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The V-2 in the USSR after WWII
The USSR’s first ballistic missile, the R-1 was a direct copy of the V-2. |
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allworldwars.com
Warning! Rabbit hole ahead! Illustrated Guide to Moscow Anti Aircraft Defense System 1955 B-200 radar Many interesting pictures of the equipment they used. |
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MUTINY ON STOROZHEVOY A Case Study of Dissent in the Soviet Navy by Gregory D. Young
In November 1975, a group of sailors led by the ship's political officer took over the Soviet "Krivak" class destroyer "Storozhevoy" and attempted to sail to Sweden to seek asylum. They were attacked and turned back by Soviet naval and air units. Information of this dramatic event which has never been acknowledged by the Soviets, made it to the West only piece by piece. It was the intent of this study to assemble all available data for critical analysis to determine potential causes and implications. View Quote |
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Originally Posted By PhatForrest: Be interesting to see how it would work on vehicles here in the US that have beefed up pillars and other safety features. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By PhatForrest: Originally Posted By Raider14: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njrEPsyPqYE That looks like it is a far better tool than the Hurst Jaws of Life as far was cutting goes. Faster, no hydraulic cable, etc. Definitely not as powerful but for sheet metal and such it definitely seems impressive. Be interesting to see how it would work on vehicles here in the US that have beefed up pillars and other safety features. No go due to fire from powder charge. Not safe around gas leaks. |
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Originally Posted By Merlin: "SSV-33 was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, but there was no pier large enough for the ship. She was forced to anchor out. Machinery had to remain running while at anchor to support other systems and its crew; the ship became a floating barracks. She never went to sea, while her powerful radioelectronic equipment gradually began to decay.[3] " Great Soviet planning right there! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Merlin: "SSV-33 was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, but there was no pier large enough for the ship. She was forced to anchor out. Machinery had to remain running while at anchor to support other systems and its crew; the ship became a floating barracks. She never went to sea, while her powerful radioelectronic equipment gradually began to decay.[3] " Great Soviet planning right there! The Russians have always sucked massive dick at being a naval power. Read up on their pacific fleet and then the reinforcements they sent after it was neutralized in the Russo Japanese war sometime. Total fucking shit show. |
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Originally Posted By Finslayer83: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/164007/Screen_Shot_2020-08-24_at_3_28_41_PM-1560675.png View Quote Is that just wax and strings tied to the switch covers to make it tamper evident if they are opened? |
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View Quote I wonder if anyone has ever started a Numbers station just to screw with the Secret Squirrel types. |
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"My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right?”
-Snoopy |
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This is becoming my favorite thread.
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Originally Posted By Kali_Refugee: Is that just wax and strings tied to the switch covers to make it tamper evident if they are opened? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Kali_Refugee: Is that just wax and strings tied to the switch covers to make it tamper evident if they are opened? Yeah, just a wax seal. Originally Posted By kugelblitz: I wonder if anyone has ever started a Numbers station just to screw with the Secret Squirrel types. Trolling is a part of their job. The east German number stations mostly sent bullshit between the real messages just to fuck with the BND and CIA. |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: MUTINY ON STOROZHEVOY A Case Study of Dissent in the Soviet Navy by Gregory D. Young View Quote Just read this whole article. Long, but amazing. Did anyone else read "The Threat", which talked about the same things (air base ground crews diverting grain alcohol for de-icing and hydraulic systems for black market hooch)? I don't think it is in print anymore, and I couldn't find it online. |
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Originally Posted By GTLandser: Just read this whole article. Long, but amazing. Did anyone else read "The Threat", which talked about the same things (air base ground crews diverting grain alcohol for de-icing and hydraulic systems for black market hooch)? I don't think it is in print anymore, and I couldn't find it online. View Quote IIRC, Belenko wrote about that. A pilot would radio that he's experiencing icing when he wasn't. After he got on the ground the crew chief would drain the deicing system and they'd split the fluid. |
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"I yelled "HEY!! W.T.F!!!?? as I pointed my M-OU812 urban ass-salt axe handle menacingly at him, just daring him to come take my gummy bears!"
