Soviet designers did not once create real masterpieces of armored vehicles for the fatherland. Produced by B. mass quantity Industry, they contributed to the defense of our Motherland. However, as it always happens, not every sample launched into mass production. Nevertheless, among experienced copies, such exotic machines were often met that each of them deserves a separate, even a very brief mention.

Tank Grotte


By the end of the 1920s, the Soviet government was convinced that for the intensive development of the defense industry, the experience and knowledge of domestic designers is not enough. The country was invited to work a significant number of foreign specialists, among whom was the German engineer Edward Grotte. He was instructed to lead the development of new promising tanks for the Red Army.

Tank Grotte in the courtyard of the Military Academy of Mechanization and Motorization of the Red Army, 1940

The task issued by the technical department provided for the creation of a machine weighing 18-20 tons, protected by 20-mm armor and able to develop speed up to 40 km / h. As weapon, it was planned to establish 76- and 37 mm guns, as well as five rifle gauge machine guns. As can be seen from the declared parameters, the design was assumed very powerful for that time tank.

To solve these tasks, the design bureau AVO-5 was formed. In its composition, along with German engineers, Soviet specialists also worked. The new tank was assigned the TG index (Tank Grotte). All work was carried out in the setting of strictest secrecy.

The undoubted innovations of the design referred to a completely welded body. Armament placed in two tiers. In the rotating tower there was a 37-mm part of the design of Peter Xyachentov, adapted including for maintenance of air targets. The 76-mm Tank Weapon of Grotte - Xäachnov with Ballistics of the Russian field cannon of a similar caliber and three Maxim Machines were installed in combat logboard. According to the initial project, the cutting had to have a circular rotation, but because of the deformation of the subferee pursuit it had to be done fixed. Two more DT machine guns were mounted in the housing on sides. The chassis with an independent suspension on the spiral springs provided the tank extremely soft stroke.


Tank Grotte on trials. September 1931.

In 1931, they conducted testing a new car, during which the speed was reached 34 km / h. At the same time, many disadvantages of the design also revealed. Because of the crashes in by combat There was no possibility of simultaneous shooting of 76-mm guns and at least one of the machine guns installed in the cutting. During the movement, the gearbox and onboard friction were constantly overheated. No less an important factor It turned out to be an extremely high cost of the tank - about 1.5 million rubles.

As a result, Edward Grotte's further services decided to refuse, and the Soviet designers were entrusted to develop a new heavy broken breakthrough tank - the future T-35.

Floating Wheel-Crawler Tank PT-1

In 1932, under the leadership of Nikolai Astrov at factory No. 37, a unique floating wheel-caterpillar tank was developed for their time. The initial base for the creation of this machine was the recently purchased in the US "Tank Christie" - the future BT. The new tank, which received the PT-1 index, at the time of creation exceeded all foreign cars of a similar class on fire power, security and moved qualities.


Floating Wheel-Crawler Tank PT-1

Armament consisted of 45-mm guns and three machine guns DT. On the tracked move, the speed was 62 km / h, on the wheel - 90 km / h, afloat - 6 km / h.

The technical backwardness of the Soviet industry of that time was launched into serial production of such a good car. Particularly difficult was the chassis: she had eight gearboxes placed in wheels. Also, the manufacture of shafts and corner gears was also associated with large difficulties. Therefore, in 1935, decided to terminate further work in this direction.

Grinding linner SMC

By August 20, 1932 finished the assembly of the first prototype of a heavy tank T-35A, which soon launched into mass production. He entered the story as the world's only five-bash serial machine. But by 1936, when specialized appeared on the battlefields anti-tank artillery, a huge journey machine no longer had a chance to survive on the battlefield, while reserves were completely exhausted to enhance the reservation.


T-35A at the parade on May 1, 1934

After a short debate, the RPC leadership came to the conclusion that the five-bash layout finally exhausted itself. The new "land battle" was decided to do threefall, and at the expense of the saved mass to strengthen the reservation. Project developed Kirov FactoryI received the QMS index in honor of Sergey Kirov. Armament in the new tank was located in the three towers and consisted of one 76 mm and two 45-mm cannons, as well as four machine guns.

On December 9, 1938, the project was considered at the meeting of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) and the SCC Defense Committee of the USSR. As a result, decided to reduce the mass to 55 tons due to the abandon from the rear small tower. There is a version that this proposal is made personally Joseph Stalin.


Light tank QMS, August 1939

When the war began with Finland, the new heavy duct tanks, the T-100 and KV decided to experience in a combat atmosphere. On the morning of December 18, 1939, the SMC broke away from the main group and went on a Kiamyarya road to the Vyborg road, where he exploded on a disguised Fugas. An attempt to tow it with a T-100 tank was not crowned due to slipping of caterpillars. Therefore, the QMS stood on the neutral strip until the end of February 1940. After the end of the war, he managed to evacuate the efforts of six T-28 tanks.

