Merkava Mk 4 c Trophy was tested for the first time
The event takes place in the presence of the Chief of the General Staff, Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Major General Beni Ganz and the Commander of the Land ...
Fifth generation fighter: what is India choosing?
The development of the fifth generation fighter has become one of the main themes of cooperation between Russia and India. The joint creation of a new aircraft, which was discussed during the recent visit to India of the Minister ...
Invisible in a skirt
Can sea ships fly? For the commander of the only skeletal type catamaran in the world, Dmitry Efremov, this is not a rhetorical question at all. His ship bears the name of a fast, very cold ...
MG.34 Wehrmacht Worker "horse"
The defeat of the German Reich in the First World War led to the fact that, in accordance with the Versailles Peace Treaty, the Reichswehr was able to have the entire 1926 machine guns for the entire 100-thousandth army ...
Tank-robot from Kharkov - the fire engine of the future
In news feeds with unkind consistency, there are reports of fires at arsenals, storage bases, and parks of military equipment. Even if the next incident goes without victims, then any ...
Virtual space, real struggle
The Pentagon’s “Digital Fortress” is preparing for an effective defense. It is expected that in December this year a new strategy of the United States should be made public - cybernetic, which for the time being ...
Self-propelled artillery mount "Coalition-SV"
Jobs crew members are located in a computerized control module, which is located in the nose of the chassis. The crew consisting of 2-s, has complete control over ...
The Phantom Against the Iranian Threat (Al Jazeera, Qatar)
The military called the fifth-generation American combat vehicle "stealth fighter." In the Middle East, F-35 is dubbed the “ghost”. The United States and Israel have signed a weapons supply contract, and after ...
The operation to rescue a British hostage in Afghanistan failed
American militants show intelligence workers as brave guys who can save any person anywhere in the world. Perhaps, isolated cases of such rescues in the past were really ...
"Lynx" - anti-terror in Slovak
The Slovak Republic originated after the collapse of the former Czechoslovakia. It is inhabited by both Slovaks and Czechs. Today it is a member of the NATO bloc and is part of the European Union. However, the output ...
War privatizers
In the twentieth century, Africa was the main target of mercenaries. She was flooded with veterans of the Second World War, Korean, Vietnamese and other wars, as a tool to control the situation in the colonies. And then during the decolonization ...
"Axon-2" - the first "Kazan"
In 1971, the strategic nuclear submarine K-403 of the 667 project was built on Sevmash. He made several exits to combat service. And in 1982-1983. in Severodvinsk ...
US creates combat drones for sea battles
The Pentagon has signed a contract with AAI for the development of a complex of on-board sensors for unmanned aircraft that will allow the detection and attack of submerged submarines, surface ...
J-10 fighter production in China is limited to supplies of AL-31FN engines from Russia
The forum site china-defense.com discusses the connection between the production in China of J-10 fighters with the volumes of supplies from Russia of AL-31FN engines (with the bottom gearbox, in the photo). Engine thrust ...
Be-200 aircraft efficiency questioned by French weekly Er Er Cosmos
The French weekly "Er e Cosmos" published an article by Pyotr Butovsky devoted to the analysis of the efficiency of the Be-200 aircraft under the heading "Questions about the Be-200 aircraft."
Steel fist of israel
Israel is considered a great tank power: the IDF's tank fleet is one of the largest in the world - it is armed with from 4 to 5 thousand tanks, built on Israeli tank ...
Fighting ship of the future UXV
The sleek design, unmanned aerial systems and the next generation of weapons will make the ships of the future the most impressive of all that ever existed. It is difficult to talk about what types of wars ...
Hornet Malkara, anti-tank
Opponents of the USSR and the Warsaw Pact countries conducted the entire "cold war" in anticipation of an avalanche of tanks from the East. To reflect the very real threat, more and more effective threats were created ...
Why the demand for "universal soldiers of the future"
To fight the terrorists and rebels, entrenched in remote areas of the planet, we need "soldiers of the future." These are professional fighters participating in expeditionary campaigns - specially trained, ...
Submachine gun Heckler - Koch HK MP7A1 PDW (Germany)
Submachine gun Heckler - Koch HK MP7, developed at the end of 1990 by the German company Heckler and Koch, according to the classification adopted in the west, belongs to a new class of small arms -...
Hawk Eye for an aircraft carrier
Aircraft E-2C Hawkeye was adopted in 1973, and is an integral component of carrier-based aviation AUG, whose task is to early detection and assessment of threats from potentially dangerous ...
Modern trends in the development of special forces of foreign countries
Modern trends in the development of special-purpose formations as part of the security forces of the countries of the world are due to a rethinking of their role and place in solving the tasks of ensuring the national ...
"First" and "most": record submarines
Sevmash is not just a shipyard where submarines are built. This enterprise is the forge of record-breaking submarines, for which the epithets “first” and “most” are often used. A number of records of these submarines ...
When will the Piranhas be back?
In the late 80s. of the last century at the "Admiralty shipyards" for the Soviet Navy were built two small special-purpose submarines of project 865 "Piranha" developed by SPMBM "Malachite" ....