RUSSIAN APACHE HELICOPTER
This Mil Mi-24 "Hind-D" Soviet heavy attack helicopter is on display at the Imperial Museum in Duxford, England. Over 1,000 of these aircraft have been produced, seeing service with the armies of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries as well as Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Cuba, India, Iraq, Libya, Mozambique, Nicaragua, North Korea, Peru, South Yemen, and Vietnam. [ larger image ]
MiG-29 is a 4 TH generation fighter jet aircraft that was designed by the Soviet Union to carryout air supply due to the air superiority it has. It was developed in the 1970s and started operating in 1983. The MiG-29 Fulcrum also known as Tochka Opori in Russian was built with intentions of becoming the single-seat supersonic. It can withstand all-weather, carryout air superiority and it may be the last fighter produced from the Mikoyan Design Bureau.
The main reason for the MiG-29 is to dismantle the air targets from distance of 60 to 200 kilometers along all altitudes, profiles, under any weather, and conditions. It has advanced versions capable of taking the air-to-ground operations. This makes it possible to optimized attacks on static and motion targets when the motions are guided.
There are developments that have taken place in MiG-29 in order to meet the target of a Light Frontline Fighter Project. This included the new operational requirement to replace MiG-21 and MiG-23 to improve the air defense air forces. It led to the production of lightweight fighter to increase the operations under air superiority.
The Thompson SMG had two types in military use. The M1928A1 could use either box magazines or drums. Box magazines were preferred because the drums would often rattle. The ratting was obviously a serious problem for troops trying to remain silent as they traveled or attempted an ambush. It also had cooling fins in the barrel, and a charging handle at the top of the receiver.
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), also known as a Unmanned aircraft System (UAS) or a remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) or unmanned aircraft, is a machine which functions either by the remote control of a navigator or pilot (called a Combat Systems Officer on UCAVs) or autonomously, that is, as a self-directing entity. Their largest use is within military applications. To distinguish UAVs from missiles, a UAV is defined as a "powered, aerial vehicle that does not carry a human operator, uses aerodynamic forces to provide vehicle lift, can fly autonomously or be piloted remotely, can be expendable or recoverable, and can carry a lethal or nonlethal payload".
MI-24 Hind D/F Specifications
| Crew | 2 - With Pilot seated above and behind Gunner + 2 door gunners (optional) |
| Engines | Two Klimov 1500-hp TV3-117 turboshafts |
| Dimensions | L - 17.51m W (rotor diameter) - 17.30m H - 3.97m |
| Weights | 8200 kg (empty) 26,455 kg (max loudout) |
| Max Speed | 180 kt (279 kph) |
| Range | 1000 km - with external fuel pods |
| Armament | One 12.7 mm four barrel YakB machine gun in rotating gun pod / twin 30 mm cannon on fuselage 4 x anti-tank missiles (at-2 / at-6) rocket pods door-mounted machine guns bomblets |
CH-46E Sea Knight Specifications
| Crew | 4 - Pilot, Co-pilot & 1 - crew chief & 1 door-gunner / observer |
| Engines | 2 Two General Electric T58-GE-15 1,869 hp engines |
| Dimensions | L - 13.92m W (rotorspan) - 16.00m H - 5.1m |
| Weights | 5,100 kg (empty) 9,707 kg (max loadout) |
| Max Speed | 256 kph |
| Range | 996 km |
| Armament | 1 gun port for : M2 .50 machine gun |
| Avionics | AN/ARC-182 HF/UHF/VHF communications AN/ARC-210 UHF/VHF AM/FM communications AN/AYQ-23 GPWS (Ground Proximity Warning System) AN/AVS-7 Aviator's Night Vision System/Head-Up Display AN/ALQ-157 - IR countermeasures AN/APN-171 Radar Altimeter AN/APN-174 Station-keeping Sub System AN/APN-182 Doppler Navigation AN/APN-217 Doppler Navigation Sensor AN/ARN-148 Omega Navigation System AN/ASQ-177 PLRS (Position Location Reporting System |
Tsar Bomba (Russian: Царь-бомба) is the nickname for the AN602 hydrogen bomb, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever detonated. Also referenced as Kuz`kina Mat` (Russian: Кузькина мать, Kuzka's mother), in this usage meaning "something that has not been seen before".
Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about 100 megatons of TNT (420 PJ); however, the bomb yield was reduced to 50 megatons in order to reduce nuclear fallout. This attempt was successful, as it was one of the cleanest (relative to its yield) nuclear bombs ever detonated. Only one bomb of this type was ever built and it was tested on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.[1][2]
The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum, Sarov (Arzamas-16), and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Research Institute of Technical Physics, Snezhinsk (Chelyabinsk-70). Neither of these casings has the same antenna configuration as the actual device that was tested
