The MiG-21 (NATO reporting name Fishbed) firmly holds the title of the world's most widely built and used jet fighter, with more than 10,000 units rolling off the lines of three plants in the former Soviet Union. The type was also built under...
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When it was introduced into service in 1953, the T-10 represented a return to the “classic” Soviet heavy tank. Although considered a major threat to NATO tank forces, it also represented the end of an era. All gun heavy tanks like the T-10 would...
This newly reissued debut book in the Rutgers University Press Classics Imprint is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who...
As Europe plunged into World War II, Hitler ordered the development of a hi-tech secret weapon capable of taking the war across the Atlantic - the Messerschmitt Me 264. Chosen from designs for an 'Amerika Bomber' tendered by Messerschmitt, Junkers...
The M18 76mm Gun Motor Carriage was developed for the US Army's Tank Destroyer Command. It was the only tank destroyer deployed during World War II actually based on their requirements for speed and firepower. This book examines the development of...
The Soviet Army hastily developed the T-62 in a struggle to compete against the rapid proliferation of NATO tanks in the 1960s. It was essentially a modification of the widely-manufactured T-55 tank with the addition of a new 115mm gun. Within the...
Приведен химический состав хвои различных пород, показаны факторы, влияющие на его изменение. Даны сведения о белках, аминокислотах,...
Serious survivors know that the day may come when they need something more powerful than commercial dynamite or common improvised explosives. For blowing bridges, shattering steel and derailing tanks, they need C-4. But, as with many of the goodies...
Военная история, Военное дело, военная техника и вооружение
Armored Units of the Russian Civil War: Red Army
By 1920 the Red Army of Russia fielded an overwhelming array of armored cars, armored trains and tank detachments. These armored units played an important part in consolidating the newly won Bolshevik empire in the early 1920s; as a consequence of...
Военная история, Военное дело, военная техника и вооружение
Вооруженные силы имамата горцев Северного Кавказа 1829-1859 гг.
В книге дается характеристика вооруженных сил имамата горцев Северного Кавказа (1829-1859 гг.). Опираясь на значительный массив источников,...