MT-LB are undergoing another modernization

MT-LB are undergoing another modernization

More than half a century in the arsenal of our army consists of a light multi-purpose armored vehicle MT-LB. With timely repair and upgrade, such equipment can remain in service for a long time ...
Shit Explosive. Million tons for a big war

Shit Explosive. Million tons for a big war

Explosives, more precisely, the most important raw materials for its manufacture, can be obtained from the shit. We are talking about trotyl, one of the main types of military explosives ...
American infantry anti-tank weapons (part of 3)

American infantry anti-tank weapons (part of 3)

Thanks to advances in the miniaturization of semiconductor elements and the improvement of semi-automatic guidance systems, it was possible to create compact anti-tank guided missiles ...
Black Sea Fleet Day

Black Sea Fleet Day

The Black Sea Fleet celebrates its holiday - the pride and hope of Russia. 13 May 1783 of the year, 235 years ago, the first ships of the future Black Sea Fleet arrived in Ahtiar (Sevastopol) Bay ...
Submachine gun HAFDASA C-4 (Argentina)

Submachine gun HAFDASA C-4 (Argentina)

In the late thirties, Argentina created several new submachine guns for use in the army and police. C-4 is one of the successful projects of HAFDASA ...
Kaiser Wilhelm's Paris Cannon

Kaiser Wilhelm's Paris Cannon

In an era when science fiction stories were written about rockets, ultra-long guns were engaged in delivering explosives to the front line, one of which was the Colossal ...
Poem of Maxim (part of 2)

Poem of Maxim (part of 2)

Maxim began experiments with self-loading firearms with a patent on the use of recoil force in a Winchester rifle, in which automatic reloading was carried out by installing ...
Congo-class battlecruisers

Congo-class battlecruisers

The history of the Japanese battle cruisers originates in the battle of Yalu, during which the high-speed wing of cruisers played a significant, if not decisive role ...
Iowa Battleships: A 80-Long Threat

Iowa Battleships: A 80-Long Threat

“Of all your fleets, only battleships look like real weapons,” said Sultan Qaboos bin Said. The best compliment for floating fortresses created from an alloy of steel and fire ...
Armored car "Renault" Nekrasov-Bratolyubova

Armored car "Renault" Nekrasov-Bratolyubova

In mid-August 1914, 17, August 1914, the War Minister, Adjutant-General V.A. Sukhomlinov, fulfilling the order of Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, ordered to begin work on the creation of new ...
Glen Curtiss First Falcon

Glen Curtiss First Falcon

What usually comes to mind at the mention of America of the twenties - early thirties? Someone the war of the Chicago mafia, someone Ford automobile empire, the majority just pop up the images ...