Intermediate model
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 ...
The return of "humpback"
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 ...
Dragon opens mouth
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 ...
The missile defense system in the Russian Federation is destroyed - experts
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, ...
Su-17 bomber and fighter
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, ...
China clones and sells Russian fighters ("The Wall Street Journal", USA)
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 ...
What will receive the Russian Air Force
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 army at the sight of "reform"
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 ...
New military uniforms will cost two to three times the old
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 ...
Smith & Wesson - American legend
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 ...
Heavy tanks KV
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 ...
Why do they kill higher military education in Russia?
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...
Chechen wanted to undermine NATO troops in Belgium ("RTBF", Belgium)
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 ...
Triumph C-400
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 ...
GLONASS descended from orbit
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...
Missile and gun tank T-90С
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 secret space drone of the US Air Force successfully tested
The test flight of the secret unmanned military spacecraft of the US Air Force X-37B ended successfully....
Dig the ground. US intelligence said it was starting to search for "Russian mole"
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 ...
US intelligence agencies drank a nuclear warhead
In one of the American bars, police detained drunken representatives of the US intelligence services, who were transporting a nuclear warhead and leaving it in a car at the bar, the ministry confirmed ...
"We need to bring everything back together"
Steps are starting for greater integration of the armed forces in the former Soviet space The heads of the General Headquarters of the CIS countries on Friday signed a number of agreements aimed at increasing interaction ...
Russia buys 10 Iveco armored vehicles and will receive technology for their production
Russia and Italy have agreed on the acquisition by the Russian side of ten multi-functional armored vehicles "Lynx" from the Italian company Iveco, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly said on Friday ...
Nagorny Karabakh trench army
“The army of Nagorno-Karabakh,” Lt.-General Movses Hakobyan told me, “is a unique military structure. It differs from all others primarily in the way of recruiting the armed forces "....
Are the people and the army one?
Today in one of the blogs I read about how a regiment was sold in 1992. At first, I just wrote a comment, and then I realized that this commentary translates into an entire article. Many military personnel and ...
Blum machine gun
The machine gun system was developed by Mikhail Nikolayevich Blum (1907-1970) - later known developer of various types of weapons and ammunition - at the very beginning of his journey as ...