Assessment of the capabilities of anti-aircraft weapons in active counteraction to small-sized UAVs
We will conduct a brief assessment of the capabilities of anti-aircraft weapons to actively counter small-sized UAVs. As defined above, intelligence assets that should be provided by anti-aircraft complexes ...
Super-protected Syrian "Shilka" became a curse for militants
Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" was used in many armed conflicts. It has demonstrated high performance in Vietnam, the Middle East, Africa, ...
American CIM-10 "Bomark" anti-aircraft missile system of extra long range
The US monopoly on nuclear weapons ended on August 29, 1949 after a successful test of a stationary nuclear explosive device at a test site in the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan. Simultaneously...
Lazy Guard
The strength of the air defense and air defense systems is in the awareness and coherence of actions At the military history conference held at the Academy of Air Traffic Control in Tver, devoted to the centenary of the Air Defense Forces ...
China's air defense system. Part 2
At the end of the 80s, after a long political and ideological confrontation, which sometimes turned into local armed clashes, relations between the USSR and the PRC normalized. The first ...
China's air defense system. Part 1
The construction of a centralized air defense system in the PRC began in the middle of the 50s of the last century, simultaneously with the beginning of mass deliveries from the USSR of jet fighters, radar stations, ...
Modernization of the Russian missile defense system will affect the famous A-135 system.
Russia is actively working to create an analogue of the American missile defense system. And this is evidenced not only by the statement of the representative of the Almaz-Antey concern, the leading Russian developer of air defense, but ...
Anti missile umbrella
Russia is creating its own missile defense system. But the Russian army is not going to get involved in the “anti-missile race” in the near future will receive domestic counterparts of the American ...
Arms Race: Russia moves to symmetrical answers
At a conference dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Russian air defense, General Designer of the Almaz Antey Air Defense Concern Pavel Sozinov said that Russia is developing analogues of American anti-missile systems ...
Suppliers dance capoeira
Will the Pantsir stand up to the European rocket? The developer and manufacturer of guided missile weapons company MBDA intends to hinder Brazil’s plans to acquire Russian anti-aircraft ...
Saab Group and Ashok Leyland have teamed up to offer the BAMSE anti-aircraft missile system for the Indian SRSAM program.
It is no coincidence that the BAMSE SRSAM missile system from Saab was shown at the Defexpo 2014 exhibition in February of this year. The Swedish defense company SAAB Group and the Indian auto giant Ashok Leyland ...
Voronezh closes the ring
The commander of the aerospace defense forces (WKO), Lieutenant General Alexander Golovko announced on Monday that two new radar stations located in Kaliningrad and Irkutsk ...
One hundred years on the protection of the sky of Russia
In December, the 2014 of the year marks the 100 anniversary of the formation of the country's Air Defense Forces - the anniversary, of course, of epoch-making significance. Everything that was done by the state for the high technical equipment of the troops was ...
Sky Dragon 50 anti-aircraft missile system (China)
Since 2012, the Chinese corporation NORINCO has been showing the new Sky Dragon 50 anti-aircraft missile system at various exhibitions. This complex is designed to protect important objects from impacts with ...
Invulnerable "Shell"
The anti-aircraft missile-gun complex (ZRPK) "C-1 Carapace" is called the pride of the Instrument Engineering Design Bureau, which is part of the High-Precision Systems holding. This is a unique Tula development, ...
Project of self-propelled anti-aircraft installation Oerlikon Escorter 35 (Switzerland)
By the early eighties, the Oerlikon GDF-001, a Swiss-developed anti-aircraft artillery mount, became widely spread. System with two automatic guns caliber 35 ...
C-400 knocks down any stealth
This material is a continuation of the article on stealth aircraft "Knights of the Night Sky. From F-117 to F-35." A lot is known about "black planes". Much less is known about the means ...
Buk-MB anti-aircraft missile system (Belarus)
Anti-aircraft missile system 9C37 "Buk" was adopted in the late seventies, and since then has been repeatedly upgraded. A number of successful solutions that underlie the Buk project provided ...
News about the development of troops of East Kazakhstan region
The state program of armaments continues to be implemented, during which a large number of new armaments and equipment will be supplied to the troops before 2020. 13 September new information about ...
Japanese anti-aircraft defense during the Second World War. Part 2
By the beginning of World War II, these guns had mostly moved from the decks of Japanese warships to the coast. Cannons Type 3 were actively used in the defense of the islands. And while in theory they ...
Japanese anti-aircraft defense during the Second World War. Part 1
By the beginning of World War II, the Japanese armed forces were armed with several types of anti-aircraft machine guns, which differed structurally and used ammunition. In the air defense fleet ...
Anti-missile champions
Who Shot Down Planes and How Attempts to create anti-aircraft missiles were made during the Second World War, but at that moment not a single country had reached the appropriate technological level. Even war ...
Sky Shield of Central Russia
The 60 anniversary of the Lenin Order of the Moscow District of 20 August Defense 2014 marks the 60 anniversary of the Moscow District Air Defense, the successor and heir of whose military glory is ...
Project of anti-aircraft self-propelled SU-8
With the advent of combat aviation, the troops began to need anti-aircraft cover. The development of armored vehicles and the corresponding changes in tactics forced engineers around the world to begin work on ...