Driving T-72BM tanks (Chechen Republic)
Photos from the landfill ...
Armor is strong. How to collect armored personnel carriers
We went on an excursion to the Arzamas engineering plant. See how to make the BTR. An armored personnel carrier on close acquaintance turned out to be very beautiful and somehow correct in terms of proportions. Clot clean ...
A selection of photos of the Great Patriotic
The day of the Great Victory is getting closer and I wanted to make a selection of military photographs. It turned out to be not as simple as it seems: there are a lot of photos and I just don’t just dump them ...
Training flights of combat helicopters at the Chernigovka air base
20.04.2012 at the air base of the Air Force of Russia "Chernigovka", for the first time passed the demonstration flights of the newest Ka-52 "Alligator" combat helicopters and Mi-8AMTSH, which became part of the air base ....
The results of the combat activities of the DCBF air force during the period of the Great Patriotic War
(According to the Military Historical Report on the military operations of the DCBF Air Force in the Great Patriotic War 1941 - 1945, part three, 1946 year) The first year of the war (22.06.1941 - 21.06.1942): ...
Hello from China. Russian-Chinese naval exercises "Maritime interaction - 2012"
All the media talk about the next Russian-Chinese naval exercises "Sea Interaction - 2012". Which this time will naturally surpass all previous ones in scale, but ...
Raids on Berlin in 1941
Few people know that there were not one or two raids on Berlin. One of the most difficult and remarkable, in terms of organization and execution, of the operations of the first period of the war was the operation of applying ...
Prophetic Oleg - the creator and keeper of the Russian state. To the 1130 anniversary of the unification of the north and south of Russia.
Prophetic Oleg, perhaps, is one of the most mysterious rulers of Russia. Sage on the throne, prince-sorcerer, priest of Perun. He successfully continued the Case started by Rurik-Falcon. Oleg united ...
Rokossovsky: "Soldier's duty is simple, always fight better than the enemy!"
Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky - a legendary figure. In his biography, a lot of mysteries, and fate is filled with sharp turns. The biography of the great Soviet commander is corrected, as ...
Flight of the Buran - as it were
15 November 1988 of the year took place the launch of the space shuttle "Buran". This event occurred in the Soviet Union. After the launch of the universal space rocket ...
Slutsk uprising and Poland - is there a connection?
Slutsk uprising is perhaps the most controversial issue in the formation of the Soviet state. There are diametrically opposed historical assessments of the 1920 events of the year on the territory ...
Production of Ka-52 Alligator combat helicopters at the AAK PROGRESS plant named after Sazykin
Arsenyevskaya Aviation Company Progress named after Sazykin is one of the largest enterprises of the aerospace industry in Russia. The visiting card of the plant is ...
Alexander Pokryshkin and his fighter Bell P-39 Airacobra
Alexander Ivanovich Pokryshkin was born in 1913 year in Novonikolayevsk (Novosibirsk) in a family of poor settlers. Already with 14 years he begins his working career. Dreams of heaven brought Alexander into ...
How to produce a Kalashnikov assault rifle
Having read the news about the troubles of the Izhmash plant, I decided to see with my own eyes how the legendary manufacturer Kalash lives and breathes today. He picked up old ties and eventually got an invitation to ...
The mythology of the Third Reich: the idea of "pure blood"
Russian citizens have heard quite a lot about German Nazism, but in reality they know little about the ideology of the Third Reich. In the minds of people a hodgepodge of images of Soviet-Russian films, ...
Alexander Nevsky - patron of Russia
In 1220, Prince Yaroslav II Vsevolodovich and Princess Theodosia Igorevna had a son, Alexander. The first mentions of the heir to the prince Yaroslav Vsevolodovich in Novgorod belong to the 1228 year ....
Warsaw Pact: Causes and Effects
In the first post-war decade, a bilateral system of international relations was established in the world. This is the time when the global confrontation between the two superpowers, the United States, was launched ...
Air Force and Air Defense exercises - "Ladoga-2012"
Tomorrow, in the Western Military District (ZVO), the air exercises of the Air Force and Air Defense units - "Ladoga-2012", are coming to an end. The Ladoga-2012 aeronautical exercise is a planned event for the training of ...
American shame in the Bay of Pigs. Playa Chiron - a memorable symbol of Cuban independence
1 January 1959 was brought to power in Cuba by revolutionaries led by Fidel Castro. The victory of the Cuban socialists could not but alarm Washington, American commercial and industrial corporations and ...
Soviet troops in Vietnam - What was their task?
The history of our civilization is dotted with bloody wars and tragedies. People do not know how to live in the world on one small planet, lost in the cold space. War is increasingly becoming a tool ...
The oldest American shuttle went to the museum
The astronauts said goodbye to the legendary shuttle Discovery, which today finally left the Kennedy Space Center, making a farewell circle over the spaceport. Shuttle Discovery "said goodbye" to ...
Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub and his fighters - La-5 and La-7
Ivan Nikitovich Kozhedub - the renowned ace pilot of World War II, the most productive fighter pilot in Allied aviation (64 personal victories). Three times the hero of the Soviet Union. Participated in...
The history of "Dunkin" regiment
How many heroic deeds committed by our ancestors during the Great Patriotic War. Soviet women and even very young girls took part in the fight against the enemy on a par with men. Behind...
Afghanistan March 2012
March was replaced by a difficult February, and it turned out to be even harder for the Coalition forces. 11 March US Army Sergeant Robert Bales killed 17 civilian Afghans, including 9 children. Now Bales is ...