Polygon

Polygon

Last Thursday, at the Clerk training ground, the 155 planned exercises of a separate brigade of the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps were held. Also in the exercises took fighters PDSS. Press Service of the Pacific Fleet again went to the meeting of the Internet ...
The famous "Three-inch"

The famous "Three-inch"

The word "three-inch" we understand not only the gun arr. 1900 g. And arr. 1902, but the latter was in fact a deep modernization arr. 1900 and then, in turn, passed another one ...
152-mm self-propelled howitzer 2S19 "Msta-S"

152-mm self-propelled howitzer 2S19 "Msta-S"

At the beginning of the 80, the GraU issued to the headed L.I. Gorlitsky KB Ural Transport Engineering Plant (UZTM) in Sverdlovsk new requirements for self-propelled howitzer caliber 152 mm to replace in ...
Geniuses from test tubes

Geniuses from test tubes

For many hundreds of years, humanity has been concerned with the question of genius, as well as whether it is possible to get a genius by artificial means. In the 20th century, and now in the 21st century, scientists continue to work on this ...
Zoltan Dani - the winner of the stealth aircraft

Zoltan Dani - the winner of the stealth aircraft

On March 24, 1999, the NATO military operation against Yugoslavia began. The bombing of the country continued for 78 days and ended with the Yugoslav army leaving the territory of Kosovo, which ...
Mihail Leontievich Mil

Mihail Leontievich Mil

Mikhail Leontievich Mil was born 22 in November 1909 in Irkutsk in a family of intellectuals. His father, Leonty Samoilovich, was a railway employee, and his mother, Maria Efimovna, was a dentist. The future designer with ...
Spetsnaz FSB "Vympel": no margin for error

Spetsnaz FSB "Vympel": no margin for error

They, as always, hide under black masks, without naming their names, receive military awards behind a closed door, and for most of them their service is a big secret at all. But now more ...
Russian Knights in Malaysia

Russian Knights in Malaysia

After the LIMA air show on the island of Langkawi, there are many photos left that cannot be accommodated in one post. First, a photo reportage about our beauties - the aerobatic team "Russian Knights", who yesterday ...
Exercises of missile and artillery units in Primorsky Krai

Exercises of missile and artillery units in Primorsky Krai

With the support of aviation, rocket men and artillerymen, as well as infantry units, carried out combat missions to repel conventional enemy attacks. This time, a very important mission was entrusted to me and ...
The unearthly beauty of the "Alligator"

The unearthly beauty of the "Alligator"

As stated by the Air Force Command, as part of the state defense order program up to 2012, army aircraft will receive about 30 Ka-52 "Alligator". The first four serial boards arrived in ...
Storm fire on squares

Storm fire on squares

Patriotic rocket artillery recently celebrated a kind of anniversary: ​​50 years ago - March March 28, by a joint Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers No. 1963 / 372, on ...
Combat power of militant DPRK in photos

Combat power of militant DPRK in photos

The Korea Central Telegraph Agency issued images of military exercises, training of soldiers and of course Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un checking and inspiring troops. UN Security Council ...
Test Pilot Fedorov Ivan Evgrafovich

Test Pilot Fedorov Ivan Evgrafovich

Almost seven decades have been turned off and turned off since the end of the military catastrophe, for a long time plunging almost the whole world into the abyss of incredible disasters, sufferings and torments. In the official history remained ...
LIMA-2013: maritime component

LIMA-2013: maritime component

We were able to see the ships from the boat, which took us on a tour of the islands on Saturday morning. I asked our captain to go closer to the ships and that’s what came out of it. A couple ...
Anna Revelskaya - Russian Mata Hari

Anna Revelskaya - Russian Mata Hari

The role of women in intelligence activities is often shrouded in gloom, many of them fading into the past forever, leaving almost no traces about themselves. So it happened with the Russian intelligence officer of the times ...
Era Alexander Raspletin

Era Alexander Raspletin

At the beginning of the 90-s, many previously classified models of domestic military equipment became indispensable participants in international exhibitions and showrooms. The great interest of foreign experts has caused ...
LIMA-2013. Fourth day and fifth

LIMA-2013. Fourth day and fifth

A few cards from this morning. I drove to the exhibition especially for the morning flights for a couple of hours. Knights in the morning did not work, and after lunch we went on a tour of the mangroves ...
Victor Dubynin. Save at all costs

Victor Dubynin. Save at all costs

It is unlikely that anyone will dispute the fact that the Afghan war is one of the most tragic pages of the Russian history of the Soviet period. For the first time after World War II, the USSR got involved in ...
The mythical "Thirst" of Grigory Pozhenyan

The mythical "Thirst" of Grigory Pozhenyan

One of the heroic pages of the Great Patriotic War can be called the defense of Odessa. The city, although it was not an important strategic point (there were no key military enterprises and the port ...
LIMA-2013. Third day

LIMA-2013. Third day

Today I took some flights. At last MiGs-29 Smoke bandits flew off, but I wondered about the most beautiful moment .... yawning. In general, the conditions for shooting planes in the air were not so hot - in the morning it was ...
Soviet military orbital station

Soviet military orbital station

Many have heard of the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), better known as the Star Wars program, which got its name from the famous science fiction film George Lucas ....
LIMA-2013. Second day

LIMA-2013. Second day

The second day of the air show went smoothly, except for the fact that MiG-29 of the Malaysian Air Force Smoke Bandits did not perform again. I apologize for the short signatures, if you make a post in full, on this ...