Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, an ethnopolitical conflict began between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It had long cultural, political and historical roots and flared up in the years of "perestroika". AT...

The State Armaments Program currently being implemented involves the production and supply of a large number of different types of modern weapons. Particular attention is paid to this program ...

Until 1980, the sky over Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, the Stavropol Territory and the Astrakhan Region was defended by parts of the Baku Air Defense District. This is an operational connection of air defense troops ...

Over the past years, the Chinese defense industry has taken an interesting approach to the development of promising projects. Part of the new types of weapons and equipment is created in accordance with ...

Despite the rather optimistic opinion of Vitaly Churkin, Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, regarding the existing format of Russian-American relations, which he ...

Until the end of the 80s, units of the 19th separate Tbilisi Air Defense Army, which were part of the 14th Air Defense Corps, were located on the territory of Georgia. February 1, 1988 in connection with organizational and staff activities ...

Recently, in both foreign and domestic press, articles have appeared on the possibility of excluding the problems of missile defense from among the destabilizing factors in the strategic ...

In the prewar years, the management of air defense fighter aircraft (IA Air Defense) and the organization of its interaction with other branches of the military, including anti-aircraft artillery, was, to put it mildly, not at the proper ...

Over time, any weapons and military equipment become obsolete and no longer meet current requirements, which leads to a reduction in the capacity of certain units of the armed forces. To save ...

In the second part of the review dedicated to Ukraine, several readers in the comments expressed a desire to familiarize themselves with the location of the Ukrainian anti-aircraft systems as of 2016 year. For example,...

Dave Majumdar, a very clever editor of The National Interest, a US military-political magazine, published a very interesting prognostic article on ...

The Army-2016 military-technical forum held last week became a platform for demonstrating a large number of the latest developments of the domestic defense industry. For example, Design ...

The unique qualities of the newest field-based electronic warfare system “Field-21”, which is developing today on the basis of base stations and antenna-mast systems of cellular operators in Russia, we ...

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, a powerful group of air defense forces remained in Ukraine, which was similar to none of the Union republics. A large arsenal of anti-aircraft weapons possessed only ...

At the time of the collapse, in 1991, the Soviet Union had a powerful air defense system, which had no equal in world history. Virtually the entire territory of the country, with the exception of part ...

Despite the fact that the US military has fallen interest in anti-aircraft artillery, the development of new anti-aircraft installations of medium and small caliber in the postwar period has not ceased. In 1948, in the USA ...

After the end of World War II, the US armed forces got a significant amount of medium-caliber and large-caliber anti-aircraft guns, small-caliber anti-aircraft guns and machine-guns ...

In the autumn of 1943, the German command ordered the development of a promising anti-aircraft self-propelled unit based on existing technology. According to this order, the industry should ...

Work is underway to create a promising optical-electronic system and other means, the appearance of which in the future will markedly increase the combat potential of man-portable air defense systems. Besides,...

In addition to the over-horizon and over-the-horizon radars, the Soviet early-warning system used a space component based on artificial earth satellites (AES) ....

Airbus Defense & Space has developed its own anti-UAV system, known as C-UAV, which combines sensor data fusion, analysis...

The Sonderkraftfahrzeug 251 medium semi-tracked armored personnel carrier was one of the main combat vehicles of the German army during the Second World War. This technique was used as intended, ...

Given the variety of possible threats and scenarios in which a person does not take a direct part, the technologies for dealing with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are increasingly interested in armed ...

A few days ago, a publication appeared on Voennoye Obozreniye in the News section, which spoke of the transfer of several S-300PS air defense missile systems to Kazakhstan. A number of site visitors were taken to ...