Experts: SM-3 missiles that the US plans to install near the borders of Russia are ineffective
American experts questioned the effectiveness of the Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) missiles, which the United States plans to install in Eastern Europe in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders. President of the U.S.A...
Only old men will go into battle
What should be the age requirement for military service in the army? Opinions of medical and military on this account radically diverged Proposal to raise the bar of military age from 27 to 30 years, deputy ...
Jet fighters and camel cavalry
"Troops of the Sands" are ready for battle in the deserts of the Maghreb Moroccans have always been considered excellent warriors. For centuries they opposed the European conquerors, and during the First and Second World Wars ...
Academic leave in the soldiers' ranks
The Ministry of Defense will try to increase the number of recruits by hook or by crook. This week, active sending of conscripts to the Russian armed forces began. During the spring campaign ...
Are you back in the army
Russia refuses high-quality professional army. Such a conclusion can be drawn from a number of statements by representatives of higher generals. The chief of the main organizational-mobilization ...
Warfare: AKM vs. M-16
Kalashnikov assault rifle - the most popular small arms in the world. For example, in Mozambique, it is so popular that it even decorated the emblem of this state. Honorable second place in popularity among ...
Last manned fighter
Fifth generation fighters are the most modern class of combat aircraft to date. The F-35 is the latest development in this class that has not yet entered the army. But advances in technology can...
Flying plate
11 February 1953, a Canadian newspaper, Toronto Star, has published a sensational report that, at the Avro Canada plant in Moulton, the construction of a fantastic order is under way at the military ...
Weapons of new generation: originally from fiction
Arsenals of the US Army may soon be replenished with weapons, which previously could have been found mainly on the pages of fantastic works describing various blasters and other ...
Weapon
In this issue, Gleb Obukhovsky talks about most of the models of small arms that were used by the warring armies during the war. Easy to manufacture Soviet models and supplied by ...
Missing hypersonic
The experimental hypersonic percussion apparatus, launched by the US military, developed speed in Mach 20 - and disappeared. The development of such systems is carried out in a highly ambitious - and, of course, ...
Operation "Hippopotamus"
8 August 1991 of the PKK CH K-407 demonstrated a full submarine launch In a few minutes, the Northern Fleet submarine launched 16 ballistic missiles at the Kura range. This is still ...
Flying with many unknowns
In the US, carefully conceal information about the appointment of the American orbital plane. Having created a powerful fleet of drones, the Pentagon began a new phase of remotely controlled penetration into ...
List of questions. And not a single answer
"Mace", maybe, will fly ... but when? This summer, tests of the Bulava sea-based ICBM will continue, although the 9 of December of last year, the next launch of this missile ended with the expected ...
Less hardship and hardship ...
At the suggestion of the Minister of Defense of Russia in the Armed Forces, a five-day working week with two days off will be introduced for conscripts, and for preparing food for the personnel, ...
Immortal Soldiers Grow in USA
The United States is trying to obtain immortal biological objects, completely subordinate to their creators and capable of acting as soldiers. The rulers have always strived for absolute ...
US will create an "eternal" laser-powered drone
The American company LaserMotive announced its intention to create a drone with an electric motor, the batteries of which can be recharged directly in the air without the need to land the device, ...
"Our army turns into student and workers' and peasants"
The head of the Center for Military Forecasting - about the correct age of conscription, the “wrong” contract servicemen and the real enemies of Russia, Deputy Chief of the Russian General Staff Vasily Smirnov, said that ...
The soldiers will serve near the house
The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces plans to draft conscripts on a territorial basis already in 2011. Such work, according to Interfax, citing a source in ...
Unmanned Watching Continents
At one time in the novel "Battlefield - Earth" (its adaptation was subsequently produced by John Travolta, who played the role of the main alien villain in the film), Ron Hubbard described the future ...
Defense Ministry is preparing to fight on all four sides
The Ministry of Defense intends to create by December 2010 of the year, on the basis of the existing military districts, operational-strategic commands (USC), which will control the four sides of the world ....
US Navy space cruiser
In 1973, the US Navy began development on the "space cruiser" program, a manned orbital interceptor designed for "scientific and military research." Fleet...
The first flight of the hypersonic device was unsuccessful
The first flight of the American experimental hypersonic glider, which according to the project will be capable of speeds up to 20 max (about 23 thousands of kilometers per hour), was unsuccessful, ...
Start over...
Why did the program of recruitment of parts and formations stall by contract soldiers? Even in the middle of the 90s, Russia, following the example of the advanced Western countries, decided to acquire a professional army. The idea itself ...