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...
1990s
2000s
alternate history
cold war
early 2010s
great britain
north atlantic treaty organisation
sovietunion
united states
warsaw pact
western europe
what-if
Here's a quote from Joe Marcus as published in Studs Terkel's book "THE GOOD WAR".
" There were two important secret projects. They had code names. One was the Manhattan Project. We all know what that is now. The other was the Arctic Circle Project. I didn't know what the hell it was...
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...
Stickleback Class
Midge XPW
Minnow (X54)
Stickleback (X51)
Shrimp (X52)
Sprat (X53)
Stickleback Class
1954 - 1958
The Stickleback class submarines were midget submarines of the Royal Navy initially ordered as improved versions of the older XE class submarines.
The Royal Navy may have...
1950s
atomic mines
atomic sea mine
baltic fleet (ussr)
cold war
great britain
nuclear battlefield
red fleet
royal navy
sovietunion
submarine
united kingdom
world war iii
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
It seems the Ka-52 series is going back to Kamov's roots.
http://www.newsbcm.com/doc/999
While it does not strike me as a great 'coast guard' helicopter, it would be a wonderful 'pirate guard' helicopter. Of course a couple of those in the US Coast Guard, might make the fast boat challenge...
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
For ordering fill a request form at http://www.avicopress.com/shop-1
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...
Hi all
Some additions to widely known file (http://www.designation-systems.net/non-us/soviet.html) with codenames of aircraft and missiles. The information is taken from FAS.org and Wiki (sorry :) )
DOD NATO Missile
AA-2D Advanced Atoll without changes
AA-2-2 Advanced Atoll...
cold war
cold war ii
department of defense
early 21st century
late 20th century
north atlantic treaty organisation
people's republic of china
post-cold war
sovietunion
united states
ussr
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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