A hand-held grenade launcher with an electronic sighting system will make it possible for half a kilometer to hit targets with charges that explode a meter from it. This weapon should be especially effective in the fight against ...

Airplanes of the future, and behind them the entire aerospace technology, cannot develop with long strides, resting on a constant limit, restrictions of fuel and its huge mass, for long flight, or ...

The traumatic pistol Т10 was developed by Slovak gunsmiths especially for the Russian market. It is a new generation of weapons for self-defense. It is light, well balanced and ...

All the talk about the preservation and strengthening of airborne troops - no more than PR. In practice, the Airborne Forces provided an opportunity to die a natural death, occasionally throwing up equipment and allowing it in front of ...

The Automotive Troops of Russia celebrated their 100th anniversary of the Progenitor of a car - it was the first time a steam carriage was made in 1769 by order of the French military department Captain Nicolas Joseph Cugnot. Army in ...

The Russian armed forces continue to reform the operational and strategic management. According to the plan, which is being developed in the General Staff of the army, by December 1 the number of ...

"We Came From Around the Corner" and "Nobody Wanted to Die": the devices for shooting from shelters go back to the XNUMXth century. The problem, as you will see, is not new. With the advent of ...

The development of the 1983 of the year turned out to be more reliable than the Bulava. The British newspaper The Daily Telegraph broke out with a panicky article about the combat capabilities of the Russian missile system Turquoise (export ...

When the armed forces of the Arab Republic of Egypt (Egypt) held large-scale military maneuvers in Sinai in the autumn of 2008, Israel was traditionally chosen as the conventional opponent. This fact caused ...

Thoughtless and destructive for the country's defense capability, the spotlight of the fathers of the army reform from the Ministry of Defense does not seem to withstand even the very first contact with objective reality ....

A special commission of the Ministry of Defense handed over to the government the materials of the investigation of unsuccessful launches of the sea-based intercontinental ballistic missile "Bulava". Officially specific ...

The paratroopers will not be deprived of the status of a separate branch of the military. “Airborne troops will remain an independent branch of the military,” Lt. Gen. Vladimir Shamanov said yesterday, answering a journalist’s question ...

The airborne troops of Russia took into account the experience of the armed conflict in the Caucasus in August 2008, and began to use unmanned aerial vehicles more actively, ordered new weapons and decided to strengthen ...

Soldiers of the Russian Airborne Forces are preparing for internships in the United States, Germany and other countries, Commander of the Airborne Forces, Lieutenant General Vladimir Shamanov, said Wednesday. The general also ...

The confusion was so great that they forever refused to send parachutist spies to the territory of the Soviet Union. In December 1946, Kim Philby was appointed head of the UIC residency in Turkey with its center in ...

In Russia, no one is responsible for the safety of the transatmospheric space. Last week, the Independent Expert Council on the problems of Aerospace Defense of Russia gave a press conference at ...

There is no such close-range air defense system in any army in the world. At the military parade in honor of the 65 anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, for the first time, the general public was shown a number of new combat models ...

Tests of the Bulava missile will be resumed no earlier than November this year. It was not possible to reliably identify the reason for the previous unsuccessful launches, and now the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation hopes to do ...

What do you think Dmitry Medvedev told the world about when, at a meeting on the budget of law enforcement agencies, he set the task for 2015 to equip the Russian army with modern weapons no less ...

Russia still has no place for these plans. The all-European missile defense system on a theater of operations will cost NATO 200 million euros. About this in early May, as reported by some American media, announced on his ...

Since ancient times, people by all means fought for the best place under the sun, and under the moon too. There was a conflict over the possession of a fertile valley, the best pastures, and so on. Victory gave ...

Strategic confrontation between the United States and China also takes place on the technological front. Beijing’s introduction of new weapons potentially reduces or even completely nullifies ...

The newest secret spacecraft, recently tested in the United States, apparently does not pull either a unique orbital bomber or a space combat platform. A month ago, when the Pentagon ...

Scientists and engineers from the main contractors of defense and industrial corporations in the USA, Raytheon, are currently working on a technologically advanced military robotic suit that could ...