La Fighter 7
The La-7 fighter was developed at the S. A. Lavochkin Design Bureau in the 1943 year. It is a further development of the fighter La-5FN. Since it was not possible to install a more powerful engine, improve the flight ...
Fleet prospects
Until 2020, the Black Sea Fleet will be replenished with 15 with new surface ships, namely frigates, and diesel submarines in the ratio 60 to 30. About this "RIA Novosti" said the commander in chief ...
Sikorsky X2 sets a new speed record among helicopters
416,82 km per hour! The world speed record among helicopters, beaten by Sikorsky X2, was set on 11 August 1986 of the year on the Westland Lynx with the 800 G-LYNX. The previous achievement was 400,86 km / h ....
Hypersonic Arms Race
The US Air Force tested the X-51A Waverider, which managed to gain speed 5 times the speed of sound, and was able to fly over 3 minutes, setting a world record, ...
The world's first underwater mine layer "CRAB" (part 2)
When the First World War began, Russia's Black Sea Fleet was clearly superior in power to the Turkish Navy. However, after 12 days after the start of the war (Turkey was still neutral) in ...
Laser in the hands of a soldier
The results of the Vostok-2010 operational-strategic exercises showed that the course of giving the Armed Forces a new look was the right one. As the chief said when summing up the results of the maneuvers ...
Kubinka Passion
Translation of "STRYZHEY" and "Russian Knights" under Lipetsk can benefit our Air Force. Reports that the Defense Ministry is going to sell a military airfield in Kubinka have generated a strong emotional outburst ...
Horns and legs left ...
The Naval Forces of Ukraine (Naval Forces of Ukraine) this year celebrates 18. Age of majority. However, the real transformation of them into a more or less full-fledged type of armed forces did not take place by decree ...
The army will have a new "Kalashnikov"
Recently, there have been many negative reviews about domestic small arms, equipment and personal protective equipment. Some even think that Kalash is outdated and we are behind ...
Britain built the first ship of the "fleet of the future"
Great Britain has announced a landmark achievement in the creation of a "fleet of the future" - the world's most modern destroyer is ready to be launched at the main naval base of the Royal Navy in ...
The technical project of a promising aircraft carrier of the Russian Navy will be ready by the end of 2010 g
The technical project of a promising Russian aircraft carrier will be ready by the end of 2010, Admiral Vladimir Vysotsky, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, told RIA Novosti. "The topic of building a promising ...
Spilled blue ...
Airborne troops - the elite of the Armed Forces. Therefore, any landing part is special. And yet the Guards separate order of the Patriotic War of the first degree Don Cossack ...
Russian submarine fleet (part 1)
The submarine ministry of Russia began to design the submarine in 1900. Wanting to get acquainted with foreign experience in the field of submarine shipbuilding, the Naval Ministry in the summer of 1900 ...
Russian submarine fleet (part 2)
Rear Admiral Eduard Nikolaevich Shchensnovich was appointed the first commander of the Russian submarine forces. Even when he commanded the battleship Retvizan, the officers of this ship called ...
Russian submarine fleet (part 3)
On the eve of the October Revolution, in addition to surface ships, the Russian navy included 52 submarines, of which 41 were in service, 7 were under construction and assembly, 4 were stored in ...
Russian submarine fleet (part 4)
After the capitulation of Germany in the Gulf of Finland, a British squadron appeared. It was clear that with the start of 1919 navigation, the invaders would undertake military provocations in the Baltic. 15 November 1918 was ...
Loop
How the fighter aircraft of the Baltic Fleet was destroyed ... How often we are convinced of the validity of the Russian proverb: "The less you know, you sleep better." Especially when we learn THIS, from ...
Problems with the promotion of the Su-35 and the development of the PAK FA
Russia is in a hurry to find new customers to export the latest Su-35 fighter jets. The Russian Air Force will receive the first production aircraft at the end of this year, it was also promised to organize in the near future ...
The smallest Army of the World
The dwarf Republic of San Marino is located in the south of Europe, on the slopes of Mount Titano (738 m) and is surrounded on all sides by the territory of Italy (Marche and Emilia-Romagna regions). San Marino Square - 60,57 ...
The development of a nuclear space engine began in the Russian Federation
The development of a megawatt-class nuclear power plant for a new generation of space technology began in Russia. Task assigned to Keldysh Research Center. About the importance ...
People’s Liberation Army of China (PLA)
The People’s Liberation Army of China (PLA) is the armed forces of the PRC, the largest army in the world (2 250 000 people in active service). 1 August 1927 was founded as a result of ...
"Two Hands" PLA
The artillery unit of the Nanking Military District conducted large-scale military exercises near the Yellow Sea using long-range rocket launchers ... To the coastal city of the Jiaodong Peninsula ...
The second birth of the "Phantoms"
The US Air Force intends to destroy the enemy's air defense systems with a massive attack using inexpensive kamikaze drones. Intelligence and combat drones have become perhaps the most active ...
Only one left
The choice of the Soviet main deck aircraft is almost a detective story. To understand it, you need to decide what is the main deck aircraft. For this you need to answer, but what is ...