Soviet Archives - Mechtraveller https://mechtraveller.com/tag/soviet/ Mechanically-minded travel Fri, 10 Oct 2025 10:35:55 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 New movie in production about Lidiya Litvyak – legendary Soviet female fighter ace https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/new-movie-in-production-about-lidiya-litvyak-legendary-soviet-female-fighter-ace/ https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/new-movie-in-production-about-lidiya-litvyak-legendary-soviet-female-fighter-ace/#respond Mon, 20 Sep 2021 08:14:18 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=7019 This looks good! It’s a behind-the-scenes video about a new crowd-funded movie called ‘Litvyak’ about WW2 Soviet fighter pilot, Lidiya Litvyak, flight commander of the 3rd Aviation Squadron and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Before she was shot down and killed, aged just 22, on 1st Aug 1943 near the town of Orel during […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2021/09/new-movie-in-production-about-lidiya-litvyak-legendary-soviet-female-fighter-ace/feed/ 0 Why Russian Pilots Were Not Impressed By The Hawker Hurricane https://mechtraveller.com/2019/08/why-russian-pilots-were-not-impressed-by-the-hawker-hurricane/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/08/why-russian-pilots-were-not-impressed-by-the-hawker-hurricane/#comments Fri, 09 Aug 2019 10:25:29 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=5074 We think of the Hawker Hurricane as the workhorse of the Battle of Britain and, while generally acknowledged to be not as fast or glamourous as the Spitfire, most pilots found it to be a highly efficient gun platform that could take a lot of punishment. Most, but not all. Some 14,500 Hurricanes were built […]

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]]> https://mechtraveller.com/2019/08/why-russian-pilots-were-not-impressed-by-the-hawker-hurricane/feed/ 32 ZSU-23-4 “Shilka” https://mechtraveller.com/2019/02/zsu-23-4-shilka/ https://mechtraveller.com/2019/02/zsu-23-4-shilka/#respond Wed, 27 Feb 2019 16:35:37 +0000 https://mechtraveller.com/?p=4210 The ZSU-23-4 Shilka is a Soviet self-propelled anti-aircraft system. I thought the Shilka was an old piece of Cold War kit, but it turns out that, while it may be old, many countries have developed upgrade packs and are still using it. The ZSU-23-4 (Zenitnaya Samokhodnaya Ustanovka = “anti-aircraft self-propelled system”, 23mm x 4 guns) […]

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