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The S-400 anti-aircraft missile system is to gradually replace the S-50 anti-aircraft system defending the Moscow region and at the same time the capital of the Russian Federation, Moscow, in the near future. The system is structurally based on the S-300P system with several changes, including in particular new electronic, hardware and software equipment, a new automated command system and the use of chassis exclusively of Russian (Belarusian) origin.
Reconnaissance tank for artillery
Chassis designed as a carrier for special superstructures of military use with a maximum weight of 15,900 kg with a total permissible vehicle weight of 29,000 kg. The T815-7T3R31 is a three-axle vehicle with all-wheel drive and a central tire inflation system while driving.
Designed and built in South Africa, the Atlas AH-2 Rooivalk is an attack helicopter for combat zones during day and night deployment, even in bad weather.
The history of this aircraft is more than interesting. It was originally developed by a German team led by designers Willy Messerschmitt and G. Madellung in Spain for Hispano. In the second half of the 50's, she worked on a fighter plane project for the Spanish Air Force. The design team therefore designed the HA-300 project, which was a machine reaching speeds of up to Mach 2.
If you were surprised that I ask the question from the title on the pages of a serious historical website, then you will probably be surprised by the answer to it. Harry Potter fell on Saturday, July 22, 1939, in a shootout with Arab insurgents near the Palestinian city of Hebron. Don't you believe that? This article will explain the circumstances of Harry's short life and his violent death.
13.02.2020 a Soviet intelligence officer, Polish teacher and active participant in the fight against Nazism, but also an active participant in the suppression of democracy in several Central European countries - Major Vichr - died in Moscow at the age of 103.
The Grom portable anti-aircraft kit is a Polish compilation of the Igla-1 kit, for which MESKO purchased a license in the 1980s (but its production was not finally launched) and a set of Igla-M missile sensors, exported by Russia.
A new generation of 6x6 and 8x8 off-road trucks for the German Bundeswehr.
Simultaneously with the development of the Wirbelwind anti-aircraft tank, there was also the development of a self-propelled anti-aircraft tank armed with a 37 mm cannon, which was given the combat name Ostwind (Eastern Wind). The chassis of the medium tank Pz.Kpfw.IV ausf.J.
This machine was to be the first successor of the heavy tank IS-1, whose 85mm cannon was not a completely adequate response to the new German tanks.
The development of a large helicopter for civil and military use was personally promoted by Ernst Udet. From the smaller Fw 61 thus emerged Fa 266, which after the outbreak of war changed to Fw 223 for military deployment.
The medal was awarded to members of the Czechoslovak army abroad. It could be granted to members of the Allied armies who took part in the liberation struggles in the Czechoslovakia and to those who were assigned to serve in the Czechoslovak Army abroad and in Czechoslovak air units abroad and held this service for at least two months.
The story of a Soviet scout who organized a partisan movement in Slovakia and the Czech Republic during the Second World War.
Designed as a cheap single-engine replacement for the Me 262. After the rejection of the project by the Ministry of Aviation, the prototype was completed by Messerschmitt as an experimental wing with a variable-incidence wing.
When we say American Civil War, readers usually think of terms like the Confederacy and the Union, the secession of the South from the North, the names of generals like Grant and Lee, the names of battlefields like Bull Run, Antietam and Gettysburg, and last but not least the southern surrender of Appomattox. However, few people are aware that North and South troops have fought bloody battles not only in the eastern United States,but also on the battlefields of New Mexico and Texas.
The TATRAPAN PVO vehicle is designed as a mobile command post - MOVES for the automation of command and control of subordinate AA resources.
After the end of the Second World War, there was a number of half-track equipment on Czechoslovak territory, including armored personnel carriers Sd.Kfz.251 of various versions. The usable specimens immediately became part of the temporary units of the Armored unit in the Prague Uprising in May 1945 and subsequently, after the end of the war, to secure the borders of the restored Czechoslovakia.
Probably a little-known fact from the history of our post-war air force is the fact that between 1945 and 1989 our pilots claimed not only several victories of various types of aircraft during service at the State Air Defense, but also in several cases became a real target of live fire of foreign aircraft.
All these events are all the more spicy because an Allied aircraft from the Warsaw Pact had always hit our aircraft and not an "imperialist" adversary on the other side of the Iron Curtain, as might be expected. In the following text, we will be convinced that this was mostly due to either a mistake by the ground-controlled interception station, a pilot error, or the interplay of both of these factors and other related circumstances together.
Pilot, instructor, commander.
