New technology for Strategic Rocket Forces
In the current state armament program, a special place is reserved for the renewal of strategic rocket forces (RVSN). As follows from the open information, before the 2020 year it is planned to establish a serial ...
Strategic Missile Forces continue to be replenished with equipment for covering up traces
Next year, the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN) will receive a new batch of special equipment - engineering and masking machines (MIOM). These machines are capable of ...
The history of creating one of the country's first high-precision weapons systems
The defeat of the Iraqi forces in January 1991 by the allies was achieved mainly due to their use of the latest types of weapons, and above all high-precision weapons (WTO). It was also concluded that by ...
Created to leave - self-propelled missile system RK-55 with KRBD KS-122 "Relief"
The main mission of the RK “Relief” is the solution of operational and strategic tasks for hitting continental targets according to previously known coordinates. He ensured the fulfillment of the tasks set in ...
Perspective ICBM: appearance and timing
The last two months have been rich in news about the development of domestic ballistic missiles. At the very beginning of September, it became known that by the 2018 year, the Russian strategic rocket forces ...
65 years ago in the USSR, the first launch of a ballistic missile
13 May 1946 of the Year saw the light of the decision of the Council of Ministers on the development of jet weapons in the USSR. According to this decree, scientific research institutes and design offices for rocket technology were formed in the country, and ...
US missile defense and nuclear deterrence
According to popular opinion, the Third World War has not yet begun due to the presence of nuclear weapons by the leading countries of the world. The conflict of such powers can grow into a full-scale nuclear ...
Strategic universal КР 3М25 Thunder - Meteorit Complex
The rocket is made according to the aerodynamic scheme of the "duck" type with a triangular folding wing, as well as a folding lower tail. The air intake of the engine is made under the fuselage. The rocket installed ...
Russia is preparing a weighty argument against the US missile defense
After 6 years in service, the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia must receive a new heavy intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that will be able to overcome the American missile defense system. About this at the beginning ...
Rocket complex Club-K. Criticism and perspectives
... the battle was inevitable. In 17: 28, the signalmen lowered the Dutch flag, and a cloth with a swastika hoisted on the gaff - at the same time, the Cormoran raider (German cormorant) fired a volley from his six-inch rifle ...
GNOM - A mobile complex with an intercontinental ballistic missile
The Soviet intercontinental three-stage ballistic missile "Gnome" was a unique development of the 60s of the last century, but to this day it is the most ...
The beginning of the tests of the Club-K missile system
A few years ago, the media around the world spread the news about the achievement of the Russian defense industry: at the LIMA-2009 showroom in Malaysia, the missile system was announced ...
Half a century of the Elbrus 9K72 rocket complex
In March, the 1962 of the year the Soviet Army adopted the tactical missile system 9K72 Elbrus. Over the past half century since the complex, which received the NATO designation SS-1C ...
Development of nuclear forces
The seventh decade that has passed since the invention of a nuclear weapon ends. Over time, from a promising means of destruction, it turned into a full-fledged policy tool and, according to ...
The rocket R-7, which opened the way to space for a man, celebrates the 55 anniversary
21 August 1957 of the year from the Baikonur cosmodrome located in the Kazakh steppes a successful launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile P-7 was performed. The rocket successfully crossed a given route, and its ...
Indian ballistic "Gods of Fire"
Currently, only five countries in the world have intercontinental ballistic missiles. These are Russia, Great Britain, China, the USA and France. A few more countries have intentions ...
23 July 1985 for the first time was launched on combat duty by a mobile soil missile system "Topol"
In February 1983, the famous Topol PGRK passed its first tests. The first test flight of the rocket was carried out at the Plesetsk cosmodrome on February 8, 1983. The first launches were ...
Missile defense New modification Standart Missile-3
The United States continues to build its strategic missile defense system. This time, the latest news concerns the testing of its new element - the updated Standart rocket ...
Pakistan Missile Threat
At the beginning of June-month, Pakistan conducted a regular test-launch of the Hatf VII Babur guided missile. Moreover, this launch was far from the first this year. Pakistan in recent years ...
Little-known moments in the history of the creation of OTP-21 “Point” - unrealized tactical complexes Hawk / Point with B-612 / B-614 missiles
The first complex, which gave rise to all of history, was the “Hawk” complex with a radio engineering guidance system, the project of which was developed by the year 1963. As a base was used ...
Cyclone-4 peace-grandson of ICBM R-36orb (SS-9 Mod 3 Scarp)
Since 1962, the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau began the development of the R-36orb ICBM (the R-36 strategic missile system with the 8K69 orbital missile). This rocket could carry a comparatively light ...
Start of a new Russian ICBM as a response to the EuroMD strategy
The Russian military has successfully launched a completely new prototype ICBM from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. The second launch of the new modification of the Yars and Topol missiles was successful, which ...
Made in Ukraine - the project of a rocket multifunctional complex of the modular type "Sapsan"
In 2011, the military department of Ukraine announced that the military budget allows it to purchase 10 units of Oplot national tanks, upgrade 24 tanks to Bulat level, ...
"Aegis" as the main element of missile defense
Barack Obama ordered to save money. The military replied "yes!" and began to draw up an estimate for 2013, taking into account the wishes of the president. We have already saved about $ XNUMX billion (relatively ...