Indo-Defense-2012 Show in Jakarta

Indo-Defense-2012 Show in Jakarta

An international exhibition of military equipment and weapons, Indo-Defense-2012, opened in Jakarta. A few photos for a start ....
SAM S-400 "Triumph"

SAM S-400 "Triumph"

I was lucky to visit one of the air defense units near Moscow, armed with the famous Russian anti-aircraft missile system S-400 Triumph S-400 Triumph (by ...
Rostov Museum of law enforcement history

Rostov Museum of law enforcement history

For several years in a row, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Rostov Region, on the eve of its professional holiday, has been organizing the Open Day at the Museum of the History of Law Enforcement Agencies of the Don ....
Production of the MiG-29 in Moscow

Production of the MiG-29 in Moscow

The MiG Russian Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation invited media representatives to meet with the leadership. During the event, for the first time the production of new aircraft was demonstrated to journalists ...
Mansella Sea Forts

Mansella Sea Forts

At the height of World War II, the port of London was the busiest in the world. The German Navy considered the Thames to be an important route and in every way tried to inflict damage on the British with the help of a new secret weapon ...
Soviet-Polish territorial confrontation

Soviet-Polish territorial confrontation

For many centuries, relations between Russia and Poland have been tense, and there are many reasons for this. One of the most important reasons for mutual discontent has always been in line with the territorial claims of each ...
Spotting target

Spotting target

On October 11, the tank commander Alexander Roshka and I visited the training center of the special forces unit "Mercury" [p. Zhornovka of the Smolensk region] on the qualification test ...
Myths of Ukrainian history

Myths of Ukrainian history

14 August 2012, in Kiev, was a presentation of a series called “500 seconds of truth about Ukraine,” in which the authors tried to debunk the current official interpretation ...
Interpolitech-2012 - First Photos

Interpolitech-2012 - First Photos

This year Interpolitex is taking place from 23 to October 26 at the All-Russia Exhibition Center, and also the October demonstration show in Krasnoarmeisk. I will go to the rehearsal for the October 27 show. VVC exhibition entirely ...
In a battle with God's name on the lips ...

In a battle with God's name on the lips ...

Surprisingly, it was not the Soviet party leadership that officially announced the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, but ... the clergyman, none other than the Patriarchal locum tenens of the Russian ...
IL-76MD-90A (product 476)

IL-76MD-90A (product 476)

IL-76MD-90А (product 476) - a new word in the Russian transport aircraft. Despite the fact that IL-76 has long been known around the world, it is the first aircraft of this type, assembled on the territory ...
KK Rokossovsky - Soviet-era Bagration

KK Rokossovsky - Soviet-era Bagration

Mysterious at first glance discrepancies are connected with Rokossovsky's birthplace. In Soviet historiography, the place of Rokossovsky's birth is the city of Velikie Luki and the source of this information ...
Exhibition Weapons and Hunting 2012 - part of 1

Exhibition Weapons and Hunting 2012 - part of 1

In Moscow, from 11 to 14 in October, the next International Exhibition of Weapons and Hunting 2012 was held in the Gostinny Dvor. The main theme of the exhibition is hunting and sporting weapons, self-defense weapons, ...
Battalion tactical exercises in Kamenka

Battalion tactical exercises in Kamenka

In the course of tactical exercises with live firing, the military personnel of the Western Military District worked out the issues of conducting modern combined arms combat using modern combat systems, ...
Feat border guards in Afghanistan

Feat border guards in Afghanistan

On the southern borders of the large Russian Empire, it has been restless since Central Asia became part of the Russian state. And this was due to the fact that the territories inhabited by wild ...