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A completely new generation, the characteristics of the Permit class can still be summarized. Although, as always, the whole thing is more complicated, this phrase is not exaggerated at all. The class at the time had several so dizzying innovations that it can only be given priority - the first class of multi-purpose attack submarines with quiet operation and the ability of a large dive, designed to fight submarines.
The Bandkanon 1, abbreviation bkan 1 (meaning "tracked cannon 1"), was a Swedish self-propelled artillery vehicle in use with the Swedish Army from 1967 to 2003. Bkan 1 was one of the world's heaviest and most powerful self-propelled artillery vehicles in use during its service. Each shell had a weight of 47 kg and a tactical range of 28 km.
The Panzerkampfwagen 35(t), commonly shortened to Panzer 35(t) or abbreviated as Pz.Kpfw. 35(t), was a Czechoslovak-designed light tank used mainly by Nazi Germany during World War II. The letter (t) stood for tschechisch (German for "Czech"). In Czechoslovak service, it had the formal designation Lehký tank vzor 35 (Light Tank Model 35), but was commonly referred to as the LT vz. 35 or LT-35.
What exactly is and what is not the stopping effect of projectiles?
The XP-9 was Boeing's first attempt at a fighter monoplane. Model 96 was created according to the specifications of X-1623A, which were issued on May 24, 1928, and the contract for one machine with the military designation XP-9 was signed five days later.
Moravian nobleman from the originally Styrian Rottal family. For many years he held the highest provincial authorities in Moravia and during the Thirty Years' War he became an important figure of the Habsburg monarchy, and his activities eventually exceeded the borders of Moravia. He was promoted to count and received the Order of the Golden Fleece, he built an extensive property base in Moravia for his family. Thanks to the reckless performance of state authorities and the oppression of his subjects, he was nicknamed the Evil Rotal.
This is the first time that the award of a prominent British Prime Minister has been publicly auctioned.
This decontamination vehicle Sd.Kfz.10 / 2 had a storage platform with steel profile sides created behind the driver's and passenger's cab. Eight barrels of decontamination chemical were carried on the storage area.
Another of Stalin's orders ...
The first modern construction of a nuclear submarine, which was designed after the end of the Cold War, is the Virginia class. It was with the end of the Cold War that spending on the then new Seawolf class, which was to gradually replace the Los Angeles class, surfaced. The total cost of building 1 submarine was an incredible 2.765 billion USD (1991), and therefore it was unthinkable to build several dozen submarines of this class. In order not to waste the money spent, 3 Seawolf vessels were built, but at the same time a decision was made to announce a new submarine competition to replace the Los Angeles class.
The Lockheed Ventura is a twin-engine medium bomber and patrol bomber of World War II. The Ventura first entered combat in Europe as a bomber with the RAF in late 1942. Designated PV-1 by the United States Navy (US Navy), it entered combat in 1943 in the Pacific. The bomber was also used by the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF), which designated it the Lockheed B-34 (Lexington) and B-37 as a trainer. British Commonwealth forces also used it in several guises, including antishipping and antisubmarine search and attack.
Founder of Czech and Slovak faleristics. Together with Václav Měřička, he has a special credit for the fact that the term faleristics (the science of orders) has gradually become international.
The life story of a partisan commander who reached the rank of general and under whose command the captain Ján Nálepka passed with his soldiers
The development of Karl-Gerät 040 took a long time, so he did not have time for the initial campaign for which it was designed, but now a new adversary has appeared. Although he was a former loyal ally, now there was nothing to prevent him from testing a new weapon in his territory, which many German officers had been familiar with from the time of close cooperation.
Artillery was called the god of war. His concentrated fire was able to drown bold attacks in blood or disrupt enemy defenses. The construction of artillery technology reached its peak during the Second World War and just after it. Some types reached monstrous proportions. One such was the Karl-Gerät 040 weighing over 100 tons.
The M3 Lee, officially Medium Tank, M3, was an American medium tank used during World War II. The turret was produced in two forms, one for US needs and one modified to British requirements to place the radio next to the commander. In British Commonwealth service, the tank was called by two names: tanks employing US pattern turrets were called "Lee", named after Confederate general Robert E. Lee, while those with British pattern turrets were known as "Grant", named after Union general Ulysses S. Grant.
The SU project (S.Ú.V. - medium attack car) of the Škoda Plzeň company was created in 1933 as a reaction to the competing P-II (LT vz.34) of the ČKD company. The prototype was built in the first half of 1934 and according to the new categorization of tanks received the designation Š-II.
The American fighter Buffalo has become a real synonym for failure in the history of air battles in World War II. The characteristically shaped monoplane was developed by Brewster as an onboard aircraft for the US Navy. The only clearly successful deployment was the service of the Model 239 version in the ranks of the Finnish Air Force. In the British RAF, which together with the USN was one of its largest users, it completely failed.
The German battle cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen, moored in Brest after returning from corsair cruises, became the targets of British air raids, which could sooner or later severely damage them. Therefore, it was decided to move them to Germany, where they could be provided with better defense.
General Radola Gajda, born Rudolf Geidl, was a Czech soldier, one of the main commanders of the Czechoslovak legions in Russia, an interwar general and a Czechoslovak fascist politician.
