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The Caspian cobra (Naja oxiana), also called the persian cobra or Russian cobra, is a species of highly venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is endemic to Central Asia . First described by Karl Eichwald , a German physician, in 1831, it was for many years considered to be a subspecies of the Naja naja until genetic analysis ...
B-39 was a Project 641 (Foxtrot-class) diesel-electric attack submarine of the Soviet Navy.The "B" (actually "Б") in her designation stands for большая (bolshaya, "large")—Foxtrots were the Soviet Navy's largest non-nuclear submarines.
Pugachev's Cobra maneuver is one of the tests for supermaneuverability, here performed by an Su-27. The Russian Sukhoi Su-35 and its family of Sukhoi Su-27 are modern example of jetfighters with supermaneuverability.
"Cobra I" with its pilot, Jack Woolams, was lost in 1946 during a test flight over Lake Ontario. The "Cobra II" flown by test pilot "Tex" Johnston, beat racing-modified P-51s, as well as other P-39 racers (which were the favorites), to win the 1946 Thompson Trophy race. [74] Cobra II competed again in the 1947 Thompson Trophy, finishing 3rd. In ...
In aerobatics, the cobra maneuver (or just the cobra), also called dynamic deceleration, [1] among other names (see § Etymology), is a dramatic and demanding maneuver in which an airplane flying at a moderate speed abruptly raises its nose momentarily to a vertical and slightly past vertical attitude, causing an extremely high angle of attack and making the plane into a full-body air brake ...
Viktor Georgiyevich Pugachev (Russian: Ви́ктор Гео́ргиевич Пугачёв) (born 8 August 1948 in Taganrog, RSFSR) is [1] a retired Russian Air Force officer and a former Soviet test pilot who was the first to demonstrate the so-called Pugachev's Cobra manoeuvre to the general public in 1989, flying an Su-27.
Sukhoi Su-35 (Russia and China) The Sukhoi Su-37 (Russian: Сухой Су -37; NATO reporting name : Flanker-F ; popularly nicknamed " Terminator " [ 2 ] ) was a single-seat twin-engine aircraft designed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau which served as a technology demonstrator .
The eastern coral snake or American cobra (Micrurus fulvius), which also does not rear upwards and produce a hood when threatened [4]: p.30 The false water cobra (Hydrodynastes gigas) is the only "cobra" species that is not a member of the Elapidae. It does not rear upwards, produces only a slight flattening of the neck when threatened, and is ...