soviet union

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...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semipalatinsk_Test_Site https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Chagan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Explosions_for_the_National_Economy

Another interesting historical video from Scott Manley:

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.

First man to spacewalk, one of the five on the Soyuz-Apollo flight.

From Ailes 9/11/1962, a hypothetical SST of USSR,looks like NA B-70.

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...

Hi! 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?

hi. late in WW2 the russians and mig bureau were devoloping the I-220,222,224 and I-225.does anyone know if drawings of these exsits? thanks

Hi, 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.

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...

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...

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...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/putin-resurrects-soviet-super-chicken

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

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...

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...