By that time, the Soviet leadership made his final choice in favor of a heavy tank of kV-1.

The design of a heavy tank IC-7 has begun at the end of 1944. IN new Machine They planned to embody all the richest experience gained when using heavy tanks in World War II.

The weight of the IC-7 reached 65 tons. From the IS-3, he inherited the shape of the nasal part of the squeeze nose body, but the thickness of the armor was increased to 150 mm. As power plant In the final version used sea diesel M-50T.


Heavy tank is-7. Photo 1948.

Together with MWU named after N.E. Bauman for the new tank was developed by an eight-speed transmission with hydraulic servo drives, thanks to which the car, according to the tests of the test, was "absolutely submissive to the driver" even at a speed of 60 km / h.

The main weapons were created under the leadership of Vasily plin 130-mm C-70 gun with a B-13 ship gun ballistic, capable of a 350-mm patching armor at a distance of 1000 m.

IC-7 was a real masterpiece of domestic tank buildings. With a mass comparable to the "Royal Tigr", he significantly exceeded it in armament, mobility and armor protection. However, he never went to the series. On February 18, 1949, a resolution of the USSR Council of Ministers, which limits the mass of heavy tanks is 50 tons. The weight of the IS-7 exceeded the load capacity of the majority then in the country of bridges, and special platforms were required for carriage by rail.


IS-7 in the exposition of the Armored Museum in Cuba

An equally important factor was the change in the views of the military on future war. The rate was made on the possibility of fast and mass deployment of numerous tank connections, for the staffing of which the complex and expensive IP-7 did not fit.

Object 279.

In 1956, GBTU Soviet army Developed new tactical and technical requirements for a heavy tank, which was supposed to replace T-10. A 130-mm gun was planned as the main weapon.

The most courageous and innovative of three projects was the "Object 279", developed in the Leningrad Design Bureau J.Ya. Cotina. Work on the project was headed by Lev Trojanov, who by that time was already a mastic designer and owner of two Stalinist premiums.

Unlike its competitors (Objects 277 and 770), the car was originally created for hostilities on difficult terrain and under the use of nuclear opponent. It was assumed that specific form Cases in the form of a "flying plate" can prevent tank turning shock wave nuclear explosion.


"Object 279" in the exposition of the Armored Museum in Cuba

Four-dimensional running partWith no analogues in the domestic tank building, mounted on two longitudinal hollow beams, which simultaneously performed the role of fuel tanks. Such a design provided high permeability of deep snow and wetlands. At the same time, it provided almost complete lack of clearance and excluded the landing of the tank on the bottom when overcoming vertical obstacles.

At the end of 1959, they built the first prototype and began to build two more, which were manufactured in 1960. During the tests, the tank overcomed the rise of 35 ° and the brother depth to 1.2 m, confidently moved along the snowdrifts and a swamp.

Although a number of serious flaws have revealed: large efficiency losses when moving on a viscous soil, low turning (in comparison with the "classic" resistance to turning increased 12 times), the complexity of maintenance and repair, the inability to reduce the total height of the tank. It was also layered by a large complexity of production.

It became clear that the most narrocyalized, ambitious and expensive of the three presented samples is clearly not destined to become a serial tank.

However, competitors are also not lucky. During a demonstration of heavy equipment at the Kapustin Capustine Polygon on July 22, 1960, Nikita Khrushchov categorically forbade the military to take tanks with a mass exceeding 37 tons.

Until now, there is no single unambiguous opinion on the feasibility of termination in the beginning. 1960s works on heavy tank projects. Before the appearance of the T-80U, the "Object 279" did not continue to remain the most powerful tank in the world.

Soviet scientists were developed many projects for example - space aircraft, amphibian boats, capable of breaking through the thickness of the Earth, telepathy. Next, five secret projects that were minimized and closed.

Brain Radio

Management of consciousness and thought at a distance is a long-standing dream of mankind. Such psychological weapons, whether it was invented, could be the most terrible and most effective in the history of human civilization. In 1923, an electrician engineer Bernard Kaginsky presented his brain radio project capable of transmitting brain pulses, turning them into signals, for huge distances. He expressed a hypothesis that a person is a living radio station that can work both as a radio transmitter and as a radio receiver. Thus, electromagnetic waves transmitted by one person can be perceived by others if it is equally configured with the transmitter. The results of its studies have become a real sensation. He was invited to lectures the largest research institutes and laboratories of the world. Upon returning to their homeland, its development was recognized as effective and all conditions were provided to continue experiments. On March 17, 1924, the first tests of "cerebral weapons" were held in Moscow, allowing remotely and destructively to affect the body. Low-frequency waves emitted by "brain radio" became shock force. The experiments were carried out on animals, and the essence of the experiment was to force the dog to the brain signal to take the right book from the stack and bring it to the members of the Commission. Dogs perfectly coped with the task, but after that, for some reason, they became completely unable to execute ordinary teams and training. It is known about the further fate of the "brain radio", but it is obvious that the work on him under the leadership of Kaginsky soon ceased. The scientist himself believed until the end of his days believed in the possibility of creating his invention. He died in 1962, shortly before his death, making the second book about the "brain radio", in which he described in detail his idea and called for its further development.

