The newest anti-aircraft missile system C-500 will be an effective response to the approach of the US missile defense system to the borders of Russia. Do you know how promising interspecific anti-aircraft missile will look like ...

Currently in the United States, as well as other foreign countries, work is underway to create new air defense systems that are designed to combat a wide range of air targets - ...

At 2014, the start of trials of the lead frigate of the 22350 project “Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov” is scheduled. This ship is equipped with powerful rocket and artillery weapons of various ...

The creation of the Nike-Hercules anti-aircraft missile system MIM-14 began in 1953. At this time, the deployment of the Nike-Ajax MIM-3 air defense system was just beginning, but the US military, acting on ...

Missiles, artillery and mortar threats cause great concern in theaters of operations, providing effective protection against them has become an urgent operational need in Afghanistan ....

The rapid development of weapons and military equipment, which began after the Second World War, led to the emergence of a mass of new classes of weapons. However, anti-aircraft grenade launchers were quickly announced ...

In 1960, the new US anti-aircraft missile system MIM-23 HAWK was adopted by the US Army. The operation of these systems in the American armed forces continued until the beginning of the two thousandth, when ...

February 14 held a regular meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense. During the event, the heads of the military department discussed several topical issues and current projects. Among other topics ...

Seeing the recent successes of the leading countries in the field of self-propelled anti-aircraft installations (ZSU), the Republic of South Africa in the eighties began to develop its own project of such a system ....

The construction and deliveries to the troops of the Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft missile-gun complex (ZRPK) are continuing. To date, the armed forces have received several dozen such complexes, except ...

The emergence of jet aircraft significantly reduced the effectiveness of anti-aircraft artillery, even using radar guns. Shut off all airspace around ...

In October of this year, two 70-meter balloons will appear in the sky of the American state of Maryland. They will be at an altitude of about 3 kilometers and monitor the environment ....

By the end of the First World War, aviation already represented a serious threat to warships. To protect against the enemy's air, several Russian ...

In the State Armaments Program currently being implemented, great importance is attached to air defense assets. Until 2020, the troops of the aerospace defense and air defense of the ground ...

At the KO meeting at SNK of the USSR, held in April 1941 of the year, Marshal Kulik GI was discussing plans for the production of T-50 for this year initiated a discussion on the issue of other machines based on ...

The traditional development of anti-aircraft systems in recent years, more and more focused on advanced and expensive missiles, respectively, but in this article we will look at how the potential ...

From the very beginning of the Second World War, the German command attached great importance to the air defense of troops on the marches and directly on the battlefield. At first it was used mainly for this ...

The world experience in the field of international military conflicts of the last decade shows that in all cases the attacker relied on the use of funds to achieve their goals ...

2013 is nearing the end of the year, and defense enterprises are summing up their work. It should be noted that some organizations and enterprises managed to complete the annual ...

The Tunguska-M1 anti-aircraft gun and missile system (ZPRK) was designed in the second half of the 1990-ies and was adopted by the Russian army in the 2003 year. The lead developer ZPRK ...

To date, one of the most effective means of defense of the operational-tactical and tactical level remain the Russian air defense systems of the near and medium range. We are talking about air defense complexes ...

December, 2 December, the latest radar station 29B6 "Container" has put in on test combat duty. This station is designed to detect and determine the coordinates ...

In the forties of the last century, the Swiss company Oerlikon became the world's leading manufacturer of anti-aircraft artillery systems. In the mid-forties, shortly after the appearance of the first ...

The missile attack warning system (SPRN) refers to the strategic defense along with the systems of anti-missile defense, control of outer space and anti-space defense. AT...