MiG-15 - the best fighter of the Korean War

MiG-15 - the best fighter of the Korean War

The MiG-15 (according to the NATO classification Fagot, the MiG-XNUMHUTI version - Midget) is the first mass Soviet fighter that was designed by the Mikoyan and Gurevich design bureau at the end of the 15 of the last century. Is an...
Weekday war

Weekday war

The Great Patriotic War (WWII), a photo compilation ...
Chinese special forces training

Chinese special forces training

The special forces of China is one of the main components of China’s rapid reaction forces that must wage war in conditions of limited regional conflict and the use of the latest military ...
Connection of times. Sergey Larenkov

Connection of times. Sergey Larenkov

The name of Sergei Larenkov - quite an ordinary resident of St. Petersburg - has recently become widely known after his unique photo-design project “The Invisible Leningrad”. He imagines...
378-I aviation base

378-I aviation base

378-I aviation base is a relatively young formation, created a year and a half ago by the merger of two military units. I present to you the historical background of one of the parts that have become ...
Vikramaditya. Modernization in pictures

Vikramaditya. Modernization in pictures

Light aircraft carrier "Vikramaditya" (Sk.) Is intended to replace the aircraft carrier "Vikrant" that has exhausted its service life. This ship after completion should be the flagship of the Indian Navy. The...
406 mm - main caliber

406 mm - main caliber

Here it is - the main caliber of the Land of the Soviets. We knew about him only from the stories of grandfathers and fathers, as well as from panic reports of the German OKH. And finally, everyone can be sure - this is not a legend. It and ...
Naval exercises RIMPAC. Photo report

Naval exercises RIMPAC. Photo report

Every two years in June-July, the world's largest international exercise, RIMPAC, is held near Hawaii. The ships of the USA, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Japan, South Korea, Chile, ...
17 July. Birthday of naval aviation of the Russian Navy

17 July. Birthday of naval aviation of the Russian Navy

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 ...
Private manufacturers of the defense complex - 2012

Private manufacturers of the defense complex - 2012

In February 2012, on the territory of the plant and the company salon of the Promtechnologii Group of Companies, which creates products under the ORSIS - High-Precision Weapon Systems trademark ...
Battle of the Neva

Battle of the Neva

15 July 1240, the Battle of the Neva took place, which was of great strategic importance. The defeat for a long time discouraged the Swedes from the desire to seize the north-western lands of Russia. Russian land has always been ...
Afghanistan Jun 2012

Afghanistan Jun 2012

During the first month of summer, 39 Coalition troops died in Afghanistan. During the entire campaign, killed 3071 - approximately one death every 30 hours since the start of the invasion in October 2001. Dead in ...
One of the best tank museums in Russia

One of the best tank museums in Russia

Pyshma is a suburb of Yekaterinburg, little known in world history. The town is quite nice and clean, but no more. But it is in Pyshma that, without exaggeration, one of the best in ...
International Aviation and Space Salon Farnborough 2012

International Aviation and Space Salon Farnborough 2012

48 is the Farnborough Airshow International Aerospace Salon inaugurated on July 9 and, as always, takes place at the exhibition complex of Farnborough Airport in Hampshire - a suburb of the British ...
Latvian Legion of Death: swastika instead of conscience

Latvian Legion of Death: swastika instead of conscience

The Latvian Legion Waffen SS, which became famous during the years of the 2 World War II for its particular cruelty and cynicism in the destruction of the Jewish and Slavic peoples, in today's Latvia is truly ...
NATO Air Trucks

NATO Air Trucks

LJ-user kukuksumushu writes: At the airshow in Norwegian Budo, NATO military transport workers were constantly in my camera's field of view. This time I will show two bright representatives of this ...
“Petliura is an idealist without any scope”

“Petliura is an idealist without any scope”

In May, 2012 was 133, with the birth of Simon Petlura. Hardly in history there is a more controversial personality. Who was he? A paid agent of the Western powers or a fiery patriot ...
About special fire training

About special fire training

In modern Russia, almost every security agency will have its own “special forces” - a group of specially selected and trained employees who deal with issues that require ...
On the inevitability of Stalinization of Russia

On the inevitability of Stalinization of Russia

Russian Federation 1990-2000's looks a lot like Soviet Russia 1920's. Even the foreign policy situation is similar - the collapse of the socialist bloc (the defeat of the USSR and its allies in ...