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Originally Posted By Brohawk: IIRC, Belenko wrote about that. A pilot would radio that he's experiencing icing when he wasn't. After he got on the ground the crew chief would drain the deicing system and they'd split the fluid. View Quote I mean yeah, that's a Belenko anecdote also mentioned by Young in his article "MUTINY ON STOROZHEVOY". But can anyone remember the author of "The Threat"? It was fully of anecdotes like that (including the joke that sopranos in the Red Army Choir came from the tank corps...because of the auto-loaders!) |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: allworldwars.com Warning! Rabbit hole ahead! https://i.imgur.com/ljKu3oU.jpg Illustrated Guide to Moscow Anti Aircraft Defense System 1955 https://i.imgur.com/Wvpk2bd.jpg B-200 radar Many interesting pictures of the equipment they used. View Quote I went to the AllWorldWars link and couldn't find the first pic. Where did it come from and what does it mean? Thanks, |
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FreeKyle!
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Originally Posted By Merlin: I went to the AllWorldWars link and couldn't find the first pic. Where did it come from and what does it mean? Thanks, View Quote It's the So really quite old now, but fascinating to see. The OP's link has that photo waaaayyyy down toward the bottom somewhere--it's more of a photo essay without much context. ETA: My guess based on the ranges shown is that the green circles are EW radars, and the SAMs themselves are the yellow and red wedges around Moscow. The blue might be some intermediate radar, but I think each site (all of those wedges) had their own radars to guide their missiles. In true Soviet fashion, they poured a LOT of resources in a short period of time to solve that problem. |
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Originally Posted By MshakeMO: The R-23M Kartech cannon. Installed on the Almaz space station in the 70's. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/spacecannon-screen-shot-2015-11-10-at-32900-pm-640x506.jpg View Quote I wish I had a space cannon. |
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Originally Posted By Aimless: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KS-23 KS-23 shotgun (well it's rifled but still). The russians had some 23mm anti aircraft barrels that were rejected so they figured "Well they'll work as shotgun barrels" so they made 6 gauge riot guns View Quote there would be a market for those over here. |
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Originally Posted By Brohawk: IIRC, Belenko wrote about that. A pilot would radio that he's experiencing icing when he wasn't. After he got on the ground the crew chief would drain the deicing system and they'd split the fluid. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Brohawk: Originally Posted By GTLandser: Just read this whole article. Long, but amazing. Did anyone else read "The Threat", which talked about the same things (air base ground crews diverting grain alcohol for de-icing and hydraulic systems for black market hooch)? I don't think it is in print anymore, and I couldn't find it online. IIRC, Belenko wrote about that. A pilot would radio that he's experiencing icing when he wasn't. After he got on the ground the crew chief would drain the deicing system and they'd split the fluid. The MiG-25 was called ‘the booze truck’ or the Russian equivalent because of the alcohol used to cool the radars. |
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View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Russia - Now, these missiles used as targets for training SAM systems.[4][5] Strizh target-missile (system S-25M) in service as of 2011. Firing more than 11 000 missiles.[6] |
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What have the Penguins ever done for us?
TN, USA
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Panem et Circenses
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Come and have a go, if ya think yer hard enough!
