The story about the tank PT-76 would be incomplete without mentioning two floating combat vehicles, although not formally related to it constructively, but, nevertheless, continued this trend in the domestic ...

The multipurpose aviation and space system (MAKS) is a two-stage complex consisting of an aircraft carrier (An-225 "Mriya" - more precisely, based on the An-225, the development of a new ...

This year was the anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, the main battle of the war, which we used to call Patriotic. She devoted a lot of educational programs, films and books, among which ...

Today, very few people from the 20 generation, both young and old, will be able to say something intelligible about the legendary Soviet hero, Dmitry Mikhailovich Karbyshev. His name is on hearing, mostly ...

For many centuries, relations between Russia and Poland have been tense, and there are many reasons for this. One of the most important reasons for mutual discontent has always been in line with the territorial claims of each ...

14 August 2012, in Kiev, was a presentation of a series called “500 seconds of truth about Ukraine,” in which the authors tried to debunk the current official interpretation ...

Surprisingly, it was not the Soviet party leadership that officially announced the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, but ... the clergyman, none other than the Patriarchal locum tenens of the Russian ...

Mysterious at first glance discrepancies are connected with Rokossovsky's birthplace. In Soviet historiography, the place of Rokossovsky's birth is the city of Velikie Luki and the source of this information ...

On the southern borders of the large Russian Empire, it has been restless since Central Asia became part of the Russian state. And this was due to the fact that the territories inhabited by wild ...

In the chaotic kaleidoscope of events in Russia that followed the February Revolution, the mutiny of General L. G. Kornilov stands out. Historians still break spears: what assessment is legitimate to those ...

The K-429 submarine was built in the city of Gorky according to the 670 A Scat project. There were 11 submarines of this type. Its length was 104 meters, width almost 10 meters, height - from five ...

More than half a century ago, the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States (CIA) began sending high-altitude U-2 strategic reconnaissance aircraft into the USSR airspace, which were specially equipped ...

In the second half of the XIXth century, Vietnam became a colony of France. The growth of national identity after the First World War led to the creation of the Vietnam Independence League or the ...

The experience of fighting in Vietnam showed that the use of fighter planes with limited maneuverability F-4 "Phantom", armed only with the Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles, proved to be untenable. Even...

In 1970, a presidential election was held in Chile, in which a certain Alvador Allende, a candidate from the Popular Unity bloc, organized by a number of Chilean political parties won ...

Even before the start of World War II, new design bureaus were quickly created in the USSR in 1939, which were given the task of developing projects for promising aircraft that were ...

Attack aircraft of the construction of S. V. Ilyushin became an indispensable attribute of the Great Patriotic War, making a huge contribution to the victory. At the same time the Il-2 attack aircraft is officially the most widespread ...

With a deafening crash, the Iron Curtain collapsed, and a storm of disclosures of Soviet myths rose in the media of independent Russia. The most popular was the theme of the Great Patriotic ...

During the years of the Great Patriotic War, the Yakovlev Design Bureau worked with extraordinary tension, which could be considered normal for such a difficult time. Enormous efforts were designed and implemented in ...

Colonel Erich von Manstein, who during the Second World War, became famous as the commander of large armored formations, in 1935, proposed to create in the structure of the Wehrmacht ...

Sidor Artemovich Kovpak was born on June 7 of the year 1887 in the Ukrainian village of Kotelva in an ordinary peasant family. He had five brothers and four sisters. Since childhood, he helped his parents about the housework ....

Bombers SB-2 and DB-3 formed the basis of the bomber aircraft fleet of the Red Army Air Force during the first stage of the Great Patriotic War. At the same time, the SB-2 bombers managed to take part in combat ...

In 1935, the state commission headed by A. N. Tupolev purchased Douglas DC-2 aircraft in the USA through the Amtorg Trading Corporation. After extensive testing that ...

The question of the accuracy of bombing rose sharply enough immediately after the end of the First World War. This was facilitated by the constant increase in the speed of new combat aircraft, which led to ...