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Gravity Jet Suit on trials in the Netherlands, April 2021 Half a century ago, several leading countries were actively involved in the topic of the so-called. jetpacks and other individual aircraft. At that time, technologies did not allow creating such a product with a sufficient level of performance, and

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Much has been said about the battles of the RAF pilots with the Luftwaffe aces in the "Battle of Britain", and the battle was dismantled piece by piece. Now we will talk about one episode of the "Battle of Britain", which took place a little later, from June 13, 1944 to March 17, 1945

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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

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And it sounds in all - a terrible tragedy, miscalculations, unprofessionalism, stupidity, the wrong choice of the route … As for me, it was a tragedy when 83.6% of the servicemen involved in the operation died in the Smolensk battle, and that one with signs of optimism - during this time we prepared for the defense of Moscow. it

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PD-14. Photo: Vitaly Kuzmin, vitalykuzmin.net Long-awaited, Russian Not all developed countries can afford to create their own aircraft engines. At one time, the Soviet Union was in this honorary club, and Russia rested on its former laurels for many decades. Mass production

Do not think that rare and very expensive helmets have been and are being found only abroad. And it is even more foolish to consider in their findings some kind of belittling of our Russian culture. Well, there was no Roman culture in our lands, the Romans did not reach here. Therefore, there are no Roman

September 11 marks the next Day of Russia's Military Glory - the Day of the Victory of the Russian squadron under the command of Rear Admiral Fyodor Fedorovich Ushakov over the Ottoman fleet at Cape Tendra. This Day of Military Glory was established by Federal Law No. 32-FZ of March 13, 1995 "On the Days of Military Glory and Memorable

September 11 marks the next Day of Russia's Military Glory - the Day of the Victory of the Russian squadron under the command of Rear Admiral Fyodor Fedorovich Ushakov over the Ottoman fleet at Cape Tendra. This Day of Military Glory was established by Federal Law No. 32-FZ of March 13, 1995 "On the Days of Military Glory and Memorable

After it became clear that the negotiations on the Aland Islands would not be completed peacefully and information appeared about the agreements of the former allies with Sweden, Petersburg decided to resume hostilities. Sweden needed to be forced to make peace, and this required the postponement of hostilities

The eighteenth century was replete with not only the gold of the palaces of enlightened absolutism, where the singing of violins poured under the graceful pas of court minuets, and philosophers invited by the kings plunged indestructible truths into the dust, sitting by the fireplaces. Very close, on the other side of the cast-iron fence, both massive and

Among the helmets that were discussed in the series of publications "The Most Expensive Helmets", there have not yet been Viking helmets. Although they are a real rarity and therefore, naturally, are very expensive. Moreover, the plural is completely inappropriate here. Wouldn't stand, but worth it, because the helmet is for sure

The Marlborough Mission In 1706, Swedish forces occupied Saxony. The Saxon elector and the Polish king August II were forced to sign a separate peace. According to the peace treaty signed in the village of Altranstedt, August II abdicated the Polish throne in favor of Stanislav Leszczynski, renounced

The next Victory Day has died down, as always, brightly and festively. A new cycle of history begins. And it begins very soon: on June 22, when it will be 75 years since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. And again, for 5 years, we will remember everything that happened in those tragic years. Without it

And it so happened that in the process of preparing the material about the helmet of Yaroslav Vsevolodovich, I had to face the problem of the absence of his photographs, as well as photographs of the "helmet of Alexander Nevsky", but in fact the helmet of Tsar Mikhail Fedorovich Romanov. It would seem that everything should be on the Internet

A series of articles about "the most expensive helmets" aroused interest among VO readers. Many began to offer their own options for the development of this topic. Someone asked to tell about some specific samples, which, however, is not always possible, although expensive helmets, sometimes worth a fortune, are a dime a dozen. Today

All outstanding commanders and commanders strove to use surprise as a means of achieving the fastest and most complete success in battle and operation. In different periods of the development of the art of war, the forms, methods and methods of achieving surprise were different. Especially high skill in their

On August 14, 1775, by the decree of the Russian Empress Catherine II, the Zaporozhye Sich was finally abolished. After the reunification of a significant part of Little Russia with the Russian state in 1654, privileges were extended to the Zaporozhye army, which were enjoyed by other Russian Cossack

One hundred and fifty dogs tore apart a regiment of Invincible enemy infantry. Author: Alexander Zhuravlev I was told by an old gray-haired man that he saw a terrible battle in childhood, And that story has long become a legend, As with a battalion of border guards, one hundred and fifty service dogs Torn to shreds a regiment of a German wolf pack. Author: Igor Krasa

Today, in the era of a pandemic and the battle between Western and domestic vaccines, it is worth remembering that relatively recently (in historical terms) epidemics were used in wars as weapons of mass destruction. Especially at the stage when there were no drugs for infectious diseases, and Western and domestic

On February 8, 1939, Iosif Apanasenko was awarded the title of "commander of the 2nd rank". And exactly 80 years ago, in February 1941, he received the shoulder straps of the "army general". He was called "rebel", swearing general and "savage uprising". But "where he was, everything was fine." Why did Stalin forgive him a lot? How

Only when Yermak's Cossack squad crossed the "Stone Belt" of the Ural Mountains and defeated the Siberian Khanate, one of the last fragments of the Golden Horde, was the foundation of Asian Russia laid. And although the Russian people got acquainted with Siberia long before this event, they are connected with Ermak and his associates

In 1853, Russian troops under the command of General Perovsky, having walked 900 miles across waterless terrain, stormed the Kokand fortress Ak-Mechet, which covered all the routes to Central Asia. Three hundred Ural and two hundred Orenburg Cossacks took part in the campaign. The fortress was renamed to a fort

At the beginning of the 17th century, events took place in Russia, called by contemporaries the Troubles. This name was not given by chance. A real civil war broke out in the country at that time, complicated by the intervention of Polish and Swedish feudal lords. Trouble began during the reign of Tsar Boris Godunov (1598 -1605

In the first days of the war, from June 22, 1941, the shock offensive of the Nazis with tank wedges was directed at the 8th and 11th armies ("Betrayal of 1941: the Troubles of the First Days"), as well as on the 4th and 5th. what happened to these armies in the future during the Great Patriotic War?

The date of seniority (formation) of the Don Cossack Host is officially 1570. This date is based on a very minor, but very significant event in the history of the army. In the oldest of the found letters, Tsar Ivan the Terrible orders the Cossacks to serve him, and for this he promises to "grant" them. V