Guards missile cruiser "Varyag"
A squadron of ships of the Pacific Fleet headed by the Varyag rocket cruiser 4 June headed from Vladivostok on a friendly visit to the US port of San Francisco ....
For the first time an ultra-long flight is carried out by Su-34 bombers.
For the first time in the history of Russia, two Su-34 bombers perform an ultra-long non-stop flight en route Lipetsk-Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Head of Information and Public Relations ...
Russian Space Eye
On June 12, servicemen of the Space Forces, serving at the Volga radar station located in the Republic of Belarus, celebrated the 25th anniversary of their unit. This radar is one of ...
The main thing - to be able to win in battle
Changes in the troops are not limited to organizational and staff activities The process of giving a new look to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is associated not only with changes in the staff structure and the transition ...
"Dry" will rise to a new level
For the first time, a Russian aircraft engine is certified according to international standards. The SaM146 engine, developed for the Russian regional Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, received an international ...
More cannon fodder, good and different
Raising the draft age to 30 years is justified by the interests of the state’s military organization. Hot supporters of this “forced” measure are either people whose children are reliably protected ...
The fighter has reached the finish line
The Sukhoi Company has fully completed preliminary ground and flight operations under the program of a promising aviation front-line aviation complex (PAK FA), also known as the 5 fighter ...
Who and what breeds hazing
The leadership of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation sees among the main reasons for bullying in the army the influence of youth groups of an extremist type. Russian Deputy Minister of Defense Nikolai Pankov at a joint meeting ...
Southern descent
The modernization of the Black Sea Fleet, the need for which was much talked about on the sidelines, is taking shape. The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy said on Wednesday that in the next 10 years, Russia's southern fleet ...
Million for arbitrariness
An American company was punished for selling military technology to Russia A representative of the American company Rocky Mountain in a court of the State of Colorado acknowledged the sale of military technology abroad without ...
Flew to his
The Russian Ministry of Defense buys a domestic helicopter, created specifically for foreign armies. The multipurpose attack helicopter Mi-35M for the first time will go into service with the Russian army. Amount ...
Russian submarine fleet: prospects and expectations
15 June 2010 of the year in Severodvinsk was removed from the dock of the Northern machine-building enterprise the newest submarine cruiser of the 885 project. Thus, today in Russia, the head submarines were built ...
Russian tank fell victim to intrigue
The Uralvagonzavod Corporation intends to present a new T-2010 tank at the Russian Expo Arms-95 arms exhibition. These plans may be thwarted by the RF Ministry of Defense, whose ...
Russia without own tanks
Unlike other countries in Russia, they refused to create a new tank; 7 April 2010 Deputy Defense Minister - Chief of Armaments of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Vladimir Popovkin announced ...
Self-propelled installation ZIS-30
The ZiS-30 self-propelled guns began to enter the army at the end of September 1941. All of them went to recruitment of VET batteries in tank brigades of the West and South-West gables (they were ...
The first domestic plane: a hundred years Gakkel's airplane
19 June 1910 (in a new style) can be considered one of the birthdays of domestic aviation - then, a hundred years ago, an airplane first flown into the Russian sky, which was completely developed and ...
China is the army of the future
In 20 years, the Chinese army has become one of the best in the world, it is impeccably staffed and consists of 2 millions of professional soldiers. For now, Russia is safe, and we only supply them ...
Electromagnetic gun
Since the beginning of the 1980's, the electromagnetic gun has become an increasingly important part of the planned improvements to the future construction systems. Analysis of the likely means of attacking the enemy
Media: Putin vainly admired the T-50 fighter - he was shown the plane with the old stuffing
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, when visiting the Central Aero-Hydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) on Thursday, located in Zhukovsky near Moscow, hurried with praises to the fighter of a new combat ...
Russian defense industry showed Europeans a "long-range" stun gun, striking from 10 meters
In St. Petersburg, experts from Europe were shown in action a non-lethal electroshock device of remote action called "Paralyzer", reports "Interfax" with reference ...
Five reasons to buy or not to buy Abrams
1. The current defense industry in Russia has completely shifted to market rails, and in the wildest market. Prices for its products are consistent with the world level, which of course, can not be said about ...
What to do with the Russian army?
The modern Russian army has entered another strip of crisis, about which they had only previously talked about, and now they began to observe, into a crisis zone with draftees. We came to 2010 year with ...
National Security and Army Modernization
To strengthen Russia's security, a forced rearmament of the army with the newest non-nuclear weapons is necessary. Creating an innovative economy instead of a raw-material one, as mentioned in the Presidential Address ...
Laser propulsion: the “wild” idea can finally shine
New experiments on the laser show that you can build a hypersonic aircraft and raise the spacecraft beam to Earth orbit. In fact, the revolutionary ships on ...