Two years to the troops of the East Kazakhstan region
1 December 2011, the first shift of the new branch of the military, took up combat duty. The composition of the aerospace defense forces (WKO) included the space forces and the operational-strategic command ...
Post-war Soviet anti-aircraft artillery. Part 2
In the USSR, despite numerous design work in the prewar and wartime, anti-aircraft guns with a caliber larger than 85-mm were not created. Increasing the speed and altitude of the flight created by ...
Post-war Soviet anti-aircraft artillery. Part 1
Soviet anti-aircraft artillery played a very important role in the Great Patriotic War. According to official data, 21 645 was shot down by ground ground defense weapons of the ground forces during combat operations ...
LAW Pechora-2M: the second life of the C-125
When the C-125 air defense system was adopted by the Soviet army, hardly anyone could have imagined that even after more than 50 years this air defense system would still be of interest and remain in ...
Soviet post-war anti-aircraft machine gun installations
In the postwar years, the Soviet Union continued to improve the means of fighting the air enemy. Before the mass adoption of anti-aircraft missile systems, this task was assigned ...
Israel conducted the second tests of the missile defense complex "Sharvit Ksamim"
The Reuters publication reports on another test of the new Israeli missile defense system. A big problem for the Israeli army are rockets made by handicrafts in ...
Armenia and Kazakhstan will join the united air defense system of the CIS
On Wednesday, in the St. George Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace, a ceremony was held for the presentation of officers appointed to higher positions and received the highest ranks. New ranks and positions ...
Announced the creation of a new air defense system family "Thor"
In August, at the international aerospace show MAKS-2013, the Tactical Missile Armament Corporation presented its new development. At one of the stands of the corporation there was a mock-up of a rocket ...
Belarus will receive the Russian C-300
October 29 held a regular joint meeting of the Board of the Ministries of Defense of Russia and Belarus. One of the results of this event were the statements of the head of the Russian military department ....
Israel’s missile defense system: expensive but not effective
Israel’s missile defense will “choke” when repelling missile strikes and collapse at a crucial moment. The reasons for such a “final” were named by an Israeli expert in the field of missile defense systems, Dr. Nathan Faber ....
South Africa began testing the land version of the Umkhonto air defense system
According to the publication Jane's Defense Weekly, in the first days of October, the South African company Denel Dynamics (a division of the Denel concern) conducted a test of its new development - the land version ...
Turkish tender T-LORAMIDS: announcement of the winner and possible consequences
26 September Turkey announced the completion of the tender T-LORAMIDS (Turkish Long Range Air And Missile Defense System), which lasted several years. After a long ...
Turkey has tested the new Hisar-A SAM
A few days ago, the Turkish Defense Ministry announced the first tests of a new anti-aircraft missile system. At the Tuz test site, employees of Roketsan and Aselsan companies conducted a test ...
ZSU-37-2 "Yenisei". Not a "Shilka" single
The absence of ZSU in the air defense of the troops, one of the saddest moments in the history of the Red Army. After the end of the Second World War in the USSR, the correction of errors was taken seriously. The most famous ZSU in the world was the Soviet ZSU-23-4 ...
Combat use of C-75 anti-aircraft missile system
The creation of the C-75 anti-aircraft missile system began on the basis of the Decree of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 2838 / 1201 dated 20 in November 1953 "On the creation of a mobile anti-aircraft ...
FLAADS anti-aircraft missile systems
On September 10, British Defense Minister F. Hammond announced the signing of a contract for the supply of anti-aircraft missile systems to the naval forces during the DSEI-2013 exhibition of weapons and military equipment ...
English development for Finland. ZSU Marksman
The active use of front-line attack aviation, including the growing role of combat helicopters, led to the fact that already in the early sixties, projects began to appear in the leading countries of the world ...
Perspective anti-aircraft missile system 50Р6 "Vityaz" of the C-350 system at the MAKS-2013 air show
From 27 August to 1 of September this year, the next International Aviation and Space Salon takes place on the territory of the JSC “Transport and Exhibition Complex" Russia "(Zhukovsky, Moscow Region) ...
Counterbattery radar "Zoo-1"
"Zoo-1" (index GRAU 1Л219М) - radar reconnaissance and fire control (counter-battery radar). The radar complex is designed for reconnaissance of the firing positions of enemy artillery weapons ...
Rocket-artillery "Zushka": modernization of ZU-23
In the late fifties of the last century, an anti-aircraft gun ZU-23 was created, which received the nickname “Zushka” among the troops. At that time, the rate of fire at the level of 2 thousand shots per minute, the power of 23-mm ...
Two news from the concern "Almaz-Antey"
The international aerospace salon MAKS-2013, which began on Tuesday, became a convenient platform for demonstrating the latest developments. At the same time, according to the traditions of this event, the expositions ...
European SAM SAM-T
The SAMP-T anti-aircraft missile system is designed to provide air defense of troops and mechanized formations on the march, as well as provide anti-aircraft cover ...
The construction of the Voronezh radar family continues
Recent weeks have been rich in news regarding the Russian missile attack warning system. With a difference of several days, several important events occurred. First it became ...
Who will protect our sky
Back in the 70 of the twentieth century in the USSR and the United States were created systems of rocket and space defense (RKO), designed to detect the launch of intercontinental ballistic missiles, as well as their ...