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 ...

Neither time nor distance save those who raised their hands on the Jewish state and its citizens. Retribution is inevitable! I must say that when a terrorist act is committed with grave ...

This aircraft, designed by Polikarpov in 1928, became one of the most famous Soviet aircraft and one of the best in the world. Y-2 has been actively exploited for over 35 years. In 1944 ...

Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler began their political careers at about the same time, generously promising radical reforms to their voters to bring their countries out of crisis. Hitler ...

Since time immemorial, children have been actively involved in wars and battles, helping adult men. There are many examples of this in history. In the Middle Ages, young pages and squires looked after their weapons ...

In the second half of 1937, another economic crisis began in the UK. The English economy was in a fever, the working class was on strike, and the capitalists were losing their profits in foreign markets. By...

Events near Koenigsberg can be divided into five stages, of which the assault itself was only a conclusion. Soviet troops approached East Prussia at the end of August 1944. Troops...

The Wehrmacht in the 37 year required a breakthrough tank that would have 50-mm armor and one and a half times heavier than the Pz Kpfw IV tank. The design was entrusted to the engineering company Henschel in the city ...

Almost all readers of Military Outlook, for sure, saw the movie “Kandahar” directed by Andrei Kavun, filmed in Russia in 2010 year. This historical drama is based on real events and narrates ...

Exactly 50 years ago, 2 August 1962, the first prototype of the multipurpose Mi-8 helicopter took off for the first time. Mi-8 (according to the NATO Hip classification) - Soviet and Russian multipurpose ...

Yak-28 is a Soviet multipurpose jet combat aircraft, which was produced in various versions. The most common were modifications of the front bomber (according to the classification ...

The MiG-15 (according to the NATO classification Fagot, the MiG-XNUMHUTI version - Midget) is the first mass Soviet fighter that was designed by the Mikoyan and Gurevich design bureau at the end of the 15 of the last century. Is an...

The origin of aviation in Russia was made possible by the initiative of sailors. It was the sailors who first saw in the aircraft an important means of increasing the power of the navy and put ...

15 July 1240, the Battle of the Neva took place, which was of great strategic importance. The defeat for a long time discouraged the Swedes from the desire to seize the north-western lands of Russia. Russian land has always been ...

At the beginning of the war, the defense of Sevastopol consisted of two armored 12-inch batteries, dozens of gun positions, many well-built defenses. Back in 1912, under ...

The Latvian Legion Waffen SS, which became famous during the years of the 2 World War II for its particular cruelty and cynicism in the destruction of the Jewish and Slavic peoples, in today's Latvia is truly ...

9 July 1791, in the area of ​​the modern Romanian city of Machin (Machin), on the right bank of the Danube, was a battle of large forces of the Russian and Turkish armies, the last major battle ...

7 June 1942, the last assault on Sevastopol began. By June 17, after fierce fighting, the German troops were able to turn the tide in their favor. In the southern sector, the Germans captured the so-called. "Eagle ...

In May, 2012 was 133, with the birth of Simon Petlura. Hardly in history there is a more controversial personality. Who was he? A paid agent of the Western powers or a fiery patriot ...

In the 2000 year, or rather 2 in March, another tragedy occurred in Chechnya: an OMON convoy from Sergiyev Posad was attacked at the entrance to Grozny, which killed 22 ...

The theme of the participation of the Cossacks in the Great Patriotic War continues to be the basis for many speculations and speculations based on outright lies. Falsifiers of history, like parasites, in ...

Russian Federation 1990-2000's looks a lot like Soviet Russia 1920's. Even the foreign policy situation is similar - the collapse of the socialist bloc (the defeat of the USSR and its allies in ...

Ernesto Che Guevara is a truly great person, surrounded by the eternal aura of romance, whose image has become one of the symbols of the 20 century. The figure of Che Guevara retains her delectable romanticism because ...