Everyone who studied the history of the Great Patriotic War knows about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya's feat. Her name forever entered the glorious history of victory, the victory that our country won in the confrontation with ...

He launched two terrible assaults on the resisting city. But they all failed. Sevastopol held out. From the sea, it was guarded by the power of 35 batteries. And on land, on the way of the German troops to the city ...

Analyzing the events before the Second World War and during the war itself, one can notice one feature. Many countries, nations, reaped the “fruits” of their own past. Poland from its new birth, ...

The last strategic operation, which the Red Army conducted in the Great Patriotic War, was the Prague offensive operation (5-12 in May 1945), during which the capital was liberated ...

About Osama bin Laden, the world learned 11 of September 2001, when more than 3 killed thousands of people as a result of attacks in the US and hundreds were injured. For three years, a resident of Saudi Arabia, a dissident has become ...

The storming of Berlin became a landmark event, one of the most important battles of the Great Patriotic War, along with the defense of Moscow, the Battle of the Volga and the Fiery Arc. Some authors in modern Russia ...

Polish historians, politicians, and Russian liberal authors like to talk about "stab in the back" on 17 September 1939 fighting Poland against the Third Reich Poland. They say that the USSR attacked Poland in the Union ...

The initial stage of a long journey towards recognizing the car as the best tank of the second world war. It is impossible to highlight the entire history of the T-34 in a newspaper article. It makes sense to briefly dwell on ...

At the final stage of the Great Patriotic War, the main Soviet heavy tank was the EC-2, created in 1943 by the designers of the Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant (ChKZ). In the same year, a new combat vehicle ...

“Katyusha” is the informal collective name of the BM-8 (82 mm), BM-13 (132 mm) and BM-31 (310 mm) rocket launchers. Such installations were actively used by the USSR during the Second World War ...

If humanity succeeds in completely subjugating (making controlled) the reaction of thermonuclear fusion, then the problem of obtaining energy will be solved forever. However, this has not happened yet ....

29 March 1899 was born in a poor peasant family in the settlement of Merheuli in the Transcaucasus in the impoverished peasant family Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria, who after his death was recorded in the group of the biggest "bloodsuckers" of the Russian ...

Among the naval officers there is such a sad joke: "Russian deck aviation!" The young Nakhimovite whispered and cried bitterly ... "But seriously - against the background of the world's best domestic ...

Soviet and then Russian cinema to a large extent determined the attitude of several generations of people to certain types of weapons and equipment of the Great Patriotic War. This and the myth of ...

In an effort to win the arms market, China began to produce for export its own ballistic missile M-20. But in this situation, the question arises - is it a rocket of its own, and not a copy ...

On the new developments of Russian gunsmiths: the GSH-18 pistol, capable of penetrating any body armor, a special OSIH-96 sniper rifle and others. Silent weapon, which destroyed the sleeping ...

Tulamashzavod has prepared for serial production a new artillery installation for the Navy - "Duet" or AK630-M2. The rate of fire and the effectiveness of hitting targets are doubled due to firing ...

This most formidable German tank of the Second World War was a perfect example of military equipment. The history of the creation of the tank is very lengthy and confusing. Development of a new heavy tank in ...

In 1963, the design bureau of Pavel Osipovich Sukhoi began designing a unique aircraft under the secret code "100". The chief designer of the "weave", as the developers called it, was ...

The “Barret” М82 is in demand where it is necessary to destroy lightly armored and unarmored equipment, warehouses, radars and manpower at long distances. A cartridge from a heavy machine gun ...

For almost ten years of the military operation in Afghanistan, drug traffic from this country has increased several times. And the main stream of Afghan heroin goes through Russia. 18 April in Irkutsk under ...

One of the oldest branches of the Russian army is artillery. So, the first appearance of gunshot artillery in Russia dates back to the XIV century, or more precisely, to the 1389 year. But this is only ...

Remember this date: 4 August 1984 of the year. It was on this day that the nuclear submarine K-278, which in five years became notorious as “Komsomolets”, made something unprecedented in the history of the world military ...

The BTR-90 armored personnel carrier was commissioned by the Ministry of Defense and is a joint invention of the serial car department of the management of design and experimental works of GAZ OJSC and ...