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  1. 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...
  2. M

    Antonov An-24 bomber

    Can the Soviets in the 1970s convert a version of An-24 as a night bomber to be used by third world countries. Whose opponents had little or no night fighting capabilities back then
  3. 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
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    • 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: 43
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  4. T

    1935-45: airforce on a tight budget & schedule

    Everybody and his brother were trying to have as good as aiforce/air-service as possible, and especially in the specified time frame, but many times the available budget was a serious brick wall between the desires and reality. What kind of aircraft should a not-rich, but a reasonably developed...
    • tomo pauk
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    • canada empire of japan first czechoslovak republic french third republic great britain interwar period kingdom of belgium kingdom of italy kingdom of romania kingdom of sweden kingdom of yugoslavia republic of poland soviet union united states world war ii
    • Replies: 39
    • Forum: Alternative History and Future Speculation
  5. YourChair

    French 400, 406, 420, and 431mm naval gun designs from the late 30s

    Hello! The book French Battleships 1922-56 mentions that for the Alsace-class battleship designs, studies for 400, 406, and 420mm guns were ordered. Additionally, a 406mm naval gun was created by the Schneider company for the Soviet Union, and a 431mm naval gun was created: the elusive Canon de...
  6. 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...
  7. L

    Soviet vs US radar processors comparison

    Been trying to find out more on this subject, but there seems to be frustratingly little. I'm interested in finding out data on 1970s-1980s soviet and american radar processors to form an idea about the oft-mentioned gap between the two in this domain. i'm not a computer man so anything detailed...
  8. 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...
  9. A

    MiG 5 (alleged)

    In the rand mcnally encyclopedia of military aircraft, there is a plane in there called a MiG 5. It isn't the DIS however, and it appears like a MiG 3 with a radial swap. It has some differences from the MiG 3 though. The books mentions it being in service but having poor performance when...
  10. 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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    RIP Mikhail Maslov

    On December 8, 2022, at the age of 68, Soviet / Russian aviation historian Mikhail Alexandrovich Maslov passed away.
    • borovik
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    • aerospace cold war post-cold war russian federation soviet union
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: The Bar
  12. Forest Green

    Kh-45 Hypersonic missile

    This was apparently being developed for the Soviet T-4 and DSB-LK hypersonic bomber and were also planned for the Tu-160. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kh-45 View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ed5CYLk6B5Y&t=500s
  13. flateric

    NPO Energiya Pody'om (Lift-off) system - pre-Energiya-Buran

    https://vk.com/wall914417_13541 http://epizodyspace.ru/bibl/glushko/izbran-rab-glushko/3/01.html
    • flateric
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    • 1970s cccp cold war soviet strategic rocket forces soviet union space age space race ussr
    • Replies: 15
    • Forum: Secret Space Projects
  14. Q

    Soviet targeting pods (Mercuriy LLTV)

    Did the Soviets have any targeting pods? One I know of, for example, the SP-14S Prozhektor And did they have anything else besides that?
  15. Grey Havoc

    Most underrated Soviet Tank @The Tank Museum (Military History Visualized)

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnUvur4Wtu4
    • Grey Havoc
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    • military history visualized post-world war ii red army soviet union tank the tank museum world war ii
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: Military
  16. T

    MiG 19 -> Soviet F-5 -> Soviet F-20?

    Lets send the MiG company on the path not chosen wrt. their 'budget' fighters. Instead, they make a spin-off of the MiG 19 that has a wing better suited for high speeds (not 8.74% t-t-c at root as on the -19, but under 4.5% as it was case with MiG-21; wing is also of the shorter span), and...
  17. overscan (PaulMM)

    Soviet era AAM seekers - PARG series

    PARG-1VV - R-8R (AA-3 Anab) PARG-10VV - R-4R (AA-5 Ash) PARG-12VV - R-40R (AA-6 Acrid) PARG-13VV - R-3R (AA-2 Aphid) PARG-14VV - R-98 (AA-3 Anab) PARG-15VV - R-4MR AAM (AA-5 Ash) PARG-30VV - R-25 AAM (Sparrow copy - CW - abandoned). PARG-50VV - R-13MK AAM (combined SARH and IR seeker -...
    • overscan (PaulMM)
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    • air-to-air missile frontal aviation soviet air defence forces soviet air forces soviet union ussr v-pvo
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Designation Systems
  18. Andrei_bt

    Т-64A and object 287, object 775 ERA, 1968 design

    The story of how in 1968 the universal dynamic protection for the Object 775 and T-64A tanks was developed and tested, surpassing all subsequent developments of the Research Institute of Steel - "Contact" and "Contact-5". This page of the history of tank building is not mentioned anywhere...
  19. S

    Tom Clancy’s Red Storm Rising animated chapters by FIXEDIT

    These are well worth a look. I wonder what FIXEDIT could do with a bigger budget! View: https://youtu.be/VVjdFBZCRQc View: https://youtu.be/zo8FhChnyq0 View: https://youtu.be/rTov2oSXR8M View: https://youtu.be/4irbMNQc8As
    • SteveO
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    • alternate history cold war great britain north atlantic treaty organisation red army soviet union united states ussr west germany world war iii
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Found on the Internet
  20. Orionblamblam

    UK Limited Nuclear War Target List

    If things get more interesting, what targets in the UK might Putin nuke? An interesting video, and some backup data: UK Limited Nuclear War Target List View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYWcgF4Wwog
    • Orionblamblam
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    • cold war cold war ii electronic warfare emp / emi great britain nuclear battlefield russian federation soviet union sub-strategic nuke tactical nuke ukrainian crisis united kingdom
    • Replies: 19
    • Forum: The Bar
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