OJSC "Tupolev"

OJSC "Tupolev"

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 ...
Partisan General Sidor Artemyevich Kovpak

Partisan General Sidor Artemyevich Kovpak

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 ....
About long-range aviation

About long-range aviation

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 ...
Mossad

Mossad

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 ...
Service and combat reconnaissance vehicle SBRM

Service and combat reconnaissance vehicle SBRM

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 ...
Hitler's plans for the United States

Hitler's plans for the United States

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 ...
Photo report from the board of the Virginia type PLA

Photo report from the board of the Virginia type PLA

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 ...
Children of the First World War

Children of the First World War

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 ...
France and England on the eve of World War II

France and England on the eve of World War II

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...
The fall of the bastion of the German spirit

The fall of the bastion of the German spirit

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...
Cats at war

Cats at war

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 ...
USA Forties (Part 1)

USA Forties (Part 1)

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 ...
USA Forties (Part 2)

USA Forties (Part 2)

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 ...
Afghan captive of a Russian transport crew

Afghan captive of a Russian transport crew

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 ...
Yak-28 - Soviet multipurpose combat aircraft

Yak-28 - Soviet multipurpose combat aircraft

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 ...