Already in the first months of the long-awaited and blood-conquered world, the Soviet Union found itself on the brink of an abyss. The Third World War in the future was supposed to be more monstrous than the Great ...

It is these additions that allow us to conduct aimed fire from a machine gun with a folded butt according to the bullpup scheme, this is when the machine gun trigger is in front of the store, and the butt is ...

Of all the small fleets of the countries - allies of the USSR under the Warsaw Pact, the Navy of the National People's Army of the GDR at the end of the 1980-s. was the most efficient. It was based on ...

The naval forces, as one of the branches of the armed forces of Romania, are intended mainly to protect the national interests of the state in the Black Sea and on the river. Danube. Within ...

Nuremberg is a recognized center of appearance of short-barreled weapons. The arms of this city are decorated with many weapons, which have reached our time and amaze with the amazing beauty of decoration and ...

The construction and deliveries to the troops of the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile-gun complex (ZRPK) are continuing. To date, the armed forces have received several dozen such complexes, except ...

In recent years, active work on the creation of combat lasers has been going on in different countries. Prospective weapons of this class are expected to have high performance and can provide serious ...

For a long time, the French fleet has been recognized as a technological pioneer and leader in the operation of so-called "optronic" (optical-electronic) sensor systems on surface ships. This...

Yak-44E - deck aircraft radar patrol, guidance and control and electronic countermeasures. This machine was developed in the middle of 1970-ies in the Design Bureau. Yakovlev. In different ...

At the MILIPOL 2013 exhibition, FN Herstal introduced the FN Minimi 5,56 mm Mk3 light machine gun. As the site marks Small Arms - Infantry Weapons, in the new version of the famous change machine gun ...

Discussion of an important international issue began again in the United States. A number of American experts suspect Russia of developing medium-range ballistic missiles, which contradicts the existing ...

In recent years, the Belarusian military-industrial complex has been more and more persistently (albeit with varying success so far) promoting its latest developments in the field of anti-tank weapons on the international market. Among them ...

Is space debris so dangerous? Where to start cleaning the orbits? What legal problems need to be solved for this? What projects are offered? The correspondent of "RG" talks about this with ...

The Wikipedia article on the F-35 fighter was translated into the 53 language! And along with it, a chapter was devoted to the confrontation between the analytical center "Air Power Australia" and ...

In 1938, the Leningrad plant of experienced engineering №185 them. CM. Kirov began to develop a draft of the light tank T-26M. As part of this project, it was intended to improve the characteristics ...

Military technology and science today are inextricably linked. There are many new developments that are becoming more and more technological. If at home people today received ...

On the morning of March 27, 1943, the first Soviet jet fighter, the BI-1, took off from the airfield at the Koltsovo Research Institute of Air Force in the Sverdlovsk Region. Passed the seventh test flight to achieve ...

The emergence of jet aircraft significantly reduced the effectiveness of anti-aircraft artillery, even using radar guns. Shut off all airspace around ...

Our author tried to solve an incredibly difficult task in the arms business - to create a food system of increased capacity for light machine guns, / while preserving the weight of rifle systems in reasonable ...

Since the last century, the revolvers of the American firm Colt from Hartford, Connecticut, have won wide fame outside the United States as a reliable handgun. It was applied ...

The Duck Foot pistol gets its name from the fan-shaped barrels that resemble the webbed feet of a duck. The pistol has a single ignition system for all barrels, i.e. this is...

A few days ago, the British press published the first information about a possible agreement between the UK and Russia. According to The Telegraph, the contract will be signed in the spring of this ...

China is actively developing its armed forces and makes other countries nervous. Not long ago, the head of the US Pacific Command, Admiral S. Locklear, recognized that the era of domination ...

By 2015, the new Russian high-speed helicopter should have a technical design and a full-fledged "flying laboratory". The Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant expects to receive ...