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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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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

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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

The development of the "Skif" laser combat station, designed to destroy low-orbit space objects with an on-board laser complex, began at NPO Energia, but due to the high workload of the NPO, since 1981 the "Skif" theme for the creation of a laser combat station

The Gnomad system from ITT Exelis is available in portable and transportable configurations. The Gnomad satellite terminal can transmit data at speeds of up to two Mbps Modern armies rely on high frequency (HF) communications, very

On February 9, 1977, Sergei Ilyushin, an outstanding Soviet aircraft designer, colonel-general of the engineering and technical service, academician of the USSR Academy of Sciences, died. The OKB, which he headed, is today considered one of the leading Russian enterprises for the development of aircraft. In the number of planes

Patria recently unveiled the XP variant of its AMV modular armored vehicle. Pictured is a vehicle with a turret armed with a medium-caliber cannon, which turns it into an infantry fighting vehicle The largest customer of the Finnish Armored Modular Vehicle (AMV)

The Philippines is called "the country of seven thousand islands." The former Spanish colony, which in the first half of the twentieth century managed to be under the control of the United States, is a populous and multinational state. More than 105 million people live here. In terms of population, the Philippines is ranked 12th in

The specifics of the military-political situation in Southeast Asia, which is characterized by a variegated ethnic and confessional composition of the population, as well as strong positions of left-wing radicals, forces many states of the region to pay significant attention to the creation, equipment and training of units

In the context of the development of the Soviet Navy, the late fifties and early sixties of the last century were remembered for two main trends. First, the construction of new American ballistic missile submarines forced the Soviet military and

The aircraft-carrying universal amphibious assault ship-dock of project 11780BDK of project 1174 of the "Ivan Rogov" type had many shortcomings, therefore, as directed by the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy, Admiral S. Gorshkov, the Nevsky Design Bureau began the development of a full-fledged universal amphibious assault ship of the project

The main idea of the author is to develop an alternative layout of a tank support combat vehicle (hereinafter - BMPT) with a higher level of crew protection than existing BMPTs. Spaced armor, non-standard internal layout of the vehicle, changed location of the internal

According to Juliet Marine Systems, the world's first watercraft with a supercavitating hull is ready to be equipped with torpedoes and cannons. True, at the moment, this statement has no connection with the US defense department, this is just another attempt to attract

Leopard 2 PSO First appearance: 2006 Taking into account the experience of the recent operation of main battle tanks in various local conflicts, Krauss-Maffei Wegmann developed the Leopard 2 PSO (Peace Support Operation) variant. It is based on the Leopard 2 tank

A regular participant in various events and exhibitions is the T-90A main battle tank. Armored vehicles of this type regularly take part in parades, salons of weapons and equipment, as well as in other events. The machine is well known to specialists and technology enthusiasts, which, however, does not lead to a decrease in

At the recent exhibition Russian Arms Expo-2013, several new developments of the domestic defense industry were shown. Among other things, a new model of the BMPT-72 "Terminator-2" tank support combat vehicle was demonstrated for the first time. In this project, the designers of the Uralvagonzavod enterprise took into account

For 5.5 thousand years, mankind has experienced 14 thousand wars, in which 4 billion people died. Only two World Wars of the 20th century killed 50 million. Between 1945 and 2000, more than 100 military conflicts claimed the lives of about 20 million people. The most bloody is the Korean War, which brought 3.68

In our country, over the past few decades, a large number of different armored personnel carriers have been created. Despite the differences in technical appearance and characteristics, all these machines had a common purpose. All domestic and foreign armored personnel carriers are designed to transport personal

The history of the CIA is a long list of betrayals, meanness, atrocities and murders. It is no coincidence that, under pressure from the public, the archives of the American special services began to be gradually declassified, a movement arose in the United States for the complete abolition of the CIA, since this misanthropic institution cannot

The end of the 20th century was marked by the return of the United States to a more aggressive practice of using armed forces abroad. The special forces played a key role in this. The first American "special forces" in the modern sense are considered to be units of "rangers" and according to the book "Russian Special Forces"

The expenditures of the US Department of Defense for the 2015 fiscal year will amount to $ 495.6 billion. This is the amount indicated in the budget proposal of US President Barack Obama, sent to US lawmakers for consideration and making adjustments. In general, this is $ 0.4 billion less than the military department

Well, that's what happened that sooner or later had to happen. The Ukrainian fleet, which began its inglorious history for twenty-three years, has just as ingloriously "rested in the Bose." Honestly, sooner or later this should have happened, but no one imagined that everything would happen so quickly and so

For a long time now, analysts have frightened the world community with the annual growth of Chinese military power. In light of the rapid pace of the Chinese increase in budgetary military spending, the United States has become a constant, if not the only, object for comparison with the PRC