The word "Sniper" comes from the English snipe - snipe. This is a cautious bird, the hunt for which requires good masking and shooting from a long distance. The first snipers appeared with the invention ...

Internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. They are also called warring troops, because some of their units and formations periodically perform their work in the North Caucasus. But even among them a special place ...

Rzhev battle. One of the most dramatic in the history of the Second World War. Myths, legends, little-known facts. You can recall the grove in the form of a swastika, allegedly planted by invaders on the right bank ...

A fire unprecedented in modern history in a vast region, practically from Morocco to Pakistan. These are no longer individual mines. Tears from different ends, like a powder store. Let me remind you that this particular region ...

Small light aircraft. It seems that the topic for the story is ungrateful, unworthy. What to talk about? No power bomber. There are no fast-moving features and speed of a fighter. There is no solidity airliner ....

Naval exercises 70-s. Hundreds of ships, thousands of naval aircraft. The scene of action is the seas and oceans. Amphibians conduct reconnaissance. Anti-submarine aircraft and helicopters carry on ...

Mention of the types of helicopters reached us from time immemorial. In the 4 century, it was proposed by the Chinese scientist Guo Hong, in 15-m - the great Leonardo da Vinci. The multifaceted genius of Mikhail Lomonosov is also not ...

Airborne are considered one of the most combat-ready parts of our army. Two wars in Chechnya and the August war 2008 of the year 2008 of the year, with Georgia, confirmed their high status. Airborne Troops on the right ...

26 April 1986 of the year. On the 4-m power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant two explosions were heard. At a nuclear facility disaster occurred. Scientists have suggested to tightly close the reactor on top of a protective layer of sand. But...

No matter what they say, one thing is indisputable: there is no more extensive and more extensive underground fortified area in the world than the one that was dug in the river triangle Warta - Obra - Oder for more than half a century ...

Against the background of the revolutionary conflagration spreading throughout the Arab East, the comments of official Washington sound especially absurd and confused. "President Mubarak is our important ...

Cyber ​​war is a possible war of the near future, bloodless but deadly at the same time. A kind of revolution in the art of warfare. Humanity has reached such a degree of development that ...

Armored combat vehicles and aircraft. It would seem, what can be in common between them? In fact, the points of contact are much larger than it might seem at first glance. In 70's on ...

By the 60 years in the Soviet Army there were three types of tanks - light, medium and heavy. In 1966, the T-64 was adopted. According to the characteristics of maneuverability, it was a medium tank, and its armor and ...

World War II was nearing its end. In the fall of 1944, the medium tank T-44 was adopted by the Red Army. This car was a logical continuation of the T-34. T-44 was built taking into account the experience of the war and became ...

End of the 30s of the twentieth century. The world was inevitably approaching a major war. As a result of the Spanish and then the Finnish wars, it became clear that Soviet tanks needed improvement. For the role of the new ...

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 ...