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Back in the '90s, wasn't there supposed to be a Soviet flying wing stealth bomber from Tupolev, the Tu-202 or Tu-404 or something?

Can anyone recommend a good English source for information concerning Valentin Glusko's Lunar Expeditionary Complex beyond the Russian Space Web site and Astronautix, either books or websites? Does anyone have concept art they would be willing to share? I have been on the Buran web site. It's...

I have read conflicting information concerning the Soviet N1 rocket. Some sources say that the 30 engine design of the first stage was fatally flawed and the complex piping was damaged during rail transport to Baikonur. But then another source says that Nikolai Kuznetsov continued to work to...

Evening gents I was looking for information on the Soviet ZSU-37 SPAAG, when I discovered that there was a ZSU-37-2 Yenisei. The only information I could find was - The ZSU-37-2 Yenisei is a later, unrelated design based on the chassis of the experimental SU-100P self-propelled gun. It was...

In mid of 1951, in the region of Kazajstan; Wolfgang Ziese -component of the program " COMBINAT OKB-2 from the old team of the german SIEBEL-, exceed Mach 1 with his plane DFS 346. Although this plane was under the belly of Tu-4 (from captured B-29), that would have been interesting it was...

Hi! Any one has the 3-view drawing of this North American Vigilante mock up? This mock up is historically and technically very important because this is mother shape of MIG25,F-15 and FA-18,etc. And please show me the reason why North American chose single vertical tail stabilizer design.

1) The “S” aircraft general arrangement drawings approved in 1937. Variants of the “S” aircraft proposed in 1937: 2) - reconnaissance aircraft with range of the flight before 2200км 3) – attack aircraft (maximum arms 20 Ultra SHKAS) 4) – near-bomber 5) – heavy fighter (anti-bomber). Soviet...

...thanks again Stingray, great work... Do you have a complete designation list from the Charkov Institute, I believe the ChAI.35 was the last? If you can please post a pic or drawing from the ChAI.18 ;D Thanks a lot Servus Maveric

Found this on the buran.ru website: http://www.buran.ru/htm/bors.htm#bor-7 Please note that it explicitly says the image with the Su-27 on a rocket has no relation to the real appearance of the proposed interceptor. I would guess the actual design might resemble a Spiral / Bor-4 - or then not...

From Missiles And Rockets 9th January 1961.

From aero 1962, some designs which are said to have been published in the press "behind the iron curtain" The first picture shows a designs from Myasishew, Ilyushin and Tupolev (from top to bottom), the other picture shows an unknown design.

has this been discussed before? http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/yak_vvp-6.php

Maybe Chelomei’s space interceptor ... ? http://www.astronautix.com/craft/lks.htm

These drawings were obtained from a book I ordered several years ago from Avia Press. Sorry, I can't identify specific sourse. They were shown in a book on the T-4 Sotka, and only shpwed the over head view.Thw book was in Russian so I can't give any details. I would like to know if these are...

Is there anyone of the memebers who ever have seen information or illustrations of the Shukanov " Koltseplan". This was a single engined V-STOL fighter ? project of 1943 with a ring wing (not a disc). Models should have been tested in the MAI windtunnel.

The Soviets had a number of stilborn aircraft carrier projects from the 1930's all the way through to the 1990's. One of the most studied was Project-72 dating back to WW-II (1943) I think. Other projects include Project-69A, Project-85 and Project 1123 (Moskova concepts) before getting to the...

Before Sukhoi got the nod to build the Russian Regional Jet, I remember seeing a photo in Air International from somebody/something called Irkutsk that was offering a lifting-body short haul jet. Any body have any info?

I've always been interested in the US DoD impressions, mostly paintings during the Cold War, of Soviet aircraft, ships and land-based systems. Often they weren't far off the mark but other times they were widely inaccurate, sometimes for political reasons to justify the DoDs expenditure. The...

Hi, Yak-45 VTOL aircraft project of 1979.

Hi, Antonov SKV VTOL aircraft project which led to develope An-14;