Armor and Helmets.15-17 century
photos from museums ...
Heroic tractors
The Minsk plant of wheeled tractors MZKT in Soviet times was a secret division of MAZ. It was his multi-axle automobile chassis that was being driven across Red Square during the days of the rocket parades, the air defense installations and ...
Mines
Mines from Afghanistan ....
California Air Show
Photos from the air show, which took place last weekend in Sacramento ...
The largest exercises of the Airborne Forces since the USSR
At the end of August in the Kostroma, Yaroslavl and Ivanovo regions the largest exercises of the Airborne Forces of the last 20 years passed! ...
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) ...
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
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 ...
Vertically flying amphibious BBA-14 (Monino)
BBA-14 (Vertically Soaring Amphibian, later modified to an 14M1P screen) - an experimental Soviet apparatus (seaplane, bomber and torpedo bomber), designed by Robert Bartini, ...
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 ...
Day of Military Glory of Russia - Day of the Battle of Borodino (1812 year)
- Tell me, uncle, is it not for nothing that Moscow, burned by fire, has been given to Frenchman? After all, there were fights fighting, Yes, they say, some more! No wonder all Russia remembers About the day of Borodin! M. Lermontov "Borodino", ...
A secret air defense object is available for anyone.
He walked this landscape painter, walked ... He sees - the gate is crooked, there is no gate, there are no inscriptions, plates with work time and a lunch break ... Some kind of torn and rusty wire, no longer barbed ...
Vernadsky's Noosphere
Vernadsky's ideas were far ahead of the time in which he worked. This fully applies to the theory of the biosphere and its transition to the noosphere. Only now, in conditions of an extraordinary exacerbation ...
In iraq
The reason for the start of the military operation in Iraq was the assumption that Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction, but later it turned out that Iraq did not have such weapons. Recall that the first bombs ...
Afghanistan: August 2010
Until the end of 2010, another 4 months, and he has already become the deadliest for the American troops. 321 American soldiers were killed, while the total number of killed soldiers of the coalition forces was 485 ...
Multiple launch rocket system "tornado"
Long-range multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) "Smerch" is designed to defeat any group targets at distant approaches, the vulnerable elements of which are open and ...
Sad fate
"Energy-Buran". Photo tour of the assembly and test case. Excursion to the destroyed assembly and test building (MIC) on the 112 site of the cosmodrome, where on May 12 2002 the roof collapsed, burying ...
Alexander Matrosov
Alexander Matrosov during the Second World War closed the enemy's bunker with his body, saving his comrades with his own life and giving his division the opportunity to capture the strategically important ...
A declassified documentary about the atomic cruiser “Kirov” appeared on the Internet
28 August Russian military blogger Igor Jadan posted on his site igorrgroup.blogspot.com a 80 video of the last century, lasting almost 9 minutes, telling about the adoption on ...
Death rays
The technology of the first half of the twentieth century did not allow the creation of a system in any way reminiscent of those "rays of death" or "heat rays" that science fiction writers wrote and scientists thought about. New weapons and ...
28 Panfilov: Eternal glory to the fallen, the survivors - the camp ...
The real course of events became known - however, to a very limited circle of people - already in 1948, during the trial of one of the participants of that legendary battle, Ivan Dobrobin. Panfilov was tried for ...
Afghanistan in 1994 and 2010 year
Photographer Seamus Murphy, 'VII' magazine, returned to Afghanistan in June 2010 of the year and again visited the places he had shot since 1994. After billions of dollars spent and a few years ...
The White General
The legendary general spent more than half of his life in battle. He participated in 70 battles and was the victor of all. The officers and soldiers who knew Skobelev in his business considered the general ...
Anti-aircraft missile system 9K81M S-300VM ATNEY-2500 (SA-12 Giant / Gladiator)
The mobile universal anti-missile and anti-aircraft system S-300VM "Antey-2500" belongs to a new generation of anti-missile and anti-aircraft defense systems (PRO-PSO). She...