Flying Tank A-40

In 1941, the command of the Red Army supplied to the chief engineer of the planer department of the Narkom of the Aviation Industry Oleg Antonov complex taskOver which there is no one generation of designers, to raise armored vehicles in the air. The idea was to create armored vehicles, which could move through the air. This would allow it to transfer it to the partisans to enhance resistance in the occupied territories. Conditions and terms were standard for wartime: the car had to be done quickly, securely and without extra costs. In this regard, Antonov decided to "not reinvent the bike", and take light tank T-60, adopted in the Red Army, and make it a light wooden wings of the "corn." It was assumed that the flying tank would be towed to the destination by the air, and then with the help of his wings, plan to the desired landing point. Immediately after landing, the wings were supposed to drop, and the flying tank was ready for battle. But the first and last flight of the Tank A-40 was unsuccessful. TB-3 bomber tugger was unable to provide a stable flight even for the maximum lightweight tank with a fuel filled with a tower and a tool box. TB-3 engines began to overheat from such a load at the most favorable conditionsWhat to talk about the conditions of a military operation. Therefore, even though the A-40 fulfilled his task and successfully planned to the landing point at the nearest military airfield, the project was minimized. According to experts, he would have been successful if a more powerful bomber PE-8 was taken to towhead. But then these cars were little, and they were needed to solve more complex strategic tasks. So an attempt to raise the tank into the air was crowned.

Space Fighter "Spiral"

Space planes have long been the usual phenomenon in the works of science. But 50 years ago fiction almost turned into reality. In the midst of the Cold War in the USSR, any conditions for warfare did not forget about space. In response to the development of the United States of the orbital piloted intelligence officer X-20, in the USSR, we decided to create our own aerospace system. A complex and completely secret task was set in front of the design bureau 115, where research conducted chief designer Gleb Lozino Lozinsky. The project was called "Spiral". He had to become the first USSR cosmic wagon. Lozino-Lozinsky proposed to create a "spiral" of the three main parts: a hypersonic overclocking aircraft (GSR), a two-stage rocket accelerator and an orbital aircraft. According to the idea, the surveyor aircraft served to achieve a speed of 7.5 thousand km / h and exit 30 km height. Then the orbital plane was separated from the GSR and with the help of the rocket accelerator reached the first space speed (7.9 km / c). Thus, the aircraft went to the near-earth orbit and could begin to perform his own tasks: intelligence, interception of cosmic purposes, bombing "Space-Earth" and so on. The proposed design had a number of advantages. For example, the rapid achievement by the aircraft of any point of the globe and landing under any conditions. But in the second half of the 70s, when the first apparatus was built and ready for testing, the project suddenly closed the highest guide. The Minister of Defense of the USSR Andrei Grechko threw out all the documentation, stating that "we will not engage in fantasies." So one of the most promising space projects of the USSR was buried prematurely.

Underground Battle Mole

After the completion of the Second World War in the hands of the Soviet leadership, projects of the German underground tanks "Subterrine" and "Snake Midgrad" were included. They were planned as amphibians capable of moving on the ground, underground and even under water at a depth of 100 meters. As a result of a long study of the drawings by a group of scientists under the guidance of Professors G. I. Babat and G. I. Pokrovsky, a verdict was made: the car can be used for combat purposes. It was assumed that such a combat underground boat would be able to get to strategically important enemy objects and blow them straight from under the ground. The explosion in this case can be explained by the earthquake. Urgently, frames and funds were allocated to create their own underground tank, which received the code name "combat mole". A machine was created on a nuclear reactor capable of moving through the thickness of the Earth at a speed of 7 km / h. The results of the first tests in the Ural mountains were struck by all: "Mole", introduced into the ground without any difficulties, passed 15 km and destroyed the bunker of the conditional opponent. It was a complete success. But the re-experiment unexpectedly ended full catastrophe. Subterrine for unknown reasons exploded, the whole team died. The project was suspended, and in Brezhnev it was closed finally.

