“DRAGON” TANK DESTROYER

Question about creating a tank with a missile weapon for the first time raised the Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, V. A. Malyshev at the meeting with representatives of the tank industry on 31 January 1956 in Itself the idea of equipping tanks missiles was not new. Back in the 1930s on the tanks of the BT experiment was set starting devices for large-caliber rockets (RS) during the great Patriotic war base light tank T-60 was used to install reactive systems of volley fire (MLRS); the work was carried out on equipment of heavy tanks KV-1 TO the short tank rocket artillery system (KARST), but it remained at the stage of prototyping. The allies some American tanks “Sherman” had the rockets as secondary weapon. All the tanks weapons missile weapons was to install an unmanaged type RS, ERS-132.

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GAGARIN SUITE

GAGARIN SUITEThis event happened April 12, 1961: a powerful carrier rocket put into orbit a spacecraft “Vostok”, piloted by our compatriot Yuri Gagarin. His name was the synonym for extraordinary heroism and amazing courage. The loud echo of the flight immediately and reached the “shores” of the world of philately. Post offices 25 countries dedicated to Yuri Gagarin about 150 commemorative stamps and blocks.

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“DRAGON” TANK DESTROYER

Designers Uralvagonzavod im. Dzerzhinsky, overcoming many difficulties, has created an entirely new fighting machine of the it-1 was the first domestic tank with high-precision weapons. The tank destroyer was a closed military tracked machine, having a powerful missile weapons, reliable armor protection and high mobility, designed to destroy enemy tanks and other moving and stationary armored targets potential enemy at ranges up to 3 km.

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PEDAL SURFER

PEDAL SURFERThe windsurfer, like any sailboat needs wind. Meanwhile his body-the float if necessary, you can swim in the calm. In the journal “modelist-Konstruktor” once mentioned about using the body in the rowing version, with two-bladed paddle or with a conventional pair of oars (though in the latter case, had to build a removable frame with a seat and two supports under the oarlocks).

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BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT

BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GTToday, Bentley is part of Volkswagen group. That is why many units of the new two-door BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT coupe borrowed from the AUDI A8 and VW PHAETON. In particular the machine is equipped with volkswagenwerk motor W12. The length of such an engine is comparable to row “four”, so the designers managed to place it in the base behind the front axle. It brought the CONTINENTAL GT by weight distribution by Central motor performance.

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