Maintaining the technological relevance of combat vehicles is an essential element of modernization. As for tanks, it is modernization that prevails here, not new platforms ...

Russian plans for the modernization of technology seriously excited the foreign press. Particularly worried analysts project update Tu-22М3М. Experts have tried to predict something ...

The story will be about the long-lived artillery of the Red Army - 122-mm howitzer sample 1910 / 30's ...

The readers of the series “Poem about“ Maxim ”liked it. And many of them expressed a desire to see the story about the predecessors of the "maxim": mitraliases, or canisters ...

One way to reduce recoil and increase the dispersion of the grape ...

Tanks can be the basis for heavy infantry fighting vehicles. An interesting option in the past has offered Ukrainian industry. The main tank T-72 could be rebuilt in the BMT-72 infantry fighting vehicle ...

Defense spending in Asia is determined primarily by China, India, Japan and South Korea. Nevertheless, countries not from the “big four” are modernizing their ground forces ...

Shipbuilding programs. Forecasts of the composition and strength of the Russian submarine fleet ...

In the majority of artillery design bureaus came to the conclusion that the introduction of mine control systems in flight was inevitable. The minimum caliber for the development of controlled mines was 81 millimeter. Engineers succeeded ...

The serial production of the MBR-2 (the second marine intelligence officer of the second) was carried out at Aviation Plant No. XXUMX (Taganrog). The first aircraft was built in July 31, and the peak of release fell on 1934 and 1937 years ...

Objects in Syria are attacked by American and Israeli means of air attack. What are the Syrian air defense forces and how capable they are ...

To improve the accuracy of the gun, you can use a removable butt. However, the traditional wooden holster-butt is too big and heavy. An elegant solution was offered by designers Behnke and Timan ...

After the appearance of the Peabody rifle, many imitations appeared. This and Roberts rifle, and Vesteley Richards, and Swinburne, and Cochran, but you can’t list them all. But immediately followed ...

The French "cavalry" tank Somua S35 is not the most famous, although it was released in a rather large series (427 copies) ...

Stories of battle between the battlecruisers of Great Britain and Germany should have ended on a pair of “Derflinger” - “Tiger”. After all, the Germans did not invent a new project of a battle cruiser ...

In the conflicts of the last decades, improvised military equipment assembled from available samples plays a crucial role. But what will happen if a similar machine is developed from scratch? The answer is ...

The first instances of the use of machine guns in Africa showed all the power of this combat weapon. Even then, European pacifists tried to ban the use of inhuman machine guns ...

The first large-caliber gun developed in the USSR ...

Completion of the history of the formation of the T-64, T-72, T-80 tanks. The process of creating this generation of tanks and the circumstances that influenced the adoption of fateful decisions ...

Maxim and his machine gun. And what were other inventors doing at the same time? After all, not only Maxim was a smart and educated engineer! ...

T-34-85 tank tour ...

Legendary 37-mm mortar-shovel VM-37 Dyakonov and grenade launcher-shovel "Variant" designer Rebrikov. Maybe for the needs of the modern Russian army someday they will come in handy and ...

The United Aircraft Corporation has launched state acceptance tests of the MiG-35 (a multi-generation tactical fighter of the 4 ++ generation). Factory tests were successful ...

Combat vehicle support tanks and fire support "Terminator" entered service, but did not cease to be the subject of controversy. This sample of equipment has not only advantages, but also disadvantages ...