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Hello, i have recently learnt about this tank yet i cant find much about it but you guys most likely would have more luck Being designed in the early 1950s by Lev Sergeevich Troyanov and his team at the Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant (ChKZ), weighing 48 tons, being powered by a V-11-NTs (В-11-НЦ)...

Recently, while reviewing online sources, I came across several third-party articles mentioning that the Sapfir-23MLAE2 radar equipped on the MiG-23MLD possesses a distinctive feature not found in earlier variants of the Sapfir-23 series: namely, a vertical scanning mode covering -6° to +45°...

Hi all! I am hoping to compile a grouping of the lesser known experimental/ prototypical Soviet Artillery from Pre-WW2->WW2->Cold War I will start with the competitor to a well known piece of Soviet Artillery. P.S- IDK if there is a specific forum topic like this one. apologies

Soviet cruiser Proiekt 22 is mostly known by the public as WoWs Italian tier X large cruiser Napoli. The 22000-ton cruiser with nine 250mm guns was first sketched in about 1936, by Ansaldo. On this unaccomplished plan replaced by Pr.69 Kronshtadt class several yrs later, WoWs also made Soviet...

Three videos covering accidents in East Germany where passenger trains collided with Soviet Tanks, the 1962 Trebbin Rail Accident was declared a state secret by both East Germany and the Soviet Union and only the heavy involvement of East German civilians in the rescue efforts kept the story...

Hello all. I am sure some of you have heard of the "Fotosnaiper", but for those who have not: The State Optical Institute (GOI) developed the FS-2/3 camera-gun hybrid during the siege of Leningrad and it was considered "top secret". The FS-3 was supposedly used by the Soviet Baltic Navy...

Britain's Gift To The Soviets. When Rolls Royce Gave The Jet Engine To Russia, And They Copied It. Documentary

o_O .... Hi there,my friends.Long time no see,lately,i found an interesting image when i surfing.As you can see,it is a tank destroyer. In this image,we can clearly identify that its chassis based on T-55 tank's chassis.But there is a question shining in my mind: Why this tank so...

In the era of detente and friendship between the USSR and the USA, in 1971, two wonderful projects by Professor George Pokrovsky were published in the Soviet magazine TM. Taking off passenger planes - catamarans. The professor explained this form of the project in terms of aerodynamics: shock...

Hi everyone, as I'm not aware of any thread on this topic, here I'd like to create a thread on the R-60 AAM, famous for being the first dogfight missile to enter service. I know there were "sub-variants" of it so I'd like to share. First here is some background on its development and context...

Hi everyone, I have roughly translated and typeset this chart from the phenomenal book "Линейные корабли типа Советский Союз-Галея Принт (2006)" (Battleships of the Soviet Union). I am hoping to translate the full section on Pr. 24 at some point, but the (searchable!) PDF is available at this...

From, Авиаколлекция 2015-11. Транспортный самолет Ил-14

A design by Vladimir Gartvig, drawing by Vladimir Meshcherin. Images OSGA-25 1-4 from Russisches Design - Tradition und Experiment 1920-1990 by Alexander Lavrentiev and Yuri Nasarow, Ernst & Sohn 1995. Images OSGA-25 5-7 found here: https://gashetka.tumblr.com/ View...

The early R-73 variant, the R-73A bring question to me. Does that variant was equipped with Thrust-vectoring system? Someone says to me that later R-73 has the thrust-vectoring system but not the early one which is the R-73A. Can someone please explain.

Hello, everyone. Several years ago on this forum the 3D model of the fighter be Alekseev with M-250 engine was published https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/under-the-red-star.17243/post-279337 However, does anyone have any information about other projects with this engine? The only thing...

Hi everyone, Of Soviet/Russian fighters of the 4th generation (that's the fourth, not the fifth and NOT a 4++ and 4+, I ask not to consider aircraft such as the MFIs, the MiG 35, PAK FA, etc) I know only MiG-29, yak 141/45/47/43 and su-27 (and all its modifications su-30 and su27KUB), but I'm...