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Vitus Jonassen Bering II
Post-mortem reconstruction of Vitus Jonassen Bering’s face. On July 14, 1728 – three and a half years after leaving St. Petersburg – Bering’s newly constructed ship, the St. Gabriel, stocked with enough food to sustain its crew of forty for a year, sailed from the mouth of the Kamchatka River. Following the coast of the peninsula northward for five days,…
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CO-ORBITAL SATELLITE FIGHTER DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONAL TESTING – 1963-1982
A US Defense Intelligence Agency diagram showing the various means by which one satellite might attack another. There are 39 spacecraft flights that can be directly attributed to the Soviet Counter-Space Defence Satellite fighter (IS interceptor) Complex development and operational test programs. The first spacecraft that can positively be attributed…
Russia conducted anti-satellite missile test, says US Space Command
PL-19 Nudol missile and launcher Russia carried out the eighth test of the PL-19 Nudol anti-satellite missile system.Nudol is descended from missile interceptors designed to protect Moscow.The mobile system can reach out and destroy satellites in low earth orbit from Russian territory. Nathan Strout and Aaron Mehta USSPACECOM Commander Gen.…
The Trans-Siberian Railway
When Princess Maria Volkonsky sped across Russia from Moscow to join her husband in exile in 1827, it took 23 days before she saw the churches of Irkutsk, the capital of eastern Siberia, looming out of the snowy atmosphere. That was extremely fast by contemporary standards, and she had traveled…
Russian 3M22 Zircon/3M22 Tsirkon Hypersonic Cruise Missile
Russian Zircon Missile Concept Russia Test-Launches Tsirkon Hypersonic Cruise Missile from Ship for First Time The 3M22 Zircon or the SS-N-33 is a maneuvering anti-ship hypersonic cruise missile developed in Russia. The Zircon’s estimated range is 500 km at a low level and up to 750 km at a semi-ballistic…
Great Game of Central-Asian Dominance I
In the 1860s, Russian expeditionary forces entered Uzbekistan and captured the key trading cities of Tashkent and Samarkand. In the 1870s the Russians turned their attention to Khiva, capital of the Turkomans, lying to the south of the Aral Sea on the border between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. By the end…
Great Game of Central-Asian Dominance II
In a 19th century picture, the Russians attack the Uzbek city of Khiva. Warrior Uzbek An archer of Bukhara, with a national costume Uzbekistan of the second half century. Khiva Khanate Also known historically as Khorezm or Khwarezm, an Islamic state in Central Eurasia, the Khiva Khanate was centered at…