Pinocchio lights
Volley "Buratino" - an impressive sight. Leaving behind a fiery tail, the missile rapidly and accurately flies to the target. What remains of the enemy entrenched in the fortifications can only be ...
19-I motorized rifle brigade. Combat training
During the press tour of the Southern Military District 22 of June, we visited the 19 th motorized rifle brigade (Sputnik, Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia). In this part I was already at the end of April and did not expect to see ...
Army of North Korea
Few people thought that it was possible to show something unique, because this is a country of prohibitions, it is closed even for residents, and even more so tourists will not be allowed to learn the secrets of this mysterious "power" ....
Flight Center in Torzhok. Combat training
Currently, the Center operates Mi-24P, Mi-24PN, Mi-26 and Mi-8 helicopters of various modifications (MTKO, MTB-5). It is possible that Mi-35M will go into service, but pilots are considering this ...
Libyan rebels improvised weapons
Over the past four months, the rebels of Libya, whose units are composed of civilians and deserters of the government army, are actively fighting against the supporters of Muammar Gaddafi, sometimes ...
Adjustable artillery shells
The events described below occurred in the second half of the 80s. beyond the borders of our country. The fortified enemy site in the highlands could not be destroyed by conventional fire weapons. For...
German anti-aircraft missiles
By the middle of 1943, regular Allied bomber raids strongly undermined the German military industry. Air defense guns could not fire above 11 kilometers, and ...
Soviet cemetery and the Afghan army
More recently, on June 23, US President Barack Obama announced the beginning of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan. It was his campaign promise, and Obama consistently fulfills it. 5000 soldier ...
Airplane with a nuclear engine
Let's start with the fact that in 1950-s. in the USSR, unlike the USA, the creation of an atomic bomber was perceived not only as a desirable, even if very, but as a vital task. It...
From T-34 to the Indian Ocean
The lesson was difficult, but not in vain: during the Great Patriotic War, Soviet designers and industry learned how to make good tanks. 70 years ago, 19 December 1939, for service ...
These Heroes of Russia - "Gyurza"
During the first Chechen campaign, Bamut remained the main outpost of the militants for a long time. "Bamut - Russians will never take it!" - this expression, like a spell, was repeated on ...
Why Hitler's ally Franco ruled Spain until his death
Generalissimo Francisco Franco was a very cunning politician who ruled Spain from the 1939 year to the 1973 year. An interesting fact is that he vehemently hated everything Soviet, was an ally of Adolf Hitler ...
Air "Centaur"
With the adoption of the Airborne Forces of the main combat vehicle BMD-1 and on its base of the armored personnel carrier of the landing BTR-D, the idea of landing personnel inside the combat vehicle appeared ....
Museum of the Strategic Missile Forces in Balabanovo
In some miserable 100 km from Moscow along the Kiev highway there is a wonderful museum of strategic missile forces on the basis of the Strategic Missile Forces training center. Visitors to the huge hangar can ...
Strategic Aviation
Only two countries in the world - the United States and Russia - have in the Armed Forces an elite branch of the Air Force - Strategic or Long-Range Aviation. Together with submarines and ...
Tanks of the USSR, before the war
It would not be an exaggeration to assert that Soviet tankers fell in love with BT tanks primarily for speed. “What kind of Russian doesn't like to drive fast?” Doesn't it? However, for military specialists ...
Battle Stechkin
The pistol was developed in the late forties by order of the USSR Ministry of Defense as personal weapons of soldiers and officers in those places where the Makarov pistol was scarce both on ammunition and ...
Tank building in the USSR, 30-ies
Having received ready-made samples of foreign armored vehicles and mastered them in production, Soviet specialists immediately found themselves in the mainstream of world tank design, but were forced for a while ...
PC-20 "Governor" SS-18 "Satan"
R-36M is a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile. Equipped with a monoblock warhead and MIRV IN with ten warheads. Developed at the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau under the leadership of Mikhail Yangel and ...
Ships of Armageddon (part 1)
History of the battleship fleet of Russia, construction, battles and deaths of the "Empress Maria" and the battleship "Novorossiysk". The decision to strengthen the Black Sea Fleet with new battleships ...
Ships of Armageddon (part 2)
On June 27, 1909, Italy passed the Maritime Law providing for the construction of 4 dreadnoughts, 3 reconnaissance cruisers, 12 submarines, 12 destroyers and 34 destroyers. The law was approved on December 2 and then ...
Tokarev self-loading rifle
Only two armies at the beginning of World War II had a ready-made mass model of a self-loading rifle: the Red Army had a Tokarev rifle (SVT), the American had the M1 Garand. SVT in our armory, ...
On the submarine
The crew consists entirely of contract soldiers. There are no sailors of military service on the "Panther". This can be easily explained - professionals should serve in the forces of constant readiness. In the submarine's crew ...
Rotorcraft "Terminator"
Mi-8 - a middle class helicopter, created as a deep modernization of the Mi-4 helicopter with GTE. The first flight of the serial car took place 26 October 1965 g. Reliability, simplicity and convenience in ...