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The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105, part of the Spiral program, was a crewed test vehicle to explore low-speed handling and landing. It was a visible result of a Soviet project to create an orbital spaceplane.
Lubok depicting a peasant making lapti (Russian bast shoes). Close-up of a modern lapti-maker, using a wooden shoe last and cotton round braid . Most shoes of stiffer bast are woven on the bias , with strips running diagonally, but she is weaving on the grain , with braids running along the sole (see example , and both in one shoe )
Machine Gun 14.5×114mm: 1949–present PKP (infantry variant; not to be confused with Pecheneg machine gun) KPVT (vehicle-mounted) ZPU-1 / 2 / 4 (AA mounts) Soviet Union: NSV Utyos / Nikitin– Sokolov–Volkov 12.7×108mm: 1971–present succeeded by Kord can still be found in large numbers NSVT (vehicle-mounted) Utyos-M (naval twin-mount ...
William Cantelo (born 1830) was a 19th-century British inventor. Credited with developing an early machine gun, he disappeared from his home in Southampton in the 1880s. . While trying to find Cantelo, his two sons saw a photograph of American-born inventor Hiram Maxim (born 1840), creator of the Maxim gun; his superficial similarity to their father led them to believe that he had re-emerged ...
Lapot may refer to: Bast shoe; Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-105 "Spiral"/"Lapot" Lapot - a legendary tradition of killing frail parents in the Serbian highlands, to avoid supporting them; Lapot, a 1992 novel by Živojin Pavlović about the tradition; Lapot, a rhizarian genus
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Luigi Mangione, 26, was charged with murder late Monday in the Dec. 4 shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City after police in Altoona, Pa., were called to a McDonald’s ...
Colleoni machine gun — 6.50×52mm Mannlicher–Carcano: Ammunition belt Italy: 1908 Colt Machine Gun: Colt's Manufacturing Company: 5.56×45mm NATO: Ammunition belt United States: 1965 Colt Automatic Rifle: 5.56×45mm NATO: Detachable box magazine United States: 1982 Darne machine gun: Hotchkiss et Cie: 7.50×54mm French 8.00×51mmR French ...