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When it entered service in 1976, it was the first production tank to be powered solely by turbine. [a] The chief designer of the T-80 was Soviet engineer Nikolay Popov. [13] The T-80U was last produced in 2001 in a factory in Omsk, Russia. In 2023, the CEO of Uralvagonzavod announced that production would restart. [14]
The tanker then connected the first steel line to the refueling hose and paid it out as the receiving aircraft reeled it back in. Probe-and-drogue The tanker trails a flexible hose with a stabilising drogue on the end and the receiving aircraft manoeuvers to insert a short probe into the receptacle in the drogue.
The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the U.S. Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922. The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1]
A further development of T-80B. It was developed in late 1970s and first model was produced in 1982. It was an attempt to provide the T-80B tank with an improved armour and firepower. It uses 1,200 hp (895 kW) GTD-1000M gas turbine engine. [7] It has the 9K119 system which allows it to fire 9M119M Invar (AT-11B Sniper) ATGM using the tank's ...
A cross section of the aircraft with labeled parts. The XP-80 had a conventional all-metal airframe, with a slim low wing and tricycle landing gear.Like most early jets designed during World War II—and before the Allies captured German research data that confirmed the speed advantages of swept-wings—the XP-80 had straight wings, similar to previous propeller-driven fighters.
Sqn. Cdr. E. H. Dunning makes the first landing of an aircraft on a moving ship, a Sopwith Pup on HMS Furious, August 2, 1917.. This List of carrier-based aircraft covers fixed-wing aircraft designed for aircraft carrier flight deck operation and excludes aircraft intended for use from seaplane tenders, submarines and dirigibles.
Twenty-one aircraft carriers, all of the attack carriers operational during the era except John F. Kennedy, deployed to Task Force 77 of the US Seventh Fleet, conducting 86 war cruises and operating 9,178 total days on the line in the Gulf of Tonkin. 530 aircraft were lost in combat and 329 more in operational accidents, causing the deaths of ...
Wheeled armoured personnel carrier Vietnam: 4x4 APC that can carry a driver, commander, and 10 other people; 12 people in total. Seems to be amphibious and might include a remote controlled weapons station. [111] Wheeled armoured personnel carrier Vietnam: Leaked photo showed a document of a proposed 8x8 APC. The APC somewhat resembles the BTR-60.