Excursion to the radar station "DON-2Н"
"Our rocket can be said to fall into a fly in space." This phrase belongs to the head of the USSR N.S. Khrushchev, who voiced it to journalists, after successful tests of an experimental set of tools ...
ZRK Crotale-NG / Chun Ma
Crotal (fr. Crotale - rattlesnake) is a French all-weather short-range air defense system, which is designed to destroy air targets in the ranges of medium, small and extremely small altitudes. Can...
Unique anti-aircraft complex medium-range "Buk-2M"
It is well known that in modern military conflicts one of the main strikes is delivered against the air defense means of the attacking side's aviation. Today, the confrontation between aviation and ...
East-Kazakhstani troops build capacity - Sky-M radar
From 2012 of the year, a new Sky-M radar complex will be delivered to VKO units. The main purpose of this RLK is to track objects at high and medium altitudes. From the official report ...
The forgotten component - military air defense
Having gathered together all the available information about the armament program, orders and purchases made, the content of the state defense program, we practically will not see any proposals and solutions for ...
Perspective air defense system MEADS
The name MEADS (Medium Extended Air Defense System) hides a European ground-based air defense system. This system will be capable of hitting both aircraft and tactical missiles ...
Secret "Mozyr"
By the beginning of the 70-s, classical methods for protecting the silos (silo launchers) of intercontinental ballistic missiles from enemy attacks with the use of high-precision weapons become ...
Iran has added to the air defense division of anti-aircraft guns "Saeer".
Some days ago, quite interesting news took place on the Internet and on the far-off Iranian mass media - the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps received one of the first factory parties for service ...
Preventive “strike” on Western missile defense systems - commissioning of the Voronezh-DM radar
In response to the creation of the NATO Eurocomponent of Missile Defense, the head of the Russian Federation D. Medvedev 22.11.2011 of the year orders the immediate deployment of the Voronezh-DM radar on combat duty. Already...
French ZRK "Crotale-NG"
The Crotale-NG complex is intended for tracking short-range airspace, assessing the level of outgoing threats and making decisions with the use of its own weapons. It has ...
ZSU on the basis of tanks
The idea of installing anti-aircraft guns on a self-propelled chassis is quite old. The first self-propelled anti-aircraft guns appeared during the First World War, and already during the Second World War they ...
Highly mobile ZRAK "Centaur"
One of the main combat missions of self-propelled anti-aircraft missile systems in the conditions of a modern war is: protection against enemy air strikes against important strategic, ...
“Pechora-2M” air defense missile system - modernization success
According to the directive of the General Staff and government orders, in the middle of spring 2002, at the central test site in the Astrakhan region, the modernized air defense system was fired ...
Iron dome knocks down Palestinian moral
Palestinian terrorists are disappointed. Last August, terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip decided they had figured out a way to bypass Israel's new Iron Missile System ...
Anti-aircraft missile targets
As you know, hard to learn. And the training itself takes a lot of time and also requires some expenses. If for preparation of an infantryman-submachine gun you need only cartridges and paper targets or ...
“Buk” and “Tunguska”: perfection options
The Ulyanovsk Mechanical Plant OJSC (UMP OJSC), which is part of the Almaz-Antey Air Defense Concern, is one of the world's leading manufacturers of air defense systems for the Ground Forces of the near and medium ...
Russian Air Defense Acquires Fangs - Barnaul-T Automation Kit
In recent times, all military conflicts took place in approximately the same pattern. First, the enemy’s area was explored in order to identify the main targets for striking. Been hit with ...
C-500: will be, but when?
New domestic anti-aircraft missile systems C-400 have not yet had time to really go to the troops, as information about the beginning of work on the air defense systems of the new generation has begun to appear. By tradition, the new ...
Neighborhood Defense
Recently, cooperation between Russia and Kazakhstan is gaining momentum. Only military agreements were signed by more than eight dozen. Among them is the March strategic partnership plan between ...
Complex "Redoubt" - the pride of domestic designers
"Redoubt" is a anti-aircraft missile system having launchers of vertical launch. For the first time the information about this SAM appeared as far back as 1997. Then came the assumption that ...
Sky shield for CIS
In modern conditions of combat operations, non-contact air strikes are the most effective way to destroy enemy personnel and equipment, which was perfectly demonstrated in ...
ZRK RBS 70NG - universal weapon
The Swedish company Saab presented the next modification of the compact anti-aircraft missile system RBS 70NG. The modified anti-aircraft system is equipped with a new, automated thermal imaging ...
"Iron Dome": knowledge, and most importantly experience
Have you ever thought how to approach the problem of intercepting missiles? Joseph D., head of the missile development department of the Raphael concern, shared his view on this process with us. It's all about ...
Old air defense systems continue to maintain their effectiveness.
The recent shooting by the Russian Ministry of Defense proved the effectiveness of the use of the Osa anti-aircraft missile system manufactured by 70. Parts of the Air Defense Forces demonstrated the Osa anti-aircraft complex in ...