SHOT ACS. The YEAR 1938

SHOT ACS. The YEAR 1938Self-propelled 152,4 mm installation SU-14Бр-2 with a closed armored cabin. Already the Museum of armored in KubinkaThe beginning of the great Patriotic war, the worker-peasant Red army came no powerful self-propelled artillery installations (SAU), although the Finnish war showed the urgent need. The absence of such ACS in the ranks of divisions advancing on the positions of the “Mannerheim line”, in an extraordinary way hindered our attack. Particularly affected by difficulties with the suppression of long-term fortifications – these concrete structures, unassailable gun emplacements, often with multiple machine guns and even cannons. From the front to suppress such resistance was virtually impossible to destroy – only after a long artillery bombardment or air bombing. Needed were powerful tools of destruction. Then the military command remembered the self-propelled SU-14, created years earlier for the training program on “Heavy artillery of Special Purpose (TAON)” in the red army.

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The IL-38

IL-38Soviet anti-submarine aircraft Il-38 was made on the basis of passenger Il-18V (1957). The new car wing moved forward, strengthened the chassis, carried out two cargo compartment. They placed the weapons from homing torpedoes and anti-submarine bombs of various types, as well as sonobuoys. The entire crew was focused in the pressurized cabin in the front of the plane, underneath the fairing was aerial surveillance radars. The aft fuselage was the end of the post for the magnetometer. Fuel capacity increased.

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NEVSKAYA “ARROW”

NEVA (SPEED CONTROL LINE MODEL CLASS 5.0 CM3). The name of the master of sports of international class Mykola Troneva from Leningrad familiar to automodellista. Since 1970, Nicolai permanent member of the national team. With his pattyboy model he has participated in many international meetings, not once occupied prize-winning places in the Championships. The General view was that the model Troneva differ by originality of design and technical perfection. Given the great interest of the hobby to them, we publish the drawings of one of the “working” models N. Troneva, which has repeatedly participated in the Championships of the Soviet Union m Europe and brought it to the constructor of the manure the title of champion of the Soviet Union, master of sports of international class, world record holder and Europe.

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TV-WARDROBE

THE TV WARDROBETHE TV WARDROBETo protect children from excessive TV in the absence of parents, it is easy to make a special lockable bedside table-wardrobe, in which you can “hide” not only TV but also other equipment, e.g. a VCR. If necessary the doors can be arranged in lock — mortise, slip or hinged.

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“GOLF” FROM MITSUBISHI

Mitsubishi Lancer 2005 issue. My first meeting with the Mitsubishi Lancer took place at the uncontrolled intersection. Thump in the left door of my “Fields”, the gnashing of metal on metal, squeaking brakes and… silence. The driver of a new “Japanese” was the young lady that turned out to be only the second time in my life independently drove his car to the “big world” — and on a day she was clearly not up to the sign “give way”.

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