https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=%22seaplane+striking+force%22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostislav_Alexeyev
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-90_Orlyonok
Seriously... Orlyonok versus Seamaster. That would be fully and entirely awesome to watch. Shame Alexeyev and his...
A friend of mine has asked me to check out a rumour that HMS Cockade sank a suspected Soviet sub while serving with a US force in the Korean War. He thinks the papers are embargoed until at least 2050.
I am delighted that others are already making good use of the Alt 60s US Navy thread. It probably needs a balancing thread to cover the Soviet Navy, which for both the USN and the RN was "the enemy fleet in being".
After the fifties scare surrounding the Swerdlow class cruisers, the nuclear...
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.
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...
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...
Some 'highly speculative' Soviet warship designs allegedly from Life Magazine in 1945, attributed to 'US Naval Architects' I stumbled across on Reddit...
They come from this article in the 17th of December 1945 issue of the magazine...
The Russian Navy is Reborn (Life Magazine, 17 December 1945)
Hello all, I'm searching infos regarding real (albeit conceptual only) battleship projects distinguishing themselves for extraordinary caliber of main guns and/or number of main guns and displacement. I'm aware of the following, some yet briefly discussed in other topics:
-Tillman maximum...
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...
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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...
Original Lineart from the Russian Naval Site:
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9510/5684310.1/0_dacf5_3fde0669_orig
http://otvaga2004.ru/atrina/atrina-sovr/proekt-1125/
This is a generic info on the shp someone with better Russian language skills could make a better translation!
After the design...
Most Russian icebreaker classes have Project numbers applied -- eg: Project 22220 for the LK-60 'Universal Atomic Icebreaker' class.
Does anyone know the Project numbers for the Arctech series? I'm especially curious about the NB-508 Oblique Icebreaker.
I'm just wondering, have any drawings or artist impressions of the original Project 705 design, before they changed over to the design that would lead to the Alfa class, surfaced (no pun intended!) in recent times?
Model of Sukhoi S-90-200 from USSR-Russian Aviation and Space Collectibles.
Description:
Source: http://www.ussr-airspace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28_39_49&products_id=715
In the Eighties there was an infamous spate of submarine incidents in Swedish waters, apparently involving mini submarines penetrating close to shore (and even inside harbour areas). From the reports at least some of these would appear to have been fitted with Caterpillar/Tank style Tracks...
In August 1965 TsKB-16, later Rubin, was directed to respond to the Tactical-Technical Elements (TTE) requirement for a large diesel-electric submarine LST designated Project 748. The design bureau, realizing the limitations of conventional propulsion for this submarine's missions, additionally...
In 1949 a preliminary draft for a missile submarine designated Project P-2--to strike enemy land targets--was drawn up at TsKB-18 (later Rubin) under chief designer FA Kaverin. The submarine was to have a surface displacement of almost 5,400 tons and carry 12 R-1 ballastic missiles, a Soviet...
In 1970, the Soviet Navy started Project 1165 Fugas to create a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser. Also at this time, the Soviet Navy intended Project 1144 Orlan to be a nuclear-powered surface ship of some 9,000 tons displacement.
Information on Project 1165 is very scarce and there is...
The Kronshtadt class (Project 69) were a class of battlecruisers ordered for the Soviet Navy in the late 1930s. In the Soviet Union they were called "heavy cruisers" or thyazholyi kreyser.
Two ships were started, but none were completed due to World War II. These ships had a complex and...
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