ON THE SOUTHERN FLANK OF NATO

ON THE SOUTHERN FLANK OF NATOIf the United States and England after the Second world war had to think about a reasonable reduction of their naval forces, the main Mediterranean-sea powers, France and Italy, tormented by a completely different headache. Despite the fact that one of these countries were in the ranks of the winners and the other losers among, the problems they had about the same. In the fire of war is almost completely burned both of the once mighty fleet. As soon as the economy managed to overcome the destruction of the war, there has been a strong recovery of the French and Italian fleets. This situation largely contributed to the more rapid renewal of all classes of warships, including the escort.

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PEUGEOT 307 CC

PEUGEOT 307 CCIn November 2001, 55 journalists from leading automobile magazines that were part of the international jury, called the PEUGEOT 307 “European car of 2002”. Has not passed also two years as the firm, building on the success of the model, released on the basis of the 307 th stylish coupe-cabriolet hardtop — PEUGEOT 307 CC.

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PIONEER THE CONVOY

PIONEER CONVOYPIONEER CONVOYJust a few months there at the House of pioneers the village of Elkhotovo in North Ossetia ASSR circle technical design. During this time the guys have created a garden tractor for a school site and micromatics. Now they are working on the production of 8 seater minibus and motorcycle engine 125 cm3 for off-road driving.

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FLYING SAIL

FLYING SAILThis model can be built in 4-6 hours. It flies well indoors and outdoors. It is designed and built model airplanes Khabarovsk regional station of young technicians. The fuselage is manufactured of pine or Linden slats cross-section 6X5 mm. To the front of the rack using thread and glue to attach the bearing screw is made of tin or aluminum. At the distance indicated in the figure, fix the hook for the rubber motor, wire Ø1 mm. Stabilizer and fin can be made of plywood 1 mm thick veneer or just cardboard. Fix them on glue, make sure there are no distortions. Of Reiki is a cross section of 4X4 mm to prepare two racks of the wing, make the slots in the fuselage and install, as shown in the figure.

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COUPE FOR TWO

When winter comes, the main individual off-road transport in much of our country be the snowmobiles. Unfortunately, they have a significant drawback in terms of comfort snowmobiles do not differ from the motorcycle, and the frost does not go far.

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TAKE OFF WITHOUT A RUNWAY

TAKE OFF WITHOUT A RUNWAYVertical take-off fighter RYAN X-13 VERTIJET. In our day, aviation experts, it is difficult to surprise aircraft with variable thrust vectoring, or with gas rudders and the vertical take-off planes. But few people know that all these solutions were first implemented on a small experimental plane X-13 VERTUET established aviation firm Ryan in the early 50-ies of the last century.

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UNROYAL DEBUT “THE ROYAL TIGER”

NON-PRINCELY DEBUT OF THE TIGERIn August 1942, the armaments Department of the land forces of the Wehrmacht developed tactical and technical requirements for a heavy tank designed in the future to replace the recently released “Fever” — Pz.VI Ausf.E (see “modelist-Konstruktor” No. 7, 2003). On the new machine was supposed to use the constructed in 1941 by the Krupp 88 mm KwK 43 gun with a barrel length of 71 caliber. In the fall of 1942 to the design of the tank began firm Henschel and the design office of Ferdinand Porsche, once again competing with Erwin Aders.

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