Zoltan Dani - the winner of the stealth aircraft
On March 24, 1999, the NATO military operation against Yugoslavia began. The bombing of the country continued for 78 days and ended with the Yugoslav army leaving the territory of Kosovo, which ...
Mihail Leontievich Mil
Mikhail Leontievich Mil was born 22 in November 1909 in Irkutsk in a family of intellectuals. His father, Leonty Samoilovich, was a railway employee, and his mother, Maria Efimovna, was a dentist. The future designer with ...
Spetsnaz FSB "Vympel": no margin for error
They, as always, hide under black masks, without naming their names, receive military awards behind a closed door, and for most of them their service is a big secret at all. But now more ...
The unearthly beauty of the "Alligator"
As stated by the Air Force Command, as part of the state defense order program up to 2012, army aircraft will receive about 30 Ka-52 "Alligator". The first four serial boards arrived in ...
Storm fire on squares
Patriotic rocket artillery recently celebrated a kind of anniversary: 50 years ago - March March 28, by a joint Resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers No. 1963 / 372, on ...
Test Pilot Fedorov Ivan Evgrafovich
Almost seven decades have been turned off and turned off since the end of the military catastrophe, for a long time plunging almost the whole world into the abyss of incredible disasters, sufferings and torments. In the official history remained ...
Anna Revelskaya - Russian Mata Hari
The role of women in intelligence activities is often shrouded in gloom, many of them fading into the past forever, leaving almost no traces about themselves. So it happened with the Russian intelligence officer of the times ...
Era Alexander Raspletin
At the beginning of the 90-s, many previously classified models of domestic military equipment became indispensable participants in international exhibitions and showrooms. The great interest of foreign experts has caused ...
Victor Dubynin. Save at all costs
It is unlikely that anyone will dispute the fact that the Afghan war is one of the most tragic pages of the Russian history of the Soviet period. For the first time after World War II, the USSR got involved in ...
The mythical "Thirst" of Grigory Pozhenyan
One of the heroic pages of the Great Patriotic War can be called the defense of Odessa. The city, although it was not an important strategic point (there were no key military enterprises and the port ...
Soviet military orbital station
Many have heard of the US Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), better known as the Star Wars program, which got its name from the famous science fiction film George Lucas ....
C-80 - the tragedy of the Soviet submarine
The fate of the Soviet submarine C-80 - one of the most tragic and mysterious in the history of the Russian fleet. According to the official version of 26 on January 1961 of the year, during a regular raid, a submarine sank in ...
The history of the formation of domestic anti-aircraft missile forces
8 July 1960 in the USSR anti-aircraft missile forces (ZRV) were formed. ZRV are the successor of anti-aircraft artillery. According to the directive of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces from July 8 1960, the staff ...
Hypersonic aircraft "Ajax"
The concept of hypersonic aircraft "Ajax" in the domestic scientific community spoke in the 80-s, and publicly began to discuss in the 90-s of the XX century. It is worth noting that a person is always ...
40 years to the legendary Mi-24 combat helicopter (part of 1) Creation
In 2013, exactly 40 celebrated the years since the launch of the Mi-24 multi-purpose attack helicopter at the Rostov Helicopter Plant (now Rostvertol OJSC). Multipurpose...
On the way to the T-80: tank gas turbine engines
In the fifties of the last century, gas turbine engines (GTE) of various classes became widespread. Turbojet engines accelerated aircraft to supersonic speeds, and by water and ...
Ultra Small Piranha Submarines
In connection with the continuous strengthening of the NATO fleet, as well as the possibility of war, the Soviet command decided to turn its attention to the construction of mini-submarines that would be capable of operating in ...
FAU missiles - "weapon of retaliation"
In 1920, many German engineers worked on the development of rocket engines. But only in 1931, the designers Riedel and Nebel managed to create a full-fledged jet engine on a liquid ...
Tomorrow would be a marshal ...
It is monstrously unfair - not to live one day before being awarded the rank of marshal, not to see the Victory in two months, which was brought closer by more than a thousand days by all means. Go through the war on the advanced ...
Tonya-machine gunner
She hoped to get three years probation, but the Soviet court sentenced her to capital punishment. 1979 year in the USSR was declared the Year of the Woman and she hoped for the favor of the court. But in the morning 11 ...
Special forces of internal troops of Russia
The predecessors of the Russian internal troops for a long time did not have their own special forces. The internal guard in the 19th century did not actually need such units. The impetus for the creation of special forces were ...
Special Forces "Vympel": Chechen history
Few of the inhabitants of Russia do not know, or at least have not heard about Vympel. And it's not just that now is such a difficult time when almost everyone expects something bad to happen in ...
Hard fate "Sharks"
In the autumn of 2011, reports appeared in the domestic media, according to which, by the year of 2014, it was planned to write off and dispose of all the remaining nuclear submarines of the project ...
Helicopter Cheremukhina
The creation of an experimental TsAGI 1-EA helicopter, also known as a helicopter ...