Marines - wingless infantry in blue berets
All the talk about the preservation and strengthening of airborne troops - no more than PR. In practice, the Airborne Forces provided an opportunity to die a natural death, occasionally throwing up equipment and allowing it in front of ...
The number of military districts in Russia will be reduced by December 1
The Russian armed forces continue to reform the operational and strategic management. According to the plan, which is being developed in the General Staff of the army, by December 1 the number of ...
Troops of the country of the pyramids
When the armed forces of the Arab Republic of Egypt (Egypt) held large-scale military maneuvers in Sinai in the autumn of 2008, Israel was traditionally chosen as the conventional opponent. This fact caused ...
Russian army will fight without officers
Thoughtless and destructive for the country's defense capability, the spotlight of the fathers of the army reform from the Ministry of Defense does not seem to withstand even the very first contact with objective reality ....
Shamanov predicted the future
The paratroopers will not be deprived of the status of a separate branch of the military. “Airborne troops will remain an independent branch of the military,” Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov said yesterday, answering a journalist’s question ...
War with Georgia benefited paratroopers
The airborne troops of Russia took into account the experience of the armed conflict in the Caucasus in August 2008, and began to use unmanned aerial vehicles more actively, ordered new weapons and decided to strengthen ...
Russian paratroopers will be trained in NATO countries
Soldiers of the Russian Airborne Forces are preparing for internships in the United States, Germany and other countries, Commander of the Airborne Forces, Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov, said Wednesday. The general also ...
Disarmament program
What do you think Dmitry Medvedev told the world about when, at a meeting on the budget of law enforcement agencies, he set the task for 2015 to equip the Russian army with modern weapons no less ...
Maneuvers survive. And if the war?
Any maneuvers are a rehearsal of hostilities. Strictly speaking, they are then carried out to check the combat readiness of the troops, the degree of their training. And also to test those concepts ...
The mercenary is not the defender of the fatherland
What are the reasons why the Russian Federation needs a conscript army? Consider the need to create a so-called professional army very much loved in modern Russia. And supporters of this ...
Only old men will go into battle
What should be the age requirement for military service in the army? Opinions of medical and military on this account radically diverged Proposal to raise the bar of military age from 27 to 30 years, deputy ...
Jet fighters and camel cavalry
"Troops of the Sands" are ready for battle in the deserts of the Maghreb Moroccans have always been considered excellent warriors. For centuries they opposed the European conquerors, and during the First and Second World Wars ...
Academic leave in the soldiers' ranks
The Ministry of Defense will try to increase the number of recruits by hook or by crook. This week, active sending of conscripts to the Russian armed forces began. During the spring campaign ...
Are you back in the army
Russia refuses high-quality professional army. Such a conclusion can be drawn from a number of statements by representatives of higher generals. The chief of the main organizational-mobilization ...
Less hardship and hardship ...
At the suggestion of the Minister of Defense of Russia in the Armed Forces, a five-day working week with two days off will be introduced for conscripts, and for preparing food for the personnel, ...
"Our army turns into student and workers' and peasants"
The head of the Center for Military Forecasting - about the correct age of conscription, the “wrong” contract servicemen and the real enemies of Russia, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Vasily Smirnov, said that ...
The soldiers will serve near the house
The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces plans to draft conscripts on a territorial basis already in 2011. Such work, according to Interfax, citing a source in ...
Defense Ministry is preparing to fight on all four sides
The Ministry of Defense intends to create by December 2010 of the year, on the basis of the existing military districts, operational-strategic commands (USC), which will control the four sides of the world ....
Start over...
Why did the program of recruitment of parts and formations stall by contract soldiers? Even in the middle of the 90s, Russia, following the example of the advanced Western countries, decided to acquire a professional army. The idea itself ...
Voluntarism Reason Contrary
Reform of military education increasingly resembles a pro forma In 2010, the implementation of the federal program of reforming the military education system in the Russian Federation is completed. Eventually...
The soul of the army can and must develop
Without spiritual renewal, the armed forces will not acquire a new look. The Russian army has traditionally been famous for its high morale, military art, and patriotism. Russian generals are always ...
The Russian army will change again
The Minister of Defense announced innovations that will soon be accepted in the Russian armed forces. Last day at a meeting with representatives of civil organizations, held in the Public Chamber, the head ...
There is no reason for optimism yet
What legacy went to the new Minister of Defense of Ukraine At the presentation ceremony of Mikhail Ezhel, the newly appointed Minister of Defense said that ...
First of all, hazing
According to a survey conducted by the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), sociologists found out that Russians continue to consider the non-statutory main task of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ...