Ukrainian journalist visited the barracks of the 4 brigade of the armed forces of Georgia. A few facts: - Soviet equipment, some has been redone in Israel. There are Turkish and American transporters. -...

The US Navy continues to invest huge amounts of money in high-tech ships, next generation communications equipment and new exotic weapons, such as combat lasers and ...

"Although Gavrila was a firefighter, Gavrila was given a film to shoot." ("The Golden Calf". Gavriliada) I read one article about the army. In essence, this article is about our Serdyukov, and his ...

As a result of the operations of special amphibious units of the British army (SAS) in Afghanistan, they threw German shepherds with video cameras mounted on their heads at the Taliban bases ...

Most of the military analysts, and even ordinary people, will answer the question “which is the strongest army in the world” without hesitation, that it is the American one. After all, the US Army has the most modern ...

This is in the full sense of the word MOTO infantry. Such a widespread use of motorcycles was one of the successful improvisations of Iran during the war with Iraq. In fact, motorcyclists have become lightly highly mobile ...

The history of the US ground forces dates back to the middle of the XVIII century, when the first mini-men appeared, whose goal was to fight the indigenous people of North America. Later, during the war for ...

The myth of democracy, a form of government of organized crime. July 4, America's Independence Day, is approaching 234. One of those patriotic holidays that, although we don’t want it ...

The war in Iraq is over. The regime of the Baghdad dictator has been overthrown, his army has disappeared somewhere, sanctions against Iraq have been lifted, the former ruling Baath party has been disbanded, many Saddam officials, ...

Iraqi Armed Forces transferred 35 main battle tanks M-1А1M "Abrams" within the framework of the contract for the supply of 140 MBT of this type, the press service of the US Army. In December, 2008 ...

In the third world and in the post-Soviet space, they prefer to improve the existing armored vehicles. The situation on the modern tank market is determined by two factors - the high cost of new models and ...

Economic, political and other troubles in our country lead, as we know, to the fact that many countrymen are looking for happiness in a foreign land as “workers”. And sometimes these earnings are ...

The UK became a world power after it defeated the Spanish Invincible Armada in 1588. By 1815, when Napoleon was defeated, she became the most powerful country in the world. Then...

Experts say that Russian and Soviet weapons are being squeezed out of most of the armies of the CIS countries and this is facilitated by the lack of real initiatives for conducting a full-scale ...

Since those days, as people fight, fire on its own was an integral feature of the fighting and took place in the history of almost all armies of the world, regardless of age and technology. Russian expression "its ...

In the twentieth century, Africa was the main target of mercenaries. She was flooded with veterans of the Second World War, Korean, Vietnamese and other wars, as a tool to control the situation in the colonies. And then during the decolonization ...

To fight the terrorists and rebels, entrenched in remote areas of the planet, we need "soldiers of the future." These are professional fighters participating in expeditionary campaigns - specially trained, ...

The aggravation of relations between Moscow and Tokyo in connection with the recent statements by the Japanese side about the undesirability of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to the Kuril Islands coincided in time ...

The creation of joint ventures for the organization of licensed production of modern types of military equipment is a priority for the development of the Kazakh defense industry. The next stage in ...

Despite the fact that no one is threatening the post-Soviet space from outside, all its countries continue to prepare for wars. And each of them - to its own Recent events in Kyrgyzstan, signing ...

The Belgian special operations forces are represented by a paratroop commando team (para-commando) and a special intelligence unit. They have a high level of training of personnel, the same high ...

For more than a thousand years of history of the German state, its most important institution was the army. In its development, both in the mirror reflected external and internal policies, goals and attitudes ...

Over the past half century of modern history, the Russian authorities have sometimes regarded such a ruthless (and indifferent) attitude as one of the officers of the Armed Forces to any of the classes of the servicemen ....

Following the European military (see “AN” No. 33 for 2010), their overseas crisis strikes their overseas counterparts to tighten their belts. US Secretary of Defense R. Gates set the task of reducing ...