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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THE THIRD REVIVAL

THE THIRD REBIRTHCar FIАТ-500 issue 2007. The legend of the Phoenix bird burns itself in old age and is reborn from the ashes in an updated form, originated in ancient times, however, it is perfectly suited famous Italian car FIАТ-500, which has recently experienced its third revival.

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OVERSEAS THE CONCEPT OF “LIGHTNESS”

OVERSEAS, THE CONCEPT OF Admirals of the United States of America long resisted the emergence in its fleet of light cruisers, preferring the beloved “Washington” class. End to the resistance put by the London naval Treaty, limitirovanie not only limit the size of ships of different classes, but the total capacity allocated for each class. Although the Americans became happy owners of the largest quotas for heavy cruisers — 18 units, but almost all of it was already selected. There was nothing left to do but go to build a less ambitious units, weapons which could not exceed the caliber of 155 mm.

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FLYING CRUISER K-7

K-7 is a Soviet multi-purpose aircraft pilot-giant design Bureau K. A. Kalinin. Was developed in the early 1930-ies, using original engineering solutions, new technologies and materials. Passed flight tests in 1933, however, in connection with the identified deficiencies in the design, and the disaster of the first produced aircraft, the test failed. In 1935, in Read more…