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    Soviet relics

    No, not Atw, these:

    In pictures: Relics of the Soviet era - BBC News











    Straight out of Star Wars.

    #2
    Here's what's left of 'Buran' - the Soviet Space Shuttle, which looks totally different to the US Space Shuttle, just a the Tu-144 'Concordski' looks nothing like Concorde.

    Complete coincidences.

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      #3
      Thought this was going to be another Corbyn thread!!
      “The period of the disintegration of the European Union has begun. And the first vessel to have departed is Britain”

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        #4
        Originally posted by stek View Post
        Here's what's left of 'Buran' - the Soviet Space Shuttle, which looks totally different to the US Space Shuttle, just a the Tu-144 'Concordski' looks nothing like Concorde.

        Complete coincidences.

        That'll never fly.
        Will work inside IR35. Or for food.

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          #5
          Originally posted by VectraMan View Post
          That'll never fly.
          Well the hangar roof fell on it, due to just leaving it and not maintaining it.

          It only flew once, remotely-by-wire, which is something the US orbiter couldn't do.

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            #6
            Damn, Monday Links scooped by DimPrawn! Ah well

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              #7
              The third picture down is not Soviet. It is in Bulgaria. (BBC got it wrong)

              https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzludzha

              Some other pictures are not "Soviet" and are heavily doctored.
              "A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims, but accomplices," George Orwell

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                #8
                Here's some amazing photography by me of a Soviet relic, it's the MIG-15 (or 21) outside Chelyabinsk Airport, I knew it was there from a previous trip and I was determined to snap a pic, I mean compose a materpiece from the car window as we passed.

                Note the way I skillfully captured old (the MIG), and new (the red car) and emphasised the MIG's sleek lines by almost completely losing it behind an advertising hoarding pillar.

                Amazing talent.

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