"Huascar" - a legend of Latin America

"Huascar" - a legend of Latin America

Ships are like people: sometimes they are big, strong, beautiful, but their life is boring. The monitor "Huascar" is not one of them in any way!...
Workhorses of the Stalin breed

Workhorses of the Stalin breed

At school, one of my naval history teachers liked to point out that he (unlike us young blockheads) served on Project 30 bis destroyers. "Thirty bis," he said. What kind of...
The Last Armadillos

The Last Armadillos

Naval history knows many examples of how excessive naval ambitions drove the economy into crisis, and the built fleet at best rotted at the docks, and at worst... Defeats in...
Repeat the path of the Soviet samurai?

Repeat the path of the Soviet samurai?

Missile-carrying aircraft carriers with vertical takeoff aircraft – is it worth repeating the path of our ancestors?...
Ladoga battleships

Ladoga battleships

Lake Ladoga is the largest freshwater body in Europe – almost a sea! At least in terms of waves: calms are rare here, but storms with a sharp increase in wind up to 20-30 meters per second,...
A trial run of Indian shipbuilders

A trial run of Indian shipbuilders

The Project 15 destroyers were the first large warships to be built entirely in Indian shipyards. The project, carried out with the involvement of Soviet specialists, was a trial run for the Indian...
New Iranian drone carrier

New Iranian drone carrier

Photographs have appeared, including satellite ones, which are causing some misunderstanding and interest...
Universal small-sized torpedo UMT

Universal small-sized torpedo UMT

Russian industry continues to develop the universal small-sized torpedo UMT. In the future, these weapons will be used by different carriers to destroy surface and underwater targets....
Steel Sharks by Helmut Walter

Steel Sharks by Helmut Walter

The Walther steam-gas turbine is a technology that appeared in the Third Reich and left the scene after the advent of nuclear reactors. However, it is possible that we will soon witness the return of combined cycle gas...
Dull claws of "gray wolves"

Dull claws of "gray wolves"

At the end of the war, the Wunder Waffe became a fetish for the Third Reich. The Baltic Fleet managed to obtain one of the samples of the “miracle weapon” thanks to the skill of the “sea hunter” crew and the courage of the military...
How the Gray Wolves cut their teeth

How the Gray Wolves cut their teeth

During the First World War, German submarines pinched the Allied fleets very badly. Because of this, in the Treaty of Versailles, which was concluded after the war, Germany was strictly prohibited...