TANKS FOR SELF DEFENSE

TANKS FOR SELF DEFENSEThe self-defense forces — the so officially called armed forces of modern Japan. In accordance with the Potsdam Declaration in 1945, the Japanese army was disarmed and demobilized. 30 November of the same year he dissolved the military and naval Ministry, with all their subordinate organs.

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COMMITMENT

COMMITMENTCOMMITMENTThe film was shot on Borodino. The Director V. Pudovkin took the aircraft of the pioneer of Russian aviation. The film “two comrades were Serving”. Director E. Karelova needed “Nieuport” and “Farman-30”, flown in the first world war.

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GREEN “HAIR”

GREEN These guys have a lot in common. They all live in the Serpukhov district, their parents — farmers. But most importantly — they are all involved in the circle of technical creativity of the regional House of pioneers with the wonderful teacher Yevgeny Diligentia.

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REPEATEDLY LEADER

HAS LEADERHAS LEADERIn September 2005, marked 105 years since the birth of Semyon Alekseyevich Lavochkin, a famous Soviet designer, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences, major General aviation engineering service, twice hero of Socialist Labor. In the year of the 60th anniversary of the victory in the great Patriotic war, I think, it is appropriate to recall the famous Lavochkin and as a boy from the city of Roslavl of the Smolensk region has grown to world-famous aircraft designer.

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HARBINGERS CRUISERS

HARBINGERS CRUISERSCruiser… If you ask a contemporary, not too close to the history of the Navy with what he associated that word is likely to hear in response the power and speed to Do in the last decades of its existence, the cruiser has firmly taken the place of the main class of surface warships, inferior in strength and value, except that the aircraft carriers. But the path to this state of was very long and difficult.

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BUILDING A CAR

BUILDING A CAR(Continued. Beginning at No. 10, 1975)
 
5. THE MOST CRITICAL NODES
 
Traffic safety and ease of control of desired self-made car, probably even more than serial. After all, “home” often run not too experienced drivers, and passengers do not have such protection, what is the serial car pressed steel body. So Amateur avtostroitel should pay particular attention to steering and brakes, and perfection of these mechanisms will have to achieve by simple means and without weighting of the car. The correct device of steering control and increase the vehicle stability, prevent excessive tire wear.

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