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  1. W

    Arkhangelsky paired engine dive bomber

    In 1940, when Kamkin and Rubtsov tendered their project of a dive bomber powered by two sets of coupled M-107 or AM-37 V-12`S, the People`s Commissar of Aircraft Industry, Aleksey Shakurin stated that kind of plane was already proposed by Arkhangelsky, having dropped the idea on account of bad...
  2. Graham1973

    "T-94" Soviet Tank

    I found this in a 1990s 'Yellow Peril (Japan)' techno-thriller called 'The War in 2020' (1991), the book ends with a note indicating that the writing of it was finished in April of 1990. It features this tank which I am guessing was based on the reports of these tanks in the west. Here are the...
  3. N

    Fliegerfaust for Mijaheddyn?

    Some time ago, it must have been in 2013-2014, I was able to see in a movie (maybe on YouTube) a guerrilla with the typical Chitral cap used by ethnic Afghans Pashtun, equipped with a weapon system that looked like a German Fliegerfaust / Luftfaust and the militian who used it pointed it...
  4. Grey Havoc

    Soviet Super Chicken (the Smena) reborn

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/putin-resurrects-soviet-super-chicken
  5. overscan (PaulMM)

    NPO Istok "Soyuz-Sintez" Experimental Radar program

    It appears so. https://lt.cjdby.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2464223&extra=page%3D2%26filter%3Dtypeid%26typeid%3D156
  6. Andrei_bt

    Object 490 "Poplar" FMBT

    Future Soviet tank project “Object 490 Poplar” was under development by Eugenie Morozov's team from the end of 70-th up to the end of 80-s. The main features of the “Object 490” were: - crew consisting of two people - commander-gunner and driver. Reduce the crew to two people and place them in...
  7. Grey Havoc

    OGAS - a planned Soviet national computer network

    The full name was 'The All-State Automated System for the Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning and Governance of the National Economy, USSR' (OGAS being a Russian acronym for the first four words). It has been described as the 'Soviet Internet'. It might be more...
  8. Flyaway

    Proton rocket to cease flying

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/russias-proton-rocket-which-predates-apollo-will-finally-stop-flying/
  9. P

    Soviet archival films: ekranoplans, lunar N1, Buran - Energia.

    All these videos on Russian resources You Tube. The monster of the Caspian Sea. Leningrad. 1990. The whole story of Alekseev's ekranoplanes: from the prototypes of 1962 to the Orlionok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Vjuk12XAk Ekranoplan - amphibian Bartini. 1970...
  10. P

    Soviet project of a scientific lunar tank in 1956.

    I write correctly - a tank? In old Soviet magazines of the late Stalin period and early Khrushchev I saw an interesting project of a lunar scientific tank. But - in Russian. Literary Russian language you will not understand. But tonight I downloaded a very interesting book. This is an Indian...
  11. blackkite

    Arkhangelsky high speed bomber SBB-1 and dive bomber SBB-2

    Hi! Arkhangelsky high speed bomber SBB-1 and dive bomber SBB-2. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww2/sbb.html http://eroplany.narod.ru/bibl/shavrov2/chr1/p1/sb1.htm http://alternathistory.com/pikiruyushchii-bombardirovshchik-arkhangelskii-b-2-sssr...
  12. Tuomasn

    X-30A COPPER CANYON and Tupolev Tu-2000A

    My 3D models of two comparable 1980s SSTO projects: This one is meant to represent the "Government baseline" vehicle that was the end result of the $5.5-million COPPER CANYON study program run in 1984-1985, and input for NASP Phase 2. It was scaled up somewhat from the initial "du Pont...
  13. T

    Soviet balloon bombers et al.

    Hi all, some time ago I find a very brief description of soviet balloon bombers of the '50-'60; they intended to use them in the same way the American used the GENETRIX and MELTING POT balloons for recce flights over the USSR...
  14. hesham

    First Western publications on Energiya-Buran

    Hi, here is the Russian old shuttle heavy lift launch vehicle. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1986/1986%20-%200900.html
  15. A

    Cuxhaven

    Hi there, For all those having an interest in WWII rocket science material (V-2), an original photo album on Berlin / Cuxhaven is up for sale on the bay. There are really interesting never-seen before pictures here...
  16. Antonio

    Tupolev Tu‑160: Soviet Strike Force Spearhead

    https://www.amazon.com/Tupolev-Tu-x2011-160-Spearhead/dp/0764352040/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471166141&sr=8-1&keywords=Tu-160 Publication date: november 2016 Is this going to be just a revision of the original Red Star excellent monographic...
  17. Stargazer

    Little known Lithuanian aircraft

    I am by no means conversant with the aviation of Baltic countries, but I have a handful of Lithuanian aircraft on my HD, all from the 1980s... perhaps these may be of interest to some? Maybe some more light could be shed upon them? Kyansgayl Aushra Kizhis Varnye Konchus Antis Vaineikis Exzotica
  18. Michel Van

    Cats in Zero G

    This Soviet video show experiment with Cats in "Vomit Comet" kind aircraft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CLB1pE6w3U it's interesting to see how the cat adapt to situation
  19. CJGibson

    Soviet and Russian Research Vessels

    Could some-one in the know explain what the research ships Akademik Ioffee and Akademik Vavilov were built to do? I've just been on the Ioffe and there is some interesting kit still onboard. The standard answer was that they were built in 1989 for sound propagation trials, Ioffe the transmitter...
  20. flateric

    Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimy (September 13, 1921 – April 11, 2014)

    Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimy (September 13, 1921 – April 11, 2014) was a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989). Born in Ryazan, USSR, he graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in...
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