Ukraine is ready to lease to Russia a simulator for deck aircraft NITKA in Crimea. This was stated by the Minister of Defense of Ukraine, Mikhail Yezhel, on the eve in Kiev at a meeting with the Chief of the General Staff ...

In the afternoon, Russian military minister Anatoly Serdyukov flew to Abkhazia. His meeting with the Abkhaz colleague Merab Kishmariya has already been officially confirmed. During the visit, planned ...

The new national grenade launcher is designed to completely replace the RPG-7. The new PF-89 grenade launcher will weigh just 1,8 kg. An 80mm shot weighs about the same. Pipe length ...

The German secret service BND was at the center of a scandal over the possible embezzlement of the secret plans of its new headquarters in Berlin. The government is trying to find out as soon as possible ...

The newest multipurpose nuclear submarine (nuclear submarine) "Severodvinsk" (project 885) will soon leave for the White Sea for two months to conduct sea trials, the general ...

The Mobile Landing Platform (MLP) ships are expected to serve as a “transitional stage” between heavy transport ships carrying land vehicles and their landing ...

France recognized the futility of NATO’s military operation in Libya, stating the need for the opposing sides to begin direct negotiations to find a political solution. Such a call was made ...

Recruits flee military units of the Western Military District. Run on the way to the unit. Run, not having stayed and days in the territory of the part. Run, not taking the oath. Acolytes in the shoots are often ...

Last week, 100 celebrated the birth of the Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Sergei Leonidovich Sokolov. Participant fighting with Japanese militarists at Lake Hassan in 1938, ...

On the Chinese Internet, a photograph of serial samples of the newest Chinese tank type 99А2 appeared during transportation by rail. The picture shows that tanks of type 99А2, apparently, have already gone ...

The explosions thundered at the naval base in the south of Cyprus after the fire that occurred at the ammunition depot, ITAR-TASS reported. According to reports from the scene, at the base of the destroyed part of the buildings ....

The United States suspends financial assistance to the Pakistani armed forces in the amount of 800 million dollars, the White House Chief of Staff William Daly said on Sunday ...

Eyewitnesses of the tragedy say that the ship went under water in just a couple of minutes. Chronicle of events - at the correspondent of the TV channel "Russia-24". It was the most ordinary flight. Such often ...

In the military, they developed a new uniform for wearing at high temperatures: the soldiers would look like boy scouts. As Life News was told in the Ministry of Defense, the set includes 5 things - special ...

The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, canceled in the republic a ban on the extradition of dead militants to relatives. According to Yevkurov, in this way relatives will have fewer reasons for revenge ....

Concern "Izhmash" has started to develop a new assault rifle, which will replace the Kalashnikov assault rifle. Interim Acting General Director of Izhmash Maxim ...

Commanders will answer for the explosions of arsenals in Udmurtia and Bashkiria. Meanwhile, experts say: they could not have happened if the military department had placed government orders for the disposal of ammunition on time ....

In Turkmenistan, 20 kilometers from the capital, Ashgabat, explosions occurred. As reported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic on the eve of the evening, because of the heat in the vicinity of the city of Abadan, warehouses with pyrotechnics exploded. By...

Total losses in armed conflicts in which the United States of America participated, starting with the terrorist attacks that took place in September 2001, amounted, according to the most modest estimates, to 225 000 ...

Algeria intends to purchase from Russia three corvettes of Project 20382 "Tiger" - an export version of the escort ship of Project 20380 "Guarding", - with reference to its sources in the company ...

In the waters of Peter the Great Bay within the framework of the summer training plan, tactical exercises of warships of the Pacific Fleet were completed. Under the leadership of the commander of the Primorsky Association ...

Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov, at a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Mikhail Yezhel on Wednesday, asked him to lease a simulator for carrier-based aircraft NITKA (Crimea) to Russia ...

A military parade dedicated to the 200 anniversary of the independence of Venezuela took place in Caracas. President of the country Hugo Chavez, who returned after treatment in Cuba, gave the order to start the parade. The celebrations took ...

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the Minister of Defense to report within three days whether the state defense order will be fulfilled this year. "Understand the situation if the information that ...