LIQUID FUEL OKB-2 ROCKET MOTOR from SAM MISSILE,SOVIET/COLD WAR/VIETNAM ERA

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LIQUID FUEL OKB-2 ROCKET MOTOR from SAM MISSILE,SOVIET/COLD WAR/VIETNAM ERA:
$6900.00

This --BEST OFFER-- listing is for a New Old Stock, unfired Cold War vintageSOVIET SURFACE-TO-AIR-SAM-MISSILE liquid hypergolic fuel OKB-2 rocket motor.
It wasdesigned by the OKB design bureau of celebrated rocket engine designer Alexei M. Isayev.
Beautifully prepared with a glass table top suitable for an art gallery presentation or museum quality display. IF NOT INTERESTED IN THE 24\"DIAMETERX 3/8\" THICK GLASS TABLE TOP, BUYER CAN DEDUCT $175 FROM THE SALES PRICE. The enginemeasures approx. 39\" x 14\" x 14\".

Isayev specialized in small-scale, liquid-fueled rocket engines for Soviet manned and unmanned spacecraft. From 1957 to 1967 his engines powered the rockets carrying the first artificial satellites, the first man in space, and the first unmanned probes to the Moon and Venus. At the same time, he worked on engines for surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and air-to-sea missiles.
The present engine is for a S-75 Dvina, a high-altitude, command-guided, SAM. Since its first deployment in 1957 it has become the most widely-deployed air defense missile in history. The missile came to the world\'s attention when an S-75 battery, using the newer, longer-range and higher-altitude V-750VN missile shot down the U-2 spy plane of Francis Gary Powers as he was flying over the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. A Soviet missile crew in Cuba used an S-75 on October 27, 1962 to shoot down the U-2 flown by Rudolf Anderson—the only American combat death of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Technically S-75 refers to the complete battery, the missile itself being known as a V-750. The missile is in two stages, consisting of a solid-fuel booster and a storable liquid-fuel upper stage. The booster fires for about 4–5 seconds and the main engine for about 22 seconds, by which time the missile is traveling at about Mach 3. This offered engine is from the upper stage. The American U-2 spy plane flew at extremely high altitudes and for the S-75 to reach it a more powerful engine was needed; this engine is a version of that high-power rocket. An unusual artifact of the Cold War and a reminder that space programs were largely an offshoot of military research and development.
This antique rocket motor is offered for display purposes, exactly as pictured and includes its turbine fuel pump, display stand, custom designed glass table top and purpose built shipping crate.