“ALBATROSS” OF THE 1930S

The weakness of the Navy of the USSR in the prewar years, tried to compensate by creating flying cruisers – multi-engined and heavily armed seaplane, able to deal with both surface and underwater ships, ground targets, and engage in mine production. As a result, in July 1931, the air force issued TSAGI reference for the development of seaplane MK-1 (ANT-22) with a lifting capacity of six tons. The plane had to fly at a speed of 300 km/h and have a radius of 1000 km. the Defensive armament was raised from four to five machine guns and two or three guns.

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SWEDISH MAIN BATTLE TANK

THE SWEDISH MAIN BATTLE TANK

After world war II in tank to establish a relatively strict classification. Steel tanks called armored combat vehicle on tracks with a cannon placed in a rotating turret. Self-propelled artillery installations (SAU) was called artillery on self-propelled chassis. Assault guns -well armored self-propelled gun on the base of the tank for direct infantry support and suppression of enemy tanks.

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THE LAST CAR ENZO FERRARI

THE LAST CAR ENZO FERRARI

SNCO Ferrari, the famous racing driver and sports car designer, was born in 1898 in the Italian city of Modena. By the will of Providence was the same age as the car, Enzo already in his youth became a great racing driver. After the First world war, he entered the famous team of riders firm CMN, and in 1920, Ferrari was invited to head the racing team of the famous car company Аlfа Romeo, making him also the functions of the racing driver and driver-tester.

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SIBERIAN ROCKET

SIBERIAN ROCKET PLANE

In the circles of rocketmodeler name V. Menshikov known. Honored master of sports, two-time world champion, repeated champion of the USSR and Russia — this is not a complete list of achievements of athletes from the Siberian town of Urai. A memorial was V. Menshikov and the last sports year. He became the champion of Russia and prize-winner of the world championship in the class of models 84В. I believe readers will be interested to meet his sporting “weapon” — rocket glider.

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ON TOP BEFORE THE FALL

AT THE TOP BEFORE THE FALLA clear success with the development of missile cruisers of the “terrible”, in fact, the rocket ships of a new type, clearly required further development. However, before the “continuation of the Banquet” was a significant obstacle. We already talked about the fact that originally it was planned to build ten units, but the program rolled out to four. To a large extent this was due to the change in the direction of shipbuilding. Among the big surface ships in the first place came the anti-submarine cruiser, in fact a helicopter. In the absence of aircraft carriers even modest-sized “Moscow” and “Leningrad” at once were among the most valuable combat units. Of course, require additional care.

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“SOYUZ” SPACE SURVIVOR

April 23, 1968 carrier rocket 11А511 was launched into orbit a new spacecraft 7K-OK, called the “Union”. The ship was piloted by pilot-cosmonaut, hero of the Soviet Union Vladimir Komarov. During the flight revealed a lot of failures due to the imperfections of design, what was the reason for the reduction program. On April 24th, during the descent from orbit, the crash occurred — refused recovery system of the lander. He was broken from hitting the ground, and an astronaut, unfortunately, died. It was the first victim of manned spaceflight.

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ARMORED CAR USA HUMMER

ARMORED CAR USA HUMMERAfter the First world war, the car confidently entered the arsenals of all armies, effectively replacing cavalry units and horse-drawn vehicles at the same time with the advantages of this type of technology was evident his shortcomings. So. military all over the world started talking about the unification of the army fleet. They wanted to have a universal chassis capable of small alterations to carry infantry units, may be used as a machine gun car, serve the mobile radio, light or sanitary staff van, towing artillery and chassis for armored car.

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FLYING FORTRESS TUPOLEV

FLYING FORTRESS.During the Second world war, 15 oil refineries of Romania gave Germany more than 7% of petroleum products supplied dependent countries and satellites. The aircraft long-range and frontline aviation periodically attacked the oil-bearing regions of Romania. However, the transportation artery connecting them with the port of Constanta, continued to operate. The most vulnerable were considered section of the pipeline laid on the bottom tier of Chernovetskogo bridge over the Danube river.

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Be-30 – “AIR BUS” BERIEV

A passenger plane Be-30 was created at a difficult time for headed by Gurbanguly Believin design office time. The euphoria associated with the development of rocket technology led to the fact that the main customer in the face of the Ministry of defence has sharply reduced the development of new aviation technology in General and seaplanes in particular. The staff of the Taganrog machine-building plant (that then became known as OKB G. M. Beriev) had to look for the use of their forces and to try myself in new areas. It was decided to participate in the creation of machines to replace the mass, but by that time, already obsolete aircraft of local airlines An-2. This plane (the future of An-28) has also began to design at OKB O. K. Antonov.

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