The creator of the first Vostok spacecraft, Konstantin Feoktistov, has come a long way from an ardent enthusiast of manned flights to their implacable opponent. His final thoughts to supporters...

The British Air Force fighter "Harrier" after 40 years of service was removed from service, as a result of cuts in defense spending. The aircraft, put into service in 1969, noted his resignation ...

Special equipment in the service of the military. Modern war is characterized by high dynamic actions and extremely wide use of special operations forces. The task of timely detection and accurate ...

The 28 separate disciplinary battalion in Mulino is one of the two disbats remaining in Russia. The second is near Chita. But even in those times when there were more dysbats in the country, the Mulin was considered one of ...

On Monday, December 20, less than a year after the adoption of the first unmanned aerial vehicle, Eitan, the IDF deployed a separate ...

Russia is creating a new heavy liquid intercontinental ballistic missile that will be able to break through any existing and prospective missile defense systems, ...

US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) engineers have developed a vehicle launching mechanism that includes acceleration using a “rail gun” and a set of ...

Domestic Navy is paying for the mistakes of the Soviet admirals Against the background of the entry into operation of the patrol ship "Yaroslav the Wise", the beginning of sea trials of the SSBN Yuri Dolgoruky, the successful completion ...

Jumping without a parachute, it seems, will be in the near future, paratroopers. Employees of the aeromechanics and flying equipment department of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have begun to create ...

On the eve of the Strategic Missile Forces Day, which is celebrated in Russia 17 December, it became known that the ground strategic deterrent forces, which form the basis of ...

In 2011, the Bulava strategic naval missile will face the most difficult and crucial stage of testing. The missile cannot be put into service until a salvo is fired ...

Russia is creating a new heavy liquid intercontinental ballistic missile that will be able to break through any existing and prospective missile defense systems, ...

The US Army officially announced that on board the recently launched Falcon 9 rocket, in addition to the first private Dragon spacecraft that was being tested, was also its secret cargo –...

This week, the situation around Ekaterina (Kati) Zatuliveter (Katia Zatuliveter), detained by British authorities on suspicion of espionage, has been further developed. Need to be reminded that ...

The most powerful railgun (electromagnetic gun) in the world was created in the research laboratory of the US Navy in Dalgren. In December, 2010 specialists conducted a successful test of a railgun with a power ...

The KV-220 tank (220 Object) was developed by SKB-2 LKZ under the direction of J. Kotin in 1940 to replace the KV-1 tank. The first engineer of the machine was L. E. Sychev, then B. P. Pavlov. Two experienced ...

At the beginning of 90-s, almost all countries of the world began to introduce new computer technologies in the management of armies. The main goal of such introductions was to increase the combat effectiveness of the armed forces ...

December 14 early in the morning in the dormitory building of the Moscow State Conservatory. P.I. Tchaikovsky on Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, people in police uniform staged a raid. Students raised from ...

According to some independent experts and experts, the Russian army a year loses about two thousand people with non-combat losses, for 5 years, an amount comparable in state to a full-fledged ...

On the labor front, there was a struggle to increase the output of tanks. At the end of 1941 - the first half of 1942, the production of T-34 tanks was carried out at three plants: No. 183 in Nizhny Tagil, Stalingrad ...

The Pantsir-С1 anti-aircraft missile system in March-April 2011 will be put on combat duty to protect the sky of Moscow. About this in an interview with the TV channel "Vesti-24" said Lieutenant-General ...

The armored personnel carrier of the 21st century in Russia is not yet available, but the existing one has undergone a serious modernization. Recent statements by the top officials of the Russian military department, including the chief of armaments of the Armed Forces ...

Is it possible to cross a tank with an airplane? For many years, this idea itself seemed absurd. However, in the end, all the same, we found, in the pre-war USSR, specialists who managed to solve such a “technical ...

The launch of the Russian Bulava intercontinental missile, prepared by 17 on December 2010, has been postponed indefinitely due to deteriorating weather conditions in the White Sea. As reported in the Main ...