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Navy and the aviation industry continue large-scale program of repair and modernization of military transport helicopters Ka-29. After restoring and updating equipment returns to service and increases naval aviation. In recent yea...
5 of the best snipers in world history according to the American edition
Sniper - more than just a gunslinger, and being a sniper is more than just to be able to shoot well. World history knows many great shooters, but one of them are the most outstanding?the American military publication We Are The Mi...
The defeat of the Russian fleet in the Second battle Rochensalmsky
the Battle of Rochensalm. Uhan Citric Schultz230 years ago held the Second Rochensalmsky battle. The Swedish fleet inflicted a heavy defeat on the Russian rowing fleet under the command of the Prince of Nassau-Siegen. This allowed...
Russian symmetrical response: MPF against "Octopus-SD"
Light tank M8. Photo BAE SystemsIn 2015, the US army launched a program Mobile Protected Firepower (MPF). Its purpose is to create new "light tank" with the maximum possible firepower and mobility, and combat weight of no more tha...
It was yours, ours. Venezuelan gold remained in the UK
Source: travelask.ruError Madurothe Strategy of storage of the gold reserves of power in the banks of a foreign country is risky. As an example we can mention India (1991), which secured a loan sent 8 tons of gold in the UK. With ...
the Georgian SSR. Source: visualhistory.livejournal.comheavy accountGeorgia has long been struggling with its Soviet legacy, going into open anti-Russian rhetoric. In the country have long been replaced by the term "Great Patrioti...
Guerrilla rocket: easy rocket system "Grad-P"
Launcher 9П132 in one of the Vietnamese museums. Photo Wikimedia CommonsUSSR actively supported North Vietnam with supplies of the material. Among other samples, supplied ally, was an easy rocket system "Grad-P", created at his re...
The Indian government has allocated funds for the purchase of Russian fighter jets
all the same, India will buy Russian fighter 33 for the air force. As reported by the Indian media, the Council for defence procurement (Defence Acquisition Council DAC) of the Cabinet of Ministers of the government of India appro...
Operation "Catapult". How the British sank the French fleet
English battleship HMS hood (left) and "valiant" under the return fire of the French battleship "Dunkerque" or "Provence" at mers-El-Kebir80 years ago, on 3 July 1940, was conducted operation "Catapult". The British attacked the F...
Welcome. This is not news, not an article, a story, truthful or not, you decide. I wrote it back in 2014 in the footsteps of the battle for Slavyansk, but to publish is not, I don't know why. Maybe at the time this story is no sur...
Potemkin hospital as a symbol of the future of Russia
When will this material, the opening of the isolation hospital at Voronezh 200 seats, specialized on the coronavirus, most likely, will take place.Will be solemn speeches, ribbon cutting, bravura reports. And the Governor may in n...
Antitank capabilities of the Soviet self-propelled guns SU-152 and ISU-152
In memoir and literature, devoted to the great Patriotic war, quite often given high marks antitank capabilities of the Soviet self-propelled guns SU-152 and ISU-152. The authors lauding high striking effect of the 152-mm projecti...
Czech media: Putin may exceed the term of Soviet leaders
Today is the final day of the Popular vote for amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation. If they are accepted, Putin will have the right to run again at the expiration of his presidential term. In this case, he can...
the Ukrainian defense industry continues to present their latest developments. At this time, declared the creation of shock drone Middleweight.the head of the Ukrainian state company "the Beam" Oleg Korostelev, who is simultaneous...
"Putin has decided to further stay in power," in Germany reacted to the last vote on the amendments
the Amendments, which the President of Russia Vladimir Putin wanted to contribute to the country's Constitution was already approved earlier by the State Duma and the Federation Council, but he wanted the blessings of the people, ...
Professor of international politics of Helsinki University Teivo Teivainen drew attention to the fact that the air forces of Finland, not advertising it, finally decided to remove the swastika from their official paraphernalia. Si...
The peak of the Galicia-Volyn state
Approximately could imagine Nogai is, perhaps, the most eminent ruler of the Steppe the end of the XIII century,Realizing that the Horde is long Leo already in 1262 began to defend the new policy of subordination and cooperation w...
Station, "owl": to pluck attacks on ships
General view of the product 5P-42 "Filin"a Few years ago, the Russian industry for the first time presented the station visual optical interference 5P-42Э "rook". In the future, a project of 5P-42 "Filin" with the same features, b...
"Much superior counterparts": Turkey created a system of short-range air defense Sungur
anti-aircraft missile system air defense Sungur Turkey successfully tested and is ready to go into service. This was announced yesterday the head of the defense industry of Turkey Ismail Demir on his Twitter page. This information...
Graduate 41-yearMy father, Tikhmenev Vladimir Yevgenyevich born in 1923, was one of the few among their peers who are fortunate enough to go through the war and stay alive. As other happy boys and girls, 21 June 1941 he was in the...