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An artist’s conception of a Soviet anti-satellite weapon destroying a satellite in 1984. The Russian satellite destroyer known as ‘Istrebitel Sputnikov‘ (IS). Carrying an explosive charge, it would be guided on an intercept course towards enemy satellites. America’s ability to gather intelligence on Soviet developments was severely limited during the early post-war years and the […]

2P19 Transporter-Erector-Launcher with 8K14 rocket, SS-1C Scud B Type Short-range, road-mobile, liquid-propellant, single-warhead ballistic missiles. Development The initial design of the `Scud’ was made in Russia by the Korolyev Design Bureau (OKB-1), which started work shortly after the Second World War using German V2 designs, and some of the engineers and scientists from the German […]

In 1938 the first Soviet Pulsed Radar station was tested. In the end of 1939 the development and the test the RUS-2 were concluded. With It aircraft could be located up to 120 kms with a maximum height up to 7 kms.”Redoubt” = mobile station. When the Luftwaffe opened the Great Patriotic War by destroying […]

British Army. GL mark II, 5m gun laying, receiver British Army. GL mark II, 5m gun laying, receiver. The set had three dipoles: one at right and left for direction by swinging the whole assembly; a third that moved vertically for height determination. Although classified as “gun laying,” it had little or no blind-fire capability. […]