Sometimes tragedy is needed to make us see reality. On average, every day in America 34 people die from armed attacks - about 12 thousands per year. Killing 20 Schoolchildren in Newton ...

I completely forgot about my LJ :) I am engaged in airplanes, I also ordered a quadrocopter :) Another plant that we visited in Belarus, which deals with military equipment. 2566 repair plant ...

One summer night, we managed to get to one of the largest aviation factories in Moscow. On the territory of which we found a decommissioned workshop that produced parts under the license of MAI, for ...

Experimental, the first interceptor fighter with the LRE - liquid-jet (rocket) engine. The designers of the BI aircraft are engineers Alexander Yakovlevich Bereznyak and Alexey Mikhailovich Isaev —...

F-22 from production to service ...

Russia in the pages of National Geographic magazine, November 1914 of the year ...

Collect on roll call before the rehearsal of the parade in honor of the Republic Day in New Delhi. © Ahmad Masood / Reuters Republic Day is celebrated in India on January 26 since 1950. On this day in Delhi and in the capitals of all ...

Outside Russia, the IL-2 and IL-10 remain, oddly enough, less known than the rest of the machines of the Second World War, although it was they that were produced in large quantities than any other military aircraft ...

The origin of aviation in Russia was made possible by the initiative of sailors. It was the sailors who first saw in the aircraft an important means of increasing the power of the navy and put ...

The helicopter experimental design bureau, headed by Mikhail Leontyevich, was formed in 1947 by decision of the interdepartmental commission. The team was assigned the task team (as well as ...

Says a blogger from New York aka samsebeskazal: “I found one interesting selection of photos in the American archive. All photos were taken by Frank Vetter, an American specialist seconded to ...

New Year can be met in different ways, but certainly not all children will be delighted with the way Korean students met him on Taebudo Island near Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. These ...

Starting from the first days of the Great Patriotic War, when the majority of the male population left their homes and joined the Soviet Army, the only thread that enabled them to get at least ...

Pre-revolutionary Russia in the photos. Prisons and convicts ...

Igor V. Kurchatov was born on January 12 1903 of the year. His family lived in the city of Sim, near Ufa. His father worked as a surveyor, an assistant to a local forester. Igor had a brother Boris and ...

As soon as the German infantrymen saw his red plane above their positions, their morale was revived. For the enemies, this red plane was the herald of a quick death. After all, everyone knew that the pilot-ace ...

Pre-revolutionary Russia in the photos. Peasant life of the Volga ...

On January 30, 1945, the S-13 submarine, commanded by Alexander Marinesko, sank the German ship Wilhelm Gustlov. According to various sources, then from 4 to 8 thousand people died. Before...

It is now known for certain that during the Second World War, the Anglo-American aircraft deliberately bombed the peaceful German cities. Statistics of the consequences of "air war" leads the following ...

Press tour for bloggers in the technical zone of the Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces in the town of Balabanovo-1 ...

These photographic materials are among the remaining evidence to date that the USSR also tried to land a man on the moon - obviously, after it failed, or, more precisely, did not ...

The cause of the catastrophe at Baikonur was determined by one of its eyewitnesses. The history of world cosmonautics is a chain of triumphs and tragedies. And if we find out about victories immediately, then failures remain for decades ...

The war ended. Everyone understood this - both the generals of the Wehrmacht and their opponents. Only one person - Adolf Hitler - against all odds continued to hope for the strength of the German spirit, for the “miracle weapon”, and ...

Pre-revolutionary Russia in the photos. Don Cossacks in 1875-1876 yy ....