Atomolet

In the 50s of the 20th century, as in the midst of the Cold War, in the USSR and the United States there is an active development of the "peaceful atom". Together with the successes in this area there is a reasonable question: is it possible to use atomic energy for military purposes? For example, in aviation as an alternative to kerosene. The latter has, at least two large minuses - first, its small energy intensity, secondly, a large consumption during flight. The replacement for its product of a nuclear reaction would not only reduce costs, but also increased the time of staying liners in the air almost indefinitely. And in the conditions of the Cold War, in the absence of two conforming parties of ballistic missiles, two superpowers very much needed a means of delivering atomic bombs. Under these conditions, in the USSR and the United States begins super-secret work on the first atom. In early April 1955, after confirmation by Soviet physicists, the possibility of creating a nuclear power plant for aircraft, the Council of the USSR issues the order, according to which the design bureau Tupoleva A.N., Lavochkin S.A. and meatishcheva V.M. There should have been a heavy aircraft with a nuclear power plant. Moreover, the work was carried out separately to strengthen the competition factor. The creation of the reactor engine was instructed by the Bureau of Nicholas Kuznetsov and the cradle archup. But the developers immediately encountered a serious problem, a consequence of a nuclear reaction - radiation. When servicing such an aircraft, not only crew members, but also ground service personnel were subjected. According to preliminary calculations, the M-60 fork atomic atomic was to "Fonne" a couple more months after the flight. In addition, scientists could not find an answer, how to protect the atmosphere from nuclear residues. One start of a rocket or aircraft with an atomic engine was to create around him a dead, infected zone. Finally, the possibility of a plane crash with a nuclear reactor on board finally solved the fate of atomoles. As Dr. Herbert York said later, one of the leaders of the Atomolete Program in the USA: "First, airplanes sometimes happen to fall. And by itself the idea that somewhere the nuclear reactor flies, which suddenly falls, was unacceptable. " The possibility of a plane crash, which automatically becoming an environmental, served as a sobering factor in the race for the creation of the first atomomet. Development programs were minimized in the USSR and the United States in the 1960s.

The USSR during its existence was the global superpower, where innovative, and sometimes quite unusual species Weapons. Many of them were so secret that only recently appeared about them. In our review, the 10th secret species of Soviet weapons.

1. VVV-14


Atomic submarines were the key part of the Cold War Strategy, as for Soviet Unionand for the United States. Because of them, both parties developed complex countermeasures to detect and destroy such vessels. One of the best ways to destroy submarines became specially designed anti-submarine aircraft (ASW) equipped with torpedi and hydroacoustic systems.

The most strange of all the anti-submarine aircraft of the Cold War was the VVA-14, which combined the functions of the hydrosapol, the screen, the bombard and the torpedo. VVA-14 could perform a vertical take-off from the surface due to the system of 12 lifting turbojet engines. Near the surface of the water, the machine could use the screen effect, and at large altitudes flew like a regular aircraft.

In 1974, VVA-14 made the first departure, but soon it was decided to freeze the project due to the excessive complexity of the aircraft. All prototypes were dismantled and destroyed. The only preserved copy without wings and engines is kept in the Central Museum of the Air Force in Monino.

2. Lipstick - Pistol


During the Cold War, both sides of the conflict actively used spies. Even a year, bizarre gadgets were invented every year, which should have helped spies in fulfilling their tasks. One of the most interesting examples Such devices are the Soviet lipstick-gun, known as the "Kiss of Death".

Only one copy of the "shooting lipstick" was recorded, which was confiscated border guards during the intersection of the border between Eastern and West Germany in 1965. The "Kiss of Death" looked like a metallic lipstick tube, and it was charged with only one 4.5-millimeter patron. It was impossible to recharge this device, so the operatives used it only as a last resort.

3. 2B1 "Oka"


Since most scary weapon During the Cold War was atomic bomb, USSR and the United States have invented many strange ways to deliver this destructive weapon. In times when nuclear rockets There were still imperfect, unmanaged delivery systems were used. In the USSR, one of the largest artillery guns In the world - 420-millimeter self-propelled mortar 2b1 "Oka". For comparison, on the American battery class "Iowa", the battery of the battery of the class of the battery is 406 millimeters. A huge instrument of "Oka" could send a 750 kilogram projectile by 45 kilometers.

One of the main disadvantages of this SAU was the lack of anti-cancer devices - after a shot, the mortar drove back 5 meters back. On Marsha managed the "Okoy" only a mechanic driver, and the rest of the crew was transported separately on the armored personnel carrier. Despite the fact that 2By was originally created as a nuclear gun, she could shoot with conventional shells. In 1960, it was decided to abandon such huge non-format artillery guns in favor of managed rockets And all the works on the project "Oka" were stopped.

4. Heavy Tank T-35


On the eve of the Second World War, the world powers of chairs created super-severe breakthrough tanks. For the first time, such designs appeared in the UK, where they were called "LandShips". In industrialized countries, dozens of concepts of such tanks have been created, but the production went literally units. The USSR develops on creating their own heavy tanks began in the late 1920s.

By 1932 was created heavy tank T-35, the distinguishing feature of which were five towers who could fire in all directions. The main tower was installed 45 mm (later - 76 mm) tools, and in four others - machine guns. Although the tank was simply huge (9.7 x 3.2 x 3.4 meters), it was extremely crowded inside it. Because of its large mass (50 tons), the T-35 could develop the maximum speed of just 28 km / h, which was very slow on pre-war standards. Also, despite all its weapons, the T-35 was very weak armored (20-30 mm). These two drawbacks led to the fact that the T-35 became outdated by the time of its creation.

