According to a translated article by firearms enthusiast and historian Andrey Ulanov, the Soviet Union acquired a single M1 Garand rifle through Lend-Lease and tested it in 1943. Lend-Lease shipment records showed that the United States did send a single M1 Garand rifle to the USSR (below...
In the rand mcnally encyclopedia of military aircraft, there is a plane in there called a MiG 5. It isn't the DIS however, and it appears like a MiG 3 with a radial swap. It has some differences from the MiG 3 though. The books mentions it being in service but having poor performance when...
This was apparently being developed for the Soviet T-4 and DSB-LK hypersonic bomber and were also planned for the Tu-160.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-45
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5CYLk6B5Y&t=500s
Lets send the MiG company on the path not chosen wrt. their 'budget' fighters.
Instead, they make a spin-off of the MiG 19 that has a wing better suited for high speeds (not 8.74% t-t-c at root as on the -19, but under 4.5% as it was case with MiG-21; wing is also of the shorter span), and...
The story of how in 1968 the universal dynamic protection for the Object 775 and T-64A tanks was developed and tested, surpassing all subsequent developments of the Research Institute of Steel - "Contact" and "Contact-5". This page of the history of tank building is not mentioned anywhere...
These are well worth a look. I wonder what FIXEDIT could do with a bigger budget!
View: https://youtu.be/VVjdFBZCRQc
View: https://youtu.be/zo8FhChnyq0
View: https://youtu.be/rTov2oSXR8M
View: https://youtu.be/4irbMNQc8As
If things get more interesting, what targets in the UK might Putin nuke? An interesting video, and some backup data:
UK Limited Nuclear War Target List
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWcgF4Wwog
See comprehensive illustration below (high resolution illustration).
From magazines Technique for youth. The evolution of the Soviet engineering imagination. TM 4 1973 electromagnetic sling (predecessor of Gerald O Neil's mass accelerator). TM 1 1974 Georgy Pokrovsky's sling asteroid...
Thought there was a thread on this already, my apologies for the belated post.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62964177
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/science/valery-polyakov-dead.html
https://www.astronomy.com/news/2022/09/valeri-polyakov-record-breaking-cosmonaut-dies-at-age-80...
Just found this, and thought I would share it:
https://alternathistory.com/teleupravlyaemye-krasnoarmejtsy-elektrotanketka-fantasta-kazantseva/
It seems to be a little-known Soviet equivalent to the German Goliath (and likewise French Kegress Machine).
Published in "Техника Молодёжи-Youth Technique" from 1936 the picture shows a fuel supply in flight. The caption to the picture says "The fuel truck (aircraft tanker) flew 30 meters above us and slightly ahead. Suddenly, a hatch opened in the lower part of it, from which a thick hose descended"...
Hello, good afternoon. This is my second post. Thank you for reading.
Russian old magazines on the Internet are a cemetery of romantic impractical futurism. I found absolutely unique magazines - a rarity even on the Internet. This is Knowledge-Power. Journals for students of polytechnic...
Does anyone know more about the Raketoplan designs in the background of the picture, which are on display at the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics?
To which OKB do they belong?
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