The UTILITY transport AIRCRAFT su-80GP

The UTILITY transport AIRCRAFT su-80GPThe development of aircraft, initially under the designation C-80 OKB. Sukhoi started at the initiative of M. P. Simonov in the early 1990s in the framework of the conversion of the defense industry. Two years later, finally formed the shape of the aircraft as a high-performance vehicle intended for passenger and cargo transportation on domestic routes and is able to replace the outdated machines of similar purpose. The prototype C-80 with the turbo-propeller engine TVD-1500 was calculated to transport 24 passengers or 2500 kg of cargo. However, the domestic TVD the time is not ripe and had to rely on ST7-9V of the company “General electric” (USA). With them the plane could carry up to 26 passengers or 3,500 kg of cargo.

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CAR FOR TRAVELERS

VEHICLE FOR TRAVELCzechoslovakian Tatra-87. The speed of the first car was small, but it seemed like the drivers exciting. However, over time they got a taste of driving fast and have begun to demand from automotive companies all more than the speed of the machine. Designers have increased the capacity and power of engines, reduced friction loss, improved suspension, but soon realized that there is a physical limit to the growth rate of the car.

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CORONADO – HUNDRED YEARS OF EXCELLENT SERVICE IN THE NAVY

CORONADO - HUNDRED YEARS OF EXCELLENT SERVICE IN THE NAVYIn 1774 all of sea power by the thunder of artillery fire had spread sensational news – in England there is a new weapon of incredible destructive power. Of course, there immediately followed the queries: what kind of gun, how it shoots? The British politely and with the proper kind of humor replied that to get acquainted with the new weapon only in combat, but is unlikely to follow this advice, because on received impressions, no one knows…

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CAPTURED TANKS IN THE RED ARMY

CAPTURED TANKS IN RED ARMYUse in the red Army captured German tanks (as, indeed, in the Wehrmacht Soviet) began with the first days of the great Patriotic war. So, on June 27 1941, at the beginning of tank battles in the Rivne — Lutsk — Brody, a movable group of the 8th mechanized corps was captured 13 of serviceable tanks Pz.Kpfw.III and Pz.Kpfw.IV. They decided to use with maximum efficiency — under cover of night to strike at concentrated for morning attack by German units. Penetration into the German tank column was quite successful, as the captured German machines were carrying German markings. Further can be seen in the story of the participant of these fights Hero of the Soviet Union G. Panico: “…I commanded: “Close to the last tank!” We almost rested in his gun. Shot in the tower, and the second time to the tower. He stopped the tank.

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THE FIRST ARMORED WHITE

THE FIRST ARMORED WHITE

Daimler and Benz invented his machines in the nineteenth century, but reliable and widespread means of transport the vehicle was only in the XX-om. Military immediately expressed interest in the new Samode-joushima the wagons, planning to use them for transportation of goods and staff to use for towing artillery and as the chassis for new type of weapons -armored vehicles.

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THE SOVIET “LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS”

SOVIET The state of the Soviet cruise fleet in the early 30-ies of the last century can hardly be described as sad. The last ships of this class light cruisers of “Svetlana” have not been completed. Of the remaining into operation relatively quickly introduced, only one unit in the Baltic and the Black sea — “Red Crimea” and “Chervona Ukraine”, respectively. The third “lucky”, and with a much more interesting shipbuilding fate, became the “Admiral Lazarev”. Ship, ready to 1918, nearly 70%, after the revolution, became the object of various plans. In 1924 the Council of Labor and Defense passed a resolution on the completion of the cruiser with the installation of eight 203-millimetrovogo taken from old ships that are not subject to recovery. However, in the following year, Soviet designers started to create a fundamentally new naval gun. Original it was almost all starting caliber.

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OLD MOSCOW TRAM

OLD MOSCOW TRAM

In the mid 1920’s, during the so-called “new economic policy” (NEP), a gradual recovery of the industry, devastated by the First world and Civil wars. The most rapidly developing industry in Moscow, which became the capital of the USSR. In this regard, the sharply increased load on public transport, in those years, mainly the tram who had to carry passengers from the residential areas of the city to businesses and back.

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TRABANT: FROM HATE TO LOVE

TRABANT FROM HATE TO LOVEIn the middle of 1950-ies to meet a car on the streets of Moscow was not easy. Still, it came across lendlizovskie “Studebaker” and Jimsy, reparation “Opel” and “Jorge” as well as produced in the Eastern zone of Germany copies of the pre-war BMW. And only ubiquitous boys knew that the capital of the USSR had a good look at the different cars you can only have foreign embassies, consulates and missions. The most important exhibition of foreign cars was, of course, the American Embassy, located on Tchaikovsky street (now the street is called Novinsky Boulevard), on the Garden ring. Here, along the long building always stood a row of magnificent cars, however, the Soviet adult pedestrians passing in front of a makeshift exhibition, in order to avoid accusations of cosmopolitanism were not slow of step, and only occasionally “throwing school” at the most attractive brand. Well, the Soviet boys there was nothing to fear, especially that immortal work “imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism,” they have not yet passed. They immediately isolate from saturated with foreign cars series autonovelties and tightly clustered around their Windows, folding palms houses to see the details of the device the cabin once “Plymouth”, “Dodge” or “Cadillac”.

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DEAD BRANCHES: WILL BE GREEN IF A TREE AGAIN?

DEAD BRANCHES: WILL BE GREEN IF A TREE AGAIN?After reviewing long series of projects the reader is already well placed to judge myself about some of the doctrines of the Soviet fleet development-related class cruisers. In brief these can be summarized in couple of words: universality and self-sufficiency. It is not surprising that in seeking to achieve these cornerstones in the end, there appeared a giant among modern missile ships – type “Kirov”. Another branch of “self-sufficient” combat units of the fleet of the Soviet Union became the cruiser-helicopter carrier “Moskva” and “Leningrad”, also very versatile ships. But they turned out to be only an intermediate on the way to the emergence of these monsters hybridization of aircraft carriers.

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