While the British Admiralty systematically extinguished the enthusiasm of its inventors-“submariners” in former British overseas colonies, and now the most economically powerful nation in the world, energetic engineers to continue their experiments. And, in the end, the United States has become the birthplace of real submarines, suitable not only for experimentation and advertising “horror stories” in the spirit of sir Basil Zaharov, but also for combat use.
Passenger aircraft DC-2 and DC-3, developed by the designers of the American company “Douglas” in the middle 1930s was extremely successful, was built in large numbers and spread throughout the world. But made on the basis of their bombers is not known by the time of the US entry into the Second world war has practically disappeared from combat units. But first they had high hopes…
The Shorland armored car (“Shoreland”) – joint development of Irish firms of Short Brothers and Harland (“Short Bros & Harland”) by order issued in 1961 Royal police force of Northern Ireland. According to the requirements of the armored car should be very simple, and its development is minimal time.
Readers of the older generation, of course, well remember during the last war. Autumn impassability of roads, forty-one, broken tracks and wheels, smeshannye thousands of feet, frontage roads pitted with craters-graders. And the impotence of the machinery such enduring and seemingly unpretentious trucks and trentodoc, mounted, “on diver” every two hundred metres. In those years in off-road conditions clearly emerged (and later confirmed repeatedly) that designers of transport equipment, not forgetting about the usual machines adapted for movement on the road, you need to pay more attention to the all-terrain vehicles. The country needed a wheeled all-terrain vehicles, combining the speed of “normal” and indifference to road conditions tracked vehicles.
Under the Versailles peace Treaty, Germany until the early 1930s did not produce armored vehicles, and only in 1932 the firm “Daimler-Benz” has started the production for the army of light biaxial armored car Kfz. 13 and Kfz. 14 machine – gun and communication, weighing just over 2 tons They were created on the chassis of the machine, “Adler DDG” (Adler 3Gd) engine 60 HP, had an open top body of the 8-mm plates and armed with a 7.92 mm MG13 machine guns mounted in the middle of the body behind armored shields. Their crew consisted of two or three people.
Came to the end of the Second world war, however, to stop the developing course of the military “machine” was not easy. The fighting was over, however, the industry is yesterday’s allies continued to produce military equipment and to create new types of weapons. One of the reasons for this were civil and national-liberation war in East and South-East Asia, generously sponsored by on the one hand the United States of America, and on the other by the Soviet Union. While testing a testing ground for the warring parties supply of military equipment were Korea and Vietnam.
The first post-war years were marked by the aircraft industry in the rapid development of jet technology. To increase the thrust of gas turbine engines, their efficiency and, most importantly, reliability has allowed us to start building the first jet Airliners. Their success, despite a number of mysterious, at first glance, the disaster was huge, and overcome the “sound barrier” military aircraft and even gave rise to the opinion that passenger planes may have to fly faster than sound. Of course, there be willing to create such a machine, and on paper they all turned out smoothly. It seemed sufficient to reduce the specific fuel consumption of the engine and increased to the necessary level of aerodynamic quality of the airframe, and aircraft, and competitive – ready. However, the reality was much more complicated.
With the beginning of car production appeared a clear division of these vehicles-freight and passenger. However, Americans are farmers or those engaged in small business – I needed a versatile machine, combining the qualities of the first and second. And they began to trim the cars body rear end and instead install a cargo platform. The initiative quickly picked up the industry by launching the serial production of vans modification called “pickup”. The main manufacturers of such machines in the US have the largest car company -Chevrolet and FORD.
It is believed that his first sortie in world war II Corsair fighter made on 12 February 1943. On this day a dozen of these aircraft from squadron VMF-124 arrived at Henderson airfield and immediately engaged in military work. Twice the aircraft rose into the air to accompany the group patrol bomber PB4Y-2 Privateer, which struck at Japanese ships. Both departure went smoothly thanks to the fact that the Japanese aviation special activity did not show.
The history of “picaporte” in our country, opened the car GAZ-4 with a lifting capacity 0,5 t, launched the series in 1933. The development of machine production did not require much cost: it was only during that time a serial domestic passenger car GAZ-A, equipped with standard twin cabin from the lorry GAS-AA with a metal loading platform with dimensions 1,6×1,1 m, with a folding wooden benches for six passengers.