According to the results of the exercises "Marine Interaction-2013"
On Wednesday, the joint Russian-Chinese exercises "Marine Interaction-2013" ended. The largest in modern history naval maneuvers involving the fleets of the two countries for three days ...
North Korean tanks: history and modernity
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is known for its responsible attitude towards the release of information. News about the state of the armed forces of this country almost always carries only an estimated ...
How to make the "Fire Bird" from TT
As is known, the Soviet Union provided maximum support to the Warsaw Pact countries by supplying them with their weapons, as well as transferring production rights to armored vehicles, handguns and ...
A-36A Unknown "Mustang"
Aircraft Р-51 "Mustang" during the Second World War were used almost everywhere. In Europe and the Mediterranean, the plane was primarily known as an escort fighter because ...
Sniper fire in local wars
Modern wars, as a rule, are local in nature. In these conflicts, sniper fire and sniper weapons began to play a special role. That is why the arsenal of such shooting systems, ...
Defense budgets: USA - ahead of the rest
According to the rating of the Stockholm World Research Institute (SIPRI) for 2012 a year, from the leader in the global arms race - the United States of America - the rest of the country, the number ...
The main center of space exploration celebrated its 25 anniversary
The Space Monitoring System (SCS) is a special strategic system whose main task is to monitor artificial Earth satellites and other space objects ....
Domestic weapons: personal opinion. Special Notes
Firearms - an essential attribute of civilization. Since ancient times, weapons served as a tool to protect, obtain food, conquer territories. And always a weapon - a tool that performs the will ...
Black deer Basic Aviation in the Falkland War
The phrase “black deer” in Russian sounds funny and offensive. In English, Black Buck also doesn’t mean anything good - so the Anglo-Saxons contemptuously called the South American Indians in ...
Dekker's revolver
For all the time of existence of handguns, a huge number of various options for the means of destroying their own kind and not only have been developed. Many of the ideas of designers ...
German projects of tank gas turbine engines
Until a certain time, Hitler's Germany did not pay much attention to the projects of gas-turbine power plants for ground vehicles. So, in 1941, the first such one was built ...
Swedish spear
Sweden has been and remains one of the few countries in the world capable of creating first-class aviation equipment on its own. Swedish warplanes have always been distinguished by some special "highlight" ...
Stipa-Caproni: one of the most unusual aircraft
Stipa-Caproni is an experimental Italian aircraft designed by Luigi Stipa in 1932, built by Caproni and built by Caproni. As the main material for ...
Features airguns
Such products are very popular, if only because the seller does not require a special permit for storing weapons when purchasing them. That is, pneumatics can be used by all adults ...
"Qatran" for France: the proposal of the expert
A few weeks ago, a laying of the second universal landing ship (UDC) of the Mistral type for the navy of Russia took place at the French shipyard in the city of Saint-Nazaire. Besides, in...
The first floating nuclear power plant to 2016 year
During the last week of the exhibition “International Naval Salon-2013”, officials of the Russian United Shipbuilding Corporation announced some news concerning the latest ...
New developments of the Central Design Bureau for hydrofoil vessels named after R.E. Alekseeva
During the exhibition “International Naval Salon-2013”, held in St. Petersburg last week, Russian shipbuilders announced the upcoming revival of one almost forgotten direction ....
Hybrid helicopters coming to the fore
After understanding the details of the failed operation to rescue the hostages from the US Embassy in Tehran in 1980, when 3 from 8 helicopters involved in the operation could not perform their task ...
Such a short life. About aircraft TSR.2
Each plane, like a person, has its own destiny. One "lives" a long life, improves and repeats in its modifications. And the other, not having time to really stand on the wing, becomes ...
Tulamashzavod - from "Maxim" to rockets
In the first decade of July, the Tula Machine-Building Plant, one of the largest enterprises of the military-industrial complex in Russia, traditionally celebrates its birthday. What is more than seven ...
The concept of a "folding" landing boat for the US Navy
The July 2013 issue of the main US naval magazine Proceedings published an article "A Landing Craft For the 21st Century" by Susan ...
Launch of the Russian-Chinese exercises "Sea Interaction-2013"
For the second year in a row, Russia and China have been holding joint naval exercises. During the events called “Sea Interaction-2013”, the ship and air connections of the two countries will perform ...
10750E raid minesweeper for Kazakhstan
A few days ago, the media spread the news about the signing of a contract for the supply of a new warship to Kazakhstan. In accordance with the signed agreement Sredne-Nevsky ...
Cut wings
I read here recently about my cars (Yak-38, Yak-41) - as they say, nostalgia overwhelmed. I got into the Internet to dig, how did it happen that not only the history of domestic ...