gliders capable of carrying heavy weapons. The decision was taken in 1947 By this time, the team of V. K. Gribovsky was already disbanded and specifications for the design of heavy gliders got the design Bureau of A. S. Yakovlev and S. Ilyushin.

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Suzuki JIMNY

Suzuki JIMNYTheir first SUV called the JIMNY Japanese company Suzuki has released in 1968. Utilitarian and inexpensive all-terrain vehicle was used in Japan, good demand, and the company began to improve the car, leaving intact the concept. In 1974, Suzuki has updated the JIMNY seriously, equipping it with two-stroke three-cylinder engine liquid cooling and a new, more spacious four-seater body. In 1977 vnedorozhnik equipped with a “real” four-stroke four-cylinder 41 HP engine, liquid-cooled working volume of 0.8 L.

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“SUPER SABRE” OVERCOMES “THE SOUND”

Supersonic aircraft F100D Super Sabre. During the Korean war, which lasted from 1950 to 1953, in service with the us strike aircraft consisted of jet planes F-86 “saber” (“Sabre”) and the F-94 (“Starfire”) with transonic speeds. These machines served in first line until the mid 1950-ies, when they began to be replaced by new, this time a supersonic aircraft. New generation cars to be called Centuty fighters (fighters of the century) or “acres”, according to their numerical index. First among these has been the aircraft of the company “North American”, which received the designation F-100 “Super sabre”.

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The an-70

An-70The development of military transport aircraft (MTC) An-70 intended to replace the An-12, began in 1986 After seven years of tactical and technical requirements specified, wherein, based on the need to transport a medium tank, the maximum capacity of the machine increased up to 47 T. the Peculiarity of the aircraft were four gas-turbine engine with coaxial propeller-fans and fly-by-wire control system In aircraft design is widely used composite materials. The first flight of the An-70 took place on 16 December 1994 10 February 1995 and the plane crashed. To continue testing built a second model, testing and refinement which is ongoing.

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ARMORED CAR IVECO UNDER THE BRAND NAME “LYNX”

ARMORED CAR IVECO UNDER THE BRAND NAME Cars, army UAZ-29661-vehicle with engine ZMZ-5143 98 HP and an elongated UAZ-2966 motor 9МЗ-4219.1 84 HP, which in the early 2000s were equipped with the Russian army, created on the basis of the famous UAZ-469. By this time they have, to put it mildly, could not meet the increased needs of military units. Therefore military experts had welcomed the new car – GAZ-2975, created by the Gorky automobile plant. It was an army jeep – Russian multipurpose armored terrain under the loud name “Tiger”. Its serial production in 2005 has mastered the Arzamas machine-building plant, where they were received in the Ministry of defence and the Ministry of internal Affairs.

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“MERCENARIES” — NAKED AND IN ARMOR

We have already talked about the fact that the Mediterranean powers, France and Italy after the First world war were almost no modern cruisers scouts that were at the end of battles is absolutely essential class of battle ships. This situation is every year becoming more and more unacceptable. When solving this problem, each country chose its own path. The French began a mass construction of very large superessence that was supposed to be used in the composition of teams and individual attacks, and to repel enemy assaults and for reconnaissance.

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TagAZ TAGER

TagAZ TAGERTo find the roots of the TagAz TAGER SUV, which today issued the Taganrog car factory, will have to go to South Korea in 1950, where the company Hadonghway Motor Company was building license of JEEP car production for the needs of the US Army. In 1984 the company was named Ssang Yong Group. And two years later it merged with the firm Keohwa Motors, releases Korando SUV (analogue should be replaced with the JEEP WRANGLER), and by the end of 1980 organized the release of a jeep, “based on the” GRAND CHEROKEE.

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GAZ-24-95 Volga

GAZ-24-95 VolgaSoviet comfortable SUVs “Moskvich-410” and “Victory” GAZ-M72 was deliberately produced in relatively small batches. The fact that they are mostly intended for party and government leaders regional and district scale. However, another development of the Gorky automobile plant — a comfortable SUV on the basis of “Volga” GAZ-24 — was released in the late 1960s, years of record a small series in five copies. The fact that the customer of this car was the General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev, a passionate hunter, and no less passionate motorist, conspired to obtain for your garage comfortable all-wheel-drive car for use on the hunt.

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