Soldiers of the Russian Airborne Forces are preparing for internships in the United States, Germany and other countries, Commander of the Airborne Forces, Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov, said Wednesday. The general also ...

The confusion was so great that they forever refused to send parachutist spies to the territory of the Soviet Union. In December 1946, Kim Philby was appointed head of the UIC residency in Turkey with its center in ...

In Russia, no one is responsible for the safety of the transatmospheric space. Last week, the Independent Expert Council on the problems of Aerospace Defense of Russia gave a press conference at ...

There is no such close-range air defense system in any army in the world. At the military parade in honor of the 65 anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, for the first time, the general public was shown a number of new combat models ...

Tests of the Bulava missile will be resumed no earlier than November this year. It was not possible to reliably identify the reason for the previous unsuccessful launches, and now the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation hopes to do ...

What do you think Dmitry Medvedev told the world about when, at a meeting on the budget of law enforcement agencies, he set the task for 2015 to equip the Russian army with modern weapons no less ...

Russia still has no place for these plans. The all-European missile defense system on a theater of operations will cost NATO 200 million euros. About this in early May, as reported by some American media, announced on his ...

Since ancient times, people by all means fought for the best place under the sun, and under the moon too. There was a conflict over the possession of a fertile valley, the best pastures, and so on. Victory gave ...

Strategic confrontation between the United States and China also takes place on the technological front. Beijing’s introduction of new weapons potentially reduces or even completely nullifies ...

The newest secret spacecraft, recently tested in the United States, apparently does not pull either a unique orbital bomber or a space combat platform. A month ago, when the Pentagon ...

Scientists and engineers from the main contractors of defense and industrial corporations in the USA, Raytheon, are currently working on a technologically advanced military robotic suit that could ...

Russian physicists have come a step closer to creating the so-called plasma shell for supersonic aircraft, which will allow them to increase their speed by several times. As reported in the Samara branch ...

Any maneuvers are a rehearsal of hostilities. Strictly speaking, they are then carried out to check the combat readiness of the troops, the degree of their training. And also to test those concepts ...

Unfortunately, the new Russian submarine does not belong to the fourth generation of diesel-electric submarines 22 on April 2010, in St. Petersburg, members of the state commission finally signed the act of ...

The video recordings of torture shocked the public, although no one saw them. The American press informed their fellow citizens that five years ago the CIA destroyed the video recordings of cruel torture, which ...

What are the reasons why the Russian Federation needs a conscript army? Consider the need to create a so-called professional army very much loved in modern Russia. And supporters of this ...

9 May 2010 of the year on the Red Square in Moscow, as usual, passed the military. Celebrating the anniversary of the victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War, representatives of ...

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...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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...