On September 14 I had the opportunity to attend one of the stages of the exercises of the coastal forces and the Pacific Fleet in Kamchatka. The scene of action - Zavoyko Bay (Avacha Bay) ....

The program for the purchase and development of military equipment for the Russian army, adopted at 2006, was not implemented at all points. Therefore, the Government was forced to adopt 24 in February 2011. A new program ...

In September, during a large press tour to Kamchatka, I had the opportunity to see for the first time the firing of coastal anti-ship missile systems. Shooting was assigned at night, so ...

At the end of December, 1979, the special forces of the Soviet Army and the KGB, stormed the residence of the head of Afghanistan - Amin Palace in Kabul. The result of this operation was not only a change ...

Berlin, London, Paris wanted to start a big war in Europe, Vienna was not against the defeat of Serbia, although they didn’t want a general European war. The reason for the war gave the Serbian conspirators, who also ...

In the last decade there has been a real renaissance of Stalinism. At the beginning of 1990, few people would have thought that this could happen against the backdrop of the triumph of the ideas of liberalism and the "European choice" ...

Of the variety of weapons used in the World Wars, only a small number of types were able to participate in both. The most famous of them are rifles, the Russian-Soviet rifle ...

The beginning of the Soviet laser program can be considered the day when a group of eminent scientists were N.G. Basov, Yu.B. Khariton, G.V. Kisunko and E.N. Tsarevsky - sent a note to the CPSU Central Committee ...

The Ka-52 “Alligator” helicopter is a further development of the Ka-50 “Black Shark” model. The first test flight was 27 June 2008 of the year, mass production began after 4 month. AT...

Less than one month left before the planned withdrawal of American troops from Iraq, but the country's future is still uncertain. Since the coalition forces invaded Iraq in March of 2003 ...

At the beginning of November, a delegation of the Moscow region visited the 46-th separate operational brigade (OBRON) with a patronage visit. The delegation included representatives of 19-mi municipalities ...

These days 70 years ago, on the approaches to Moscow, not only the outcome of World War II and World War II was determined, but also in which direction the further development of human ...

I would like to dwell on the figure of Zhukov. In our modern liberal literature, he appears as a man of iron will, who, regardless of losses, drives Soviet troops into ...

There are many different abandoned military facilities near St. Petersburg and around it: grass-covered runways, old aircraft hangars that remember the Great Patriotic War, military equipment dumps, ...

November 27 marines in the fountains do not bathe, despite the official birthday of "sea soldiers." Probably why very few people know about this holiday (unlike the birthday of the Airborne Forces). But...

Germany will remember 1923 as a year of crises. This was due to apathy due to defeat in the war, economic crisis and terrible inflation. As a result, it swept across the country ...

Recently I decided to go to the Chernobyl zone. Since I was accustomed to travel on a motorcycle, legal bus tours did not attract me at all. Other ways to the Zone are closed, but, as they used to say ...

Almost every boy in his childhood admired fighters, and I am no exception. I remember, there were also aviation parades on Tushinskaya, where my parents were taking me, there I was the first to see it live ...

In the debate about the role of the individual in history, many copies were broken. Some historians and philosophers say that technological development makes history, others attribute a special role to social processes, ...

In May of this year, there was news that the Uruguayan Interior Ministry was buying Russian Tiger armored vehicles. Now there are photos showing that the "Tigers" are indeed in ...

While working on the reconstruction of the Varna dam in the German city of Rostock, on November 16, builders discovered parts of an old Russian tank. The following day, Thursday, November 17, was produced ...

In the depths of our country are stored incredible reserves of raw materials and energy resources: ores, coal, oil and gas. In terms of reserves of many minerals, Russia is several times ahead of its nearest ...

We have recently written about the exercises of RCBZ troops using heavy flamethrowing systems TOC-1A at ​​the test site in Sheehan. Today we bring to your attention a photo report from the official website of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation ...

What was the Russian Empire like on the eve of World War? Here it is necessary to move away from two myths - the Soviet one, when "Tsarist Russia" is shown as a backward country with a downtrodden people ...