5 June 1967, 7: 45 am The Israeli Air Force delivered the first strike on Egyptian air bases and radar stations. Then a second blow was struck at the Egyptian air bases. As a result, the Israeli Air Force ...

In the book “Honor I Have” by V. Pikul, a Russian officer defined for himself the most important thing in life - to have the honor to serve the Fatherland and to fulfill his duty to the Fatherland to the end. Without exaggeration, you can ...

The Holy Blessed Grand Duke Dmitry Donskoy, unlike his great-grandfather Alexander Nevsky, did not enjoy such indisputable authority as his ancestor among historians and artists ....

Since the beginning of the Second World War, when fascist Germany attacked the Soviet Union, the systematic destruction of the Soviet population began. As a rule, to perform tasks of this kind ...

During the First World War, many types of weapons showed and proved their importance. For example, tanks demanded a revision of the positional war doctrine, and submarines became a real ...

For more than a hundred years, military motorists have been carrying out combat missions to transport manpower, ammunition and other military equipment. 29 May 1910, the composition of the Engineers of the Russian Empire was ...

In 1994, the President of Russia established the holiday of the Day of the Border Guard, which was to revive the historical traditions of Russia and its border troops. The celebration of this day has decades and ...

So, 70 years ago in the history of domestic aviation a significant event occurred, for the first time in our country an airplane with a jet (rocket) engine was raised into the air. It happened this 15 May 1942 ...

Horst Faas, who had worked for The Associated Press for almost half a century, won two Pulitzer Prizes, died on Thursday, May 10 in Munich at the age of 79. The sad fact is the military ...

Our blog yesterday already gave a link to high-quality photos of North Korean 170-mm M1989 self-propelled guns taken while passing the Korean National Army (KPA) military equipment through the streets of Pyongyang ...

Look at the equipment, weapons, equipment and life of military personnel directly in the military unit provided an opportunity for Ulyanovsk recruits. Together with them on the territory of 31 a separate ...

Preparations for large-scale battles between fascist Germany and the Soviet Union were accompanied by a global confrontation on the "invisible front." In many respects from who will be in it ...

The award system of the Soviet Army is represented as of 1988 year. It differs from the previous ones only in that it includes awards that appeared after the 1970 of the year and is somewhat modified ...

The airplanes of three air groups from the cities of Kursk, Voronezh, Hotilovo, Tver Oblast took part in the exercises. Within two days, the MiG-29 fighters worked out the issues of covering the troops from the air, and ...

Raise a pair of tanks, an armored personnel carrier fleet or a seven-ton power line to the sky. This can not only the Proton M launch vehicle, but also our transport helicopter Mi-26 - the largest in its ...

We present to you a release of photos by Alexander Nemenov about the First Chechen and the history of this military conflict. (Attention! In the release there are photographic materials that may seem unpleasant or ...

Little known to a wide circle of the public, Robert Bartini was not only an outstanding scientist and aircraft designer, but also one of the secret inspirers of the Soviet space program ...

I quote: “Yevgeny Khaldey is one of the most famous Soviet photographers, a correspondent for TASS photo chronicles, who represented the TASS editorial staff on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. All 1418 days he is with his ...

Not only ships and submarines of the Soviet fleet, but also combat aircraft took part in the naval battles of the Great Patriotic War. Soviet naval aviation has made a tangible contribution to ...

No military conflict in the history of mankind has changed the world as much as World War II did. State borders shifted, and cities turned into ruins. Created ...

12 August marks the anniversary of the death of the nuclear submarine Kursk, which perished in the Barents Sea in 2000. It was one of the newest and most reliable underwater ...

Continuation of a series of collections of black and white photographs devoted to the Great Patriotic War. Previous series: 1944 year, 1943 year, 1942 year, 1941 year ....

These drawings have long troubled my heart - the war in them .. He left last March, and hundreds of graphic sheets about wars and its victims left us .. His drawings cause shock: the disabled, concentration camps, ...

Monuments dedicated to the Great Patriotic War are not to be scolded - taboo. Even if they are made poorly and were ugly from birth, since the hackers have always been in this holy work ...