By the beginning of the First world war, all naval power was quite easy to divide the main with a significant naval power with diverse and numerous ships of all classes, and secondary, having only a purely local fleets, including, at best, a few dozens of small units and only a few large warships. The former, of course, include the UK, USA, Germany, Russia and France; with some doubt they can add more and Italy. In a wide range of second hits most of the rest of Europe and most developed countries in Latin America. Well, the third category of countries, the Navy of which can be seen only through a magnifying glass, treated other countries in the world, owners is that a pair or two very small gunboats (sometimes proudly referred to as “cruisers”) and other boats, military value has not possessed.
M1117 replaced HMMWY
In the mid-1980s, the famous “jeep”, many years in service with the us army, had to be substituted. Then the military picked the car М1025/М1026 (HMMWV – Hammer “Hummer”) produced by AM General firm, recognized as a “highly mobile multipurpose wheeled vehicle”. It turned out to be more functional and powerful, larger in its dimensions, but left only four-wheel drive General purpose machine.
ELLIPSOGRAPH
ELLIPSOGRAPH — is the name of this simple device. It can be used to draw an ellipse with any ratio of the semiaxes. It is enough to set into the holes on the line of alignment pins to align the center of ellipsograph with the future centre of the ellipse and rotate the line by Read more…
THE SHELF ABOVE THE COMPUTER
The problem of small apartments, popularly referred to as “crushable” are forced constantly to seek the “surplus” of housing. So this time, when bought the printer, I had to bring ingenuity. However, the solution was found pretty quickly.TANK, WHO MET IN WAR
The first meeting of these armored vehicles occurred in rebel Spain in 1936 to September this year, arrived at 41 German tank Pz-1. After a month on the boat “Komsomolets” was delivered 50 tanks T-26. In the first combat quarters revealed a considerable advantage of the Soviet machines. 45 mm gun 20K any range punched through Pz-1, which was the only spark 7.92-mm machine guns, dangerous for our machines – the T-26 was also more powerful.
LAMP… FOR A QUARTER OF AN HOUR
The two elements 373, light bulb 3,5ВХ0,26A, a strip of sheet brass with a thickness of 0.5 mm (150×5 mm), cut cardboard (150X X200 mm), cotton thread, glue, a soldering iron and scissors you will need to for 15 min to produce the light.WITHOUT STANGELY 0.1 MM
If your stock of drills is quite diverse, it is more convenient to place them on the wide wooden bar on the principle of a grid. The advantages of such vertical storage is obvious: the best safety tool more easy to use. But the proposed principle of their arrangement allow for a “first attempt” to find a drill bit the right size.GLASS TIGHTLY
The hour glass slipping from its frame, it is necessary in the edge of the recess on it gently to apply a little glue of type “Moment” and, setting the glass in place, gently loading it until the glue dries.
AWL INSTEAD OF SCISSORS
You should not use a sharpened knife or scissors for cutting sandpaper. You only blunted their blades. Easier and more effective to cut the sandpaper with an awl or other sharp object on the underside of the abrasive surface and tear the paper along the planned lines.
MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMBI
Tractor I built out of assemblies, mechanisms and components of decommissioned automotive and agricultural equipment. The D20 engine, diesel, power of 20 HP transmission—four-speed, the car GAS-52. In the transmission there is a reverse mechanism which secures the tractor to move backwards as fast as forwards—from 6 to 26 km/h.









