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Jeff Head said:

I build 1/350 scale modern naval vessels, and 1/72 scale aircraft.

I do some historical models now and again, mainly World War II and Cold War.

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Also most of them are up on Fine Scale modeling Forum.[/U]

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PanAsian said:

Have you considered or made dioramas?

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Jeff Head said:

I have considered ti...but not done it.

Hehehe...I am already having space problems, and dioramas make an even bigger footprint.

But I have seen some GREAT ones, and have considered it.

I may break down and do one when I build my Hornet/Enterprise carrier group launching the B-25s on Tokyo though.

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Jura said:

(concerns the newest Buyan-Ms, M as in modified, or more officially: Project 21631 ships; the Zelyonyi Don (602) and the Serpukhov (603))

Nov 21, 2015

... and yesterday it happened: EDIT in Sevastopol

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Crews of the Russian Navy’s two new Black Sea Fleet small-sized missile ships Zeleny Dol and Serpukhov started combat training at sea.

Black Sea Fleet Commander Admiral Alexander Vitko assessed the task performance readiness of the Zeleny Dol ship crew.

The ship’s crew conducted dangerous-sea area passages in cooperation with sweeper forces, practiced performing a missile strike during naval combat, eliminating a floating mine, and performed artillery firing against an aerial target.

Zeleny Dol and Serpukhov joined the Russian Navy in November 2015 and were assigned to their permanent naval base in Sevastopol, where the St. Andrew’s flag-hoisting ceremony took place.

The two ships were built at the Zelenodolsky shipyard within the implementation of the shipbuilding programme of the Russian Navy and the re-equipment plan of the Black Sea Fleet.

They are the 4th and 5th ships of the Buyan-M modernization series that have an increased displacement and armament which includes the Russian long-range cruise missile system Kalibr-NK.

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PanAsian said:

Cool. Space is definitely an issue and it doesn't help that models, especially aircraft ones, are delicate and have to be handled with care. I have a small collection of models in storage which I built when I was a teenager and though they have survived multiple moves they are not in very good shape, A-10, F-4, F-117, M1, M3, and the USS Pennsylvania.

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The Northern Fleet’s nuclear-powered submarine Orel recently damaged by fire at the Zvyozdochka Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia will join the Russian Navy before the end of 2016 after repairs, shipyard spokesman Yevgeny Gladyshev told TASS on Wednesday. Orel (K-266) is a Project 949A Antey nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine (SSGN) (NATO designation: Oscar II).

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The Sevmash Shipyard in Severodvinsk in north Russia has started renewing hull structures of the Project 11442M heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (NATO designation: Kirov class) currently being upgraded, the shipyard’s press office said on Thursday.

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Jura said:

now Project 22350 ...

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sailed for the final part of State acceptance-trials (before commissioning), ...

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Faster than Missiles: Russia Developing Space Age Fighter Jet
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MiG-41. This superfast interceptor is not yet off the drawing board at the Mikoyan military aircraft design bureau, but the final draft may be ready already within the next couple of years with mass production scheduled to begin before 2025, Zvezda television channel reported on Friday.



There is not very much known about the MiG-41 because everything about this plane, just like with all top modern military projects, remains classified.


All we know is that the Mikoyan bureau has been working on the design of a long-range interceptor, based on their MiG-31, since 2013 as part of a plan to replace the ageing fleet of MiG-31 fighter jets whose active service life expires in 2028.

Even though the MiG-31 is the fastest military aircraft around, it will eventually have to make way for newer and more advanced types of aircraft.

Like the MiG-41, which will be years and years ahead of its predecessors and able to intercept even the hypersonic drones now being developed in the United States no existing missiles, except Russia’s S-500 will theoretically be able to shoot down.

“The MiG-41 will embody all the advantages of the MiG-31 fighter-interceptor,” Alexander Tarnayev, a member of the State Duma’s Defense Committee, said.

This will require numerous testing platforms, which may be why hundreds of MiG-31s will be overhauled and put into service with the Russian Air Force.

The main features of the MiG-41 are not yet known, but one thing is clear: a plane flying faster than missiles (the MiG-41 is designed to fly at Mach 4.0 and even Mach 4.3) is a convincing deterrent against any aggression



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