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Pictures of old Russian rocket, I have no idea what the article says

Posted on 4/16/17 at 5:49 pm
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
29175 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 5:49 pm
LINK

It's all in Russian so good luck understanding, but the pictures are amazing. The place looks like a ghost town, albeit a really cool one.









Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
48769 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 5:54 pm to
Wonder how many corpses are stuffed in it
Posted by willymeaux
Member since Mar 2012
4755 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 5:55 pm to
It looks like a prototype to the buran launch vehicle
Posted by DavidTheGnome
Monroe
Member since Apr 2015
29175 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 5:59 pm to
It's called Energia.

Energia (Russian: ???????, Energiya, "Energy") was a Soviet rocket that was designed by NPO Energia to serve as a heavy-lift expendable launch system as well as a booster for the Buran spacecraft. Control system main developer enterprise was the NPO "Electropribor".[2][3] The Energia used four strap-on boosters each powered by a four-chamber RD-170 engine burning kerosene/LOX, and a central core stage with 4 one-chamber RD-0120 (11D122) engines fueled by liquid hydrogen/LOX.[4]

The launch system had two functionally different operational variants: Energia-Polyus, the initial test configuration, in which the Polyus system was used as a final stage to put the payload into orbit, and Energia-Buran,[5] in which the Buran spacecraft was the payload and the source of the orbit insertion impulse.

The rocket had the capacity to place about 100 tonnes in Low Earth orbit, up to 20 tonnes to geostationary orbit and up to 32 tonnes to a translunar trajectory.[1]







This post was edited on 4/16/17 at 6:00 pm
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
35652 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 6:07 pm to
Where's RedRifle when you need him?
Posted by blowmeauburn
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2006
7886 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 7:02 pm to
That thing had some serious pick up
Posted by upgrayedd
Lifting at Tobin's house
Member since Mar 2013
134865 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 7:04 pm to
And the Russians still carry on their greatest tradition - stealing/copying our shite.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124335 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 7:04 pm to
I translated it. It basically says you talk like a fig and your shite's all fricked up.
Posted by BRgetthenet
Member since Oct 2011
117722 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 7:06 pm to
It got better gas mileage at Mach 4 than it did going 500 mph.

Posted by Jack Bauers HnK
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
5715 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 7:09 pm to
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better gas mileage


Lol, it's been a while.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
124335 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 7:10 pm to
quote:

It got better gas mileage at Mach 4 than it did going 500 mph.


At Mach 4 it was probably refueling the tank.
Posted by stinkdawg
Savannah, smoking by the gas cans
Member since Aug 2014
4072 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 7:48 pm to
Tom Clancy wrote a non fiction book about how bad the Russians are. It's hilarious. Ball bearings that look like eggs...
Posted by jamboybarry
Member since Feb 2011
32654 posts
Posted on 4/16/17 at 7:52 pm to
quote:

I translated it. It basically says you talk like a fig and your shite's all fricked up.


Bet there is a retard pilot for that thing
Posted by tss22h8
30.4 N 90.9 W
Member since Jan 2007
18657 posts
Posted on 4/17/17 at 6:29 am to
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
119245 posts
Posted on 4/17/17 at 6:30 am to
This was their attempt at a Space Shuttle. Been posted before.
Posted by dbeck
Member since Nov 2014
29453 posts
Posted on 4/17/17 at 8:44 am to
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It got better gas mileage at Mach 4 than it did going 500 mph.

You get better gas mileage the faster you go because you get there faster.
Posted by The Mick
Member since Oct 2010
43143 posts
Posted on 4/17/17 at 8:46 am to
Eerie in a way... like that damn carousel in Chernobyl.
Posted by LSURussian
Member since Feb 2005
126962 posts
Posted on 4/17/17 at 8:51 am to
That space shuttle look-a-like vehicle still sits in Gorky Park in Moscow as a tourist attraction.

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