The end of the Cold War, instead of simplifying it, made the development of BMPs even more difficult, more contradictory requirements appeared than ever before. The embodiment of new requirements in the design led to ...

The financial crisis can significantly affect US military construction. Oceans protect the United States from external invasion, but they also create the problem of distance. Most potential theaters for the US Armed Forces ...

A unique decision for modern Russia was made recently by the Lyuberetsky garrison military court. The post was reinstated by Lieutenant Colonel Viktor Biront (on Wednesday he received an acquittal into his hands ...

The Russian government will build a new fleet, the tasks of which will be to protect energy flows and repel the threat from China and Japan. According to rough estimates, it will take up to 5 trillion ....

Multibillionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has invested in a secret rocket project known as Blue Origin.

After the completion of R & D and the start of mass production of new coastal anti-ship missile systems (SCRC) "Bastion" and "Ball" Russia became the leader in the global market for these systems. For...

In the second half of 1934, the tactical and technical requirements for the new Wehrmacht combat vehicle were formulated. The 6th Department of the Armaments Directorate believed that the German army needed a tank with a mass ...

Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant is going to resume production of the Su-25UB. Their construction was begun in the last years of the USSR and ceased in 90, and now these planes can not only ...

Last year, the PLA conducted the largest maneuvers in its history. The exercises with the telling name “Big Step-2009” involved 50 thousand troops, four divisions with equipment made ...

Today, Russia does not see systemic measures to create new airspace protection systems, said Leonid Ivashov, President of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems. According to RBC, ...

Projects and first copies of prototype jet aircraft with variable wing geometry appeared as early as the Second World War: in our country, the project of such an aircraft was developed by VV Shevchenko, ...

Zhuhai, China - A year after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the cash-strapped Kremlin sold to China much of its vast military arsenal, including pride ...

In the coming 10 years, the Russian Air Force will acquire more than 1,5 thousands of new aircraft and upgrade more than 400 machines of old construction. This was announced on December 1 by the deputy commander in chief ...

The new look of the Russian army has already become the talk of the town. All sensible people tirelessly criticize him. But Medvedev, Putin, Serdyukov and others stubbornly bend their line. Although anyone more or less ...

In November, the authorities decided to calculate how much the Russian military would cost the new military uniform from Valentin Yudashkin, which the army was already trying on on two Victory Parades. Forecasts are strong ...

The world-famous Smith & Wesson company was founded a century and a half ago, in 1852, by two American gunsmiths Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson in Norwich (state ...

At the end of 1941, the SKB-2 based on the KV-1 tank developed the KV-8 flamethrower tank, the KV-12 chemical tank, and also, together with the design office of UZTM, the KV-7 self-propelled artillery unit and ...

This year ends the history of higher military education in Russia. At least in the form in which it existed until now, it will not be. Defense Department...

A Chechen refugee living in Austria was detained at the Vienna airport. Detention made on Thursday. He is suspected of planning a terrorist attack on the territory of Belgium, the Austrian reported on Saturday ...

Today, the Ministry of Defense, debunking the myths that in the Russian army each soldier has a demining shovel and a third Mosin rifle of the 1891 model of the year, has shown that ...

The three Glonass-M satellites launched on Sunday did not last even a few hours. According to preliminary data, an error occurred during the launch of the vehicles into orbit. As a result, everything...

The T-90C missile-gun tank was commissioned in the 1993 year. The T-90 missile and cannon tanks are a new generation of Russian tanks, including original design developments and the best ...

The test flight of the secret unmanned military spacecraft of the US Air Force X-37B ended successfully....

Russian-American "spy scandals" have been gaining momentum since this summer. The Washington Times claims Russian agents are infiltrated by the US National Security Agency and even ...