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  1. flateric

    Secrets of the D-30F6 Turbofan

    D-30F11 aka Izdeliye 70
    • flateric
    • Thread
    • air defence cold war interceptor soviet air defence forces soviet union turbofan ussr v-pvo
    • Replies: 32
    • Forum: Propulsion
  2. L

    MiG-21 countermeasures

    Trying to find the earliest year the MiG-21 received the SPS-141 ECM pod, and ASO-2 chaff/flare dispensers. First, for the SPS-141 there is the only the vague 1970s period usually mentioned online. But is there info as to what year exactly did the SPS-141 (SM-1 or SPS-141-100?) became...
    • lancer21
    • Thread
    • 1970s cold war ecm electronic warfare late 1960s soviet air forces soviet union ussr warsaw pact
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  3. Owens Z

    new big 'Ogre' tank that combines functions of tank and self-propelled howitzer?

    Like those of most countries, US Army tanks have relentlessly increased in weight since the M4 Sherman in World War 2. As you have heard, for decades now voices have advocated entirely replacing the M1 Abrams with a much smaller, lighter tank, even a wheeled vehicle. The lighter tank would have...
  4. W

    Belyayev pusher fighter?

    A German report on Allied aircraft discovered by Gregory D. Heuer at NARA and published at the Luft46 Facebook public group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/678300375530524?locale=pt_PT, showing what I believe is a Soviet Belyayev design, sharing many "EOI" or "PBI" features. Comments are...
  5. M

    Soviet amphibious assault ship

    Can the Soviets develop or modify an existing design into an amphibious assault vessel ? I think Moskva class aviation cruisers will be a great choice Can anyone suggest what changes will be needed to modify them ? And if a new vessel what do you think such a vessel will look like given...
  6. M

    Soviet amphibious assault

    Can the Soviets develop or modify an existing design into an amphibious assault vessel ? I think Moskva class aviation cruisers will be a great choice Can anyone suggest what changes will be needed to modify them ? And if a new vessel what do you think such a vessel will look like given...
  7. J

    Gelled fuels: Luminal-A, Alumizin, etc

    Michel Van: "One Moment Luminal-A ? was Glusko also in Alumizine propellant ?!" Right, luminal-a is soviet analog of american alumizine. Some theoretical works was conducted at OKB-456 (chief designer V. P. Glushko; today NPO "Energomash"), then conducted some static fire tests. OKB-456 has...
    • JetPropulsion
    • Thread
    • cccp cold war heavy lift vehicle icbm red fleet slbm soviet navy soviet strategic rocket forces soviet union space race ussr
    • Replies: 30
    • Forum: Propulsion
  8. R

    Soviet 57mm Aircraft cannons (N-57/OKB-16-57)

    Very little info seems to exist on these weapons. If anyone has any additional info this weapon (or weapons, maybe they are different from each other?) that would be great, such as ammunition types used, rate of fire, etc. Below is the info I've compiled so far, There seems to be a small...
  9. Gentleman’s Astronautics

    Flashpoint - Cold War gone hot, 1948

    Just came across Operation Downfall, and was pondering. What might be the political situation that would warrant the plan coming to fruition? What projects would be pursued and put into production, and what wouldn't? Who would win the war? Perhaps the 3rd world war would be caused by a...
  10. Stargazer

    Krasnodar SKh-2 "Challenger": a unique agricultural aircraft prototype

    This story fascinates me... It shows what can be done when you have little resource but a lot of creativity... Unfortunately, the page which I took this article from had been saved onto my computer, and doesn't seem to be only any longer. Only one forum topic (in Russian) deals with this...
  11. Grey Havoc

    Soviet Venus probes

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydibFhTuimY
  12. Stargazer

    Oleg Cheremukhin's "Poisk-01 A" air-cushion aircraft

    © Aviatsiya i kosmonavtika, No 8, Aug 1992. Article by A. Shubalov under the rubric "Conversion of the VPK [Military-Industrial Complex]: Day by Day": "Places Where a Geologist Will Not Go..." Translated version from Central Eurasia AVIATION & COSMONAUTICS No 8, August 1992 — JPRS-UAC-93-002 —24...
  13. Stargazer

    Boris Valentinovich Chernov and his seaplanes

    The Samara region of Russia is undoubtedly the home of seaplane aviation in Russia. Several companies have developed flying boats, floatplanes and amphibians in that area over the past thirty years, all of them being kind of spiritual descendants of Shavrov's 1930s designs. One designer in...
    • Stargazer
    • Thread
    • civil aviation cold war commonwealth of independent states general aviation glider hovercraft post-cold war russian federation seaplane soviet union ussr
    • Replies: 26
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  14. axlzed3301

    Postwar Soviet Experimental Tanks

    On 20.5.1952, Ministry of Defense industry of USSR organized a meeting with tank constructors and with the marshal of tank forces, I.S.Bogdanov, to discuss the future of armored forces development. The result of this meeting was a set of tank requirements from 18.6.1952. The resulting tank was...
    • axlzed3301
    • Thread
    • 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s cold war experimental heavy tank light tank mbt medium tank post-world war ii red army soviet union tank design ussr
    • Replies: 48
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  15. M

    Alternate uses of PVO interceptors

    The PVO had bases all over the frontiers of USSR and they were ideally positioned to perform roles other than just strategic bomber interception by mid 1970s to mid 1980s We are going to limit our discussion to Su-9/11 Yak-28P Su-15 Tu-128/28 Other PVO assets like MiG-23/25/31 already were...
  16. Gentleman’s Astronautics

    Man in space

    Hey fellas, I'm (planning) on making a video game, set in the late 1950s, where Britain, the USSR and the USA each have their own space programmes, the US having Von Brauns ferry rocket and space lift ops, and the Brits having the BIS', now formed as the British Interplanetary Commission...
  17. L

    Soviet carrier fighters 1950s-1960s

    There is a discussion on soviet carriers but it deals mostly with western reactions. I'm very interested in what possible Mach 2 carrier fighters the soviets would have built, the missing link between the MiG-19K Tigr planned for Pr. 85 carriers, and the MiG-23K and others such as Su-24K, T-10...
  18. flateric

    Soviet MAGLEV projects

    https://www.techinsider.ru/technologies/58629-sovetskiy-maglev-25-let-pod-tsellofanom/ https://www.kp.ru/daily/27365/4547187/ https://habr.com/ru/companies/vk/articles/410545/
    • flateric
    • Thread
    • cold war maglev magnetic levitation railways soviet union space age ussr
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Bar
  19. C

    Lend-Lease M1 Garand Tested in the Soviet Union, circa 1943

    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...
  20. Forest Green

    Top-Secret Soviet Black Projects

    Found this, probably a few you have heard of and a few you haven't. View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PB2E3_wbVoU
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