US Rangers (US Rangers)
US President John F. Kennedy, speaking of the special forces, which also include rangers, said: “This is a completely different type of warfare, completely new in its intensity, but at that ...
USMC
The Marine Corps dates back to 1775. During the War of Independence, the Second Continental Congress approved the creation of two battalions of marines for service on ships ...
Individual combat equipment of a US Army soldier
The American soldier today, as the US Armed Forces believes, is the most prepared and has the best equipment in the entire history of the state, and the army itself is the strongest in the world. Soldier in ...
Rusting North Korean Air Force
South Korea recently found out that North Korea’s requests to buy new combat aircraft were rejected by China and Russia. South Korean diplomats were glad to learn about it, and South Korean officers ...
Dear submarine fleet of Australia
Recently, Australians have found with dismay that their 3000 ton diesel-electric Collins class submarines are more expensive to maintain and operate than some of the major American ...
Chinese missile defense
It is no secret that all space programs are of great interest to the military. They are interested to such an extent that they themselves actively participate in them. For example, the current Soyuz missiles are just another ...
India may join NATO’s missile defense expansion program.
India is seriously considering NATO offers to join their missile defense program. In this case, NATO is trying to implement a plan to build a powerful foothold to repel possible attacks from ...
Syrian Armed Forces
Today, the Syrian army is one of the most powerful armies of the Arab world in the Middle East. The armed forces are countries with a traditional structure of 3 species: ground forces, ...
The British Army takes positions
There are more and more facts indicating that Great Britain will never again be among the superpowers. This statement was made by representatives of the "think tank" ...
Opposition: Turkey VS Israel
Stanislaw Jerzy Lets has a wonderful phrase: “physical paradox - friction cools relations”. Only in life, sometimes after cooling, the most natural fire can begin. And put it out ...
Iran is developing its own air defense system, an analogue of the C-300
In recent years, the importance of air defense has shown itself particularly vividly. Opponents of NATO troops entrenched in "unreliable countries" could not give a significant rebuff to US aviation and ...
China becomes a great naval power.
Relatively recently, the 1980-1990-ies of China’s naval forces were only a fleet of the coastal zone, where most of the ships were morally and physically outdated. And the PRC fleet could not challenge the leading ...
Ukrainian army: the last century and the present
After the collapse of the USSR, the Army of Ukraine was really powerful, but now only miserable crumbs of the same power remained. How did this happen and what can we expect in the future? When leaving the Soviet Union and ...
Progress PLA worried about the Pentagon
Last Wednesday, the Pentagon reported to the US Congress on the state of affairs in the Chinese armed forces. In particular, the achievements of Chinese military developers in the past were analyzed ...
Army of the world. Turkish Ground Forces
The Turkish armed forces have 510700 people (of these, about 148700 are civil servants). For the immobilization in wartime, a military-trained reserve can be used up to ...
Figured on three
In the summer of 2008, the Ministry of Defense of Kazakhstan invited the head of state, military attachés of various countries, the Minister of Defense of Russia, journalists and conducted exemplary exercises with live firing ...
Army of the world. Turkmen Armed Forces
After the collapse of the USSR, a large Soviet military group came under the jurisdiction of Turkmenistan: from the Turkestan Military District - the administration of the 36 Army Corps, 58 (Kyzyl Arvat), 84 ...
The most efficient army today
Modern realities are such that the slogans of peace, demilitarization and brotherhood of all nations did not even go to the background, but somewhere further away. It seems that the cold war is over, well, or at least ...
Strange features of Ukrainian shipbuilding
For all the time of its existence, the independent Ukrainian fleet has been replenished with only two new ships — the Lutsk corvettes in the 1997 year and the Ternopol in the 2005 year. And both of these ships were laid ...
New BREM Centauro VCREC for the Spanish Army
29 July 2011 year after the completion of tests conducted at the plant OTO Melara - a branch of the Italian company Iveco in Madrid, the ground forces of Spain were replenished with four armored ...
US creates Great Green Fleet
Possession of the most powerful fleet on the planet creates a lot of advantages for the USA, reinforcing their claim to world domination. No wonder without the intervention of the Navy is not a single conflict, involving the United States ....
Billions of dollars to the wind
The United States wasted 34 billion dollars, which went into servicing private contracts, during protracted wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This newspaper reported ...
Trouble for the USAF from its own politicians
An extremely unlucky week for the US Air Force, writes the famous military expert Lauren Thomson, Ph.D. at the US Lexington Institute, DefPro reports. First of all, "black" ...
Prior to 2017, a new type of special operations force will appear.
The leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine declares the creation of a separate branch of troops - the Special Operations Forces. As the head of the General Staff Grigory Pedchenko said, they will be used to participate in ...