Afghanistan, January 2011
Recently, US President Barack Obama spoke about the war in Afghanistan: “Thanks to the heroism of our troops and citizens, fewer and fewer Afghans are under the control of the rebels. Ahead of us ...
Cyberwar - the wars of the future
Cyber war is a possible war of the near future, bloodless but deadly at the same time. A kind of revolution in the art of warfare. Humanity has reached such a degree of development that ...
Armor of Russia. Movies 9-10
Armored combat vehicles and aircraft. It would seem, what can be in common between them? In fact, the points of contact are much larger than it might seem at first glance. In 70's on ...
Armor of Russia. Movies 7-8
By the 60 years in the Soviet Army there were three types of tanks - light, medium and heavy. In 1966, the T-64 was adopted. According to the characteristics of maneuverability, it was a medium tank, and its armor and ...
Armor of Russia. Movies 5-6
World War II was nearing its end. In the fall of 1944, the medium tank T-44 was adopted by the Red Army. This car was a logical continuation of the T-34. T-44 was built taking into account the experience of the war and became ...
Armor of Russia. Movies 3-4
End of the 30s of the twentieth century. The world was inevitably approaching a major war. As a result of the Spanish and then the Finnish wars, it became clear that Soviet tanks needed improvement. For the role of the new ...
Elimination of Arbi Baraev
The liquidation of the Chechen field commander Arbi Barayev was the result of a special operation by the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which took place from June 19 to June 24 in the village of Alkhan-Kala. During the operation, Arbi Barayev and 17 militants ...
Armor of Russia. Movies 1-2
The series "Armor of Russia" is devoted to the history of domestic armored combat vehicles: from the first armored cars of the early twentieth century to modern tanks. In the ten films of the series in detail about ...
OMON winter exercises
LJ user TaEk writes in his blog: Police drivers and mechanics of a special-purpose police unit organized training in rough terrain. By car SPM-2 “Tiger” and ...
The mystery of the death of blackbirds
Since the beginning of the year, worldwide deaths of birds have been recorded. The very first and most interesting is the case that occurred in the American town of Bib in Arkansas. Here in half an hour ...
Modern torpedo: what is and what will be
Currently, there is a serious increase in the backlog of Russia in the design and development of torpedo weapons. For a long time the situation at least somehow smoothed out the presence in Russia of ...
Fighter aircraft carriers - rocket complex "Granit"
During the Cold War, the Soviet missile systems with the resounding names Malachite and Basalt were a real headache for NATO ships, and each of them had its own ...
Air Battle in Kuban
The air battle that unfolded in the Kuban sky in April-June 1943 was one of the largest air battles of the Second World War and was an integral part of the Soviet offensive in the Caucasus ....
Me-262 - the first serial combat jet fighter
History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood, but if it were not for the indecision and shortsightedness of the leadership of the Third Reich, the Luftwaffe again, as in the first days of World War II, would have received a complete ...
Aviation Engine - Fifth Generation
A promising front-line aviation complex (PAK FA), it’s also the T-50, which made its first flight on January 29, 2010. Currently, more than 40 test flights have been performed. Newest ...
Secret lair of Assandzha
Strange creatures of the inhabitants of the planet Earth ... It would seem that humanity needs to live, enjoy the world around us, keep harmony and tranquility in your soul, avoid nervous shocks. But it's boring! So...
General Alexey Brusilov - a patriot or a traitor?
In St. Petersburg, on November 14, 2007, a monument to General Alexei Brusilov was unveiled in a public garden at the intersection of Shpalernaya and Tavricheskaya streets. His military services are well known. In the history of war, there is no ...
Air defense for the emperor
Few people know that the Air Defense Forces (AA) in Russia appeared under Emperor Nicholas II (1894-1917). "Shield" - a weapon of defense, always keeps up with the "sword" - the weapon of attack. WITH...
Opposition in Northern Iraq
American troops are trying their best to at least somehow preserve the fragile peace in northern Iraq, where various ethnic groups, such as Arabs and Turkmen, oppose Kurds from Kirkuk and ...
Nuclear explosions in photos
Since 1945, about 2 thousand nuclear tests have been carried out in the world and 2 nuclear attacks have been carried out. The undisputed leader in the destructive release of atomic energy is the United States. Attention for photographers ...
Ataman of the Don Army
11 March 1801, February 28 old style, Don Cossacks on the orders of Paul I (1754 – 1801) set off to conquer India. The first column was led by Matvey Ivanovich Platov (1751 – 1818), the future ataman ...
How Yermak Siberia conquered
A precipice to the river. Under the cliff along the coast is a huge number of foot Tatars. On the water under the banners of the Cossacks in the boats (and someone has already jumped into the water) shoot out muskets. Boats are moving to the shore - you need ...
Marshals vague time. Tukhachevsky
On June 11, 1937, a special judicial presence of six senior military leaders on conspiracy charges sentenced Marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Tukhachevsky and "a group ...
Teachings of the Moscow riot police: the dispersal of unauthorized rallies
December 15 on the basis of the Moscow riot police passed regular exercises. This time, special attention was paid to the dispersal of unauthorized rallies. Riot fighters showed what 11 should have shown ...