This may seem surprising to you, but the very idea of ​​ejecting a pilot from a plane appeared at the very dawn of aviation, along with the first aircraft built by the Wright brothers. Wherein...

In the first days of the Great Patriotic War, the 237 School on October became the collection point of the 6 division of the national militia of the Dzerzhinsky district. It was here that volunteer veteran of the three wars Fedor came ...

28 May 1987 of the year on Red Square landed a light aircraft, piloted by athlete Matias Rust. It was a shock, a severe blow to the prestige of the country, its army and air defense. However, few people know that ...

The presence of modern ultra-small submarines in the Russian Navy is not a secret. In the journals or directories available to each, you can find detailed descriptions and ...

The Soviet-Finnish 1939-1940 war unfolded in winter off-road conditions. That is what revealed the urgent need for a simple, but mobile and reliable passenger car-all-terrain vehicle, in order ...

The patrol ships of the Project 1135 far sea zone ("Burevestnik") occupy a special place in the history of the Russian fleet. Strikingly different from their predecessors, not only in elegant ...

The mortar is designed to destroy durable field structures, buildings adapted by the enemy to shelter personnel and equipment, command posts, artillery and rocket batteries and ...

The concept of a fundamentally new hypersonic device was put forward at the end of the 80s. Vladimir Lvovich Freistadt, working in the St. Petersburg Scientific-Research Enterprise ...

A modern weapon development is a 40-caliber Steyr-Mannlicher pistol. Excellent condition, in a branded plastic case. The weapon is deactivated, Russian ...

Currently, trucks are used to deliver a wide variety of goods and to provide services. Modern trucks are equipped with the latest technology that provides ...

At the beginning of the 1920-ies, the Red Fleet headquarters formulated a design task for a squadron submarine. The new submarine was supposed to have powerful artillery weapons and serve far away ...

Throughout the post-war history, the USSR continuously tried to find a cheap "antidote" to fight the kings of the oceans - American atomic aircraft carriers. Soviet "asymmetric" solutions ...

Modern assault rifles (assault rifles) as an independent type of small arms arose during the Second World War, when the so-called "intermediate" cartridges were developed for them - ...

The Russian army has opened a new type of military sport to the world. In mid-August, the first tank biathlon competitions were held at the Alabino training ground near Moscow. The initiative of the Minister of Defense of Russia ...

We are going to the Kapustin Yar missile forces range to witness with our own eyes the full power of the newest short-range air defense system - Pantsir-S. You will see what can ...

The Blaser R93 sniper rifle LRS-2 / Blaser Tactical-2 was developed by the German company Blaser Jagdwaffen GmbH, which settled in the quiet town of Isnu in southern Germany. Despite his youth, ...

K-3 is the first Soviet (3-I in the world) nuclear submarine, the head series. It is our only boat built according to the 627 project, all subsequent submarines of this series were built according to ...

September 30 The fascist German command moved its tank hordes to the last, as they then thought, attack on Moscow. Summoning Zhukov from Leningrad, the Supreme Commander ...

Since the appearance of tanks on the battlefield back in the years of the First World War, field artillery became the main means of fighting them. Special anti-tank gun systems appeared much later ....

The development of the draft design of a submarine of a series III of medium displacement with torpedo-artillery armament, known as the “Pike”, was carried out in NTMK with the participation of specialists ...

September 15 marks exactly twenty years since one of the most interesting people of the Soviet era, author of unique bestsellers who have received deserved recognition worldwide, did not ...

The coastal missile system (DBK) "Bal-E" is intended for: control of territorial waters and torrential zones; protection of naval bases, other coastal facilities and coastal infrastructure; protection ...

The tradition of the cessation of hostilities during sports competitions, founded by the ancient Greeks, unfortunately, is not always respected by countries whose athletes are ...

A flashback movie about the August events of 2008. His author, who happened to be a direct participant in the events, five years later he remembers them, describing the unusual fate of people ...