Russian arms exports. May 2018 of the year
Russian arms exports: information on India’s interest in the Triumph C-400 Russian anti-aircraft missile systems. The amount of interest - 6 billion dollars. Russia also executes supply contracts ...
Artillery. Large caliber. How comes the god of war
About the beginning of the formation of Soviet artillery ...
Reflections on the effectiveness of the Japanese mid-caliber artillery in Tsushima. H. 2
In battles of squadron battleships during the Russo-Japanese War, the 152-mm guns were practically useless, and the 203-mm guns may have had limited utility ...
Submachine gun Halcón M / 943 (Argentina)
Argentine gunsmiths developed a number of promising submachine guns in the 1930s. The first mass sample was the product under the designation Halcón M / 943 ...
Land Cruiser: experimental heavy tank QMS
Creation of tanks of multi-tower layout. Work in this direction was carried out in the Soviet tank school of the second half of the 1930s ...
IZ-81: Cinderella, not become a princess
The first Russian "pump": simplicity, reliability and low cost ...
Artillery. Large caliber. 114,3 mm detective
The story of the British howitzer model 1910, which was in service with our army before the beginning of World War II ...
Rifles by countries and continents. Rifles heirs of the Vikings. Continued (part of 15)
What was the rifle in the “country of the Vikings” (they once lived in Norway just as they did in neighboring Sweden), how they armed themselves, from which samples they preferred to shoot ...
Tank to overcome obstacles CCI-2
In the field of armored combat vehicles, there has always been an urgent problem of increasing maneuverability. Soviet engineers proposed the original project "Tank to overcome obstacles" of the CCI-2, which used ...
Cruisers project 68-bis: useful old men
What is the phenomenon of long service cruisers like "Sverdlov"? ...
Guarding the most important secrets. Government Communications Day
Government communication is one of the most important areas in the work of state security agencies. June 1 marks 87 years since the creation of a centralized system of government communications in ...
June 1 - Northern Fleet Day
1 June The 1933 of the year was formed by the Northern Navy, which later became the Northern Fleet. In memory of this, an annual holiday was set - the Day of the Northern Fleet ...
New means of Russian control. Aircraft observation aircraft Tu-214ON passed!
In the near future, the Russian aerospace forces will be able to use a new means of control. The special aircraft Tu-XNUMHON passed the first stage of the survey, which brings the expected start ...
Arctic all-terrain vehicle KamAZ "Arctic"
The new all-terrain vehicle on low-pressure tires KamAZ “Arktika” is intended for the development of the territories of the Far North and is specially designed to work effectively in harsh climatic conditions ...
Rifle battle cruisers. "Derflinger" against "Tiger"? H. 3
Derflinger and Tiger battlecruisers: a comparison. Not a single armor belt! ...
Competitor "Exhaust"
The exhibition "Army-2018" promise to show a silent "urban" bolt rifle of a large caliber ...
Tank registration systems for laser radiation
The appearance in 1950 of the first serial models of guided anti-tank ammunition should have put an end to heavy armored vehicles. However, she is alive thanks to the recording equipment ...
New stage of modernization of aircraft: IL-20M is undergoing testing
One of the current projects of modernization of aviation equipment has entered a new phase. The upgraded IL-20M integrated reconnaissance aircraft now has to undergo further tests, according to the results ...
Why and how did the T-64, T-72 and T-80 tanks appear? Part of 2
Continuation of the history of the formation of tanks T-64, T-72 and T-80 ...
Ukrainian OTRK "Thunder-2": a bold name and dubious prospects
Ukraine seeks to conquer its part of the international market of armaments and equipment and for this purpose is trying to create new models. However, as a number of recent projects show, it cannot ...
Rifles by countries and continents. Viking Heirs Rifles (part 14)
Some peoples have a "cult of accuracy" in rifles. That is the case in Sweden! ...
Five little-known tanks of the Second World War. Part of 2. Light reconnaissance tank "Lynx"
A little-known tank of the Second World War: the German light reconnaissance tank "Lynx" (more precisely, Panzerkampfwagen II Ausf. L "Luchs"). The tank was produced in Germany from 1942 to 1943. Fighting vehicles ...
American infantry anti-tank weapons (part of 5)
In the 1970-ies, the US infantry unit of the company-battalion link was armed with the Dragon and TOW anti-tank missile systems. ATCM "Dragon", however, was not popular because of ...
Project PAK DA: behind a veil of secrecy
The most interesting projects, such as the PAK DA program, are always secret, and most of the information about them remains secret. However, from time to time some news is still published and ...