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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...

It was 20 years ago, 15.11.1988... (c) RKK Energia - taken from www.buran.ru

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...

Seeing the An-72/71 mentioned in another post made me think of something I read many years ago. ISTR mention of a COD variant of maybe the An-28 proposed for the Kuznetsov & another AWACS proposal besides the An-71, & it was to be based on the An-26 or An-32 or something. Was this just some mis-...

...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.

Here is my personal contribution about this interesting, even if unrealized, project of mid-'80s. It was essentially a Soyuz replacement with an enlarged reentry module (reusable through the exploitation of VKK Buran's TPS) and a small expendeable service module.

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

This was originally on the Spitfire / Focke Wulf ramming fighter thread but I thought these two might merit a thread of their own: 1) I've seen references to a purpose-designed Soviet flying ram called the Grokhovskij G-39 "Cucaracha" but information seems scarce...

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

Hi folks, Does anyone have any images/artist's impressions or other details on the FST (Future Soviet Tank) series from the '80s/'90s? Regards, Greg

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...

i am not sure this question fits in here - but i could find no better space/forum for it see: http://astronautix.com/lvs/r5.htm "The Generator-S radiological warhead for the R-5 was developed in the early 1950's. In order to handle the warhead OKBT Kirov Factory built the shielded manipulator...

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?