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Deino once again with a silly or maybe even stupid question … this time regarding on old type (in fact not my personal darling … I don’t like these old-barrel-type fighters!), the MiG-15 and MiG-15UTI in China. Fact is that that in early 1950, with China entering the war in Koreas, MANY...

Model of deployment concept of A-90 Orlyonok atop Antonov An-225 Mriya for rapid response search and rescue to disasters at sea or the arctic. Description: Source: http://www.ussr-airspace.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=28_39_49&products_id=1321

Three-view drawing of Tupolev Tu-304. Source: http://www.sergib.agava.ru/russia/tupolev/304/304.htm

In the Eighties there was an infamous spate of submarine incidents in Swedish waters, apparently involving mini submarines penetrating close to shore (and even inside harbour areas). From the reports at least some of these would appear to have been fitted with Caterpillar/Tank style Tracks...

Special for Maveric (sorry about the long wait)(( V.Shavrov Gribovskiy G-1 - glider, 1924, Gribovskiy G-2 - record glider, 1927, G-2 bis, 1928-1935 as a training glider built serially Gribovskiy G-3 - four set, twin-fuselage, transport glider, 1924, only project...

Hi, the Kharkov Aviavnito-8 was a Project of 1937 for 11-passenger transport aircraft developed from KhAI-3,powered by one M-11 engine,bur never flown.The Aviavnito-9 was fast passenger transport aircraft of 1934 powered by one M-34 engine,but was never built.

i found this on German Wikipedia An-22PLO in October 1965 experiments start for a nuclear power An-22 Build aircraft 01-06 was used for radiation shield test Build aircraft 01-07 had the Reactor on board in September 1972 01-07 began 23 test flights near Semipalatinsk under codename "Stork"...

Vladimir Sergeevich Ilyushin was born on 31 March, 1927, the eldest son of leading Soviet aircraft designer Sergei Vladimirovich Ilyushin. Ilyushin's father was a favoured member of the Soviet establishment. It may be noted that aircraft designer Tupolev blamed Ilyushin's father for the...

Interesting. A little technical correction here: this was S-80 — not Su- for Sukhoi but S- for Simonov. Sukhoi model numbers are not allocated to all the designs, only those that get to the production stage.

http://www.ninfinger.org/models/vault2004/Energiya-M%20Reference/index.html "NPO Energiya 1991 drawings of Energiya-M

if anyone can help, would be very obliged Klass, Philip J., "Anti-Satellite Laser Use Suspected," Aviation Week & Space Technology, December 8, 1975, pp. 12-13. “DOD Continues Satellite Blinding Investigation,” Aviation Week & Space Technology (January 5, 1976) p. 18. "Soviets Push for Beam...

Models of Sukhoi S-80 design concepts prior to 1993. Source:http://www.reaa.ru/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.pl?num=1228308628/540

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In August 1965 TsKB-16, later Rubin, was directed to respond to the Tactical-Technical Elements (TTE) requirement for a large diesel-electric submarine LST designated Project 748. The design bureau, realizing the limitations of conventional propulsion for this submarine's missions, additionally...

In 1970, the Soviet Navy started Project 1165 Fugas to create a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser. Also at this time, the Soviet Navy intended Project 1144 Orlan to be a nuclear-powered surface ship of some 9,000 tons displacement. Information on Project 1165 is very scarce and there is...

The Kronshtadt class (Project 69) were a class of battlecruisers ordered for the Soviet Navy in the late 1930s. In the Soviet Union they were called "heavy cruisers" or thyazholyi kreyser. Two ships were started, but none were completed due to World War II. These ships had a complex and...

Higly protected manned-unmanned systems vith remote control for special situations. Info (in russian) - http://andrei-bt.livejournal.com/13350.html

T-74 Designed in 1971 as the successor to the T-64 by Kharkov, however resistance from the army, the retirement of Morozov and the replacement of Andrei Gretchko as Minister of Defence by Dimitry Ustinov (who favoured the gas turbine powered T-80) ended this project. Kharkov continued to...

Have just come across the Objekt 1200 IFV, whilst looking for more info on the 'Object 292' 152mm gun tank thread. The Objekt 1200 looks to be an Interesting 'wheeled' development variant of the then state of the art 'tracked' BMP-1 MICV that stunned the Western world when it appeared. I have...