Once a year, at the end of August, in the military-technical museum in Leshany, they bring their exhibits - tanks, and release them to the training ground. This is called "Tank Day". Thousands of people from all over the Czech Republic ...

Army aviation pilots in the Leningrad Region have worked against the sabotage groups of the conditional enemy. The crews of the Mi-24 and Mi-8 operated both singly and in groups - up to 10 pairs of helicopters ...

The Samum and Bora missile hovercraft, which are part of the 41st brigade of missile boats of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, are considered one of the most extreme and in some ...

Object 221 is another ghost of the Cold War, another "Crimean military wonder of the world", striking in its scale and today’s uselessness. Object 221 (other names -...

The Turkish-Kurdish conflict has lasted for more than a quarter of a century. Serious armed clashes between the Turkish army and the fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, formed by 27 November 1978, began in ...

The Trans-Baikal Territory in Siberia and the Far East has long been one of the supporting regions of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, and later Russia. In recent years, in connection with the reform of the military sphere, he ...

Since November 10, the 2011th Special Purpose Brigade (Molkino, Krasnodar Territory) has been operating two Lynx armored vehicles. Impressions of this car from the military ...

In the city of Znamensk, in the territory of one of the parts, there is a museum of cosmonautics. We will go there ....

I recently discovered that because of the recent major events of the TVM-2012 and 100 years of the Air Force, I completely forgot to publish a report on the annual competitions among special units of Russia and Belarus on ...

Japan conducts military exercises in combat shooting at Mount Fuji ....

I have already become a good tradition to visit factories associated with aircraft industry every summer. This time I quietly walked around the company named after one of the largest aviation ...

On August 7 I was at the Center for Combat Use and Retraining of Flight Personnel of Long-Range Aviation located in Dyagilevo (Ryazan Region). The place of bloggers is already tightly turned around, so it was not driving for ...

At the exhibition "Technologies in Mechanical Engineering-2012" was demonstrated the first prototype of the service-combat reconnaissance vehicle SBRM, developed by NPO Strela by order of ...

Virginia-class submarines are the newest, technologically the most advanced submarines of the United States Navy. The first "Virginia" went out to sea just eight years ago, during which time it was built ...

Everyone knows about dogs in the war, but it was not without cats. For the first time, cats participated in hostilities two and a half thousand years ago, during the Persian war with the ancient Egyptians. In ancient ...

Here are collected 100 color photos of America of the forties of the last century, made by various authors. Basically there are 4x5 Kodachrome footage shot, but there are footage from 35-mm technology. The main ...

We bring to your attention the second part of a selection of color photographs of America's 100 from the 1940s of the last century, made by various authors. Most of the shots are 4x5 Kodachrome, but there are ...

A selection of the most picturesque sea fortresses of the world. A unique sight! ...

The Great Patriotic War (WWII), a photo compilation ...

The special forces of China is one of the main components of China’s rapid reaction forces that must wage war in conditions of limited regional conflict and the use of the latest military ...

The name of Sergei Larenkov - quite an ordinary resident of St. Petersburg - has recently become widely known after his unique photo-design project “The Invisible Leningrad”. He imagines...

378-I aviation base is a relatively young formation, created a year and a half ago by the merger of two military units. I present to you the historical background of one of the parts that have become ...

Light aircraft carrier "Vikramaditya" (Sk.) Is intended to replace the aircraft carrier "Vikrant" that has exhausted its service life. This ship after completion should be the flagship of the Indian Navy. The...

Here it is - the main caliber of the Land of the Soviets. We knew about him only from the stories of grandfathers and fathers, as well as from panic reports of the German OKH. And finally, everyone can be sure - this is not a legend. It and ...