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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

... 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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Here, which year already, annual military exercises are held in Israel. This time, the coordination between different units, which represented tank, engineer troops, was tested ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ....

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 ...

Photo album "Gulag inmates at work, 1936-1937" ...

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 ...

Photo-postcards "Germany in the First World War" ...

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 ...

International-class analysts have said many times that the Iraqi war is, by and large, an outright farce, which was competently "produced" by the American authorities ....

During a speech at the parade, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejan said that Israel is about to collapse, because on the Day of the National Army, Iran demonstrated such military power that no enemy ...

And the unforgettable happens. It would seem that an abandoned spaceship on Moscow street is something from the realm of fantasy. But, alas, this is the real reality. Correspondent “MK” discovered the orbital ...

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 ...

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 ...

A selection of photos of snipers ...

A selection of aircraft carrier photos ...