Unlike Britain, the United States emerged from the Second world war, not only without any significant losses in the cruising part, but, on the contrary, with a fair surplus. Despite the immediate curtailment of the shipbuilding programme as soon as dawned the signs of victory over Japan, is ready and dostraivaniya units would be enough for the postwar fleets around the world. Accordingly, the question arose: what to do with all this “good”? For the confrontation with the Soviet Union with the stock was missing half of it, but to scrap is really quite advanced ship the hand wasn’t raised. Had to try to integrate them into a new world and new realities. Here, task number one was equipping them with modern weapons – missile.
CRUISER UNDER THE “TRIDENT MISSILE”
An important component of the armored weapons of the red Army during the great Patriotic war was self-propelled artillery. As you know, the red Army did the heavy (SU-152, ISU-152 and ISU-122), medium (SU-122, SU-85 and SU-100) and light (SU-76 and SU-76M) self-propelled guns. The process of creating the latter was launched on 3 March 1942 after the formation of the special Bureau of self-propelled artillery. It was created on the basis of the 2nd Department of the NKTP (engineering), chief of which S. Ginsburg A., on starting from September, 1941, put forward proposals for an assault and anti-aircraft self-propelled gun on the basis of outdated and light tanks.
Modelist-KONSTRUKTOR No. 3, 2012.
Luxury car ZIS-101. In the early 1930-ies in the Soviet Union there is an urgent need in an Executive car of a domestic production. The fact that pautinopodobnoj elite in the Soviet Union cars were not issued a Soviet-American trading company Amtorg had regularly purchasing not cheap cars Buick and Packard.
