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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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Hi, here is some old flying barrel airplanes. http://allenfrostlibrary.blogspot.com.eg/2011/04/flying-barrel.html

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...

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...

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

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

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a231789.pdf US Army Soviet Army Studies Office, September 1990.