Centering Russia
Today (August 31) a sudden check of the combat readiness of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is completing. In total, more than 100 thousands of servicemen took part in maneuvers in various military districts ...
Black Sea Fleet is preparing and studying
On the Black Sea Fleet launched exercises to repel the attack saboteurs from the sea. According to the Ministry of Defense, about a thousand personnel will be involved in the exercises, ...
Russia is going to expand Khmeimim airbase in Syria
The Russian Federation plans to create a full-fledged military base in Syria by deploying a permanent contingent of Air and Space Forces on the territory of the country. This August 11 reported Russian ...
Rembat-2016. Great finish and future prospects
The euphoria of the first report continues. This is understandable. Participants and spectators calmed down. They began to do their work not only qualitatively, but in the way they can. So, as shown in qualifying ...
Are Tu-22M flights to Syria so costly?
Not for the night, the mentioned TV channel and the Internet resources accompanying it recently broke out with another moan on the subject of the fact that our bombers continue to fly and bomb targets in Syria. Against that background, ...
Auto racing for real men
Okay, I agree that in "Formula 1" not squabbles perform, but also with iron testicles. But where is Formula and where are we? In general, to our deepest regret and beyond the control of ...
As I was rooting for ours, or Report with a hot head
Today I "rooted" for ours. For all of ours. For the Russian national team, for the team of the Omsk Automobile and Armored Institute, for the national team of Kazakhstan, for the national team of the People's Republic of China. Yes Yes. Per...
Landing technique: what is the winged infantry of Russia armed with
About the main combat vehicles, weapons and promising samples of the Airborne Forces - in the TASS material ...
Tu-214P in coordinating the "stripping" of Aleppo and the northern borders. How many sides are needed for a Syrian theater?
For the second time in the 2016 year, a strategic optical-electronic intelligence reconnaissance and ground target designation aircraft of the Tu-214P flew off the Syrian theater of military operations on Tu-XNUMXP, about ...
Memory of modern Ikarov
When bad people under the cries of "Allah Akbar" viciously trampled on their bodies, the souls of modern Ikar were already high in the heavens. Much higher than MI-8, on which they had recently cut the clouds. And not ...
Oh sport, you are the world! To the opening of the "Army Games-2016"
Once upon a time I was present at interesting sports competitions. Something like "Dad, Mom and I are a sports family." Interesting competition. Diverse. For all organisms, so ...
About the future of the Airborne Forces
Airborne troops are rarely used today as airborne troops. Only at the exercises can you see a drop in a whole unit or even a part. And this trend originated back in ...
The Second Breath of the Black Knives
I'll start with the story. The 10-I Guards Tank Ural-Lviv Order of the October Revolution, the Red Banner, the Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov, the Marshal of the Soviet Union R. I ....
Unsinkable aircraft carrier needs water
At the July NATO summit in Warsaw in the already traditional anti-Russian tonality, among other things, they again said that the alliance would increase its presence in the Black Sea region, and Russia ...
Flying power of the Navy: what is the naval aviation of Russia armed with
100 years have passed since the first victory of Russian naval pilots during the First World War. July 17 (July 4, old style), 1916, four M-9 seaplanes from an aircraft carrier ...
Sudden inspection of missile forces in the Western Military District
22 July 2016, as part of a surprise alarm check, troops of the Western Military District were raised. The personnel of the 448 rocket brigade deployed in ...
Exercises of electronic warfare of the Western Military District
The radio electronic warfare (EW) of the Western Military District (ZVO), deployed in the Kursk region, is raised by a training alert as part of a large-scale gathering of EW task forces ...
Heroes of the war: the loss of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during the Syrian operation
On July 8, 2016, in Syria, militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation shot down an attack helicopter piloted by Russian instructor pilots. Both died ...
Color music for Rosguards
On July 3, Vladimir Putin signed a package of laws that finally fixed the creation of a new Russian law enforcement agency - the Federal Service of National Guard forces. Now, when formed ...
Question on the topic of the day: how much does Russia need helicopter pilots?
The question is not from a professional in terms of the knowledge of the world of helicopters. And it is caused by the next news about the next tragedy connected with the helicopters of our VKS. On the one hand, everything is clear. Helicopter - fighting ...
Robotics show announced at Army-2016 exhibition
In early September, the Patriot park near Moscow will become a platform for the II International Military-Technical Forum Army-2016. During this event, the enterprise of national defense ...
General with Syrian experience. The head of the military operation in Syria was appointed commander of the Southern Military District
The troops of the Southern Military District meet the new commander. On July 1 2016, the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu announced that he was appointed to the post of commander of the military district ...
The importance of strengthening the air defense of the southern regions of the Central Military District
Previously, we several times considered the composition, as well as the anti-aircraft and anti-missile potentials of the 1 of the Leningrad Red Banner Command of the Air Force and Air Defense of the Western Military District, which ...
Why is the officer meeting?
The officer was always in the center of attention and was the basis of national culture: for centuries it was equal to him, and many young men sought to take their place in this slender ...