Picture of the day.

[GrauGeist]

Nice one, Wojtek. Not enough Soviets shots grace this thread. IL-2 with a straight wing?

It is certainly an IL-2, though the photo quality makes it hard to nail down, I'll hazard a guess and say IL-2m

 

[Graeme]

? New to me.

The Macchi M.B. 323...

Macchi M.B.323 - Wikipedia

 

[johnbr]

Thanks.

 

[johnbr]

 

[Wurger]

 

[johnbr]

 

[Wurger]

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[fastmongrel]

I am sure the washer is here somewhere

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Wurger]

Below Russians doing shopping in Germany...

 

[michaelmaltby]

 

[Wurger]

 

[GrauGeist]

Don't recall if I've posted this before (I probably have) but this is a Soviet Railroad torpedo (ZhDT-3) and would have been a hell of a sight for a German locomotive engineer...

 

[Shinpachi]

A good idea

 

[fubar57]

Very cool Dave...
The ЖДТ-3 (ZhDT-3) Soviet railroad torpedo was developed by the Ordzhonikidze Machine Plant in 1935 as a weapon against enemy armored trains. It consisted of a two-axle, battery-powered trolley armed with a 500 pound bomb containing 220 pounds of high-explosive. The ZhDT-3 had a top speed of 37 mph and a range of about six miles. Production started in 1938. While many of these were in service in 1941 at the outset of the war, there is no record of their actual use in combat.

 

[Old Wizard]

 

[Wurger]

 

[fastmongrel]

Sounds like something Buster Keaton would have designed for the film The General (1926 film) - Wikipedia

 

[GrauGeist]

Actually, the ZhDT was conceived of during the civil war as an economical alternative to the practice of loading flatcars with explosives and running them downline into armored trains.