Soviet Union aircraft

Alloy development in the former Soviet Union has produced alloys having strengths equivalent to IN-100 and Mar-M-200. Alloys developed in the United States and United Kingdom are also widely used in French aircraft engines. 

July 1941 the new commander in Malaya, General A. E. Percival, estimated that five divisions, instead of ten brigades were required. As the official history notes, it was evident by that date that existing plans for the defence of Malaya had broken down . ° Nevertheless, Churchill, anxious to support the Soviet Union, which had suffered heavy defeats since June, particularly with regard to its air force, preferred in August to offer to send 445 modem fighter aircraft to Murmansk. ... 

The British had proceeded less expeditiously. The Chiefs of Staff advised in October 1945 that the best defence against atomic bombs was likely to be the deterrent effect that the possession of the means of retaliation would have on a potential aggressor, and in January 1946 they said that a stock in the order of hundreds rather than scores would be necessary to deter a country with widely dispersed industries and population (like the Soviet Union). In December 1945, ministers in the Gen 75 committee approved the construction of the first reactor capable of producing plutonium, and in August 1946 the CAS sent the first requisition for an atomic bomb to the Ministry of Supply. The McMahon Act was amended in October 1950 to allow rather more cooperation between American and British scientists but the first British test did not take place until 3 October 1952, in the hold of a ship off Australia. The first test of a British atomic bomb dropped by an aircraft did not occur until 11 October 1956. 

At that time there were plans to build enormous fleets of supersonic aircraft 500 Boeing SSTs, Concordes, and in the Soviet Union the Tupolevs, nicknamed as Concordskys. 

To interested observers, it appeared that the Soviet Union was gearing up to develop hydrogen-fueled aviation and that it had a leg up over the West in exploring this new technology. Maybe it was only old-style communist propaganda, but both TASS and the party newspaper Izvestia implied that aircraft powered by liquid hydrogen and liquid natural gas were going to be the wave of the socialist future. 

From 1974 to 1981, toxic agents were used by the Soviet Union and its client states in such Cold War sites as Afghanistan, Laos, and Kampuchea (Cambodia). Aerosol-and-droplet clouds were produced by delivery systems in the Soviet arsenal such as aircraft spray tanks, aircraft-launched rockets, bombs (exploding cylinders), canisters, a Soviet hand-held weapon (DH-10), and booby traps. Aircraft used for delivery included L-19s, AN-2s, T-28s, T-41s, MiG-2 Is (in Laos) and Soviet MI-24 helicopters (in Afghanistan and Laos). 

Fig. 2.84 Historical data on the dependence of ozone from altitude. Data from Konstantin-ova-Schlesinger (1937a, 1937b, 1938) from the Soviet Union in the 1930s years (Moscow 100 m, Elbrus 2200 m and 4300 m, aircraft measurements 9620 m, 13 000 m and 1400 m) Swiss date (Genf 200 m, Zermatt 1650 m, Rochers de Naye 2045 m and Gornergrat 3200 m) from Gmelin (1943) and Staehelin et al. (1994).

In accordance with the data available at the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR, in 1945, our troops captured 35 [thousand - LF.J metric tonnes of chemical weapons, including chemical aircraft bombs, which were brought and dumped by the trophy groups into the sea between the coasts of the Soviet Union and Sweden,... 

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