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Interesting History Behind BF1 Weapon Skin Names?

I found a reddit topic with this name: https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield_one/comments/7nitce/interesting_history_behind_bf1_weapon_skin_names/ For example, I searched for Chauchat skins: Weapo...
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    Heavy Bomber skins:
    Distinguished: Alyosha, Bogatyr, Chobotok, Dobrynia, Kievsky, Monino, Poganoe, Russky Vityaz, Russobalt


    Russobalt skin for Heavy Bomber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Balt): Russo-Balt (sometimes Russobalt or Russo-Baltique) was one of the first Russian companies that produced vehicles and aircraft between 1909 and 1923. In early 1912 company director M. V. Shidlovsky hired 22-year-old Igor Sikorsky as the chief engineer for RBVZ's new aircraft division in St. Petersburg. This group quickly produced a series of airplanes. Among these were the S-5, S-7, S-9, S-10 (1913), S-11, S-12, S-16 (1915), S-20 (1916), Russky Vityaz (The Grand) (1913), a series named Il'ya Muromets starting in 1913, and its planned successor, the Alexander Nevsky (1916).


    Russky Vityaz skin for Heavy Bomber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Russky_Vityaz): The Sikorsky Russky Vityaz (Russian: Русский витязь), or Russian Knight (S-21), previously known as the Bolshoi Baltisky (Russian: Большой Балтийский) (The Great Baltic) in its first four-engined version, was the first four-engine aircraft in the world, designed by Igor Sikorsky and built at the Russian Baltic Railroad Car Works (Russo-Baltiiskyi Vagonnyi Zavod or R-BVZ, Russo-Balt) in Saint Petersburg in early 1913.


    Kievsky skin for Heavy Bomber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikorsky_Ilya_Muromets): In 1913 the Ilya Muromets No. 107 flew for the first time, and on 11 February 1914, the second prototype (factory airframe 128) took off for its first demonstration flight with 16 passengers aboard, marking a record for number of passengers carried. From 30 June to 12 July 1914, it set a world record by making a trip from Saint Petersburg to Kiev, a distance of some 1200 km, and back. During an Imperial military review at Krasnoye Selo in July, Nicholas II decorated and christened the Ilya Muromets Type B Military Prototype, No. 128, the "Kievsky."


    Monino skin for Heavy Bomber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Air_Force_Museum): The Central Air Force Museum (Russian: Центральный музей Военно-воздушных сил РФ) is an aviation museum in Monino, Moscow Oblast, Russia. A branch of the Central Armed Forces Museum, it is one of the world's largest aviation museums, and the largest for Soviet aircraft, with a collection including 173 aircraft and 127 aircraft engines on display. One Ilya Muromets S-22 replica exists in the Monino Air Force Museum near Moscow built in 1970.


    Bogatyr, Alyosha, Dobrynia and Chobotok skins for Heavy Bomber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Muromets): The Sikorsky Ilya Muromets aircraft series was named after Ilya Muromets, a hero from Slavic mythology. Ilya Muromets (Russian: Илья Муромец), or Ilya of Murom, sometimes Ilya Murometz, is one of the bogatyrs (epic knights) in Bylinas of Kievan Rus. He is often featured alongside fellow bogatyrs Dobrynya Nikitich and Alyosha Popovich. The tales are set in the time of the Kievan Rus'. Attempts have been made to identify a possible historical nucleus for the character. The main candidate is Ilya Pechersky [ru], a monk of the 12th century who was beatified in the Orthodox Church in 1643. According to hagiography, before taking his monastic vows Ilya was a warrior famous for his strength. His nickname was Chobotok, Old East Slavic for "(small) boot", given to him after an incident when Ilya, caught by surprise, fought off enemies with only his boot.


    Poganoe skin for Heavy Bomber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idolishche): Idolishche Poganoye (Russian: Идолище Поганое) is a mythological monstrosity from Russian bylinas (epic tales) and other folklore; he personifies pagan forces invading the Russian lands. The name literally means "pagan idol", with a Russian augmentative suffix "-ishche". The major epic sources that involve Idolische are various variants of the bylina "Ilya Muromets and Idolishche Poganoye" ("Илья Муромец и Идолище Поганое"), which may also characterise Idolishche as "Tatarin" (the Tatar), in reference to the Tatar-Mongol yoke.

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