The H1-L3 project was too large for one enterprise (in the United States, more than 20000 organizations worked on Apollo). OKB-1 Korolev was appointed chief of N1-L3. The lunar ship itself was ...

The first impressions of the prisoners who got to Auschwitz turned out to be only a tragic deception. Sixty-five years ago, on January 27, 1945, the Soviet troops liberated the prisoners of Auschwitz - the very ...

On the use of armored vehicles obtained during the war, in the literature there are quite contradictory information. Our story today is about the Allies' only heavy tank, which ...

In 2009, the 20 anniversary of the two most terrible tragedies that occurred during the years of perestroika, the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the death of the strategic submarine rocket carrier K-219 ....

The idea of ​​creating the ship pr. 1124 as a specialized high-speed anti-submarine ship of small displacement originated in 50-60. XX century, which was due to the appearance abroad underwater ...

Over the 60 years of its history, the Kamov helicopter company has rightfully become a national treasure of Russia and has received worldwide recognition. Today rotary-wing aircraft with the "KA" emblem ...

It often happened that a Russian soldier showed his heroism and bravery on the battlefield, even if he remained cut off from his fellow soldiers and comrades. These stories originate more in ...

International-class analysts have said many times that the Iraqi war is, by and large, an outright farce, which was competently "produced" by the American authorities ....

Without a doubt, everyone in school was passing the story of the fiery ramming of an enemy tank column, the unanimous decision of the heroic crew to send a burning plane to the enemy column. In the name of Gastello ...

For the first time about him talking after a civil war in Spain, in which he participated as a volunteer. Under the pseudonym "General Douglas", he not only directed Soviet and republican aviation, but also ...

Creating materials based on nanostructures in the future will allow creating incredibly durable body armor and armor of a new generation, which will be several times superior in strength to current samples. In...

The interview of the four times Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal Georgy Zhukov, to the writer Konstantin Simonov was on the Rossiya K TV channel on May 9 and was widely advertised. Previously...

The developers of the fifth-generation Russian fighter could not catch up with the Americans - having failed to combine the "classic" stealth layout with decent flight performance, they chose ...

It is not known what the course of the Napoleonic wars would have been if the emperor of France had led them using the submarine fleet and the air force. Such an assumption is not fiction. Until 1804, the year ...

- Tell me, uncle, is it not for nothing that Moscow, burned by fire, has been given to Frenchman? After all, there were fights fighting, Yes, they say, some more! No wonder all Russia remembers About the day of Borodin! M. Lermontov "Borodino", ...

Vernadsky's ideas were far ahead of the time in which he worked. This fully applies to the theory of the biosphere and its transition to the noosphere. Only now, in conditions of an extraordinary exacerbation ...

Long-range multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) "Smerch" is designed to defeat any group targets at distant approaches, the vulnerable elements of which are open and ...

Alexander Matrosov during the Second World War closed the enemy's bunker with his body, saving his comrades with his own life and giving his division the opportunity to capture the strategically important ...

28 August Russian military blogger Igor Jadan posted on his site igorrgroup.blogspot.com a 80 video of the last century, lasting almost 9 minutes, telling about the adoption on ...

The technology of the first half of the twentieth century did not allow the creation of a system in any way reminiscent of those "rays of death" or "heat rays" that science fiction writers wrote and scientists thought about. New weapons and ...

The real course of events became known - however, to a very limited circle of people - already in 1948, during the trial of one of the participants of that legendary battle, Ivan Dobrobin. Panfilov was tried for ...

The legendary general spent more than half of his life in battle. He participated in 70 battles and was the victor of all. The officers and soldiers who knew Skobelev in his business considered the general ...

The mobile universal anti-missile and anti-aircraft system S-300VM "Antey-2500" belongs to a new generation of anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense systems (PRO-PSO). She...

One of the areas of military construction in the United States is the creation of a multi-component anti-missile defense system. The Republican administration of George W. Bush decided to deploy a third ...