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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...