Cheap and cheerful: the new BTR from BAE Systems
The appearance of the armored personnel carrier class technology was formed many years ago. All models in recent years can be called modernizations, more or less deep, of old technology. Basically, they change ...
Exoskeleton from Kawasaki
The Japanese company "Kawasaki" presented its new product - an exoskeleton, which without special efforts will be able to lift and carry heavy load. Kawasaki designed and introduced into production ...
Behind the Scenes of the GRU
My companion in the recent past is a military intelligence general who has given her more than 40 years of service. His memory is kept by the scorching wind of the African bush and the intolerable stuffiness of a Latin American selva. WITH...
Tank, which we did not wait: The last myth of the defense industry
This year, Russia stood at the tank crossroads. The military leadership, through the mouths of its representatives of the highest rank, announced that it not only puts an end to the existing tank design ...
Ultra-precise "Speed" and the invisible "Courier"
September 12 on the website of the Federal Space Agency appeared an ordinary, at first glance, a message from the category of those that usually the general public does not read. Under the heading "News" announced ...
Ministry of Defense decided to put the "Shark" on scrap metal?
29 September it became known that the world's largest nuclear submarines of the 941 Avenue Shark, which are in service with the Russian Navy, fell victim to underfinancing, the Russian-American ...
Arikhant - Indian hybrid of "Skata" and "Varshavyanka"
Not so long ago, military experts in many countries were literally taken aback - India will become the owner of its own nuclear submarine. At the moment, the Indian Navy has only diesel ...
China's largest warship: helicopter landing ship docking, project 071
Information about the Chinese defense industry is traditionally scarce, and almost always appear only from official sources. What is the recent history of the fifth-generation Chinese fighter J-20, when ...
Germany has tested the laser missile system
The company “MBDA” (Germany) has tested technology of anti-missile laser defense (C-RAM). As a result of the test, the probability of pointing a 10-kW laser beam to ...
"Cry" is the sound weapon of Israel
For years, Israeli forces have been using a fundamentally new non-lethal weapon, the sound one, very effectively. The sound cannon, also known as “Scream” - “Cry”, was for the first time ...
To Mars through the Moon
In the space industry, the age-old dispute between physicists and lyricists has been transformed in the XNUMXst century into a debate about what is more important for humanity - automatic or manned astronautics?...
What will replace the AK-74?
Not so long ago, all our compatriots, who had at least something to do with the army or the production of weapons, were literally stunned by the thundering news - AK-74, which was the main armament of the Russian ...
Neighborhood Defense
Recently, cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan is gaining momentum. Only military agreements were signed by more than eight dozen. Among them is the March strategic partnership plan between ...
Two admirals. Bye two
For the time being, the near-fleet public is arguing about the expediency and benefits of landing ships of the Mistral type, while their production is being prepared, at the Severnaya Verf factory in St. Petersburg, quietly, peacefully and ...
Belarusian designers have created a sensation in the design of UAVs
Not so long ago, the International Aviation and Space Salon, also known as MAKS-2011, was held. And representatives of Belarus spoke at it, demonstrating unmanned aerial vehicles ...
"V-22 Osprey" has increased the speed by another 37 km / h thanks to updated software
The unique and one-of-a-kind military serial convertiplane "V-22 Osprey", thanks to the usual updating of on-board software, received an existing speed of 37 km / h ...
In the United States conducted a test rocket capable of "burning" electronic brains
The military has always had the desire to get such a weapon that could neutralize all the electronics of the enemy, but it would not cause large-scale damage. Naturally, electromagnetic ...
Helium is over: end of the airship boom
The new boom in the construction of airships has every chance of ending without really starting. The US Army is continuously increasing the number of airships sent to Afghanistan. As a result,...
Officers and jackals
Discussion .. This is a word from which something ominous is coming to me even now. No, I didn’t happen there, thank God, although I could thunder for a sweet soul. As, however, and any soldier from this not ...
Wicker antennas: Ligature and communication
To ensure soldiers on the battlefield are fully reliable and effective communications, antennas will be woven directly into the fabric of the uniform. For the modern army, communication is as important as air. For effective exchange ...
McDonnell ХP-67. Fighter for Batman. USA. 1941
Back in 1939, the US Air Force announced a competition to create a modern high-performance interceptor fighter. The specification (technical requirements) was released on November 27, 1939 ...
Outsourcing in the army: or 401 th way to honestly weaning budget funds
With corruption, as we know, the struggle is on all fronts. But only now something while corruption beats all those laws and obstacles that they are trying to repair. And the victory of corruption can be ...
Army chooses upgrading T-72 instead of purchasing T-90
One of the main results of the exhibition of ground forces weapons held in Nizhny Tagil was that the Russian government was ready to finance the renewal with the help of budget funds ...
Tornado will replace Grad
The military of the whole world is well acquainted with the “Hail” - the multiple launch rocket system that appeared in the Soviet Union in 1964. It really was a terrible weapon, to oppose to which none of ...