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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

Anyone who is interested in arming and equipping "special operations forces" has noticed how much the "special forces" values personal weapons. Regardless of the presence of individual (submachine gun, rifle, machine gun, carbine) or group (light machine gun, grenade launcher) weapons, practically

Pistol Glock 17 Currently, Glock pistols and model 17 in particular, are one of the most reliable and unpretentious among all self-loading pistols ever produced and in production today

More than a month ago, a referendum was held, as a result of which Crimea and Sevastopol became part of the Russian Federation. During this time, a huge number of various statements were made regarding the legality of the referendum and its results. However, official Moscow and recently

Well, finally, I again grasped my favorite theme of museums after the winter break. And I decided to start with a wonderful monument to Russian engineering work - the fifth fort of the Brest fortress. When we hear the familiar and familiar words "Hero-Fortress Brest", we inevitably rise before our eyes

Episode two. An attempt to create a people's enterprise and concentrate in it the commercial incomes withdrawn from the State Enterprise ORTPTs. In the early 90s, the first elements of the commercialization of the activities of the then socialist state enterprises appeared. Due to the sharp contraction and breakdown

Even before the end of World War II, Soviet aircraft designers began to study the problems of aircraft with turbojet engines. The first real results of these works were obtained already in April 1946, when two of the newest

Engineering vehicles build roads, dig ditches and ditches, clear rubble and build bridges. And if they are dressed in armor or put on a tank chassis, they can walk through minefields like a plowed field. The most amazing, powerful and peaceful models of military equipment in the "PM" rating

In the post-Soviet era, the idea of "the excessive cost of Victory" was insistently introduced into the mass consciousness, that the human losses of the Red Army "in the overwhelming majority of battles were many times greater than the German ones." This primarily applies to the Moscow defensive operation (September 30 - 5

April 26 marks thirty years since the terrible date for our country and other former republics of the Soviet Union - the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The world remembers the consequences of this tragedy and "reaps" to this day. From the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around a nuclear power plant

The independence of Ashgabat is conditional, like its army The grouping of the Soviet army, which remained in Turkmenistan after the collapse of the USSR, was somewhat better in quantity and quality of weapons than that which went to Uzbekistan, not to mention Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. On the other hand, Turkmenistan did not and does not have

American military expert Harry Kazianis, a member of the defense policy section of the US Center for National Interest and a member of the national security section of the Potomac Foundation, in an article published in The National Interest, which specializes in national security issues

In the early sixties, the Soviet defense industry was working on new projects for infantry fighting vehicles of one kind or another. The most successful development of this class was the Object 765, which later entered service under the name BMP-1. Other examples of armored vehicles turned out to be less

The American defense industry continues to develop the direction of aviation weapons. The promising Raytheon GBU-53 / B Small Diameter Bomb II project is nearing completion, the goal of which is to create a new guided bomb with a number of characteristic features. At the expense of

By the mid-fifties, Egypt had signed several agreements on military-technical cooperation with foreign countries. In accordance with a number of similar agreements, the Egyptian industry received a set of necessary documentation and a license for the production of small arms foreign

The world today, after a fairly long period of nuclear disarmament, is once again returning step by step to Cold War-style rhetoric and nuclear intimidation. In addition to the well-known nuclear tensions on the Korean Peninsula, similar tensions seem to be returning to Europe. V

I must say right away that such a question was not directly asked. I asked it myself, and I will answer it myself. And the reason was the comment of our visitor from Israel, known as the "professor". In the comment (deleted in accordance with the rules of the site), in addition to everything, there was a phrase in relation to I.V

In 1904, the Russian inventor Mikhail Mikhailovich Pomortsev received a new material - tarpaulin: a canvas cloth soaked in a mixture of paraffin, rosin and egg yolk. The properties of the new, very cheap material very much resembled leather: it did not allow moisture to pass through, but at the same time it breathed. True, the appointment

June 22, 1941. Germany is bombing Kiev, surrounding Minsk, and is about to burst into Moscow … Everything went to that, quilted jackets and savages cannot resist a cultural nation. There is no army, no navy, no planes fly. And all these red chiefs: Zhukovs, Shaposhnikovs … They promised to die, but not to surrender to the enemy

Lately, every day, you come across messages on hypersound: "The warheads of the missiles maneuver, fly at hypersound and at intercontinental range …" "A hypersonic ramjet engine is being tested in Russia!" And so on and so forth, before the eyes of the simple

In the literature dedicated to the Patriotic War of 1812, the word "partisan" is certainly found. Imagination, as a rule, slips the corresponding picture: a bearded man hooking a French "musyu" on a pitchfork. Such a peasant did not know any "upper" superiors over himself and did not know