Will Sweden and Finland join NATO?
The question of joining NATO for Finland and Sweden has been haunted by politicians and the military in many countries for several years. Finnish cooperation with the North Atlantic bloc becomes more and more ...
NATO is preparing for the teachings and fighting off criticism
At the present time, Zapad-2013 joint exercises are taking place at landfills in Russia and Belarus. As part of this event, the military personnel of the two countries are fulfilling tasks related to ...
Competition from the Chinese PMCs is a matter of time
Currently in China there is a difficult situation where 16% of young specialists with higher education (age from 21 to 25 years) cannot find a job, which forces many to seek employment ...
China’s military sites on Google Earth satellite imagery
Traditionally, the PRC authorities very harshly censor information regarding their armed forces. Unauthorized leaks in this area are suppressed by the most stringent methods. For example,...
Google Earth - a military secrets debater
About ten years ago, the Google search engine launched a unique Google Earth project. Many areas of the earth's surface were available for viewing in high resolution using ...
China began the serial construction of the J-15 fighter jets (Su-33 replicas)
Recent Chinese media reports may indicate that one of the most ambitious programs of the defense industry in China is actively moving ahead and even ahead of ...
Lady at the helm of the deck fighter. The Life and Death of Kara Haltgreen
A woman is born and remains free and has equal rights with a man. A woman has the right to climb the guillotine; she should also have the right to climb the podium. ("The Declaration of the Rights of Women and ...
Syrian Special Forces ready for operations in the US
According to a high-ranking source in the Syrian Defense Ministry, several hundred employees landed on a legal and illegal basis in the United States in recent times ...
Red storm. Can the Nimitz aircraft carrier attack Syria?
The situation around Syria is developing in a bad way. First of all - for the American "hawks" from the yellow White House. The general illogic of the coming war, multiplied by the internal economic ...
In the United States adopted the "Navy Development Plan for 2014-2018 years"
In mid-August, the United States adopted the most important document determining the development strategy of the American naval forces for the next five years. Chief of Staff of the US Navy, Admiral J. Greenert signed ...
In Japan, launched the largest warship since the war
6 August 2013, the anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, in Yokohama, the largest warship of the Japanese fleet since the Second World War was presented to the public. We are talking about...
PRC is learning to intercept satellites of a potential enemy
Astronomers unequivocally determine the active maneuvers of spacecraft of Chinese origin in near-earth orbit, as the conduct of educational tests to capture and disable ...
The military spending of the African continent increases
Major global defense companies have been eyeing the African continent for a long time. Moreover, they are very active in the struggle for local military markets. AND...
In the US, drone operators have ended
Contrary to their name, modern unmanned aerial vehicles still need to be serviced by “pilots”. Only control over them is carried out not from their cabin, but at a distance in a special ...
Syria's air defense: salvation or illusion?
Bashar Assad needs to try very hard to thwart the West’s plans to “reformat” his country. For more than a year, the attention of the whole world has been riveted on the Middle East region, where once again ...
FBCB2 US tactical-level automated command and control system (part of 2)
I repeat that the connection between the agro-industrial complex installed on vehicles is supported by two communication systems: the information network "TI" ("Tactical Internet"), with ...
FBCB2 US tactical-level automated command and control system (part of 1)
Unfortunately, our military-scientific minds have not yet created a domestic classification of automated troop control systems. Therefore, in the absence of domestic developments, we will use ...
North Korean Army acquired its own "trolls"
Attacks of hackers on the sites and servers of television companies, banks and other large companies and enterprises of South Korea, as well as government agencies in Seoul are organized by a specially created unit ...
The military-industrial complex of Ukraine - guns for fat
A paradoxical situation has developed in the defense industrial complex of Ukraine: with a high level of innovation and export potential, the industry is in a state of chronic crisis. One of...
Ukraine refuses to "Sapsan"
Summer political stagnation in Ukraine revived the statement made by the country's defense minister, Pavel Lebedev. According to him, the military department decided to abandon the creation of operational-tactical ...
Steel Chinese Fists
The high-quality rearmament of the PLA with an almost unchanged amount of military equipment is facilitated by the extremely high production capabilities of the Chinese military-industrial complex ...
US Air Defense
The United States-Canadian Air Defense Command of the North American Continent (NORAD - North American Air Defense ...) provides air defense to the North American continent.
Between the sea and the land. US Marine Corps strategy on the verge of change
In recent years, one of the most pressing issues in the field of military construction in Russia has remained a deal with France for the purchase of helicopter-landing craft-docks (MFDD) of the Mistral type. On...
Cars of the Polish Army
The Polish automobile industry was considered second in quality after Czechoslovakia at the time of the CMEA. On an example: bought, used Polonez, in the USSR cost a new Volga and a lot of money. Here ...