What are the soldiers silent

What are the soldiers silent

Why hasn't a TV show been broadcasted with sharp criticism of Defense Minister Serdyukov? So far, the passion around the incident connected with the recent visit of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has not abated ...
Athena Athens

Athena Athens

"War is a man's business." However, in the twentieth century, the participation of women in war, and not only as medical personnel, but also with weapons in hand, becomes a reality. Especially massive ...
OTRK "Iskander" (SS-26)

OTRK "Iskander" (SS-26)

The operational-tactical missile system (OTRK) "Iskander" ("Iskander-E" - export, "Iskander-M" - for the Russian army) was created in the context of the Treaty on ...
Last obstacle

Last obstacle

With the growth of the power of anti-tank weapons (PTS), it became clear that using passive methods to ensure the protection of armored vehicles is almost impossible. Therefore, for this purpose it is necessary to use external ...
Invisible flying object

Invisible flying object

The invisibility of aircraft has become a consequence of technological progress. Firstly, progress in the field of aircraft construction, and secondly, progress in the field of aircraft destruction. For the United States, stealth aircraft ...
Space sword

Space sword

Topol-M is the result of further modification of the Topol complex and is equipped with the more advanced RS-2PM2 missile. Due to the restrictions imposed on modernization ...
Flying saucer of the USSR

Flying saucer of the USSR

... Wheels were spinning wildly. The pilot cautiously pulled the levers - on each disk, from the side, the casing slowly crawled, and the device, similar to an overturned plate, started, and smoothly went up. No screws ...
The Hunt for the Beast

The Hunt for the Beast

The film is dedicated to the outstanding designer of small arms and guided weapons Academician Arkady G. Shipunov. In 50, Shipunov, his friend and comrade Viktor Gryazev developed a fundamentally ...
1975, riot at the "Sentinel"

1975 year, the revolt on the Watchtower

The general public knows very little about the events of November 8-9, 1975 on the large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Sentinel". The Brezhnev government cowardly hid the political from the people ...
Moon ship

Moon ship

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 ...
Auschwitz

Auschwitz

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 ...
Churchill in Russia

Churchill in Russia

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 ...
Thunderbolts of Poseidon

Thunderbolts of Poseidon

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 ....
Swift "Albatross"

Swift "Albatross"

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 ...
Heavenly predators

Heavenly predators

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 ...
And one in the field warrior

And one in the field warrior

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 ...
Gastello, ram

Gastello, ram

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 ...
General Douglas. Sky of madrid

General Douglas. Sky of madrid

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 ...
Future armor

Future armor

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...
Forbidden interview Marshal Zhukov (full version) ...

Forbidden interview Marshal Zhukov (full version) ...

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...
Myths and Invisibles

Myths and Invisibles

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 ...
Kutuzov's secret weapon

Kutuzov's secret weapon

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 ...