Jan Radziemski Livres

The most comprehensive listing of Soviet warships of this era in English.

Junkers Ju 188 - German bomber during World War II, successor of the Ju 88, was flown in January 1943. In February 1943, production lines launched three Ju 188E-0 planes powered by BMW 801ML engines. The first seven serial Ju 188E-1s received the BMW 801C-2 engines. Airplanes powered by Junkers Jumo in-line engines were to be marked A, B, C, and D, while those powered by BMW, F, G, and H radial engines. The identification variant of the E-1 version was the Ju 188F-1, equipped with two cameras.

In the interwar period the battleship "Marat" was considered a symbol of the naval power of the Soviet Union. She was the most-described and filmed ship of the Land of the Soviets. In her 40-year service, rich in events, she survived four wars, but only in one of them - the civil war - she used her main guns in an engagement with enemy warships. Only once in her career. In other conflicts, she served as a monitor rather than a battleship, shelling mainly land targets and carrying out counter-battery fire. At the end, she fell victim of the destructive power of German dive bombers. From that moment, she was a battleship only on paper. Mutilated and devoid of propulsion, she was still biting at the Germans from her remaining guns, and after the war, young pupils of the maritime craft appeared on board. Though it sounds absurd, even her reconstruction as a battleship was considered. This misconceived idea was not fortunately realized and the wreck - because it became one in the final period of service - finally went for scrap.

The destroyer Spravedlivyy was constructed in the Severniy Sudostroitelniy Zavod imeni A.A. Zhdanova (Shipyard No. 190) in 1954–1956 as one of 27 Project 56 destroyers, also known as the Spokoinyy class (designated Kotlin by NATO). They were destroyers in the old fashion, created in the early 1950s by designers of the 53rd Central Design Bureau (CKB-53) led by head designer A.L. Fisher, who was also the author of Project 30bis (NATO: Skoryy-class).

Petlakov Pe-2 (Peshka) is the best-known twin-engine light bomber of Soviet aviation in World War II. The plane was susceptible to structural changes, which allowed it to be used as a heavy fighter (also night), a dive bomber or a long reconnaissance plane. Vladimir Petlakov constructed the Pe-2 in prison, where he got in 1937 for allegedly delaying the works on the ANT-42 Tupolev bomber. Petlakow, while serving the sentence, was appointed the head of the constructors' group, which was to create a fast and durable machine that could freely escort the ANT-42. That is how the VI-100 was made. It was a quite advanced plane for its time (the first flight took place on December 22, 1939). It was a fully metal construction. The machine was equipped with a pressurised cockpit, turbochargers and many advanced electronic systems.

The "Smelyi" type destroyer, Project 30 bis (Skoryi class, according to NATO classification), was the first destroyer designed and built after World War two with new shipbuilding technologies available in the USSR. World War Two demonstrated that all early-built Soviet destroyers had serious flaws. Poor seaworthiness, hull fragility, lack of displacement reserves for modernization. The technical design and working drawings of the new EM were developed under the leadership of the main designer A.L. Fisher. On 28 January 1947, by order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR N3 149-75 "On the construction of destroyers of the 30K and 30 bis Projects", the technical design developed in TsKB-53 was approved. The construction of ships of this series was to take place at four No. 190 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), No. 200 in Mikolayov, No. 199 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur and No. 402 in Molotov (now the town of Severodvinsk).

Covers the first Soviet purpose-built anti-air warfare ships.

Highly illustrated look at this A-class torpedo boat. The A-III was lost in 1915.

The limited basin of the Adriatic Sea favoured the operation of the light ships and various types of "microorganisms". The Italian naval command at the end of 1914 already drew attention to the combat capabilities of motor torpedo boats. The design of such a unit was presented in November, 1914, by the Italian company Maccia Marchini. The cutter had a displacement of 7-8 tons, a length of 15 meters and was propelled by two engines, 200 HP each. It was supposed to reach a speed of 30 knots. The armament was two torpedoes dropped from both sides. However, the Italian Navy decided not to work with a small and not very well-known company. The fate of the project proposed in February, 1915, by the Venetian company SVAN (Società Veneziana Automobili Nautiche - Venetian Society of Self-Propelled Sea Boats) was different. Torpedo boat designed by engineer Atillia Bisio was somewhat reminiscent of the design of the Maccia Marchini company. It had a similar displacement (7.8 tons) and a length of 15 meters. The drive consisted of four engines with a power of 100 HP each, working on two propeller shafts. The armament was limited to two 450 mm torpedoes and one 37 mm gun.

W tomiku przedstawiono historię powstania, opis konstrukcji, uzbrojenie, przeprowadzone modernizacje i losy sowieckich/rosyjskich atomowych krążownikow podwodnych proj. 941. (krypt. Akyła; w kodzie NATO - Typhoon). Była ty największe na świecie dotąd zbudowane okrety podwodne. Ich naped stanowiły siłownie jądrowe. Okrętów tego typu zbudowano w Związku Radzieckim sześć, a do 2023 r. w służbie pozostawał jeden jako okręt doświadczalny Dmitrij Donskoj. Długotrwały okres budowy (1976-1990) sprawił, że różniły się one wyposażeniem elektronicznym, choc ich głównym uzbrojeniem pozostawało 20 rakiet balistycznych R-39. Każda z nich przenosił 10 indywidulanie naprowadzanych ładunkow jadrowych o mocy po 100 kT. Te prawdziwe monstra, o wyporności pełnej 48 000 t, były przeznaczone do zwalczania amerykańskich lotniskowcow i strategicznych okrętów podwodnych. Wysokie koszty ograniczyły serię do sześciu jednostek. Kosztowna i niezbyt profesjonalna eksploatacja spowodowały ich stosunkowowo szybkie wycofanie z linii. Tekst jest zilustrowany 64 zdjęciami, 6 rys., 4 tabelami, 1 przekrojem, 2 zestawami rzutów z boku i z góry oraz 2 barwanymi przykladami kamuflażu okrętu.