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Pionerskiy Dome
Pionerskiy Dome () is an ice-covered summit about 60 nautical miles (110 km) south-southwest of the Grove Mountains The Grove Mountains are a large, scattered group of mountains and nunataks extending over an area of approximately , located east of the Mawson Escarpment in American Highland, Antarctica. They were first photographed from the air by aircraft .... Discovered by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition in 1958 and named " Kupol Pionerskiy" (Pionerskiy Dome). Mountains of Princess Elizabeth Land {{PrincessElizabethLand-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grove Mountains
The Grove Mountains are a large, scattered group of mountains and nunataks extending over an area of approximately , located east of the Mawson Escarpment in American Highland, Antarctica. They were first photographed from the air by aircraft of U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47, and named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia for Squadron Leader I.L. Grove, a Royal Australian Air Force pilot with the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions, who made a November 1958 landing in these mountains. Features in the Grove Mountains * Black Nunataks * Bode Nunataks * Bryse Peaks * Cooke Peak * Davey Nunataks * Gale Escarpment * Lamberts Peak * Mason Peaks * Melvold Nunataks * Mount Harding Mount Harding is the largest mountain in the Grove Mountains of Antarctica, in the south-central part of the range and about west of Gale Escarpment. It was mapped by the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (1956–60) from aeria ... * Tate Roc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soviet Antarctic Expedition
The Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SAE or SovAE) (russian: Советская антарктическая экспедиция, САЭ, ''Sovetskaya antarkticheskaya ekspeditsiya'') was part of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute of the Soviet Committee on Antarctic Research of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. The Soviet Union's Ministry of Sea Transport was responsible for the administration, logistics and supply of the expeditions. The first Soviet contact with Antarctica was in January 1947 when the Slava whaling flotilla began whaling in Antarctic waters. Stations The first Soviet Antarctic station, '' Mirny'', was established near the coast on February 13, 1956. This was added to in December 1957 by another station, ''Vostok'' built inland near the south geomagnetic pole. Year-round stations * Mirny (established February 13, 1956) * Vostok (established December 16, 1957) * Novolazarevskaya (established January 18, 1961) * Molodyozhnaya (established January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kupol Pionerskiy
JSC Izhevsk Electromechanical Plant or IEMZ Kupol for short (russian: Ижевский электромеханический завод «Купол») is a Russian military R&D enterprise founded in 1957. It is located in Izhevsk (3 Pesochnaya str). GlobalSecurity.orgIEMZ Kupol/ref> It is part of the Almaz-Antey JSC Concern VKO "Almaz-Antey" (russian: link=no, ОАО "Концерн ВКО "Алмаз-Антей"») is a Russian state-owned company in the arms industry, a result of a merger of Antey Corporation and NPO Almaz, unifying some of the nat ... holding. Military products * Osa-AKM SAM * Saman-M1 target-launching complex * Tor-M1 on tracked vehicle (older version of the system Tor) * Tor-M2E, on tracked vehicle *Tor-M2K on 6x6 wheeled vehicle *Tor M2 km air defense system that can be transported on trucks and stationed on buildings and ships. *99F678M simulator of Tor-M2E (K) on all-terrain trucks with the operation team can be trained realistically. *M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |