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2025-06-01 06:06

It is no secret that for many Soviet officers it was very prestigious to own a captured pistol. Most often, German short-barreled weapons could be at the disposal of the infantry commanders of the platoon-battalion level and the military personnel of the reconnaissance units. That is, those who

2025-06-01 06:06

A rare photo - two identical Russian warships of non-Soviet construction together. But that should stop being rare. Photo: defenceimagery.mod.uk Having decided on the principles that should underlie the sane shipbuilding policy of Russia, you need to subject them at least

2025-06-01 06:06

The High-Precision Complexes holding (part of the Rostec state corporation) was formed in 2009. Judging by the brand's popularity in Russia and abroad, the consolidation of the scientific and technical potential of specialized enterprises was successful. Not every integrated structure can boast

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About spilled blood - as a general to a general In February 2021, shortly before the next anniversary of the armed conflict on Damansky Island, a very lengthy and, to put it mildly, somewhat strange material was published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. It was a big interview with a retired major general

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In the minds of the majority of Europeans, and even the citizens of Russia, the expanses of Southern Siberia, Altai, Mongolia, Northern and Central China have always been an area of settlement for the peoples of the Mongoloid race, but this is far from the case. Already in 3000 BC, Southern Siberia was inhabited by the clans of the Indo-European

Results of the past year in the unmanned sphere Everything that concerns unmanned aerial vehicles is a rather narrow and specific topic. Nevertheless, news, one way or another related to it, in the past year often attracted the attention of the military-technical expert community. They are mostly

Twenty trillion rubles. To put it mildly, the amount is rather big. Almost immediately after the announcement of plans for the development of the defense industry, voices began to sound, asserting that it was impossible to give so much money to the military and industrial workers. They say that the USSR had already allocated huge sums for defense needs, but it collapsed anyway. AND

Recently, the head of Ukraine's mission to the North Atlantic Alliance, Ambassador I. Didenko, said that the Ukrainian government is taking a number of measures to develop relations with NATO at a qualitatively new level in the military sector. During an interview for the Interfax-Ukraine agency, he noted that due to

Disruption of the defense order, the collapse of the defense industry, lack of necessary production capacity, outdated equipment, no money, the Ministry of Defense puts forward its demands, manufacturers do not agree with them, and so on. Familiar theses from the not too distant past. The proverbial five percent off

"… Continuation of advantages" No matter how good the aircraft was, the trial operation at first gave a generous crop of disadvantages. Almost from every flight the Tu-160 brought failures of a variety of systems and, first of all, complex and capricious electronics (the fact that the development of B-1B by the Americans

It is unlikely that thirty or forty years ago, someone could have imagined that the pavilions and parking areas of aviation salons would simply be packed with European technology. At that time, in full accordance with the political situation in the world, the leaders in this industry were the countries located "on the edges" of Europe - the USSR and the USA

And again about the USSR, its collapse and our "achievements" in quotes or without. This time, let's talk about industry and compare the main production indicators of the Soviet period with some indicators of industrial production in Russia as of 2010

According to Rossiyskaya Gazeta, our country is one of the contenders for the victory in the tender promising a rather tense struggle. We are talking about deliveries to the Royal Malaysian Air Force of 18 multifunctional combat fighter aircraft. At air shows, contracts are signed after many years

The urgent problem of building echeloned air defense of industrial and military facilities requires the implementation of such an important task as the protection and protection of the last line and the near zone, TsAMTO reports. But

The US government has launched an active campaign to combat the economic crisis. Congress officials are proposing to cut spending by $ 1.5 trillion over the next ten years, with half of that amount going to be spent on the US military-industrial complex. Such

Russia is one of the permanent participants in the arms shows held every two years in Malaysia. And although the Russian exposition is not very large, there are always military-technical innovations. The LIMA-2011 military-technical salon demonstrated unrelenting interest in the Russian

India's call for 126 fighter jets, the most expensive arms tender in history, is close to failure as Delhi faces a shortage of funds. This gives Russia a chance to catch up. If the contract is canceled, Moscow, the loser

Is it possible in Russia from scratch to create a private plant specializing in the production of high-precision small arms? The experience of the Promtechnologii group of companies shows that this is possible. But is it realistic to withstand competition with eminent foreign firms and, in part, large

At the moment, the tank forces of Indonesia are armed with 275 models of the AMX-13, 15 PT-76 and 60 Scorpions-90 tanks, which belong to the representatives of the light class of military equipment. All these models were released a long time ago and at the moment they no longer provide sufficient combat

The Indonesian military noted the high quality of the weapons already purchased from Russia and plan to continue cooperation with the Russian defense industry. In particular, it is planned to conclude additional contracts for the supply of another batch of Su-30MK2 fighters, for a total amount of more than

A new project for the production of helicopter engines is planned to be launched in Ufa. According to the government of the Republic of Bashkortostan, the volume of state investments in new serial production until 2015 will amount to about 10 billion rubles. The engines will be produced by the Ufa

Failures have been haunting France for more than one year, deliveries of the Rafale fighter to the UAE, which the countries have agreed on since 2008, will never happen. The customer - the United Arab Emirates - refused to buy French fighters, saying that this offer is uncompetitive

Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, made a statement a few months ago that in 2012 the total amount allocated for the purchase of weapons will amount to 880 billion rubles. However, recently there was a message from Sergei Ivanov, Deputy Prime Minister, stating that the costs

Recently, the US military department reported that thousands of counterfeit Chinese-made components were found in their military equipment. Namely, counterfeit components for electronic devices. According to the Senate, the number of such components may be over 1 million, since the Pentagon

According to the state armament program until 2020, the Sevmash plant turned out to be one of several factories loaded with state orders at full capacity. In addition to the already announced orders, which are already being produced at the plant, in 2012 the creation of the nuclear submarines Borey-A and Yasen-M will begin. Yet