October 13 1960 of the year issued a decree of the USSR Council of Ministers "On the creation of new anti-submarine missile systems." In accordance with this document, the defense industry should ...

The appearance of nuclear submarines armed with ballistic missiles led to a serious change in the balance of forces at sea. To combat the new threat, new means were required, since the existing ...

As is known, Iraq has a very limited access to the Persian Gulf, between the borders of Iran and Kuwait. As a consequence, the development of the fleet has never received much attention - even by small forces, ...

What do we have in the end? Only that, exceeding on average by a quarter the displacement of their European counterparts, the American battleships "Iowa" did not have any significant advantages. Here ...

Recent developments in the international arena are forcing some experts to predict the start of a new Cold War and an arms race. How exactly events will develop in the future, until the end ...

So, the reservation by the Americans was sacrificed for speed and weaponry. But was the result achieved? The Americans really wanted to have battleships with speed 33-35 nodes. In practice, nothing ...

Many English-speaking, and after them, and domestic experts called the Iowa type battleships the most advanced ships that were created in the era of armor and artillery. American designers and ...

The project of “Sevastopol” type battleships is often called the “scared project” - they say Russian sailors were so scared of the Japanese high-explosive shells in Tsushima that they demanded for their future ...

The first dreadnoughts of the Russian imperial fleet, the Baltic “Sevastopoli”, in the Russian-language press were honored with the most contradictory characteristics. But if in some publications the authors called ...

Military secret: there are two types of ships. Submarines and targets. So it was, so it is and it will always be so - the submarines' secrecy is too great. And their combat capabilities are too great compared to ...

In the United States, work on the creation of a high-speed combat boat called the “Ghost” (English “ghost”) is in full swing. The boat is created by a small company Juliet Marine Systems and can become a real ...

The most important part of the navy are its submarines. Modern submarines can perform a wide range of tasks to detect and destroy ships, submarines or ground targets ...

On September 10, the submarine “Vladimir Monomakh” of the 955 “Borey” project for the first time in its history launched the launch of the ballistic missile R-30 “Bulava”. The launch took place in the framework of tests of the submarine and the rocket ....

Continuation of the saga of the most outstanding ships. There are no random names here - each of the heroes is forever marked in the history of the fleet. Laurels of military glory and unconditional victories in the "Cup ...

10 best samples of naval technology of all times and peoples. Power, beauty and courage. Each of the ships represented here performed a mass of outstanding feats. They forever covered their decks ...

Destroyers and frigates in recent wars. Local wars after the 1945 year were not distinguished by a large number of naval battles. The fighting was mostly on land and in the air. However, in progress ...

A small company from Portsmouth in the state of New Hampshire Juliet Marine Systems has developed a unique high-speed vessel called the Ghost (Ghost), which could perform tasks near ...

The higher level of danger and the need to respond to such threats made the US defense authorities propose ways to combat floating explosives last year ...

On August 18, the oceanographic research vessel of the Baltic Fleet "Admiral Vladimirsky" set sail around the world. For the first time in three decades, the ship left the home port of Kronstadt with ...

In the spring of 2014, the US defense department concluded an unprecedented contract worth 17,6 billion dollars. Having received a check for a fantastic amount, two leading US corporations, ...

In the US, they are coming to the end of their work on a project of a new, promising, unobtrusive Zumwalt class DDG-1000. It is reported that Raytheon’s specialists have completed a software readiness analysis ...

On August 12 14 celebrated the anniversary of the death of the submarine Kursk. On the anniversary of this tragedy, the Ministry of Defense announced its new plans for the development of the navy, namely ...

As part of the development of industry and the economy, it is necessary to update and improve the transport infrastructure and related equipment. A few days ago there was a proposal concerning ...

The US military, who were faced with a clear shortage of allies who wanted to provide them with operational bases on their territory, came to a rather interesting decision: they created a special forces base ...