5. TU-2SH "Fiery hedgehog"

By the end of World War II in 1944, the Soviet Union was experimed with various weapons systems that could provide the country greater than the advantage over german troops. Since the advantage was already on the USSR side, engineers have more time to experiment with different weapons systems.

Based on a highly efficient Tu-2C bomber, the Tu-2S storm aircraft was designed, which was equipped with anti-personnel weapons from the battery 88 machines PPSH. This system received the name "Fire Hurst". In battle, the pilot was supposed to fly as low as possible above the positions of the enemy, after which he opened the bombing compartment and with the help of a special sight made a dense fire on the infantry.

6. Umbrella with poison


Another Soviet weapon for spies ( poisonous umbrella) In fact, it was used for operational tasks and received the nickname "Bulgarian umbrella". From the end of the umbrella with the button on the handle, the blade poisoned by ricin was thrown. Most known case The use of this weapon was the murder of the Bulgarian writer Georgy Markov in London. Specgen Pokolol Markov in the leg, after which the writer died from the poisoning of Ricin three days later.

7. MiG-105


Although the idea of \u200b\u200bspace aircraft is becoming increasingly popular today, even during the Cold War, both parties experimented with the creation of similar devices in order to first try to militate space. The United States conducted tests of X-20 DYNA-SOAR, and in the USSR, an experimental piloted orbital aircraft MiG-105 was developed, which received the nickname "lap" due to its remarkable appearance.

Orbital fighter aircraft were intended to ensure complete control over the near-sole space, as well as blocking any attempts at NATO's attack from the outer layers of the atmosphere. An aircraft should be displayed in orbit with the help of a traditional solid fuel rocket accelerator, which was then rejected from the MiG-105. The first test launch of the MiG-105 was produced with Tu-95 and ended with an accident when landing. Subsequently, the project was refused due to its high costs.

8. Submarine "Shark"

It was in the USSR that at the end of the Cold War was built the world's largest submarine class "Shark" (or "Typhoon" according to NATO classification). Despite the fact that "shark" carried on board less rockets than the American submarine class "Ohio" (20 missiles "Bulaw" against 24 tracks "Trident"), Soviet missiles were more powerful.

Analogues of "shark", the production of which began in 1976, does not exist so far. Its length - 175 meters (the length of the football field is 105 meters, and the length of the largest aircraft in the world of the An-225 - 84 meters), and the width is 23 meters (which is approximately equal to the height of the 8-storey house). In addition to 20 ballistic missiles, the "shark" was also armed with six torpedo devices. Leaded a giant submarine 2 nuclear reactor.

9. Dry T-4


In the 1960s, the ideal means of delivery nuclear warheads Top destination was considered high-altitude bombers. The United States began to develop the XB-70 Valkyrie, a huge bomber, developing speed in 3 Mach, which was supposedly impossible to knock down. In response, the USSR began to develop the T-4's own bomber, capable of developing similar speed. T-4 and the HP 70 were similar constructive features. Although the T-4 was slightly smaller than the HCH-70, they both had an identical configuration: a deltavid wing and engines on the underside of the fuselage.

Dry T-4 was done almost completely from titanium and stainless steel. What is noteworthy, to achieve such speeds, the aircraft did not have an open section of the cabin. Being on Earth and during takeoff Nose T-4 was lowered down to open a pilot review. And after reaching flight height, the airplane "looked" the nose, because of which the pilot was supposed to focus only on the instruments.

10. Aerosani.


Due to the characteristics of climatic conditions (long and cold winters), during the Second World War in the USSR, special vehicles were developed. One of the most unusual and efficient vehicle There were Aerosani, in fact, representing ordinary sleighs that the engine with a propeller was installed. Leggolized aerosani could move at a speed of 25-140 km / h along the snow. The most common and successful were Aerosani NKL-26 with a machine gun that was used in the Soviet-Finnish war.

Those who are fond of history will be interesting to see and - the bright embodiment of the pre-war USSR. They captured a whole epoch.

Development of various weapons today for many countries is one of priority taskson which significant cash stands out. And it is worth noting that undergoing not only the classic types of weapons are understood, whether it is automata or pistols, but also aircraft - fighters and all sorts rocket complexes. It is not difficult to guess that the "palm" of the championship in such developments occupy two powers that possess the most impressive military forces and the most advanced military technologies - Russia and the United States. Often, the development of the latest devices are conducted in a classic mode. After creating ready-made working samples, almost certainly field tests are first conducted, and then testing in combat conditions, the benefit of armed conflicts in our time occur quite often. In this article, consider more details the most secret military developments and try to give a small description of them on the basis of well-known facts.

