In June 2011, the US Navy Command announced its plans for the future of US Navy destroyers. Prospective destroyers of the Zumwalt type were too expensive for ...

Time does not turn back. However, who can say what would have happened if the trouble had happened again, and the enemy had invaded the territory of our state? Can we hope for such a behavior ...

For the first time, women were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union by a decree of November 2, 1938. Pilots Valentina Grizodubova, Polina Osipenko and Marina Raskova were awarded for ...

The arms race is not only a time of insane and rapid accumulation of weapons that are deadly for the planet and its testing, it is also the period of the activities of brilliant designers and engineers ....

Virtually every country in the world is studying the phenomenon of UFOs, even those that seem technically backward. But the results of these studies, as a rule, remain under the heading "Perfectly ...

The film was released allegedly in 1943, during the Second World War, filmed by the Office of Special Services of the USA and the Ministry of Communications. This is an openly propaganda, but very delicate copy ...

One of the most powerful images that the United States has won over the hearts and minds of people all over the planet has become the myth of democracy and freedom. The United States has become a model for all, the "beacon of democracy", having received ...

For some unknown reason, the general public knows almost nothing about the armored trains of the Great Patriotic War. Perhaps this was due to the fact that the main types of technology, ...

In Russia, in 1834, engineer Adjutant General Karl Andreevich Schilder (1785 - 1854) built a submarine at the Aleksandrovsk Foundry (now NPO Proletarskiy Zavod) ...

January 1945. Peenemünde is threatened by Soviet troops. Von Braun leaves the rocket center and takes refuge in an alpine ski resort, where in early May his long-awaited rescuers appear - Americans ....

Events with the participation of secret agents are rarely discussed in society, therefore, interest in their amazing life on the part of ordinary people is always high. Information about such people is very significant for sovereigns, ...

Independent Estonia ... Peaceful sky overhead. High quality of life. Leisurely calm life: friendly passers-by, laughing children. Clean, well maintained streets. Monuments to the heroes ... SS, who fought "for ...

Fedor Fedorovich Ushakov, the future great Russian naval commander and admiral, was born (13) 24 in February 1744, in the village of Burnakovo in an impoverished noble family. In 1766, Fedor graduated from the Naval Cadet ...

More than half a century ago, the first flight tests of the first jet passenger domestic Tu-104 aircraft began. Its creation has become an important stage in the development of world aviation. Successful ...

1991 year was the beginning of a new era in world history, the beginning of which marked the collapse of the USSR into independent states. With his disappearance, the longest war of the twentieth century ended, ...

An-225 “Mriya” super heavy transport aircraft was designed, developed and built upon the order of Glavkosmos of the USSR to ensure the fulfillment of space programs for transporting large-size ...

At the end of 1944, a rocket attack plan on the United States begins to emerge in the inflamed mind of the leaders of Nazi Germany. Hitler's ill imagination, by that time already suffering an unequivocal ...

Frogmen are submariners-bombers, who are one of the most secret special units of the naval forces of any army. The first information about them came in the period of the Second ...

Every year the number of veterans, witnesses of the Second World War is getting smaller. And after some ten years and they will not be alive. Therefore, it is now important to find out the truth about these ...

In 1913, the General Staff of Russia drew attention to the fact that the German military instructions often contain indications of the need to use rifle grenades. Also there was information that ...

In the 70-ies in the Soviet Union was created another type of grenade launchers - disposable. Multi-purpose and assault grenades became one of the types of ammunition for disposable grenade launchers. Reactive ...

The war against the German invaders claimed millions of lives of Soviet people, cutting out a huge number of men, women, children and the elderly. The horrors of the fascist attack were experienced by every inhabitant of our ...

The history of the heroic feat of Soviet prisoners of war, which consists in escaping from fascist captivity on a hijacked plane, is still amazing. Through 67 years after daring theft ...

At the end of the twentieth century 40, in addition to hand grenade launchers, another type of weapon was developed in the Soviet Union — the 82 caliber 122 and XNUMX mm anti-tank grenade launchers, which ...