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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...

I just have to share this link. This SF - Ekranoplan looks just WOW! https://www.artstation.com/artwork/o0z3J (pictures added)

Took a trip to St.Petersburg earlier this week and visited in the Tsetralnyy Voenno-Morskoi Muzeyi or in the Central naval museum. It contains alot of models of Russian and Soviet warships of which many pics are found on the internet. Among those that are some of the famous never-where projects...

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...

Would the history of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have been different if Grigory Vasilyevech Romanov had been elected as Secretary General of the CPSU on March 11, 1985 rather than Mikhail Gorbachev? Thoughts?

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...

Hi, also here is some Beriev projects; An-24FK a VTOL Antonov An-24. Be-32P a four-engined version of Be.32,transport aircraft. http://lib.rus.ec/b/373000/read

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?

Here is a list of all known M-8 family designations from Catalogue of aeronautical products and systems (it has been translated, reorganized and reordered according to the sequence of the Western alphabet). I am pretty certain however that additions and corrections will inevitably happen! V-8...

Stickleback Class Midge XPW Minnow (X54) Stickleback (X51) Shrimp (X52) Sprat (X53) Stickleback Class 1954 - 1958 The Stickleback class submarines were midget submarines of the Royal Navy initially ordered as improved versions of the older XE class submarines. The Royal Navy may have...

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...

Hi, Please note the designs of Alexeyev. http://books.google.com.eg/books?id=IJOm1XDn0moC&printsec=frontcover&dq=aircraft+joined-wing&source=gbs_similarbooks_s&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=true

I'd be grateful if anyone can sort out this problem for me. The TU-91 is fairly well known and the photgraphs and drawings show the aircraft in the configuration of the first drawing below, however the second drawing shows something different. Accepting that the first drawing is correct, is the...

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...

In the mid 1980s, the Soviet Navy determined that a new weapon system was needed to deal with the ever-increasing power of US Navy carrier battle groups. At the time, the Project 949 (Granit) and Project 949A (Antey), NATO reporting names Oscar I and Oscar II, nuclear-powered guided missile...