OR, USA
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Russia - Now, these missiles used as targets for training SAM systems.[4][5] Strizh target-missile (system S-25M) in service as of 2011. Firing more than 11 000 missiles.[6] Huh. Big missile needs big plane. Another part of the system. Don't know if we thought about putting air-launched versions of SAMs on a B-29 to use it as an interceptor. G-400 Interceptor aircraft. These were Tu-4 with G-300 (izdelie 210, downsized version of V-300 with aerial launch) missiles. |
I got my degree in English at UOP. - gene5
OMG Aimless please, please, please do me do me do me do me do me! - Bob_Steele F*ck you, I'm Millwall! |
Originally Posted By GTLandser: It's the So really quite old now, but fascinating to see. The OP's link has that photo waaaayyyy down toward the bottom somewhere--it's more of a photo essay without much context. ETA: My guess based on the ranges shown is that the green circles are EW radars, and the SAMs themselves are the yellow and red wedges around Moscow. The blue might be some intermediate radar, but I think each site (all of those wedges) had their own radars to guide their missiles. In true Soviet fashion, they poured a LOT of resources in a short period of time to solve that problem. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By GTLandser: Originally Posted By Merlin: I went to the AllWorldWars link and couldn't find the first pic. Where did it come from and what does it mean? Thanks, It's the So really quite old now, but fascinating to see. The OP's link has that photo waaaayyyy down toward the bottom somewhere--it's more of a photo essay without much context. ETA: My guess based on the ranges shown is that the green circles are EW radars, and the SAMs themselves are the yellow and red wedges around Moscow. The blue might be some intermediate radar, but I think each site (all of those wedges) had their own radars to guide their missiles. In true Soviet fashion, they poured a LOT of resources in a short period of time to solve that problem. Found it! Thanks! |
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FreeKyle!
https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/The-offical-Kyle-Rittenhouse-thread-fund-raiser-link-in-OP-/5-2362752/ |
You guys ever seen their slapping contest TV shows?
Slap contest Knockouts Compilation 2019 from Russia. |
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"We shall never return to social sanity till we begin at the beginning, where all history starts, with a man and a woman, and a child, and with the province of liberty and property which these need for their full humanity" -- G.K. Chesterton
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Come and have a go, if ya think yer hard enough!
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Originally Posted By PraesidiumFabrica: You guys ever seen their slapping contest TV shows? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIT4uA3UeI4 View Quote So, anyone know the latest on synthoil guy? Last I'd heard, he almost lost his arms from infection. |
I got my degree in English at UOP. - gene5
OMG Aimless please, please, please do me do me do me do me do me! - Bob_Steele F*ck you, I'm Millwall! |
"We shall never return to social sanity till we begin at the beginning, where all history starts, with a man and a woman, and a child, and with the province of liberty and property which these need for their full humanity" -- G.K. Chesterton
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MAD MAX TRUCK ! |
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Hang! Index! Fire!
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Originally Posted By zaphar: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/RKG-3_anti-tank_grenade_%28DOSAAF_Museum_in_Minsk%29.jpg/1024px-RKG-3_anti-tank_grenade_%28DOSAAF_Museum_in_Minsk%29.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RKG-3_anti-tank_grenade View Quote My MRAP (MaxxPro-Plus) got hit by one of these in Mosul, fortunately it hit in the rear quarter and didn't do much damage and nobody got hurt. My Gunner actually saw the guy throwing it, thought is was a small pipe bomb until the little drogue chute popped out the back. My Gunner couldn't engage the thrower because he was in the middle of a crowd of people at the bazaar. Come to find out later the Leader took a wrong turn and that's how we ended up trundling through the bazaar. |
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Originally Posted By PraesidiumFabrica: You guys ever seen their slapping contest TV shows? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIT4uA3UeI4 View Quote The female version is far better. Russian butt slap competition |
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View Quote How do you even find that lol |
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"We shall never return to social sanity till we begin at the beginning, where all history starts, with a man and a woman, and a child, and with the province of liberty and property which these need for their full humanity" -- G.K. Chesterton
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What have the Penguins ever done for us?
