soviet union

Thought there was a thread on this already, my apologies for the belated post. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62964177 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/19/science/valery-polyakov-dead.html https://www.astronomy.com/news/2022/09/valeri-polyakov-record-breaking-cosmonaut-dies-at-age-80...

Just found this, and thought I would share it: https://alternathistory.com/teleupravlyaemye-krasnoarmejtsy-elektrotanketka-fantasta-kazantseva/ It seems to be a little-known Soviet equivalent to the German Goliath (and likewise French Kegress Machine).

Published in "Техника Молодёжи-Youth Technique" from 1936 the picture shows a fuel supply in flight. The caption to the picture says "The fuel truck (aircraft tanker) flew 30 meters above us and slightly ahead. Suddenly, a hatch opened in the lower part of it, from which a thick hose descended"...

Hello, good afternoon. This is my second post. Thank you for reading. Russian old magazines on the Internet are a cemetery of romantic impractical futurism. I found absolutely unique magazines - a rarity even on the Internet. This is Knowledge-Power. Journals for students of polytechnic...

Does anyone know more about the Raketoplan designs in the background of the picture, which are on display at the Moscow Museum of Cosmonautics? To which OKB do they belong?

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Since the end of the First World War, bold attempts were made in the Soviet Union in the field of rockets and various types of weapons, although timid, but existing and somewhat significant for the hard period that the Union was going through at that time, sometimes typically handcrafted and...

Ok, this is a scenario I've been working on for a while now, so I'd like to hear other peoples' thoughts on it. It has some plot devices though (the Soviet Union not completely falling apart, Bush restarting the Cold War, etc), but I think it's realistic enough to seem sane from a glance. In...

View: https://twitter.com/dnkornev/status/1239917534943621121 http://militaryrussia.ru/blog/topic-809.html

Everyone, I am aware that there are lots of illustrations and even some photos of Soviet-era nuclear warheads intended to be put on their ICBMs. But what I haven't found is data about: a)--During ICBM launch tests from Tyuratam (to Kamchatka and/or the Pacific Ocean), what was the dimensions...

When I chatted with East German friends in the 80s before the Wall came down I was interested in how both Regime critical church people and pro Regime journalists agreed that 1968 had been a missed opportunity to reform the Communist system. Since the fall of the Wall it has been claimed that...

From, Самолеты С. А. Лавочкина.

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Russian wiki: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%90%D0%A3_%D1%81_535-%D0%BC%D0%BC_%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%B5%D0%BC_%D0%94-80_%D0%BD%D0%B0_%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5_%D0%97%D0%98%D0%9B-135%D0%9B Another Site...

From, Поликарпов У-2, here is a drawings to Polikarpov U-2 and its variants.

Has anyone seen/puchased/reviewed this - was released earlier this year:

From, Бомбардировщик ТБ-3. Воздушный суперлинкор Сталина

On this day in 1951, the Soviet Union launched the R-1 rocket into space with two dogs. The names of the dogs were Dezik and Cigan the flight lasted 20 minutes and the rocket reached an altitude of 110 km these were the first living beings to leave the earth

Hi, here is a Tupolev Tu-14 Origins ad Derivatives,please note the tables.