I am by no means conversant with the aviation of Baltic countries, but I have a handful of Lithuanian aircraft on my HD, all from the 1980s... perhaps these may be of interest to some? Maybe some more light could be shed upon them?
Kyansgayl Aushra
Kizhis Varnye
Konchus Antis
Vaineikis Exzotica
This Soviet video show experiment with Cats in "Vomit Comet" kind aircraft
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CLB1pE6w3U
it's interesting to see how the cat adapt to situation
Could some-one in the know explain what the research ships Akademik Ioffee and Akademik Vavilov were built to do?
I've just been on the Ioffe and there is some interesting kit still onboard. The standard answer was that they were built in 1989 for sound propagation trials, Ioffe the transmitter...
Sergey Pavlovich Nepobedimy (September 13, 1921 – April 11, 2014) was a Soviet designer of rocket weaponry. He was the Head and Chief Designer of the Kolomna Mechanical Engineering Design Bureau (1965-1989).
Born in Ryazan, USSR, he graduated from Bauman Moscow State Technical University in...
Hi,
the Arkhangelski B-2 was a dive-bomber project,all details you can find it here;
http://alternathistory.org.ua/pikiruyushchii-bombardirovshchik-arkhangelskii-b-2-sssr
Would the history of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union have been different if Grigory Vasilyevech Romanov had been elected as Secretary General of the CPSU on March 11, 1985 rather than Mikhail Gorbachev? Thoughts?
Original Lineart from the Russian Naval Site:
http://img-fotki.yandex.ru/get/9510/5684310.1/0_dacf5_3fde0669_orig
http://otvaga2004.ru/atrina/atrina-sovr/proekt-1125/
This is a generic info on the shp someone with better Russian language skills could make a better translation!
After the design...
Of course, we've all heard of the SPPU-22, SPPU-6 and maybe SPPU-687... but what exactly with the SPPU-30's intended role? What about the other flexible gun mounts under development in the early 80s?
Some information on the PP-27 mobile gun mount for the Su-27...
Here is a list of all known M-8 family designations from Catalogue of aeronautical products and systems (it has been translated, reorganized and reordered according to the sequence of the Western alphabet). I am pretty certain however that additions and corrections will inevitably happen!
V-8...
cold war
commonwealth of independent states
electronic warfare
mil design bureau
post-cold war
red army
red fleet
russian federation
soviet air forces
sovietunion
ussr
I could be mistaken, but despite the numerous mentions of BOR-4 program (which led to BOR-5 and then Buran) I haven't found a single topic devoted to it, so here goes.
These pictures show the Kosmos-1445 sub-scale demonstrator being retrieved at sea after some flight test. The second one...
Here is the Antonov OKA-38. Not only was it an obvious copy of the German Fieseler Fi 156 Storch, it was also Antonov's very first aircraft (until then he had only designed and built gliders and motor gliders).
On top of its OKA- designation, it was also designated as the ShS, and was developed...
Hi everybody,
I'm looking for information about soviet decoy missiles launched from bombers, if any.
In the USA during the Cold War there were some projects about decoy missiles (i.e. the ADM-20 Quail or the Convair MX-2223), but I didn't find any info about similar projects in the Soviet Union...
Progrev-T Tank
All i know is that this tank had a mig jet engine on its turret and it was suppose to destroy mines.
Any more information will be highly appreciated.
Thank you
Seeing as there seems to be some confusion about these designs and we don't seem to have a topic -
In 1992, Fatadin Mukhamedov registered two patents for aircraft designs, a high capacity airliner and a manouverable trainer/light fighter aircraft.
In 1993, he was involved with Eurasia, one...
Does any one know why the name of Mikhail Gurevich was dropped from the Mikoyan-and-Gurevich Design Bureau in 1970 becoming the Mikoyan Design Bureau? Does this also mean that Western aviation books that identify aircraft designed and manufactured after 1970 with the name Mikoyan-Gurevich are...
Retronaut.co just put up a beautiful collection of Soviet space propaganda posters from 1958-1963; worth checking out if you are a fan of vintage space art!
Cloudbase is the fictional skyborne headquarters of international security organisation Spectrum,
from Gerry Anderson's science fiction television series Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
Years later the British Interplanetary Society proposed so a Cloudbase, but for Atmosphere of Venus !
In...
aerostat habitats
airship
airships
cccp
floating city
great britain
nasa
offworld colonies
sovietunion
space age
space race
united kingdom
united states
Avico Press offers a reprint of extremely rare, in-house Ilyushin Design Bureau 44-page album, fully dedicated to this rare bird, a Soviet analogue of Northrop A-9 in terms of unlucky fortune.
CD-ROM edition USD $30
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Th N1 rocketwas built back in the 60's by the USSR to put a man on the Moon, but I have read that it also had the goal of launching heavy military space hardware, including space stations, and putting it in Earth orbit. I konow the Almaz project and the Polyus satellite, but the former were...
During WWII the British Army came up with the idea of an Assault Tank to defeat German emplaced anti tank guns (PAK) via artillery suppression. Trialled with Churchills the idea was that the assault tank unit would advance into a friendly artillery bombardment that would suppress the anti tank...
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