TN, USA
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View Quote I'd trade NFL for primetime ass slapping. |
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"We shall never return to social sanity till we begin at the beginning, where all history starts, with a man and a woman, and a child, and with the province of liberty and property which these need for their full humanity" -- G.K. Chesterton
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Originally Posted By Southern_Shooter80: Crazy rates of fire on some of their cannons. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259216/EB233233-E72D-4769-AE89-4E406775F4F1-706705.gif View Quote Their Gsh-30-1 single-barreled 30mm cannon is capable of puking out 30 rounds a second, although I think it artificially reduced to 25/second to prolong barrel life. The operating spring impinges on an "accelerator" lever, since the rounds must be fed and ejected at a velocity nearing or possibly even in excess of rate-of-expansion of the spring. They've had interesting, ridiculously-high-rate-of-fire machine guns dating back to the 1920s with the ShKas machine gun. The stranded-wire spring was invented by the Soviets to provide a spring that wouldn't fail within a few hundred cycles from that kind of abuse. |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: Originally Posted By brownbomber: The stranded-wire spring was invented by the Soviets to provide a spring that wouldn't fail within a few hundred cycles from that kind of abuse. Source? Spring Design and Application by Nicholas P. Chironis, 1961. You can find it in PDF form online for free - it has been out of print for a long time. |
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Originally Posted By tspike: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/4164/RUSSN_jpg-1529195.JPG View Quote That’s one big sub! |
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Originally Posted By brownbomber: Their Gsh-30-1 single-barreled 30mm cannon is capable of puking out 30 rounds a second, although I think it artificially reduced to 25/second to prolong barrel life. The operating spring impinges on an "acceletator" lever, since the rounds must be fed and ejected at a velocity nearing or possibly even in excess of rate-of-expansion of the spring. They've had interesting, ridiculously-high-rate-of-fire machine guns dating back to the 1920s with the ShKas machine gun. The stranded-wire spring was invented by the Soviets to provide a spring that wouldn't fail within a few hundred cycles from that kind of abuse. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By brownbomber: Originally Posted By Southern_Shooter80: Crazy rates of fire on some of their cannons. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259216/EB233233-E72D-4769-AE89-4E406775F4F1-706705.gif Their Gsh-30-1 single-barreled 30mm cannon is capable of puking out 30 rounds a second, although I think it artificially reduced to 25/second to prolong barrel life. The operating spring impinges on an "acceletator" lever, since the rounds must be fed and ejected at a velocity nearing or possibly even in excess of rate-of-expansion of the spring. They've had interesting, ridiculously-high-rate-of-fire machine guns dating back to the 1920s with the ShKas machine gun. The stranded-wire spring was invented by the Soviets to provide a spring that wouldn't fail within a few hundred cycles from that kind of abuse. |
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FreeKyle!
https://www.ar15.com/forums/General/The-offical-Kyle-Rittenhouse-thread-fund-raiser-link-in-OP-/5-2362752/ |
Originally Posted By Merlin: Is the AK-47/MAK-90 spring one of those? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Merlin: Originally Posted By brownbomber: Originally Posted By Southern_Shooter80: Crazy rates of fire on some of their cannons. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/259216/EB233233-E72D-4769-AE89-4E406775F4F1-706705.gif Their Gsh-30-1 single-barreled 30mm cannon is capable of puking out 30 rounds a second, although I think it artificially reduced to 25/second to prolong barrel life. The operating spring impinges on an "acceletator" lever, since the rounds must be fed and ejected at a velocity nearing or possibly even in excess of rate-of-expansion of the spring. They've had interesting, ridiculously-high-rate-of-fire machine guns dating back to the 1920s with the ShKas machine gun. The stranded-wire spring was invented by the Soviets to provide a spring that wouldn't fail within a few hundred cycles from that kind of abuse. The hammer spring and the extractor spring in the AK are both stranded-wire springs. I think the intent of using 3 wires in the hammer spring, which is a torsion spring, is simply to take advantage of the higher tensile strength and lower stress levels of the smaller wires - the strength of drawn wire increases tremendously as one progresses down to the smaller grades. If it were made of a single wire, it would "take a set" at a lesser angle of deflection. The intent in the extractor spring, as in an operating spring, is to damp a mechanical "surge wave" and limit operating stresses and bouncing of the extractor. I've seen pictures of stranded-wire operating springs in AKs, but mine doesn't have one. I don't know if there was a variant that had one as standard. Stranded-wire springs actually give inferior service life if they are NOT loaded quickly enough, so replacing a homogeneous single-wire spring with a stranded-wire spring is not always advisable. I just checked a technical report on the ShKas machine gun that I have, and with the gas regulator fully-open, it is puking out an astonishing 36 rounds per second. That is almost twice as fast as an MG42! I believe the stranded-wire (made of 2 wires instead of 3, strangely) was invented for that weapon. |
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Originally Posted By brownbomber: Their Gsh-30-1 single-barreled 30mm cannon is capable of puking out 30 rounds a second, although I think it artificially reduced to 25/second to prolong barrel life. The operating spring impinges on an "accelerator" lever, since the rounds must be fed and ejected at a velocity nearing or possibly even in excess of rate-of-expansion of the spring. They've had interesting, ridiculously-high-rate-of-fire machine guns dating back to the 1920s with the ShKas machine gun. The stranded-wire spring was invented by the Soviets to provide a spring that wouldn't fail within a few hundred cycles from that kind of abuse. View Quote |
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View Quote Ok, you're hired. You can take over posting duties from the other guy with the slapping competition, starting immediately. |
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Originally Posted By Kali_Refugee: The Russians have always sucked massive dick at being a naval power. Read up on their pacific fleet and then the reinforcements they sent after it was neutralized in the Russo Japanese war sometime. Total fucking shit show. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Kali_Refugee: Originally Posted By Merlin: "SSV-33 was assigned to the Pacific Fleet, but there was no pier large enough for the ship. She was forced to anchor out. Machinery had to remain running while at anchor to support other systems and its crew; the ship became a floating barracks. She never went to sea, while her powerful radioelectronic equipment gradually began to decay.[3] " Great Soviet planning right there! The Russians have always sucked massive dick at being a naval power. Read up on their pacific fleet and then the reinforcements they sent after it was neutralized in the Russo Japanese war sometime. Total fucking shit show. The Russian 2nd Pacific Squadron - Voyage of the Damned |
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Participation in the rights of citizenship presumes participation in the duties of citizenship
The manatee is the most tactical of marine mammals |
View Quote This video fulfills every stereotype about Russia, or Russian naval power, that I have ever heard. |
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Originally Posted By limaxray: I just got done re-reading Red Storm Rising, and am right in the middle of another trip through the Hunt for Red October, so this link (and thread) interests me. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By limaxray: Originally Posted By hhsmiley: I just discovered this youtube channel today. Sub Brief He was a former sonar man on a US sub apparently and he has more info than you'd probably ever want on Russian subs. Very interesting stuff if you're even mildly into that kind of thing. I just got done re-reading Red Storm Rising, and am right in the middle of another trip through the Hunt for Red October, so this link (and thread) interests me. I started watching Jive when he was just streaming Cold Waters games. He would talk about his knowledge and experiences (as much as he could) during the game streams but started doing whiteboard videos when his viewers started asking for it. Pretty awesome that he's turned it all into a career. (he also writes for Warzone magazine now) His sonar clip analysis videos are fantastic. |
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The road to Hell is paved with presidential candidates.
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Originally Posted By Finslayer83: I'd trade NFL for primetime ass slapping. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Finslayer83: I'd trade NFL for primetime ass slapping. Just don't trade your US Runners Association card for one. |
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Hang! Index! Fire!
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Originally Posted By Maccrage: I remember seeing this from I-5 while driving by. Random-ass former Czech MiG-21 that used to sit outside Jet Chevrolet in Federal Way, WA. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/145185/mig-21-1584685.jpg View Quote He bought it for like $12K when the wall fell and sold it when he sold the dealership to a former Seachicken player. He got something like $1.6mil out of it, good investment. Not the same driving thru that section of I-5 since he sold everything off. |
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Originally Posted By 4xGM300m: https://i.imgur.com/xUOuBIM.jpg Date unknown. https://i.imgur.com/cOfE2vu.png 2002 https://i.imgur.com/QUIO091.png 2012 https://i.imgur.com/0nLemHY.png 2013 Between 2012 and 2013 most vehicles disappeared from the Rassokha vehicle graveyard, most likely they were scrapped and sold. View Quote Damn. If you're buying Russian vehicles or parts, better bring a giger counter. |
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The road to Hell is paved with presidential candidates.
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