During the years of the Great Patriotic War, the Yakovlev Design Bureau worked with extraordinary tension, which could be considered normal for such a difficult time. Enormous efforts were designed and implemented in ...
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 ...
Colonel Erich von Manstein, who during the Second World War, became famous as the commander of large armored formations, in 1935, proposed to create in the structure of the Wehrmacht ...
Sidor Artemovich Kovpak was born on June 7 of the year 1887 in the Ukrainian village of Kotelva in an ordinary peasant family. He had five brothers and four sisters. Since childhood, he helped his parents about the housework ....
Bombers SB-2 and DB-3 formed the basis of the bomber aircraft fleet of the Red Army Air Force during the first stage of the Great Patriotic War. At the same time, the SB-2 bombers managed to take part in combat ...
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 ...
In 1935, the state commission headed by A. N. Tupolev purchased Douglas DC-2 aircraft in the USA through the Amtorg Trading Corporation. After extensive testing that ...
The question of the accuracy of bombing rose sharply enough immediately after the end of the First World War. This was facilitated by the constant increase in the speed of new combat aircraft, which led to ...
Neither time nor distance save those who raised their hands on the Jewish state and its citizens. Retribution is inevitable! I must say that when a terrorist act is committed with grave ...
This aircraft, designed by Polikarpov in 1928, became one of the most famous Soviet aircraft and one of the best in the world. Y-2 has been actively exploited for over 35 years. In 1944 ...
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 ...
Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler began their political careers at about the same time, generously promising radical reforms to their voters to bring their countries out of crisis. Hitler ...
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 ...
Since time immemorial, children have been actively involved in wars and battles, helping adult men. There are many examples of this in history. In the Middle Ages, young pages and squires looked after their weapons ...
In the second half of 1937, another economic crisis began in the UK. The English economy was in a fever, the working class was on strike, and the capitalists were losing their profits in foreign markets. By...
Events near Koenigsberg can be divided into five stages, of which the assault itself was only a conclusion. Soviet troops approached East Prussia at the end of August 1944. Troops...
The Wehrmacht in the 37 year required a breakthrough tank that would have 50-mm armor and one and a half times heavier than the Pz Kpfw IV tank. The design was entrusted to the engineering company Henschel in the city ...
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 ...
Almost all readers of Military Outlook, for sure, saw the movie “Kandahar” directed by Andrei Kavun, filmed in Russia in 2010 year. This historical drama is based on real events and narrates ...
Exactly 50 years ago, 2 August 1962, the first prototype of the multipurpose Mi-8 helicopter took off for the first time. Mi-8 (according to the NATO Hip classification) - Soviet and Russian multipurpose ...
Yak-28 is a Soviet multipurpose jet combat aircraft, which was produced in various versions. The most common were modifications of the front bomber (according to the classification ...