THE FIRST STEPS IN THE CREATION OF RUSSIAN CARRIERS OF ROCKET AND BOMB WEAPONS: A BITTER BUT INSTRUCTIVE EXPERIENCE OF THE LATE XVIII - EARLY XIX CENTURIES
The article considers the first attempt to create an aircraft carrier of bomb and missile weapons in Russia on the initiative of the German inventor F. Leppich. The author states the ability of Russia at that historical time to quickly deploy and well finance very hightech works for the XIX century, which are of great state importance. The reasons for the unsuccessful completion of this project for Russia are analyzed. The system regularities of such a result are called, among which the neglect of the science possibilities and the involvement of persons with insufficient qualifications for solving important state tasks is particularly instructive for the present time. The signs of a special operation carried out by France against Russia with the help of this project, which caused great harm to the country, are revealed.