soviet union

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250826-the-soviet-artwork-that-spied-on-the-us

To kick things off, a good overview video based upon current Ukraine findings: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-N3GGzuO0w

I honestly tried to put it into "Fictional warships in movies" thread, but it just refused to work with images at all. If moderators would be able to move this thread into proper place, I would be grateful. So the 1939 Soviet war movie "Moryaki" (rus. Sailors). The movie itself is rather...

Putting this in his flying failures series of videos seems a bit harsh, especially in comparison to some of the other aircraft he’s featured in this line of videos. And that description certainly doesn’t seem to match what he actually says in the video. View: https://youtu.be/9UmFyakP0CQ

View: https://youtu.be/voJoOA9UUVM?si=_V1m5A9B-Cyj9qmJ View: https://youtu.be/oboGrWVgdxw?si=8EMkPC6kxYdMmG1d

Hello! I was wondering what information there is about the CRT screens in the Buran orbiters, or even if they were even functional

Documentary film for the 30th anniversary of VNIITransmash, 1979.In 1966, VNIITransmash-100 was reorganized into the All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Transport Engineering (VNIITM).Research and testing of the T-64A tank's powertrain with the 5TDF engine. Experimental T-64 tank with a...

A purely techno-speculative thread, frankly. What I wanted is to speculate: what if NATO and Warsaw Pact schools of military technology were forced to merge together by, say, a common (and big!) threat, arising during the late Cold War? So the question: what could be achieved if late Cold War...

I've seen several sites claim that in 1956, the USSR tried to provide the R-2 missile with an RDS-4 fission warhead. The words experimented and tested are used, but I've never seen any photo, diagram, or a sourced history of this brief project and I'd love to know more. Testing this warhead on...

The harbour/port is dredged/demined and Giulio Cesare/Novorossiysk is not sunk. What do the Soviet union do with her?

hesham mentioned that he was considering creating a Bolkhovitinov designations list. So, I thought I'd make a start with my list. I'm sure there are plenty to add ... Aircraft Projects of Viktor Fyodorovich Bolkhovitinov Bolkhovitinov BDD - (Project) 1936 high-speed heavy bomber - BDD : More...

This deserves its own thread, the Znamya program was a Russian attempt to repurpose solar sail research into a space mirror. It consisted of: Znamya 1, tech demonstrator, remained on Earth for its testing Znamya 2, subscale prototype, successfully flown on a Progress mission in 1993 Znamya 2.5...

https://www.russianspaceweb.com/dals.html I am curious if any hardware for the DALS, the planned N1/L3 missions scientific equipment was produced or tested. I am also unaware of any scientific equipment that was specific to the fourth unlaunched Lunokhod (Lunokhod 3).

In my files this text, Trying to solve the problem of improving the air-to-ground performance of supersonic aircraft, several domestic design bureaus began working on projects for aircraft with additional lift engines. As a result, in the second half of the 1960s, a number of projects and...

Many nations were trying to make the take-off and landing distances shorter in the jet age, while still not relinquishing performance and/or payload. Some were better 'baked', like the swing-wing (with shortcoming being that allowed G load was not as good as on the fixed wings, even if titanium...

The 9M24 Reseda was a project for a small tactical nuke, roughly analogous to the Davy Crockett. I can't seem to find a diagram of its intended artillery vehicle, a BTR-60 chassis fitted with 2 launchers. https://en.topwar.ru/4522-yadernaya-artilleriya-sssr.html...

https://deepstorm.ru/DeepStorm.files/45-92/nns/999/list.htm https://deepstorm.ru/DeepStorm.files/45-92/nbrs/667AM/list.htm https://deepstorm.ru/DeepStorm.files/45-92/nbrs/667AM/k140/k140.htm https://nuke.fas.org/guide/russia/slbm/r-31.htm...

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-the-interplanetary-spacecraft-gelioraketoplan-valentin-glushko-s-graduation-22929658.html View: https://www.reddit.com/r/RadRockets/comments/gz9lwh/gelioraketoplan_energiaburan_designer_valentin/ Valentin Glushko's 1929 electric spacecraft design was...

What if Soviets acquired mirage V via Libya by early 70s and reverse engineered it and produced a ground attack fighter that can be used to fill numbers with VVS and also exported to Soviet client states Pros are Simple design and avionics That should be easily replicated by Soviets , and offer...

A Venera space-probe was launched in the early 1970s shortly after Venera 8 was launched and if it had successfully been injected into a heliocentric orbit it would've been Venera 9 but instead failed to leave orbit with the Soviets renaming it Cosmos 482 in an effort to sae face. It's orbit has...