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Ayacucho Class Battleship



The Ayacucho was a class five battleships built for the Venezuelan Navy and commissioned between 1908 and 1911. They were designed in tandem with the Quito class with which they share many features such as the main armament superstructure design although there are great differences in configuration and other areas such as armor and hull design

General characteristics
Type: Dreadnought
Displacement: 26,800 metric tons
Length: 178.7 m
Beam: 27 m (88,58 ft)
Draft: 8.48 m (27,82 ft)
Installed power: 5,000 shp
Propulsion: 4 shafts, steam turbines
25 water-tube boilers
Speed: 24.1 kn (44.6 km/h; 27.7 mph) (on trials)
Range: 3,200 nmi (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph)
Complement: 1,149
Armament: 4 × 3 – 12-inch guns
28 × 1 – 4-inch guns
Armor: Waterline belt: 130–230 mm
Deck: 15–55 mm (0.47–1.97 in)
Turrets: 76–203 mm (3.0–8.0 in)
Barbettes: 75–150 mm (3.0–5.9 in)
Conning tower: 100–254 mm (3.9–10.0 in)

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VeneAvia VA1030
The VeneAvia VA1030 is a three-engine wide-body jet airliner manufactured by VeneAvia. The VA1030 has range for medium- to long-haul flights, capable of carrying a maximum of 380 passengers. The model was a successor to VeneAvia's VA1000 for long-range operations, and competed in the same markets as the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, which has a similar layout and the Mcdonnell Douglas DC-10. When CAVs AC10 entered service with Viasa in 1970, VeneAvia’s executives knew that a new aircraft was needed to face the challenge posed by CAVs two giants the AC10 and the supersonic AC11. By this time VeneAvia’s VA1020 medium range wide body was already in the final stages of development and the design team was ordered to work on a long range wide body airliner that could challenge the AC10. It wasn´t long before the engineers realized that they couldn’t compete on the same ground as the AC10 due to the long range wide body market being perceived as very limited at the time and this influenced the decision to develop a smaller aircraft that could carry between 250 to 350 passengers over similar ranges, this meant the aircraft was also expected to compete against the Lockheed L1011 Tristar and Mcdonnell Douglas DC-10. In order to increase the aircrafts appeal to foreign customers it was decided to increase commonality to the maximum with the VA1020 thus making it more appealing to the existing customer base.
The design that emerged from VeneAvia shared a great resemblance with its competitors especially the L1011 Tristar although there were differences, among them a slightly narrower fuselage and a lighter airframe. The first aircraft was unveiled on 8 November 1973 little more than a year after the VA1020 and made its first flight a week later, the aircraft entered service with Aeropostal in May 1974 in the Bogotá-Paris route. The VA1030-10 was followed quickly in development by the stretched VA1030-20 which featured a 4m longer fuselage and more powerful engines. The new aircraft attracted the attention of many of VeneAvia’s existing customers and also managed to bring new ones, among them Czechoslovak Airlines which ordered six in 1973, this marked an important milestone for the Venezuelan aerospace industry since it finally managed to break into the Eastern European market with Czechoslovak Airlines order followed by orders from LOT and TAROM for ten and eight aircraft respectively. Another important breakthrough was made in 1975 when Canadian Pacific Air Lines ordered 12 aircraft for its long range flights. By 1976 VeneAvia had over 150 aircraft on order but it was felt that for the program to be a success many more would be needed for these purpose new variants were developed among them were extended range versions with more powerful engines and extra fuel, a freighter and also different military variants meant not only for the Venezuelan armed forces but also for other military customers. Despite VeneAvia’s efforts the order book remained almost unchanged until 1978 when Viasa feeling that CAV’s AC10 was too big for some of its flights placed an order for 20 and 15 series 10 and 20 aircraft respectively and this were followed shortly by an order for eight VA1030-10F freighters for Viasa’s newly established cargo subsidiary Transcarga. But it was in 1979 when the biggest breakthrough was made when the recently established USair placed an order for twelve aircraft with options for twelve more, this marked VeneAvia’s entrance into the elusive US market.

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kike-92

Nice drawings.

One remark about VA-1030 - I think that rear cargo door shouldn't be square-ish, but it's "bottom-left" corner should bit more follow the shape of the fuselage (its bottom contour).

CAVIM Modelo 1940
The CAVIM Modelo 1940 (often referred to as the M40 or M1940) is a semi-automatic rifle designed by and manufactured by CAVIM for the Venezuelan armed forces. Development began in the early 1930s when the Venezuelan Army issued a requirement for a new standard issue rifle to replace the older M1905 bolt action rifles in service at the time, the main requirements were accuracy, reliability and above all a higher rate of fire then previous weapons.

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kike-92

Nice..... Very Lee Enfield looking

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Looking nice.

Neat, almost as if the FN49 came along a decade earlier.

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Thanks for the comments everyone.

@Blackbuck: What you said is kind of true, the FN49 is one of my favorite rifles so i wanted to make it look as similar as possible.

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kike-92

I can relate! I tried to do it for TG but the Ljungman was an easier stopgap to work in.

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Realy great looking rifle KIKE

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