Passes for enemy soldiers are the most popular type of flyers during any war. The circulation of such leaflets envy any writer. For their delivery to the recipients are developed ...

We offer you a look at Russia different. These color photographs were taken between 1909 and 1912 by photographer Sergey Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorsky (1863 - 1944). The photographer made ...

The last "fifty-fifths" were removed from combat duty just a year ago. The ingenious tank, the brilliant designer Leonid Kartsev, was put into service on the eve of Victory Day ...

Analyzing the actions of combat aircraft in the last major military clashes and conflicts, it can be said with confidence that the tasks performed by assault fighters were worked out with a high ...

For several years the brigade has been gradually rearming with new models of equipment. So, after forcing Georgia into the world, the old T-62 tanks were replaced with T-72B and T-72B (M) ...

On the very first day of my stay in the 18th Omsb Brigade, I got to a battalion-tactical exercise, which the brigade conducted at the Sernovodskoye training ground in the Stavropol Territory. The theme of the teaching is "Committing ...

All that you see is really I apologize for the quality, there are photos of mine and my comrades, there are photos of me and my comrades, look, judge - what kind of counter-terrorist operation it is ...

At the very beginning of October, according to legend, the legendary Ilya Muromets was born. But this is only a legend in the historical annals, his name is not mentioned, neither the exact place of his birth is known, there is no data ...

Saoirse-2010 writes: In Moscow there are a lot of plants related to aircraft manufacturing. These plants are not interesting outside, but very interesting inside. In Soviet times, to see what is in this record, ...

Reuters photographer Finbarr O'Reilly (pictured below) shoots reports about American and Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan from 2007 onwards. He shares memories of the daily lives of the soldiers: “To your ...

Siberian Research Institute of Aviation. S.A. Chaplygin (SibNIA) is the largest research center of aviation science in the east of Russia. In the laboratories of the Institute worked ...

The end of the eighties in our country was very difficult. The collapse of the USSR was approaching, and many representatives of organized crime sensed this. They stocked the most modern small arms, ...

The final part of the Center-2011 exercise in Kazakhstan was divided into two stages: repelling enemy amphibious assault forces, then defensive actions against ground forces and a counteroffensive. TO...

We bring to your attention several photos from the joint Russian-Belarusian exercises "Union Shield-2011", one of the episodes of which was held at the Ashuluk training ground in ...

3 was born on May 1926 in Ufa, Russia. Georgy is a real Soviet man who installed the 6 of world record aircraft, of which 3 are absolute. As well as three all-union absolute records ....

On the eve of the Day of the Ground Forces, which took place on October 1 2011, I was invited to the 4-th separate tank brigade. In connection with the reform of the Armed Forces of Russia and the transition to the new look of 4 ...

70 years ago, about 3,5, thousands of cadets of the Podolsk military schools wrote another heroic page in the history of Russia. In October, 1941, they stopped parts of the Wehrmacht, which rushed to ...

At the Bykhov airfield, up to 1990, the 57 Smolensk Sea Missile Division (Mrad) of the Baltic Fleet Air Force was based and consisted of two Guards Red Banner Regiments: 170 ...

Little sensation! The Libyan "rebels" showed ATGM "Chrysanthemum-S" ...

With this article, we begin a new series of articles about unusual tanks and projects of Russia and the USSR. We all know about the tanks mass-produced in the USSR, the T-26, the BT series tanks, the legendary "thirty-four" ...

Today, the personality of Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky is one of the rather controversial in the history of Russia. Some experts speak of him as a tyrant and a bastard, and others - with a gasp, as if ...

In honor of the Independence Day of the Republic of Cyprus, 1 October 2011, a military parade was held in Nicosia, in which Russian-made armored vehicles took part. In particular, the tanks T-80U equipped ...

At the anniversary celebrations dedicated to the centenary of the father of the Soviet atomic bomb, Academician Kurchatov, no one remembered this episode. Maybe not to darken the festive mood, but rather ...

Margaret Burke-White was born in the Bronx in 1904 year. The father is an engineer and inventor, a Jew. Mother is a housewife, half Irish, half English, Protestant. Margaret...