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US DoD designations for SS-N series naval surface-to-surface missiles (fired from ships and submarines), with Soviet designations: SS-N-1 "Scrubber" (4K40) (P-1)
An SS B.E.2c set the current altitude record for a British airship when it reached 10,300 ft (3,100 m) in the summer of 1916, [18] and the sole Hawk-engined SS Maurice Farman on one occasion carried out an extended patrol of 18 hours 20 minutes. Also in the summer of 1916, an Armstrong Whitworth model coated with black dope carried out night ...
The CubCrafters CC11-160 Carbon Cub SS is an ASTM certified light-sport aircraft based on the Piper J-3 Cub manufactured by Cub Crafters. It is modernized, with light-weight carbon fiber components and a 180 hp (130 kW) engine. [1] In January 2016 the Carbon Cub was named AVweb's "Airplane of the Year" for 2015. [2]
SSZ 8 airship cockpit, Alberta, Canada SSZ 17 landing at Pembroke, 1917. Note the boat-shaped car and scoop to supply air to the ballonets. The SSZ was built at the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) airship station at Capel-le-Ferne [2] near Folkestone to the design of three officers that were serving there [3] as a successor to the SS class.
scoop seawater injection for the main condensers, allowing the main seawater pumps to be shut off at speed the ability to cross-connect main and auxiliary seawater systems; a large, direct-drive propulsion turbine which operated at a low shaft speed (300 RPM) and did not require reduction gears;
The missile's NATO reporting name was SS-N-1 Scrubber. It was tested in 1953–1954 on the destroyer Bedovyy ( Kildin -class ) and entered service in 1955, being deployed on Kildin - and Krupnyy (later converted to Kanin )-class ships.
Unlike the previous S-Series rockets, the SS-520 is intended to demonstrate how small an orbital launch vehicle can be. [ 10 ] [ citation needed ] When used as a suborbital sounding rocket, it can launch a 140 kilograms (310 lb) payload to an altitude between 800 and 1000 km. [ 11 ] The first two SS-520s were launched in 1998 and 2000 ...
At least two of the units reportedly attacked land targets inside Syria with 3M54 Kalibr cruise missiles (NATO designation: SS-N-27A "Sizzler"). [4] On 8 December 2015 marked the first time a Kilo-class submarine fired cruise missiles against an enemy. B-237 Rostov-on-Don struck two targets near the ISIS capital of Raqqa by the missile attack. [24]