Attempt to create anti-aircraft tanks during the Great Patriotic War
In the Second World War, the emergence of new combat vehicles in aircraft — dive-bombers, cannonballs with armor-piercing shells, missiles — became too dangerous for ...
Double barrel on tracks: anti-aircraft tank T-90
From the first days of the Great Patriotic War, our ground forces fully felt the impact of the two main attack components of the German Wehrmacht - aviation and tanks. And faced with the obvious ...
Modern Indian SAM "Akash"
The complex was developed by the Indian state organization of defense research and development "DRDO". In addition to air defense units, the air defense system "Akash" will also be supplied to the Indian Air Force units as an air defense system ...
From "Smile" will be brighter all ... RPMK-1 "Smile"
RPMK-1 “Smile” is a new radio direction-finding mobile complex for meteorological purposes, which performs humidity, wind sounding and temperature sounding to transmit the received ...
Green Mace: 127 mm Puzzle
The aviation technique that appeared at the end of the Second World War left no doubt about one simple fact: the existing anti-aircraft weapons were already outdated. In the near future, all available ...
Positive and negative in the life of the Russian ESPN
On the first of June of this year, the Russian Aerospace Defense Forces will mark the first “anniversary” - they will be six months old. There are only two weeks left until the date and we already know what will be ...
Replacing the Flames: German anti-aircraft missile projects. Part II
The Wasserfall and Hs-117 Schmetterling projects of anti-aircraft guided missiles described in the first part of the article had one characteristic flaw. They were created, as they say, with a reserve for the future and ...
British rapier: Rapier-2000 SAM
Ten to fifteen years after the adoption of the Rapier anti-aircraft missile system by the British military, it became clear that we needed to take care of the creation of a new air defense system ...
Starstreak: air defense for the London Olympics
27 July this year in London will host the opening ceremony of the XXX Summer Olympic Games. This event, as well as the rest of the Olympiad, is an extremely important event, ...
The airship opened new opportunities for the American missile defense system
During the first tests conducted on the territory of the Utah test site for the first time, the Patriot PAC-3 anti-aircraft missile system with the help of the JLENS dirigible was able to successfully intercept a cruise missile ...
Updated Pechora for Venezuela
It would seem, on what can military technology, whose age has recently passed for fifty years, can count? Probably no matter what. However, sometimes the designers of the past years managed to do this ...
United States missile defense programs and their implementation
The United States continues to gradually deploy missile defense. A Pentagon report entitled "Missile Defense", reflecting an updated military-technical policy in this area, showed ...
Ukrainian "Mail"
The active use of stealth technology in the construction of military equipment comes down to one thing - reducing the radio-visibility of our own military equipment. But the old as the world saying “for every sword, there will be ...
"Satchel" against missiles
Modern war can rightly be called the war of electronics. Over the past few years, this industry has reached such results that it is becoming increasingly frequent to call for a complete withdrawal ...
Make a missile defense system of air defense: "Triumph" against "Anthea-2500"
At one time, the newly emerged aviation made so much noise that some hotheads even offered to simplify all the other branches of the military as superfluous. However, time has shown that these thoughts ...
Belarusian trace in Iranian events
Over time, the story of the American drone intercepted by the Iranians was somehow forgotten. Perhaps the audience of this news was intercepted by more recent events, and perhaps the matter is in extreme scarcity ...
The new air defense system "Vityaz" is preparing to get into operation
Not so long ago in Russia there have been positive changes in the creation of a promising air defense complex of medium-sized "Vityaz" action. This air defense system should replace the C-300P, C-300PS and ...
Past and Future of Darial
Russia wants to extend the lease term of the Daryal radar to 2025. Radial "Daryal", also known as a separate radio node of the space forces of the Russian Federation, Gabala-2, RO-7, object 754, was built in 1985 ...
Monolith-B - coastal reconnaissance complex of air and surface situation
The complex is intended for over-the-horizon detection of air and surface objects and tracking of detected objects. To do this, use their own funds active-passive ...
ZSU "Ostwind"
The 1943 Summer Company of the Year was a major turning point in the entire Second World War. The collapse of the plans of the Nazis on the Kursk Bulge, the surrender of the colonial corps in Africa, the stormy onslaught of the Allied forces on ...
Submarine armament replenished with anti-aircraft missiles
The German company Diehl Defense presents a unique IDAS anti-aircraft missile system, with which submarines will be able to hit air targets while under water. The unique IDAS system ...
Air defense and air force armament - 64L6 mobile radar "Gamma-С1"
64Л6 "Gamma C1" is 3-x coordinate, centimeter range of the radar of the review type. This radar was built to replace the range-altimeter complex with a radar P-37, and ...
Royal Navy frigates will receive an MBDA Sea Ceptor air defense system
A leading developer and manufacturer of missile systems, MBDA Corporation reported that it won the contract of the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom FLAADS (future local air defense systems) ....
Rocket artillery "sword"
Soon after adopting the “Dirk” anti-aircraft missile and artillery complex (ZRAK), developed in the Tula KBP and designed for self-defense of ships, work on the subject of ...