Found an awesome article online here of a visit to a museum dedicated to the Ekranoplan designer, Rostislav Alekseyev.
Some very interesting models and artwork, attached.
Marvelous are thy works, O Lord!
In my collection - the old magazine TM Technics for Youth 5-1947. On page 9-10-11 - the first Space Shuttle project in the history of the Soviet Union and Russia. And possibly one of the first in the world.
Author: Major General of Aviation P.M. Stefanovsky...
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Hi! MiG-17SN.
http://ourairports.biz/?p=942
https://forum.warthunder.com/index.php?/topic/311375-mig-17-sn-experimental/
"When the guns were fired, other unpleasant surprises occurred. For example, firing in gusts with the three weapons rotated upward or downward altered the aircraft’s flight...
Grigorii Ivanovich Bakshayev was interested in the concept of variable geometry aircraft, where the size and/or shape of wings are altered according to the stage of flight, or desired characteristics. There are many methods of achieving this but one of the simplest is the telescopic wing, where...
Hi! MiG I-320.
(1) MiG I-320 was a all weather interceptor with radar requested in January 1948.
(2) MiG OKB built two prototypes R-1 and R-2.
(3) Two crew aircraft with twin engine.
(4) The wing had the same aerofoil profile and sweep compared with MiG-15.
(5) The airntake was divided into...
Good listings of Soviet naval project numbers are difficult to find. Some were published in books following the events of 1991 and of course Globalsecurity published a list in the late 1990s.
No details at all were released of merchant vessels, so about two years I set out to complete a list and...
Recently I was wondering if the Soviets had a reconnaissance balloon activity similar to the US projects Skyhook and Mogul. Any evidence that such projects in the USSR existed?
The Soviets developed manned stratospheric balloons in the mid-1930's and continued research for spacesuits and other...
Let's assume that USSR started to experiment with carriers in late 1920s, with planned rebuild of the training ship "Okean" into the light/training carrier "Komsomolets". While slow and of limited usefulness (roughly the equivalent of USN's "Langley"), this ship still allowed Soviet Navy to gain...
I am currently researching the history of automatic cannon and their ammunition and would appreciate some help with an obscure German naval AA gun: the 3,7 cm Flak SK C/36. I have put down my thoughts on this almost unknown project as follows:
The evidence in favour of its existence is as...
So yeah, i think this one is quite famous. The Soviet era Gnom
http://www.astronautix.com/g/gnom.html
This ICBM use a propulsion system in one of the stage which if i'm reading correctly is a ramjet. So after 1st stage burnout, the rocket motor will be ejected/dropped and the Ramjet starts...
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Just perusing my photocopy of Zaloga's SOVIET TANKS AND COMBAT VEHICLES OF WORLD WAR II last night and saw something I'd missed before.
There is mention of the SMK-2, a modification of the SMK heavy tank (developed concurrently with the T-100 heavy tank, only one prototype of each being...
WWII after WWII - Why there is a WWII vehicle at Chernobyl
Covers a story I was not aware of either at the time or later, and goes into some of the other vehicles that have been misidentified as veterans of WWII called back into service.
Came across a couple of documents that mentioned this abortive late 1980s/early 1990s plan for the future of the Soviet (civil) space program out to the year 2005. Included preparatory work & supporting projects, such as Mars '94 and a sample return mission in 1998, for the Mars Expedition...
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Just found this soviet beast. It was meant to have both wheeled and air cushion landing gear. The weight was around 700 tons. Does anybody know more about this giant?
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the Leningrad Construction Bureau of Aeronautics designed many little known airship Projects,such as L-100,L-117,L-200 & L-300,
also a double dirigible L-215,the numbers indicates to a weight tons,and to be honest,I don;t know if they built anyone of
them or not.
L + K 11/1970.
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