The Piasecki VZ-8 Airgeep (company designation PA-59) was a prototype vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft developed by Piasecki Aircraft. The Airgeep was developed to fulfill a U.S. Army Transportation Research Command contract for a flying jeep in 1957. [2] The flying jeep was envisioned to be smaller and easier to fly than a helicopter.

The Hiller VZ-1 Pawnee (U.S. Army designation; earlier Army designation: HO-1) is a unique direct-lift rotor aircraft, using contra-rotating ducted fans for lift inside a flying platform upon which the single pilot shifted body weight for directional control.

The vz. 58 (or Sa vz. 58) is a 7.62×39mm assault rifle that was designed and manufactured in Czechoslovakia and accepted into service in the late 1950s as the 7,62 mm samopal vzor 58, replacing the vz. 52 self-loading rifle and the 7.62×25mm Tokarev …

The second vehicle built for the Army was called the VZ-8P (B) Airgeep II, and made its first non-tethered flight in the summer of 1962. It was fairly similar to the VZ-8P, save for the bend...

Venezuela, commonly referred to as VZ, and the VZA (Venezuelan Army), refers to the Venezuelan Army as a faction led by Ramon Solano in Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. It is always diplomatically an enemy with your character and every other faction, excluding the opening mission, where you are rescuing General Carmona.

The VZ58 (model 58) is a 7.62×39mm rifle designed and manufactured in Czechoslovakia and accepted into service in the late 1950s as the 7.62 mm samopal vzor 58 (“7.62mm submachine gun model 1958”), replacing the vz. 52 self-loading rifle and the 7.62×25mm Tokarev Sa 24 and Sa 26 submachine guns.

2025年3月4日 · The Skoda manufacturing works at Plzen produced the heavy artillery for the Austro-Hungarian Army and battleship turrets for the nation’s navy. It further manufactured small arms, most notably the Model 1909 machine gun. ... The ZB vz 26 became the Czechoslovak army’s standard light machine gun. In total, almost 150,000 units were produced ...

2013年6月7日 · Added August 17, 2020: I discovered that there were no VZ24 rifles made on a Slovakian Army contract. Those few rifles seen with a Slovak firing proof were made at Považská Bystrica, Slovakia for small outfits like industrial guards.

2024年11月2日 · The Vz 85 "leaf" pattern was designed in 1985 and under consideration for issue to the Czechoslovak Army, but the plan was never implemented and production runs only began after the Czechoslovakia split into two countries. The design is obviously influenced by the US M1948 ERDL pattern, although the coloration is considerably different.

Designated the VZ-9AV Avrocar (“VZ” stood for “experimental vertical flight,” “9” for the ninth concept proposal, and “AV” for Avro). Tests with scale models at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio,...