Cursed and forgotten
"The picture shows not just the chronicles of the last wars that have befallen Russia, but, summing up the terrible experience of these wars, it proves the criminality of the authorities and society behind these wars and ...
The trouble and pride of the USSR airship
Buying something ready-made is always cheaper than doing it yourself from scratch. Therefore, when at the turn of the 1920s-1930s the USSR faced the task of building its own fleet of large airships, the government ...
Pinocchio lights
Volley "Buratino" - an impressive sight. Leaving behind a fiery tail, the missile rapidly and accurately flies to the target. What remains of the enemy entrenched in the fortifications can only be ...
Adjustable artillery shells
The events described below occurred in the second half of the 80s. beyond the borders of our country. The fortified enemy site in the highlands could not be destroyed by conventional fire weapons. For...
German anti-aircraft missiles
By the middle of 1943, regular Allied bomber raids strongly undermined the German military industry. Air defense guns could not fire above 11 kilometers, and ...
Airplane with a nuclear engine
Let's start with the fact that in 1950-s. in the USSR, unlike the USA, the creation of an atomic bomber was perceived not only as a desirable, even if very, but as a vital task. It...
From T-34 to the Indian Ocean
The lesson was difficult, but not in vain: during the Great Patriotic War, Soviet designers and industry learned how to make good tanks. 70 years ago, 19 December 1939, for service ...
These Heroes of Russia - "Gyurza"
During the first Chechen campaign, Bamut remained the main outpost of the militants for a long time. "Bamut - Russians will never take it!" - this expression, like a spell, was repeated on ...
Why Hitler's ally Franco ruled Spain until his death
Generalissimo Francisco Franco was a very cunning politician who ruled Spain from the 1939 year to the 1973 year. An interesting fact is that he vehemently hated everything Soviet, was an ally of Adolf Hitler ...
Air "Centaur"
With the adoption of the Airborne Forces of the main combat vehicle BMD-1 and on its base of the armored personnel carrier of the landing BTR-D, the idea of landing personnel inside the combat vehicle appeared ....
Strategic Aviation
Only two countries in the world - the United States and Russia - have in the Armed Forces an elite branch of the Air Force - Strategic or Long-Range Aviation. Together with submarines and ...
Tanks of the USSR, before the war
It would not be an exaggeration to assert that Soviet tankers fell in love with BT tanks primarily for speed. “What kind of Russian doesn't like to drive fast?” Doesn't it? However, for military specialists ...
Battle Stechkin
The pistol was developed in the late forties by order of the USSR Ministry of Defense as personal weapons of soldiers and officers in those places where the Makarov pistol was scarce both on ammunition and ...
Tank building in the USSR, 30-ies
Having received ready-made samples of foreign armored vehicles and mastered them in production, Soviet specialists immediately found themselves in the mainstream of world tank design, but were forced for a while ...
PC-20 "Governor" SS-18 "Satan"
R-36M is a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile. Equipped with a monoblock warhead and MIRV IN with ten warheads. Developed at the Yuzhnoye Design Bureau under the leadership of Mikhail Yangel and ...
Ships of Armageddon (part 1)
History of the battleship fleet of Russia, construction, battles and deaths of the "Empress Maria" and the battleship "Novorossiysk". The decision to strengthen the Black Sea Fleet with new battleships ...
Ships of Armageddon (part 2)
On June 27, 1909, Italy passed the Maritime Law providing for the construction of 4 dreadnoughts, 3 reconnaissance cruisers, 12 submarines, 12 destroyers and 34 destroyers. The law was approved on December 2 and then ...
Tokarev self-loading rifle
Only two armies at the beginning of World War II had a ready-made mass model of a self-loading rifle: the Red Army had a Tokarev rifle (SVT), the American had the M1 Garand. SVT in our armory, ...
Rotorcraft "Terminator"
Mi-8 - a middle class helicopter, created as a deep modernization of the Mi-4 helicopter with GTE. The first flight of the serial car took place 26 October 1965 g. Reliability, simplicity and convenience in ...
Goldfish
NPS K-162 (“Anchar”, in the classification of NATO - PAPA) was laid 28 December 1963 in Severodvinsk and commissioned 31 December 1969 g. The speed in 44,7 node (more than 80 ...
Silent Weapon (Sniper Special "Vintorez")
VSS "Vintorez" - a sniper rifle special, is part of the complex BSC (silent sniper complex), consisting of a rifle, 9-mm sniper cartridge SP-5 (armor-piercing cartridge SP-6), ...
Anniversary of Makarov's Grandfather
From 1951, the 9-mm PM was officially adopted by the Soviet Army, which still faithfully serves people in uniform. - Unlock the fuse! - Shutter! A click of the bolts is heard, then sounds ...
“Unattachable defense lines of the 20th century” Mannerheim Line (part 2)
In the 1939-1940 of the last century, the Finns were able to prove to the whole world that the idea of defending their own borders using fortified areas (URs) had not completely outlived itself. Finns were able to build on ...
The first Russian tanks
Our country can rightly be called the birthplace of world tank design. And although the first tanks that appeared on the battlefields of the First World War were built not in our country, but in England, this statement ...