Information about this development appeared in printed media USA back in 2013. RQ-180 is the "drone" created by Northrop Grumman. According to the first flight, he made in 2013 in the region of Zone-51. For those who are not aware of Zone-51, is a secret military airfield in Nevada. Also according to information maximum height RQ-180 flight is 18,000 m. The length RQ-180 is 15 m. The main task of the module is to conduct intelligence actions using the most modern technologies and for developed system Air defense. The apparatus uses modern minority systems for radar. Most likely, these very "drones" have already taken part in hostilities, but naturally information about it is carefully hidden and is a secret.


Boeing X-37 - is a space shuttle that can be used for various purposes. Development is in open access, but still not clear the purpose of the construction of such a device is not clear. According to NASA, the X-37 will be used to deliver goods into orbit, but is it true? As a collector of intelligence data, this shuttle is also not suitable. It is possible that the present purpose of Boeing X-37 is a cosmic interceptor who can disable enemy ships that are in orbit. The length of the shuttle is 8.9 meters, and the weight of the takeoff is up to 5 tons. According to Boeing X-37, it launched 4 times. By the way, the available height of the device's flight is from 200 to 750 km.


As they say modern world Governments and special services have such broadest opportunities that you can track almost all human movements and learn everything about it. The mobile tracking system called Argus-IS is no longer new, but it is still classified. The development and support of BAE Systems is maintained. The system can cover the territory with a radius of 7.2 km. The Argus-IS includes 4 lens and about 370 photosensors of 5 MHP each. In general, this gives 1.8 gigapixels at the exit. As a result of the use of such a mad permission, Argus-IS allows you to consider 15 cm objects from a height of 6000m. The system is set, as a rule, on unmanned modules.


About this development is known enough. By the way, information about this project flashed purely by chance in reporting news from the event of the Ministry of Defense with the participation of the president.

According to some information "Status-6" is a project to create unmanned (managed) underwater torpedoes or devices. Inside such an apparatus, there is a carrier of an exemplary power of 100 mG. Who exactly develops this project Also unknown. It is known that the approximate idea of \u200b\u200bcreating such devices in the time of the USSR put forward academician Andrei Sakharov. True, according to preliminary information, the implementation period of this project until 2025. So, in any case, time for thorough testing and refinement is still there.


KB "Tupolev" is engaged in the development of a new generation bombarder. It is worth noting that the plane is a rocket minister and is designed to perform various combat missions. Unfortunately, to enter the supersonic speed, this bomber will not be able due to the characteristics of the design and the large scope of the wings, but it will be completely invisible for radar. The development is partially classified, but we can say that until the first flights are far enough.


The development of such weapons is of course sustained and in the media and the Internet do not actually be selected any information. However, it is necessary to clarify that the development of such weapons was carried out during the USSR, but the collapse of the Union was prevented by their successful completion. As a result, due to insufficient financing, projects were frozen and only after the 2000 development resumed. Under climatic weapons It is worth understanding the installations that can significantly change the climate of one or another territory. Of course, no one ever confesses about the tests of such devices, but it is curious that in recent years the climate changes dramatically in a variety of corners of the globe. And it is possible not only in the notorious global warming.


The study and study of the plasma takes its beginning in the 60s of the 20th century. It is the USSR that the world's first began to study the possibility of creating and further use of the plasma and its elements of plasmoids in protection systems.

Of course, these developments were strictly classified and some information appear today. But almost throughout the whole time since the 60s, US scientists and the USSR / Russia compete among themselves in the creation perfect weaponswhich is based on plasma molecules. As mentioned above plasma guns, and charges are theoretically can be used in the protection system for the destruction and interception of enemy rockets. Also, domestic scientists want to use a plasma for the development of space and improve the characteristics of fighters. There are assumptions that after a few decades a plasma weapon will completely replace today's firearms. Will it really happen, as they say, wait and see.


In the late 1990s, the USSR began active development on the creation of a hypersonic glader, then for known reasons, the study was "frozen", and here Literally last year, American media reported successful tests Glader under the code name YU-71. Meaning this weapon is that it moves with hypersonic speed, knows how to maneuver, then you mean inaccessible for modern systems aerial defense. In addition, he can carry either ballistic rocketor thermonuclear. True, it is worth clarifying that American scientists are probably also developing such a weapon, and accordingly there is a need to create modern protection systems from such hemers.


Already quite a long time, while during World War II, the Nazis and their allies began to develop psychotronic weapons, that is, weapons that affects the human brain. Using a special device on different distances Pulses are sent, which are comparable to the pulses of the human brain. Thus, from a person you can make an obedient "doll", which will fulfill all the specified commands. Agree that it sounds quite scary and the saddest thing is that the consciousness and actually the human brain can not oppose such an impact. Probably, this type of weapon is the most classified from those presented in our article, but there are already evidence of officials of the special services that this type of impact has already occurred in our history.


In our country, combat robots and exo-skeletons are also being developed, in which the role of the operator is assigned to a person. That is, by and large, the robot will be autonomous and all control will fall on a person.


