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Area 51

As then, there are legends today. Writing about them is not easy, because often there is only a thin line between what is true of them and what are just ideas. In ancient times, these myths and legends were about gods and heroes who spread the glory of their nations around the world. Today, these heroes have almost disappeared and been replaced by other mythological characters. And not just you. Today, a number of places and areas of the planet, which man has embellished or made more mysterious than anything else in the world, have developed into the imaginary pedestal of mythology.
🕔︎ 12.02.2007 👁︎ 66.560

CIAF 2006

Photo gallery from this year's CIAF
🕔︎ 17.09.2006 👁︎ 7.245

Fokker D.VIII

The last fighter in the Fokker family of fighters.
🕔︎ 05.10.2006 👁︎ 12.298

Golf for the CIA

Probably everyone interested in history and the military knows the film Hunt for a Submarine or its literary masterpiece by Tom Clancy. However, it is less known that the story of a Soviet submarine captain and an American agent who tries to smuggle him and the ship into the USA, at least from the American side, is based on a real event.
🕔︎ 02.02.2007 👁︎ 35.710

Ilyushin Il-28

Il-28 was an all-metal twin-engine upper wing with a straight wing and cigar fuselage with three separate pressurized spaces.
🕔︎ 30.01.2019 👁︎ 4.016

Josef Balabán

Commander the legendary resistance group called "the Three kings".

🕔︎ 25.11.2019 👁︎ 2.945

KRTP-81 Ramona

The KRTP-81 Ramona passive radio searcher enables the simultaneous aiming of up to 20 air targets with the help of triangulation aiming (3 Ramona stations are needed to aim the target).

🕔︎ 23.10.2020 👁︎ 3.883

Letov Sh-1

The aircraft Š.A. was established in 1919 as the first military aircraft of Czechoslovak construction, which was to be included in the armament of the Air Force of the Czechoslovak Republic.
🕔︎ 30.01.2019 👁︎ 2.791

Letov Sh-128

The aircraft was created on the basis of a prototype Š-28, which was instead of a non-compliant engine Walter Castor I equipped with a new more powerful star engine Walter Jupiter VI, which had twice the power.
🕔︎ 30.01.2019 👁︎ 2.454

Letov Sh-16

Letov Š-16 and the related type series are probably the most successful and most famous aircraft of the designer Alois Šmolík.
🕔︎ 30.01.2019 👁︎ 4.053

Letov Sh-20

The Letov Š-20 fighter was established in 1925 as a modern fighter for the Czechoslovak Air Force.
🕔︎ 30.01.2019 👁︎ 3.954

Letov Sh-228E

Because already in 1931 it was clear that even the last development version of the series Letov Š-X28 marked Š-128 was not the most suitable solution to the problems of the new aircraft.
🕔︎ 30.01.2019 👁︎ 3.739

Letov Sh-3

Letov Š-3 is the first fighter aircraft designed by Alois Šmolík.
🕔︎ 30.01.2019 👁︎ 3.847

Letov Sh-328

Letov Š-328 is a designation for Š-328FM aircraft supplied by the Letov factory to the Czechoslovak Air Force. The aircraft were not always completely identical and their deviations were evident from the individual series.
🕔︎ 30.01.2019 👁︎ 4.921

Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.8

This lesser-known British fighter, which remained somewhat undeservedly in the shadow of the more famous Airco DH.2, successfully helped break German rule in the air in the summer of 1916 and stop the " Fokker's broom ".
🕔︎ 24.02.2009 👁︎ 6.584

Seven days Part 1

November 17, 1989, we perceive primarily as the so-called Velvet Revolution. But how could events unfold if history went a little differently? This article is not a picture of real events, but a mere fiction, based on the facts of the time and a prediction of the development of equipment and the deployment of our army. The text deals with events mainly from the perspective of the Czechoslovak Air Force.
🕔︎ 17.11.2008 👁︎ 41.721

Seven days Part 2

The first three aircraft get over Munich and register only two enemy air defense radars, which immediately destroy. Because only the anti-aircraft artillery tracks are flying to meet them, they drop their bombs and immediately turn to return, while the remaining Ch-58 fires at radars, which they aim along the way.
🕔︎ 17.11.2008 👁︎ 35.980

Seven days Part 3

November 17, 1989, we perceive primarily as the so-called Velvet Revolution. But how could events unfold if history went a little differently? This article is not a picture of real events, but a mere fiction, based on the facts of the time and a prediction of the development of equipment and the deployment of our army. The text deals with events mainly from the perspective of the Czechoslovak Air Force.
🕔︎ 17.11.2008 👁︎ 31.381

Sopwith Dolphin

Lesser known British fighter plane from WWI.
🕔︎ 28.11.2006 👁︎ 7.944

Sopwith Pup

The famous British fighter aircraft from 1916
🕔︎ 28.11.2006 👁︎ 7.654

Sopwith Snipe

Description and history of the fighter from the First World War.
🕔︎ 06.11.2006 👁︎ 8.165

Sukhoi Su-17/20/22 in the Czechoslovak Air Force

Based on a series of articles on the Su-17/20/22 aircraft type series, a summary article was created with the history of the entire series and its activities in the Czech Air Force.
🕔︎ 15.08.2006 👁︎ 65.586

Tu-95

The Tupolev Tu-95 Bear is arguably the most successful, most widely used and most variable four-engine propeller bomber in the history of the USSR Air Force.

🕔︎ 26.10.2022 👁︎ 5.140

Tupolev Tu-144

The Tupolev Tu-144 represents the Soviet counterpart of the Western European supersonic transport aircraft Concorde and at the same time the fastest transport aircraft in the world.
🕔︎ 05.10.2006 👁︎ 13.960

Tupolev Tu-95 Bear-A

Tupolev Tu-95 Bear is probably the most successful, most used and most variable four-engine propeller bomber in the history of the USSR Air Force.
🕔︎ 05.10.2006 👁︎ 13.274

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