In late January, the US Army Department published a preliminary list of requirements for a promising vehicle, which should be developed as part of the ULCV program (Ultra-Light Combat Vehicle –...

In the modern world, lasers are used quite actively, especially at the household level. The development of combat lasers, though conducted, but so far, apparently, they are all far from ideal and logical ...

Recent operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have identified the need to protect the many advanced operational sites from which the military are moving into military operations in order to control ...

According to official data, the volume of drug traffic from Colombia to North America is 550 tons of cocaine per year. Two thirds of all shipments go across the Pacific Ocean on home-made narcous submarines and ...

The Vietnamese Defense Ministry rejected a contract with Rosoboronexpot to organize production in the country for the production of Kalashnikov assault rifles belonging to the 100th series. The decision to organize ...

A few days ago, the exhibition of weapons and military equipment Defexpo-2014 ended in India. During this event, several agreements were signed for the supply of various products of the military ...

At the Defexpo-2014 exhibition in India, several dozen countries showed their new developments in the field of weapons and military equipment. In addition, a number of companies have demonstrated their options ...

This section is not the author’s desire to get into great literature, but merely the need to identify some initial points that may be removed (or significantly shortened) ...

9 February 1977 died Sergei Ilyushin, an outstanding Soviet aircraft designer, Colonel-General of Engineering and Technical Services, Academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences. OKB, which he headed, today is considered ...

Gun Liberator (Liberator - liberator) FP-45 is one of the controversial weapons. There are several points of view on this gun: this is a good PR move by the American government and an attempt ...

The 1974 summer of the year was not much different from the similar season in previous years. A hot haze hung over Moscow. Soft asphalt - with prints of thin female stiletto heels. A weak breeze, alas, not ...

2013 year was marked by the launch of the first Chinese lunar rover, called “Yuytu” (“Jade hare”), to the natural satellite of Earth. Yuytu became the first spacecraft to land on ...

Canadian media mogul and style commentator Tyler Brühle, in his weekly column in the Financial Times, recently commented on how impractical it is to take an iPad on vacation ....

The quality of the equipment produced in a particular country directly depends on the quality of the components and the availability of technology for national manufacturers. This thesis is relevant for almost all ...

According to the results of 2013, the amount of signed real contracts for the export of military goods and services, which are carried out by Ukrainian enterprises and special exporters, included in the State Concern ...

The idea of ​​creating a protected vehicle with machine-gun or even cannon armament appeared at the end of the 19th century. However, for some time the projects of such technology did not interest the military. An example ...

After the battle, the sailors calculated: they needed to make 2876 shots with the main, medium and universal caliber, before the Bismarck turned into flaming ruins and completely lost its combat capability ....

Nanotechnologies offer attractive prospects for the application of new exotic materials, but it turns out that some of the most significant steps in modern innovative booking solutions ...

In the second half of the sixties, Germany and Great Britain agreed to create a joint project of a promising towed howitzer. The FH70 gun was supposed to have a caliber 155 mm and a range ...

Today, the Russian army has a great variety of different armored combat vehicles (AFVs). For main battle tanks, the picture is as follows. The most powerful are the T-90A ...

Russia may tighten policy towards its Central Asian allies in the CSTO. NG reported this to a military diplomatic source in Moscow: “The withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan is approaching ...

News agency IHS Jane's has published a new defense report, Budgets: End of Year Report 2013, dedicated to world defense spending last year. The paper analyzes the military ...

About the fact that in the composition of the military units and formations of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, carrying out the service for the protection of nuclear hazardous facilities, there are special-purpose units, even in the ...

The US Army wants to purchase a sufficient number of new DVH kits (Double-V Hull - Double V-shaped hull) for wheeled armored vehicles to equip them with all nine brigades of combat vehicles ...