Furious world beauty will not save! Top 10 Warships
Designing a warship is a problem of arranging various payloads. In the process of designing, “lines of force” are born, combining the visual composition of an object and projecting it ...
Building a new aircraft carrier for the Russian Navy: disputes and discussions in the press
The possible construction of an aircraft carrier or aircraft carriers for the Russian Navy is one of the main topics discussed over the past few years. Occur from time to time ...
Project Avvakum: the amazing story of a giant aircraft carrier
World War II spurred many technological advances. But one project stands out in scale. Every war gives impetus to the development of science and technology. The Second World War,...
Winged dream of sailors
Our Navy will be able to get into service with full-fledged aircraft carriers in 15-20 years. Russia's largest research organization in the field of civil shipbuilding and military ...
The evolution of the Polish delivery system for combat swimmers Blotnyak
SDV swimmer delivery vehicles and other underwater propulsion devices solve the problem of transporting swimmers over long distances, because the possibilities of normal ...
Little-known British-French vehicles for the delivery of combat swimmers
The British company MAREX (Marine Exploration Ltd) from the Isle of Wight, which is located in the English Channel, has designed several devices for the delivery of swimmers MAREX DTV (Diver Transport Vehicle). But this ...
Navy intends to get new artillery systems
A program for the renewal of the armed forces in general and the navy in particular is currently being implemented. Over the next few years, the Navy should receive a large number of new ...
"Top secret: water plus oxygen ..." Part I. Sharks of Admiral Doenitz
The author would like to devote this research to one known substance. The substance that gave the world Marilyn Monroe and white thread, antiseptics and blowing agents, epoxy glue and reagent on ...
The most powerful ship of the British fleet
High-precision rocket “Exocet” flies 300 meters per second, having a weight at the start of 600 kg, of which 165 falls to the warhead. The speed of the 15-inch projectile at a distance of 9000 meters ...
Nuclear submarine K-266 "Eagle": service history
The Project 266A Antey nuclear submarine K-949 Orel was accepted into the Northern Fleet on February 5, 1993. In 2000-2001, deep-sea divers worked on ...
British submarines in the waters of the Arctic
... By the beginning of August 1941, the German offensive in the Arctic had completely choked. At the cost of their lives, Soviet soldiers and sailors stabilized the front near the r. Western Persons, reflecting two ...
Unrealized American project underwater swimmers delivery system
At the end of the 80-ies, the US Marine Special Forces began to look for a replacement for its Mk.8 SDV (SEAL Delivery Vehicle) vehicle. Among other candidates ...
There is no reception against the swarm
To fight aircraft carriers, you need a ship that launches one hundred missiles at the same time.
Supercruiser "Invincible". Future fleet
From the explanatory note to the modernization project of the invulnerable cruiser “The Invincible” (formerly “Zamvolt”): ... dismantling of obsolete weapons will free up 3500 cubic meters of space under deck ...
The most deadly ship in history
"The most victorious ship?" This question will baffle even those who sit for days on end at military history forums and rummage through libraries of thematic literature. About him not ...
The delivery unit of US Marine Special Forces Proteus SDV
Some of the existing and new projects SDV (SEAL Delivery Vehicle - the device for delivering special forces) produce a pretty strong impression, but still one device stands out for ...
Russia resumes global underwater patrols
For the first time since 1989, the Russian submarine fleet will begin all-season global patrols with strategic nuclear submarine missile carriers. It was announced on Wednesday at ...
Underwater lighting systems. Current issues and press disputes
In late February, a board meeting of the Ministry of Defense was held, dedicated to the security of the Arctic borders of the country. During this event, the heads of the military department headed by the Minister ...
Fleet waiting for new ships
In a documentary film about the return of the Crimea to Russia, President Vladimir Putin, answering a journalist’s question, said: from the sea and from land, the peninsula has now been turned into a well-protected ...
Russian submarines project 885 "Ash" will compete with the American submarine fleet
Currently, the Russian submarine fleet is experiencing a real renaissance. For the first time in the modern history of Russia, construction is underway on the stocks of the Severodvinsk machine-building enterprise ...
War of drain underwater
What is the percentage of advanced technology in modern ships? How did the "battle for decibels" between the US Navy and the USSR Navy end? And what other battles were in full swing in the designers' offices and on the test ...
K-162: the fastest submarine in history
50 years ago, the Soviet military submarine K-162 set a world record for the speed of movement under water - more than 80 kilometers per hour. Not a single torpedo at that time could keep up with it ...
Aircraft carrier - an extra element of AUG
Until recently, the AUG was considered the main “broom” of the American fleet. The invincible grouping of surface combatants and submarines, each element of which organically complemented and strengthened ...
Ships and nuclear explosions. Part two
The results of nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll were exaggerated in order to preserve the environment of nuclear weapons as an all-destructive agent. In fact, the latest superweapon turned out to be a "paper tiger". Victims ...