The liquidation of the Chechen field commander Arbi Barayev was the result of a special operation by the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, which took place from June 19 to June 24 in the village of Alkhan-Kala. During the operation, Arbi Barayev and 17 militants ...

The series "Armor of Russia" is devoted to the history of domestic armored combat vehicles: from the first armored cars of the early twentieth century to modern tanks. In the ten films of the series in detail about ...

Since the beginning of the year, worldwide deaths of birds have been recorded. The very first and most interesting is the case that occurred in the American town of Bib in Arkansas. Here in half an hour ...

Currently, there is a serious increase in the backlog of Russia in the design and development of torpedo weapons. For a long time the situation at least somehow smoothed out the presence in Russia of ...

During the Cold War, the Soviet missile systems with the resounding names Malachite and Basalt were a real headache for NATO ships, and each of them had its own ...

The air battle that unfolded in the Kuban sky in April-June 1943 was one of the largest air battles of the Second World War and was an integral part of the Soviet offensive in the Caucasus ....

History does not tolerate the subjunctive mood, but if it were not for the indecision and shortsightedness of the leadership of the Third Reich, the Luftwaffe again, as in the first days of World War II, would have received a complete ...

A promising front-line aviation complex (PAK FA), it’s also the T-50, which made its first flight on January 29, 2010. Currently, more than 40 test flights have been performed. Newest ...

In St. Petersburg, on November 14, 2007, a monument to General Alexei Brusilov was unveiled in a public garden at the intersection of Shpalernaya and Tavricheskaya streets. His military services are well known. In the history of war, there is no ...

Few people know that the Air Defense Forces (AA) in Russia appeared under Emperor Nicholas II (1894-1917). "Shield" - a weapon of defense, always keeps up with the "sword" - the weapon of attack. WITH...

11 March 1801, February 28 old style, Don Cossacks on the orders of Paul I (1754 – 1801) set off to conquer India. The first column was led by Matvey Ivanovich Platov (1751 – 1818), the future ataman ...

A precipice to the river. Under the cliff along the coast is a huge number of foot Tatars. On the water under the banners of the Cossacks in the boats (and someone has already jumped into the water) shoot out muskets. Boats are moving to the shore - you need ...

On June 11, 1937, a special judicial presence of six senior military leaders on conspiracy charges sentenced Marshal of the Soviet Union Mikhail Tukhachevsky and "a group ...

It is no secret that the Israel Military-Industrial Complex produces some of the most modern and technologically advanced weapons. The best confirmation of this is the anti-tank missile system ...

Despite the fact that Yair Klein spent more than three years in a Russian prison, his name is not very familiar to our citizens, but Klein is more than known abroad. But if in Israel he is considered a national ...

This year marks exactly 100 years since Russia, or to be more precise, the world's first school for training military pilots was opened in Sevastopol. In 1912, the school was ...

Since the events of October 1993, 17 years have passed. Then the constitutional crisis - the conflict between the two branches of the Russian government (September 21 - October 4) turned into armed clashes on the streets ...

Israel is one of the recognized world leaders in the production of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, the most famous models being Heron, Bird-Eye 400, Searcher Mk II. And in October ...

The operation on the New Year's assault on Grozny in 1994 was considered one of the most disastrous and tragic years in Russia's history. However, in any tragedy there is always a place for heroic deeds and heroic ...

While the whole world watches with interest the materials published on Wikileaks and discusses the arrest of its founder Julian Assange, a scandal is brewing in the US, the possible consequences of which are ...

The war in Afghanistan began to be forgotten. Disappeared from the political map of the world of the USSR, the Soviet army disappeared along with it, many eyewitnesses of those events passed away. And only Afghanistan itself since almost ...

Pantsir-С1 (GRAU index - 96K6) is a Russian ground-based self-propelled anti-aircraft missile-gun complex (ZRPK) developed by the Tula Instrument Design Bureau SUE ....

We read and absorb. It is to convey to the consciousness of our children. We need to learn to interpret the detailed terrible truth about the atrocities of the Bandera heroes of Zvarych-Khoruzhevskaya ...

“Better from Terek to Sunzhi I will leave the desert steppes, than in the rear of our fortifications I will suffer robberies.” A.P.Ermolov Name of the outstanding Russian commander and statesman, Alexei Petrovich ...