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My 3D models of two comparable 1980s SSTO projects: This one is meant to represent the "Government baseline" vehicle that was the end result of the $5.5-million COPPER CANYON study program run in 1984-1985, and input for NASP Phase 2. It was scaled up somewhat from the initial "du Pont...

Hi all, some time ago I find a very brief description of soviet balloon bombers of the '50-'60; they intended to use them in the same way the American used the GENETRIX and MELTING POT balloons for recce flights over the USSR...

Hi, here is the Russian old shuttle heavy lift launch vehicle. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1986/1986%20-%200900.html

Hi, here is some old flying barrel airplanes. http://allenfrostlibrary.blogspot.com.eg/2011/04/flying-barrel.html

Hi there, For all those having an interest in WWII rocket science material (V-2), an original photo album on Berlin / Cuxhaven is up for sale on the bay. There are really interesting never-seen before pictures here...

https://www.amazon.com/Tupolev-Tu-x2011-160-Spearhead/dp/0764352040/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471166141&sr=8-1&keywords=Tu-160 Publication date: november 2016 Is this going to be just a revision of the original Red Star excellent monographic...

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

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a231789.pdf US Army Soviet Army Studies Office, September 1990.

I just have to share this link. This SF - Ekranoplan looks just WOW! https://www.artstation.com/artwork/o0z3J (pictures added)

Took a trip to St.Petersburg earlier this week and visited in the Tsetralnyy Voenno-Morskoi Muzeyi or in the Central naval museum. It contains alot of models of Russian and Soviet warships of which many pics are found on the internet. Among those that are some of the famous never-where projects...

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...

Hello there, long time lurker, first time poster as they say, so my first post is a spot of a challenge. The Cold War instead of ending when it did thanks to Mr Gorbachev being a realist, has continued through to 18th October 2012, NATO forces are now in the process of being reduced, so think...

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...

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...