A day in history November 7, 1927.
In the city of Livni, Oryol region, an outstanding domestic designer was born, the father of the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile complex and cannons, as well as the Kornet anti-aircraft missile system and many other weapon systems, (the listing of this person's symbols goes on for several pages) Academician Arkady Georgievich Shiponov from his childhood memories: "... Hitler's planes flew over us continuously with impunity, at low altitude and at low speed. Sometimes they fired machine guns and dropped bombs. We could not answer them in any way. To hide, we had to hide in ditches, craters, bushes. And in our heads we pounded: "We have to shoot! " "... All his life he remembered the face of the pilot who shot defenseless old men, women, children to resist this brutal force, to protect - this became the main thing in his fate. Vote for the channel YAVVU air defense VK | MAX.