When the Soviet Union broke up in the early nineties a lot of military hardware went “missing”. Most of it to be used in Africa. Some of the hardware was left behind and left to fend for itself in forgotten places across Russia and the former Warsaw Pact states. It is hardware that used to keep Western politician and citizen awake at night with fear. These are photos of such hardware. The L-29 Delfin training aircraft and Mi-2 helicopters on display look less threatening now than they did then, quietly waiting for nature – or an African warlord – to take them. Images by Den Efremov.
by Teacher Phaitoon Yaemprasuan information and technology strand
occupation and technology group
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Wat Arun or Wat Chaeng locates by the west bank of the Choa Praya River, Bangkok. The highlight of Wat Arun is Praprang, the huge pagoda. Old Praprang of Wat Arun, with 79 meter height, have been one of the famous symbols of Thailand. I am not sure how old is Praprang? But I realize that it is old and good tourist site in Bangkok.
Today - April 12 - Day of astronautics in the CIS and the International Day of human space flight!
The date was chosen by chance: it was on this momentous day in 1961
rocket "R-7", created by a Soviet plant "Progress", to give the pilot
Yuri Gagarin into orbit. From that moment began the real space age.
Exactly twenty years after the first human space flight, April 12, 1981
launched the first manned flight in the American program "Space
Shuttle."
In honor of both events in many cities around the world since 2001, held a party-event "St. George's Night." Is organizedSpace Generation Advisory Council
(Space Generation Advisory Council) - a non-governmental organization
that brings together participants from more than 60 countries.