Summing up We can conclude that modern military systems around the world are becoming everything perfect every year. True, in this case, you can not talk about perfection, since anyway, a newer one will be replaced by one type of weapons, which will exceed the previous one. Countries try to develop as many types of weapons as possible, in order to take advantage of the effect of surprise. By the way, such types of weapons are the most classified.

The standard weapons like airplanes or automata can often be seen at international arms exhibitions, where weapons developers come to establish new contacts and searches for sales channels. Unfortunately, in most cases, the countries of the Third World or Countries in which military conflicts begins for high-quality tests of new types of weapons. Unfortunately, recently, there are more and more common countries former USSR. I would like to hope that the global military conflict will not happen, and the local time will go out by themselves.


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A man from a long time pulled the bottom to go down to the bottom, then climb into the air, then reach the center of the earth itself. However, it was possible until some time only in fantastic novels and fairy tales. Nowadays, the underground boat is not just a fantasy. Successful development and testing in this area were carried out. After reading our article, you will learn a lot of interesting things about such an apparatus as an underground boat.

Underground boats in the literature it all started with a flight of fantasy. In 1864, Jules Verne published a famous novel called "Journey to the Center of the Earth". Heroes came down to the center of our planet through Zhero Volcano. In 1883, the book "Underground Fire" Shuzi was published. In it, heroes, working by Kirk, laid the mine to the earth's center. True, the book has already mentioned that the core of the planet is hot. Alexey Tolstoy, Russian writer, has achieved greater success. In 1927, he wrote a "Garina's hyperboloid". The hero of the work made his way almost through the thickness of the Earth, at the same time everybody and even with some cynicism.

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All these authors were built hypotheses that could not justify. The case remained for inventors and engineers, the rulers of the DUM of the human end of the 19th - early 20th centuries. However, in 1937, Gregory Adamov, published in 1937, Gregory Adamov rectified to the usual achievements of the USSR authority to the problem of the assault of earthly subsoil. The design that the underground boat had in his book was written off with the drawings of the secret KB. Has this coincidence?

Nowadays, no one can answer the question of which the Breaking Dogood of Gregory Adamova has formed. However, judging by the few data, there were still grounds for them. The first engineer, who allegedly created the drawings of the underground apparatus, became Peter stories. This engineer in 1918 was killed by the German intelligence agent, which he kidnapped all the documentation. Americans believe that the first developments began Thomas Edison. However, more reliably, they were carried out at the end of the 20-30s of the 20th century Engineers from the USSR A. Krevlev, A. Baskin and A. Kirilov. It was they who developed the design of the first underground boat.

However, it was intended solely for utilitarian objectives associated with oil production in order to facilitate this process and satisfy the needs of the socialist state. As a basis, they took this Crow or earlier developments in this area of \u200b\u200bRussian or foreign engineers - it is now difficult to say. However, it is known that in the Ural mines located under the grace, trial "swim" boats were carried out. Of course, the sample was an experienced, rather a reduced copy than a full-fledged working device. Apparently, he reminded later combines for coal mining. The presence of flaws, reliable engine, slow vessels was natural for the first model. It was decided to collapse work on the subdirection.

Strakhov renews the project

After some time, the era of the mass terror began. Many specialists who participated in this project were shot. However, on the eve of the war, suddenly remembered the "steel rod". Representatives of power again interested in the underground boat. The Kremlin was called by P. I. Strakhov, a leading person skilled in the art. At that time, he worked as a curator on the construction of the Metropolitan of the city of Moscow. A scientist in a conversation with D. F. Ustinov, who headed the Arms Commissioner, confirmed the opinion of combat use Underground. He was entrusted to develop an improved experimental sample on the preserved drawings.

War interrupts work

Urgently allocated people, funds, necessary equipment. The Russian underground boat was to be ready if possible in as soon as possible. However, the Great Patriotic War began, apparently, cut the work. Therefore, the State Commission was not accepted experimental sample. He was prepared by the fate of many other projects - the sample was sawned for metal. The country at this time for defense there were more airplanes, tanks and submarines. And fears did not return more to the underground boat. He was sent to the construction of bunkers.

German underground boats

Similar structures, naturally, were also engaged in Germany. Any ullary, which would be able to bring world domination to the Third Reich, was necessary for the leadership. IN fascist GermanyAccording to the information received after the end of the war, there were developing underground military apparatus. The code name of the first one is subterrine (Project R. Zabevetsky and H. Von Verne). By the way, some researchers believe that R. Zabevetsky is A. Trevlev, an engineer who fled from the USSR. The second development is MidGardschlage, which means "Snake Midgard". This is a ritter project. After completing the Great Patriotic War The bodies of Soviet power discovered near Königsberg unknown origin of the gallery, next to which the remnants of the blown design were located. It was suggested that this is the remnants of the "Snake Midgard". An equally wonderful project was " Sea lion"(Other of his name is subterrine). Back in 1933 Horner von Werner, a German engineer, designed a patent on him. By his plan, this device could develop speed up to 7 m / h. On his board could be 5 people, and the weight of the body was up to 300 kg. This device, besides, could move not only under the ground, but also under water. This underwater submarine was immediately classified. The project was in a military archive. He probably would probably not remember if the war did not begin. Hooking military projects Count Graph Staugnenberg extracits him from the archive. He suggested Hitler to take advantage of the invasion of the British submarine. She had to unnoticate La Mans and secretly go under the ground to the right place.

