KB BOYS

CB BOYSAll familiar with the childhood desire to ride, any kid wants to sit in the cockpit of a car and “steer”. Teenagers make the most unbelievable truck on the bearings and the rattling roll downhill on asphalt. And imagine the anxious excitement with which the boy first gets behind the wheel. The car started moving; he feels like a pioneer!..

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ROVER-CLIMBER

THE ATV-CLIMBEREvery time lugging bulky geophysical equipment on mountain glaciers, I wanted a jeep. Finally it was received. And here we tracked the car-amphibians against snow-capped mountains… revved the motor and the machine, lost in the snow at the cabin, moved slowly. Ahead was the forehead of the glacier. Pretty flat for Hiking standards: degree fifteen. But the driver knew that the snow he did not take, and took the car sideways. In the middle of the forehead jumped out the caterpillar.

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LIGHT TANK “GENERAL CHAFFEE”

LIGHT TANK At the end of 1942 armored division of the US army on the state was a third armed light tanks M3/M5 “Stuart”. The weakness of their reservation and weapons quickly revealed in November, when American armored units in North Africa for the first time joined the battle with units of the Panzerwaffe: the fighting machine was completely powerless against medium German tanks.

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FOR SHOOTING IN THE DARK

FOR SHOOTING IN THE DARKIt seems that in our country starts to revive the system of renting household appliances. Hence, people with modest incomes the opportunity to use, say, digital photo and video equipment, previously inaccessible because of its cost. But if there is a technique Kodak, Sony or other well-known firms, whether to restrain themselves in the quest to understand: what is it so prized?!

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“INDUKTSIONNYI” IN THE CAR

Among the variety of non-contact sensors are the most attractive for developers of motor vehicles, including improvised, turned out to be induction (or generator) — unpretentiousness to external conditions, ease of manufacture and durability. On the basis of “indukcionnye” was created by different devices: from the simple, registered linear motion, to complex, such as the ignition system with digital control, the fuel injection system, anti-lock braking system, brake control, etc.

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THE MACHINE-ECONOMY

AUTOMATIC-ECONOMYElectricity is steadily going up. So now even avid spenders are forced to take care of her savings, the benefit — there is a very wide selection of devices designed to save valuable kilowatt hours. Its rightful place is here and homemade machines off “extra” loads. It is gratifying that among the most interesting of them — the development receiving a “ticket to life” in the pages of “Modeller-designer” (see, for example, publications in № 4’89, 6’91, 9’92, 1’95, 7’2001 of the journal).

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WAR MACHINE “BLUE BERETS”

WAR MACHINE Military paratroopers wearing the blue beret. If combat vehicles and airborne troops also “gave” blue berets, they first would have to own a BMD (airborne combat vehicle). The revision in the mid-1960s, the concepts of military doctrine identified the need for a reorganization of the airborne troops of Russia (VDV). To combat landing needed new equipment, a significant increase in its firepower. Division needed armored vehicles that could carry out not only the transportation of troops, conducting the fight “under armor”, but the fight against enemy armored vehicles, with its manpower in the distance.

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