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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

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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

British Navy Misses On June 18-19, the French fleet left Malta and moved to the shores of North Africa. Life was in full swing on board the flagship: the commander of the expedition, as usual, worked from early morning. For lunch, scientists, researchers, officers gathered in his cabin. After lunch, lively

Russia is ready to hand over to Israel an Israeli tank located in Kubinka near Moscow since 1982, world news agencies report. This information has already made a lot of noise in the Russian public. Why on earth is this done? What will Russia get in return? And what kind of tank is this in general?

The foreign intelligence service of Late Rome and Early Byzantium, which was regarded by contemporaries almost unanimously as exemplary, no doubt deserves our attention, although this topic, for unknown reasons, has been extremely poorly studied by Russian historical science. First, let's say that the late Roman

What is Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev famous for? I immediately recall the periodic law discovered by him, which formed the basis of the periodic system of chemical elements. His "Discourse on the combination of alcohol with water", which laid the foundation for the myth of the invention of Russian vodka by scientists, may also come to mind. However, this is only

Memories of a military translator 1. Soviet missile men at the Egyptian pyramids 1 Egypt burst into my life unexpectedly in 1962. I graduated from the Pedagogical Institute in Magnitogorsk. In winter, I was summoned to the military registration and enlistment office and offered to become a military translator. In the summer I was awarded the military rank of junior

As we said in the first part, the army of conquerors, which successfully landed at the Rock of Gibraltar, captured several cities and repelled an attempt to counterstrike the border Visigothic contingent. But here, at the time of finding the forces of Tariq ibn-Ziyad at Salt Lake (Largo de la Sanda), to his headquarters

To his native Spain, Julian called the Moors. The Count decided to take revenge on the king … A.S. Pushkin On July 20, on the same hot summer day as the current one, only 1307 years ago, in the battle of the Guadaletta River, an army of Christians who defended Spain met with a jihadist army that invaded the Iberian

Not many of our contemporaries know the personality of Lieutenant-General and Count Egor Frantsevich Kankrin (1774-1845), but this man undoubtedly deserves close attention even in our time, if only because he held the post of Minister of Finance for 21 years, from 1823 to 1844

THE STORY OF HOW THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY CASE LEADED TO THE REVOLUTION IN MILITARY MEDICINE AND TO THE APPEARANCE OF MODERN SURGERY “The gloomy face of the surgeon often saturates the patient's wounds with more poison than bullets and trills.” “There is nothing more certain than death, but nothing is less than death. definite than her hour. "

Nowadays, few people know the name of this figure of the Middle Ages, and those who know about him, in the majority (following the science fiction writer Kir Bulychev) consider this very controversial personality "bastard No. 1 in the Middle East." Renaud de Chatillon or in another reading of Reynald de Chatillon

40 years ago, on July 4, 1976, one of the most successful Israeli Special Forces hostage rescue raids took place at Entebbe airport in Uganda. The beginning of this amazing saga was laid on June 27, 1976, when the Airbus A-300 of Air France

Continuation of the material about the unique victory of the Palestinian crusaders over a much larger army of Islamists moving to Jerusalem. The course of the battle So, at the end of November 1177, the huge Sultan's army, successively defeating several Christian detachments, several

Probably, there is no such person who would not know about the former Russian lands in America and did not hear anything about the sale of our Alaska to the United States. However, few people know about the unique financial system that formed in these territories at the time when they belonged to the Russian Empire. Let's say right away

The presented article tells about an amazing, but little-known in our time, battle that took place in the distant era of the Crusades in the Middle East. Oddly enough, little is said about this battle by the descendants of both sides of the conflict: for Muslims, this is a shameful page from the life of their hero

One of the most enduring myths of the Cold War is the theory that on July 18, 1972, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat "unexpectedly expelled Soviet military advisers from the country." The theory is described in many memoirs and scientific works, from which readers will learn that the Egyptian president

Not so long ago, the Voennoye Obozreniye website published an article on how in recent years there have been numerous attempts to link the strategy and tactics of warfare by the Soviet (Russian) army with unnecessary and unjustified sacrifices. Like, the Russian generals have one

In recent years, the Russian army has been criticized even by those who have nothing to do with it and have absolutely nothing to do with it. If you take 10 of any newspaper, magazine or Internet publications offhand, you can see that 7-8 of them will contain criticism of anything related to the army

Currently, preparations are underway for serial production of promising Su-57 fighters. As in the case of prototypes, the serial equipment will be equipped with engines of two models. The first production samples will receive the existing AL-41F1 engines (they are also "first stage engines"), and

The Great Byron once remarked: "A thousand years is hardly enough to create a state, one hour is enough for it to crumble to dust." For the USSR, such an hour came on December 8, 1991, then in Belovezhskaya Viskuli, Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk and chairman

The interest that my previous article on the Belovezhsky conspiracy aroused in readers testifies that many Russians are still worried about the collapse of the Soviet Union. On the eve of the 26th anniversary of this date, I consider it appropriate to talk about the secret reasons that guided Gorbachev when he