Author: Karol

  • I lived as I could – Teofil Lenartowicz. 2022.

    There comes a moment in life when you have to end a certain stage of your life and say goodbye to friends reading my blog. This is the moment and I will not write any more, because I do not have the strength to do so. I wrote a book about my life entitled "I…

  • Meeting of the Experimental Pilots Club in Kamionka. 2022.

    In the first words, I would like to explain to readers who are not involved in aviation, what pilots from the crowd of KPD and where I am in this wonderful top-class group. Well, KPD members can be pilots who fly over prototype and serial airplanes, as well as engineers who make these tests. I…

  • Radar ZDPSR Bystra. 2022.

    The Polish radar ZDPSR Bystra is a Transit Capable Radar Station manufactured by PIT-RADWAR S.A. The radar is mounted on the Żubr-P armored vehicle. The AMZ Żubr vehicle is an armored car of Polish production, the heaviest of the AMZ-Kutno vehicles produced so far. Its mass is 12,000 kg. 4×4 drive. Iveco Tector NEF N60…

  • PSR-A Pilica anti-aircraft system. 2022.

    The PSR-A Pilica is a Polish short-range automatic anti-aircraft missile and artillery system. In NATO nomenclature it is called VSHORAD, or Very Short Range Air Defense). The system is of the transportable type. The acronym PSR-A stands for the Anti-Aircraft Missile and Artillery System.

  • Radars 1991.

    NUR-15 (TRS-15 Odra) is a Polish three-coordinate, mobile, medium-range radar, mounted on the chassis of Tatra or Jelcz cars. The radar was developed by the Polish State Telecommunications Institute (PIT), which joined the structures of Bumar Elektronika S.A. The main task of the radar is to fill the gap in a possible armed conflict after…

  • Radars 1970.

    In 1975, PIT started designing a new generation of two-coordinate coherent radars with pulse compression, codenamed NUR. NUR stands for Ground Based Radar Device. The training of future service technicians began in the mid-80s at the Higher School of Radio Engineering in Jelenia Góra. The radar was used by the Polish Army in 1988. A…

  • Radars Jawor 1960.

    In 1956, the Industrial Telecommunications Institute (PIT) started developing a new series of radar stations codenamed Jawor. These radars were to have much better technical parameters than the Nysa family of radars. They have been referred to as Radar Detection and Guidance Stations (RSWN). The final stage of research and development was a radar built…

  • Radars 1950.

    In 1950, the General Staff of the Polish Army transferred the T-T conditions for a radar warning station to the National Telecommunications Institute. The work was started by the Separate Design Laboratory (TL) at the Radio Works named after Marcin Kasprzak. The program was codenamed "Nysa". As early as 1951, a laboratory model of a…

  • Tupolev Tu-154. Equipment. 2022.

    According to the obtained certificate, the Tu-154 M Lux aircraft could be operated for 18 years. This time has come to an end. On January 5, 2009. Tu-154 M Lux nb 101 has exhausted its service life. Tu-154 M Lux nb 102 twelve months later. The difficult financial situation of the country and other substantive…

  • Tupolev Tu-154. Catastrophes. 2022

    The statistics for the Tu-154 aircraft are unmerciful. According to available information, 66 machines crashed on 1,015 (other sources 926) of the Tu-154 built. The production of this machine lasted until 2001. Until 2010, there were about 200 Tu-154 aircraft in the world. Mostly in the Moscow State and China.