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  1. N

    Fliegerfaust for Mijaheddyn?

    Some time ago, it must have been in 2013-2014, I was able to see in a movie (maybe on YouTube) a guerrilla with the typical Chitral cap used by ethnic Afghans Pashtun, equipped with a weapon system that looked like a German Fliegerfaust / Luftfaust and the militian who used it pointed it...
    • Nico
    • Thread
    • 1970s afghan national army cold war democratic republic of afghanistan early 1980s red army republic of afghanistan soviet union
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Secret Missile, Bomb and Gun Projects
  2. Grey Havoc

    Soviet Super Chicken (the Smena) reborn

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-09/putin-resurrects-soviet-super-chicken
    • Grey Havoc
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    • 21st century late 20th century russian federation soviet union
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: The Bar
  3. overscan (PaulMM)

    NPO Istok "Soyuz-Sintez" Experimental Radar program

    It appears so. https://lt.cjdby.net/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=2464223&extra=page%3D2%26filter%3Dtypeid%26typeid%3D156
  4. Andrei_bt

    Object 490 "Poplar" FMBT

    Future Soviet tank project “Object 490 Poplar” was under development by Eugenie Morozov's team from the end of 70-th up to the end of 80-s. The main features of the “Object 490” were: - crew consisting of two people - commander-gunner and driver. Reduce the crew to two people and place them in...
  5. Grey Havoc

    OGAS - a planned Soviet national computer network

    The full name was 'The All-State Automated System for the Gathering and Processing of Information for the Accounting, Planning and Governance of the National Economy, USSR' (OGAS being a Russian acronym for the first four words). It has been described as the 'Soviet Internet'. It might be more...
  6. Flyaway

    Proton rocket to cease flying

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/russias-proton-rocket-which-predates-apollo-will-finally-stop-flying/
    • Flyaway
    • Thread
    • 2010s 20th century 21st century cold war post-cold war russian federation soviet union space race
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  7. P

    Soviet archival films: ekranoplans, lunar N1, Buran - Energia.

    All these videos on Russian resources You Tube. The monster of the Caspian Sea. Leningrad. 1990. The whole story of Alekseev's ekranoplanes: from the prototypes of 1962 to the Orlionok. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2Vjuk12XAk Ekranoplan - amphibian Bartini. 1970...
    • pavel
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    • cccp cold war red fleet soviet moon program soviet strategic rocket forces soviet union space race ussr
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Bar
  8. P

    Soviet project of a scientific lunar tank in 1956.

    I write correctly - a tank? In old Soviet magazines of the late Stalin period and early Khrushchev I saw an interesting project of a lunar scientific tank. But - in Russian. Literary Russian language you will not understand. But tonight I downloaded a very interesting book. This is an Indian...
  9. blackkite

    Arkhangelsky high speed bomber SBB-1 and dive bomber SBB-2

    Hi! Arkhangelsky high speed bomber SBB-1 and dive bomber SBB-2. http://www.airwar.ru/enc/bww2/sbb.html http://eroplany.narod.ru/bibl/shavrov2/chr1/p1/sb1.htm http://alternathistory.com/pikiruyushchii-bombardirovshchik-arkhangelskii-b-2-sssr...
  10. Tuomasn

    X-30A COPPER CANYON and Tupolev Tu-2000A

    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...
  11. T

    Soviet balloon bombers et al.

    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...
  12. hesham

    First Western publications on Energiya-Buran

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

    Old Flying Barrel Airplanes

    Hi, here is some old flying barrel airplanes. http://allenfrostlibrary.blogspot.com.eg/2011/04/flying-barrel.html
    • hesham
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    • 20th century cold war early 1910s experimental french third republic great britain interwar period kingdom of italy late 1890s late 1900s late 19th century nazi germany pre-world war i soviet union steam powered aircraft united states world war ii
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Secret Early Aircraft Projects
  14. A

    Cuxhaven

    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...
    • antigravite
    • Thread
    • allies altenwalde/cuxhaven great britain occupied germany operation backfire post-world war ii soviet union united states world war ii
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: The Bar
  15. Antonio

    Tupolev Tu‑160: Soviet Strike Force Spearhead

    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...
    • Antonio
    • Thread
    • cold war heavy bomber long range aviation soviet union strategic bomber ussr voyenno-vozdushnyye sily
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Books & Marketplace
  16. Stargazer

    Little known Lithuanian aircraft

    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
  17. Michel Van

    Cats in Zero G

    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
    • Michel Van
    • Thread
    • cold war soviet union space race
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: The Bar
  18. Grey Havoc

    SOVIET NON-LINEAR COMBAT: THE CHALLENGE OF THE 90s

    http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a231789.pdf US Army Soviet Army Studies Office, September 1990.
    • Grey Havoc
    • Thread
    • 1990 cold war early 1990s red army soviet union u.s. army united states army us army soviet army studies office ussr
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  19. M

    Nuclear Ekranoplan 'Smelost'

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

    Few never-where projects from Central Naval Museum in St.Petersburg

    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...
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