US Military Professionals: An Inside Look
From the 30s of the last century to the present day, thousands of people trained to fight are engaged in commercial affairs A significant complication of weapons and military equipment (AME) and military art at the turn ...
British Defense Ministry showed a new drone "Taranis"
The Ministry of Defense of Great Britain presented a prototype of a new assault unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This July 12 reports The Press Association. The drone was named ...
Death is their craft
When July 14 at the annual parade on the occasion of the Bastille anniversary, the national holiday of France, soldiers enter kepi blanc, the traditional “white caps” of the Foreign ...
Smart missiles "Stinger"
The Stinger rocket developed by the US military (“sting” translated from English as “sting”) can be called one of the first versions of the so-called “intellectual” weapon. The merits of ...
Americans are building a flying "Hummer"
At the beginning of 2010, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the United States Department of Defense announced an open competition to ...
In 2015, the US Air Force will adopt a robotic blue drone
The euphoria that the military experienced about the capabilities of satellite intelligence, has long ended: the photos are too grainy, moreover, it is difficult to distinguish weapons of mass destruction from orbit, ...
Ekranoplan "Eaglet"
The screen effect is an increase in the bearing properties of the wing of an aircraft when flying at low altitudes due to the influence of the surface. Aviators first encountered its manifestation: during the landing approach, ...
The border of South Korea is guarded by a robot
South Korea has placed on the border with the DPRK a robot-watch that can track and kill violators. Actually, two devices with the functions of observation, tracking, ...
Tank T-80U-M1 "Bars"
Tank T-80U-M1 "Bars" is fast and unobtrusive on any terrain, capable of marches over long distances and transported by all types of transport. In different countries continues ...
We are protected by the "Pyramid"
The capital of Russia is the only city on the planet that is reliably protected by an anti-missile defense system. It is called A-135. Its heart is a radar station (radar) "Don-" 2N "that ...
Intelligence for armored vehicles
Does the Russian army need smart war machines? In general, the forum “Technologies in mechanical engineering-2010”, which brought together four exhibitions that previously existed separately from each other - “Intermash”, MVSV, ...
MAGPULL MASADA / Bushmaster ACR
In November 2009 of the company Colt Defense expires with a contract with the US DoD (US Department of Defense) for the supply of M4 carbines to the army and the USMC (Marine Corps). To this date, many ...
German special forces will receive a car for a million euros
German special forces - the most modern and well-armed. This is evidenced by the latest acquisition of the German government: Water Cannon 10000. The car costs at least a million euros and is considered ...
Garuda IV: Su-30MKI and F-16D + in the French sky ("Air & Cosmos", France)
For the first time, Indian Su-30MKI and Singaporean F-16D Block 52 "Plus" are training in the French sky along with Mirage 2000 and Rafale F3 of national air forces. A rare and impressive spectacle. Fourth ...
Su-27 fighters - a quarter of a century in the ranks
The first copies of the Su-27 - one of the best fighters of the 4th generation developed by the Sukhoi Design Bureau - began to enter service with the country's Air Force 25 years ago, the press service reports ...
Russia and China clash on the global arms market: Beijing sells cheap "MiG-29 killer"
Russian aircraft manufacturers are forced to admit that they have a new serious competitor on the world arms market - China. The head of RAC MiG and AHK Sukhoi Mikhail Pogosyan spoke ...
Volumetric explosion
Appeared in the 1960-ies of the volume explosion of ammunition and in this century will remain one of the most destructive non-nuclear ammunition. The principle is quite simple: initiating charge undermines capacity with ...
Projected aircraft carrier of Russia
Since the Russian military announced plans to create several new modern aircraft carriers a couple of years ago, there have been a lot of rumors about this project. Let's see what is known about the future ...
Fire Prevention: Anti Sniper
The portable system, which is being developed at Vanderbilde University by order of the American defense agency DARPA, conceptually represents nothing new. She represents ...
"Mistral" - is it to the court of our fleet?
The Mistral deal can also be regarded as distrust of its own military-industrial complex. For about a year now, rumors have been circulating among specialists about the prospects for the acquisition of French ...
Kite: a helicopter from the unmanned family
The full-size model of the Korshun unmanned helicopter was first presented to the general public at the UVS-TECH 2010 Unmanned Multipurpose Complexes exhibition in Zhukovsky ....
BMPT (Tank Support Fighting Vehicle) "99 Frame" - Terminator
The fruit of mutual love "Uralvagonzavod" and "Ural Bureau of Transport Engineering" - the first in its class tank support fighting machine. The official name is like a Soviet haircut, by golly: ...
New developments of domestic tank builders
The development of a promising Russian tank (object 195) was carried out by UKBTM (OJSC "Ural Design Bureau of Transport Engineering", N-Tagil) within the framework of the theme "Improvement-88", but ...
188M object
The “188M object” is created as an initiative-based development of the Ural transport engineering design bureau, as opposed to the Burlak design and development project, conducted in Omsk design bureau. Named OCD is a sample illustrating ...