The United States Department of Defense has begun exploring several options for reducing mandatory military spending, Aviation Week reported. Options under consideration include: ...

More than twenty percent of naval warships are not ready to sail at sea, or to any battles, and this is when the demand for military vessels has increased several times. And the number of ships ...

Switzerland is the only country in the world in which the Minister of Defense is responsible not only for the protection of the population, but also for sports development. Uli Maurer, a 60-year-old politician who not only knows everything about ...

Associate Professor at the US Naval College Andrew Erickson and security expert Gabe Collins published an article analyzing the possibilities ...

DongFeng 21 is a code name that NATO assigned to a two-stage, solid-fuel, single-warhead medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM) created by the Chinese ...

In June, the Chinese aircraft carrier Shi Lan (formerly bearing the name Varyag) by the Chinese shipbuilding company Changxingdao Shipyard installed separate electronic systems, radar ...

With 2008, there has been a steady trend associated with the restructuring of three Chinese long-range bomber divisions, which in general leads to a significant and drastic reduction in the number of long-range ...

The Ministry of National Defense (hereinafter referred to as MHO) of Poland in September 2009 of the year approved a list of fourteen programs providing for increasing the combat capabilities of the country's armed forces ....

In November last year, in Minsk, under the chairmanship of President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, a meeting was held on the adoption of the State Armament Program (GPV) until 2015 Exchange of views ...

The countries of the Far East very easily introduce and master the latest technologies. But even against their background, South Korea stands out for its super-susceptibility to everyone ...

For the first time in the history of independent Ukraine, next year they plan to allocate less than a percent of GDP to the army. This was stated by the Deputy Director of the Department of Armaments and Military Equipment of the Ministry ...

The Bundeswehr has been undergoing radical reform since its founding in 1955. German troops will be less, and their management structures will become slimmer. On Wednesday, the German government approved ...

China is developing rapidly, it has become the second largest power in the world in terms of economic power, it is rapidly building up its military potential, some analysts believe that by 2020 the Chinese ...

Currently, the PRC is actively developing all the main areas in the field of military aviation. Only the other day it was reported about the creation of the next modernization of the Soviet Tu-16 bomber ...

Beaten expression, frames decide everything. Consider the real and not the state of affairs in this area. Training officers for the National Army in droves is carried out in the military ...

The events that are unfolding around Libya, and the statements made by the governments of France, Great Britain and Italy about the direction to the territory of the North African country made last week ...

According to the European press, in Libya, on the side of the forces of Muammar Gaddafi, mercenaries from Ukraine are fighting. The authorities in Kiev do not confirm or deny this data. Experts do not exclude such ...

According to the well-founded assumptions of experts of the German Defense Ministry, soon the reform of the Bundeswehr will lead to the complete collapse of the German army. A secret analytical study prepared by experts ...

Brazilian armed forces require urgent modernization, an analytical report from the Ministry of Defense suggests that almost half of the Armed Forces are not usable. Besides the report ...

Americans themselves consider themselves to be a fairly peaceful nation. At the same time, since the beginning of the 20th century, the United States had already taken part in a dozen wars, without taking into account countless military interventions. Sometimes created ...

In Russia, a protracted military reform continues, with no end in sight, in this regard it is interesting to see how one of the most efficient armies in Europe was reformed (for 1990) ...

And can it be considered solely an American instrument? These questions are not accidentally raised on the anniversary of the creation of NATO. A number of the Organization’s member states ...

The Chinese leadership is confident that a strong state cannot exist without a strong and armed army of modern weapons. As it became known, in the near future 2,3 million soldiers ...

Modern youth in Poland, in contrast to their Russian peers, seeks to serve in the army. The reason for such a massive love for the performance of civic duty was the transfer of the Armed Forces of Poland to ...