Margaret Burke-White was born in the Bronx in 1904 year. The father is an engineer and inventor, a Jew. Mother is a housewife, half Irish, half English, Protestant. Margaret...

Seven months after the start of the revolution in Libya and a month after the capture of Tripoli, resistance to the rebels is being offered only in two cities - Sirte and Bani Walid. On September 27, the rebels captured the port ...

The joint operational exercise "Union Shield-2011" was conducted from September 16 to September 22, 2011 under the leadership of the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces - First Deputy Minister of Defense ...

September 28 squad of journalists and bloggers at the invitation of the press service of the Ministry of Defense went to the tactical exercises in the Ryazan region. In the period from 26 to 30, September 2011, tactical exercises with ...

At the test site of 185-th center of combat training and combat use of the Air Force "Ashuluk" passed a joint Russian-Belarusian operational exercises "Union Shield-2011" Joint operational exercises "Shield ...

Since the Wright brothers have risen to the sky, many have been striving there. But, unfortunately, the sky is not always friendly to man. Here is a selection of photographs on the subject of aircraft crashes at an air show in ...

Partisan detachments almost always issued special "partisan journals" to maintain the spirit of the soldiers. I suggest you get acquainted with several copies ....

Continuing the theme of military parades that were literally recently held in Armenia, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, one should not miss the attention of the parade that took place on September 23 in Tehran - the capital of the Islamic Republic of Iran ....

Defense "Zeke" is known for its missile systems "Buk" and C-300В. About how they are collected - in our report. The Kalinin plant, known as "Zeke", this year marks 145 years already ....

LJ user abra-akbar writes: So, with the evening horse with the evening plane, I and the second blogger (twower, who else could it be!) Set off from Moscow to Grozny. We met on the plane - tickets to us ...

September 21, on the Independence Day of Armenia, on the Republic Square in Yerevan, the largest military parade in the modern history of the country took place. The parade was dedicated to the 20 anniversary of the independence of the republic ....

Livia is gradually recovering from the long months of the revolution, which claimed the lives of 30 thousands of people. The war has become an ordeal for Libyan children and teenagers, many of whom ...

8 September 2011 of the year, as part of the press tour conducted by the Ministry of Defense, a group of bloggers and journalists went to the 28-th Guards Red Banner Rocket Division in Kozelsk ....

On Thursday, exercises of tank crews of the Kaliningrad garrison were held at the Chekhovo range in the Pravdinsky district. The crews of the T-72B tanks trained in firing from the NSNT 12,7-mm machine gun ...

The practical stage of the Pacific Fleet's command and staff exercises on the landing of marines on an unequipped coast ended on September 13 near Avacha Bay near ...

When dictators are overthrown by rebel or army forces, they flee their palaces, estates, and bunkers, leaving them to the mercy of the victors. So it was with the residence of Saddam Hussein Makar-el-Tartar y ...

The boarding school for pupils of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation was created by the decision of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation A.E. Serdyukov as part of the implementation of the "Strategy of social development of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation for ...

What is the newest version of the T-90 - the cover of the booklet and one of the spreads of the booklet in Russian and English ....

Live user twower writes in his blog: An old dream come true - to go back to Chechnya again. Last time I was in it as a military in the fall of 2001, and now, almost ten years later, I came back to ...

Writing dervishv: 26 June 2011, a group of journalists and bloggers, at the invitation of the press service of the MO, visited the 200 squad of the RCBZ. From the history of chemical defense troops: the day of the establishment of the radiation troops, ...

Writes LJ-user 4044415: 344-th Center for combat use and retraining of the flight personnel of army aviation (Torzhok city, Tver region) was formed at the end of 1979 of the year. His personnel served ...

Stalingrad, 1942 g. A few photos ...

I did not take any pictures at all; I just took pictures of some of the cars on the ground. Where allowed to produce and shooting cabins from the inside. For life with the pilots to talk was not possible, so this ...

The photos were taken from the 6 press tour on September 2011 of the year before the opening of the "Russian Arms Exhibition-2011" (RЕА-2011) in Nizhny Tagil ....