Since the middle of the 60, despite the declared neutrality, the Swedish air defense system has actually been integrated into the NATO air defense system in Europe. In Sweden, even earlier than the creation of NATO began ...

Since the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815, Sweden has a policy of neutrality. The combination of the geopolitical location of the country on the Scandinavian Peninsula and a successful policy ...

Considering the Japanese anti-aircraft weapons available in the army and navy during the Second World War, it can be noted that most of them did not meet modern requirements. This is partly ...

Tachanka is a tactical fire weapon, owing its origin to the specifics of the Civil War in Russia. What is a machine gun tachanka and what are its tactical features? The article reviewed ...

The anti-aircraft artillery of France failed to have a noticeable influence on the course of hostilities. If the Soviet and German anti-aircraft guns in addition to its main purpose were actively used for ...

Comparing the capabilities of artillery and armor of the Russian, German and English battleships, we conclude that the fighting qualities of the battleship cruisers of the Peresvet type at the time of their laying ...

British anti-aircraft artillery was absolutely not ready for a big war. There were few anti-aircraft guns in the 1939 year, and for the most part they were obsolete. In the British navy in ...

After the defeat of Germany in the First World War by the Versailles Treaty, it was forbidden to have and create anti-aircraft artillery, and the already built anti-aircraft guns were to be destroyed. Concerning...

Anti-aircraft artillery appeared shortly after airplanes and airships began to be used for military purposes. Initially, conventional infantry guns were used to fire at air targets ...

In the previous article, we considered the question of where the idea of ​​building "battleships-cruisers" instead of full-fledged squadrons came from. These ships were planned to act on ...

1. Military exercises of seven CIS countries started today. The goal is to test air defense systems for their ability to repel attacks and respond to hypothetical border violations. The fighters conditionally destroyed ...

Unlike the United States and the European countries of NATO, a significant number of medium-range and long-range anti-aircraft systems are on combat duty in our country. But compared to ...

The two final parts of the review are devoted to the state of the Russian air defense system. Initially it was one publication, but in order not to bore readers with a large amount of information, I had to break it into two ...

In Soviet times, the Kazakh SSR occupied a special place in ensuring the defense capability of the Soviet Union. On the territory of the republic were located several of the largest polygons and test ...

Armadillo squadrons like "Peresvet" occupy a special place in the history of the Russian Navy. These high-breasted handsome men with a recognizable silhouette took an active part in ...

Nowadays, infantry can be replaced by hardy robots, aviation - by drones that do not know mistakes, and scouts - by the all-seeing eye of space satellites. But four-legged sappers, unemployment is not ...

Not so recently in the USA, events were held dedicated to the 15 anniversary of the tragic events of 11 on September 2001. Scary TV stories of the falling twin towers of the World Trade Center, ...

Not everyone knows that humanity produces a lot of waste. In 1987, it produced rubbish the size of Mont Blanc, and today there are already two such mountains. However, that garbage ... People are becoming ...

Western night-vision technology should be introduced as quickly as possible in order to stay ahead of parallel developments in countries such as Russia and China. According to research done in ...

This part of the review focuses on the Central Asian republics: Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan. Before the collapse of the USSR, parts of the 12 separate were placed on the territory of these republics ...

Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, an ethnopolitical conflict began between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It had long cultural, political and historical roots and flared up in the years of "perestroika". AT...

This article concludes the cycle on artillery cruisers of the Soviet fleet. In previous articles, we reviewed the history of ship design projects 26 and 26-bis, 68K and 68-bis, their technical ...

Until 1980, the sky over Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, the Stavropol Territory and the Astrakhan Region was defended by parts of the Baku Air Defense District. This is an operational connection of air defense troops ...

Until the end of the 80s, units of the 19th separate Tbilisi Air Defense Army, which were part of the 14th Air Defense Corps, were located on the territory of Georgia. February 1, 1988 in connection with organizational and staff activities ...