It is already clear that the new generation of Russian military equipment, such as armored vehicles on a single Armata chassis, a PAK FA fighter and a PAK DA bomber, an attack aircraft carrier ...

During the Great Patriotic War, Soviet designers were actively working to improve the characteristics of various military equipment, including jet mortars. By introducing new ideas ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a powerful grouping of air force and air defense forces remained in Ukraine. By the time of the official creation of the Ukrainian Air Force in 1992, there were 4 air armies and one ...

Missile defense systems have always been and remain among the leaders of the most advanced intellectual, high-tech and expensive types of military equipment. Therefore, the possibility of their creation and ...

The end of the "cold war" and the collapse of the USSR for some time reduced the threat of a large-scale military conflict. Against this background, serious cuts have taken place in the countries of the global confrontation ...

In the middle of the 70-ies in service with the military units of the Soviet Army were quite effective mobile air defense systems of medium and short range front, army, divisional and ...

Since the second half of the 60-ies, anti-aircraft missile systems began to play a prominent role in the course of regional conflicts, significantly changing the tactics of the use of combat aircraft. Now the party to the conflict ...

By the middle of the 60-x in the USSR, the problem of creating medium and short-range air defense systems was successfully solved, but taking into account the vast territory of the country, the formation of defense lines on probable flight routes of aviation ...

In the first half of the 70-x in the United States began the gradual elimination of positions previously deployed air defense system. This was primarily due to the fact that the main means of delivery of the Soviet nuclear ...

In the year 2014, in the Black Sea, the exercises of the NATO 2-th permanent Mediterranean mine action group took place, which Pentagon officials decided to diversify with the participation of combat dolphins. About it...

The first guided anti-aircraft missiles (missiles) were created during the Second World War in Germany. Work on anti-aircraft missiles intensified in the 1943 year, after the leadership of the Reich came to ...

Some technical projects have always been ahead of life, but it has happened like this: life was ahead of the most delusional projects, which eventually became even more delusional! So, 27 August 1915, in Russia ...

In 70-80, virtually no armed conflict did without the opposing sides using all-wheel-drive jeeps, pickups and trucks as a platform for installing ...

The term "gantrak" (eng. Gun truck - armed truck) first appeared during the Vietnam War, when the US Transportation Corps was faced with large losses of trucks from ambushes, ...

Britain became the third after the USA and the USSR to possess nuclear weapons. Naturally, to carry out test nuclear explosions, fraught with unpredictable consequences, near ...

In the spring of 1943, the VG In his memorandum addressed to Stalin, Grabin proposed, along with the resumption of production of the 57-mm anti-tank ZIS-2, to begin designing the 100-mm gun with a unitary ...

From the very moment of its formation, the PRC was striving to possess nuclear weapons. Mao Zedong believed that as long as China does not have an atomic bomb, the whole world will treat China with disdain. In particular, he ...

Even the smallest states with armed forces are forced to spend considerable funds on the creation, equipment and maintenance of shooting ranges and ranges, where the official militarized ...

In 1977, the Naval Self-Defense Forces began to receive the first R-3C Orion patrol aircraft, which were intended to replace the aging Japanese P-2J. The first three P-3C manufactured Lockheed, ...

After the defeat of imperial Japan in World War II, the country under American occupation was forbidden to have its own armed forces. In the Constitution adopted in the 1947 ...

The American edition of The National Interest decided to talk about modern Russian weapons, which "pose a serious potential threat" to the US military around the world ....

The US monopoly on nuclear weapons ended on August 29, 1949 after a successful test of a stationary nuclear explosive device at a test site in the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan. Simultaneously...

In the past, the PRC leadership has focused on ballistic missiles in implementing "nuclear deterrence" plans. In addition to strategic and tactical missile systems, the PLA Air Force ...

Today, the PRC has the world's largest armed forces. In the most numerous on the planet of the ground forces, the Air Force and Navy, new types of equipment and ...