The US Navy is again faced with kamikaze boats threatening surface ships and ships. A naval artillery system is being considered as a simple and effective means of combating them...
Many researchers trace the origins of chemical weapons to antiquity, usually citing the siege of Plataea in Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. We will talk to you about the Crimean War, and about...
Sweden has announced a new package of military aid for Ukraine. The central place in it is occupied by two types of high-speed boats designed for transporting manpower....
300 years ago the first domestic submarine was built and tested. “Hidden vessel” designed by E.P. Nikonov was not perfect, but showed the fundamental possibility of a solution...
How did the forerunners of real frigates appear? If the history of the English frigate is known and told many times, then the appearance of the first frigates among the Dunkirk corsairs is simply white for our reader...
The US Navy is planning to build three new EMS-class hospital ships. They will be carried out according to a new project based on the existing EPF high-speed catamaran transport from Austal USA....
On the Internet I came across a photo of the British destroyer Bristol. To be honest, I thought that he had been put on pins and needles for a long time, but it turned out that even before the end of the 10s he was performing a function...
Why England? In this article we will try to talk about the topic - why exactly the English fleet of the Age of Sail became a trendsetter, and what was done in Royal Navy that was not done in others...
In the first half of the twentieth century, it was impossible to imagine a warship without structural protection. In one form or another it was present everywhere....
In this article we will talk about the problems of Spanish shipbuilding in the first half of the 18th century and about the voyage of the brave Spanish ship Glorioso...
The Royal Navy of Great Britain begins to receive new missile weapons. In the foreseeable future, its surface ships will lose their old Harpoon anti-ship missiles and will be armed with modern NSMs....
In 1638, a young French fleet under the command of Archbishop Henri d'Escublo de Sourdi, consisting of 41 ships and 17 small craft, attacked the Spanish squadron of Lope de Oses, consisting of 12 galleons in...
The topic of unrealized projects of the Soviet Navy, as they say, resonated with the reader. Now I would like to talk about the projects that have been implemented. And about their continuations, both realized and...
The United States has officially adopted the Aegis Ashore missile defense system in Poland. This event became the official point in the process of building the American strategic missile defense system in Eastern Europe, and it...