However, these plans were not destined to be implemented. Herman Geering convinced Adolf Hitler that England was forced to force much cheaper to the surrender and faster than simple bombing. Therefore, the operation was not implemented, although Gering was not able to fulfill his promise.

Studying the project "Sea Lion"

After the victory over Germany in 1945 in the territory of this country began a unlawful confrontation. Former allies began to compete among themselves for the possession of German military secrets. Among other developments, the German project of the underground boat called "Sea Lion" fell into the hands of Abakumov, General Solodh. The group, led whom Professors G. I. Pokrovsky and G. I. Babat, took up the possibilities of this device. As a result of the research, the following verdict was carried out - the subdirection can be used by Russians for military purposes.

Development M. Tsiferov

His own underground projectile at the same time (in 1948) created an engineer of M. Tsiferov. He was even given the author's certificate of the USSR to develop an underground torpedo. This apparatus could move independently in the thickness of the Earth, while developing the speed of up to 1 m / s!

Construction of a secret plant

In the USSR, in the meantime, Khrushchev came to power. Were needed in the beginning cold War His trump cards, military and political. Engineers and scientists, in front of which this problem was delivered, offered a solution that advanced to new level Development project of creating an underground boat. It was supposed to be done with an atomic engine, according to the type of the first submarines that had an atomic reactor. In a short time for experienced production it was necessary to build another secret factory. By order of Khrushchev, at the beginning of 1962, the village of Gromovka (Ukraine) began its construction. Soon Khrushchev publicly announced that it should be obtained from the space, but also from under the ground.

Development of "Combat Crow"

After 2 years, the plant released the first underground boat of the USSR. She had an atomic reactor. The underground atomic boat was named "combat mole." The design had a titanium case. Feed and nose was pointed. The underground boat "Combat Mole" in diameter reached 3.8 m, and its length was 35 meters. Of the five people consisted of a crew. In addition, the underground boat "Combat Mole" was able to take on board a ton of explosives, as well as 15 more paratroopers. The nuclear reactor "Combat Crow" allowed the boat to develop speed up to 7 m / h

What was the atomic underground boat "Combat Mole"?

The combat task that was put in front of it is the destruction of missile mines and underground team bunkers of the enemy. In the General Staff planned to deliver such "substamines" in the USA, using atomic submarines specifically designed for this. California was chosen as a destination, which was observed due to frequent earthquakes, high seismic activity. She could disguise the movement of the Russian subway. The Underground Boat of the USSR, in addition, could establish a nuclear charge and, undermining it remotely, cause an artificial earthquake in such a way. His consequences could be written off to the usual natural disaster. This could undermine the power of Americans in financial and material terms.

Tests of a new underground boat

In 1964, early autumn, Tests "combat crot". Not bad results demonstrated the subdirection. He managed to overcome the heterogeneous soil, as well as destroy the team bunker who belonged to the landforn. Several times the prototype was demonstrated by members of government commissions in the Rostov region, in the Urals and in Nakhabino near Moscow. After that, mysterious events began. During the planned tests, the atomic approach was supposed to explode in Ural Mountains. The heroic died at the same time the crew led the colonel Semyon Budnikov (it is possible that this is a fictional name). The reason for this is supposedly a sudden breakage, as a result of which "Mole" dispersed rocks. According to other versions, there was a sabotage of foreign intelligence agencies or even enter the apparatus into an abnormal zone.

Folding programs

After Khrushchev was removed from senior posts, many programs were minimized, including this project. The underground boat stopped wondering power again. The economy of the Soviet Union cracks on the seams. Therefore, this project, as well as many other developments, such as Soviet screenwhats flying in the 60s -70s, was abandoned. The Soviet Union could be in an ideological war with the United States, but noticeably lost in the arms race. We had to save literally on everything. It felt the simple people on himself and understood Brezhnev. The existence of the state was put on con, so they were tempted for a long time and the advanced bold projects were twisted and minimized.

Does work continue?

In 1976, information about the underground atomic fleet of the Soviet Union was leaked to the press. This was done for the purposes of military-political disinformation. Americans fell on this fishing rod and began to build such devices. It is difficult to say whether the development of such machines is being done in the West and in the USA. Does anyone need a subterranean boat today? The photos presented above as well historical facts - Arguments in favor of the fact that it is not just a fantasy, but the most real reality. Do we know much about the modern world? Perhaps it is now the thickness of the Earth coming down somewhere underground boats. Secret developments of Russia, as well as other countries, no one is going to advertise.