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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

The new Russian infantry fighting vehicles on the Kurganets-25 platform will be one-third heavier than the current vehicles. This is the price to pay for the increased protection of their crew and motorized riflemen. However, this may still change during the testing process. Therefore, in the coming years, the Russian Ministry of Defense continues to rely on

Russia has put in its only aircraft carrier for repairs. Obviously, the country's leadership decided that it is possible to make a short pause in building up foreign policy activity on the "distant shores." To then return there with tripled forces

I never thought I would have to write that. But - a fact. The commander of the Ghost Brigade, Aleksey Borisovich Mozgovoy, died as a result of another assassination attempt. Third in a row, he was a difficult person. Quirky and sometimes hard to understand. But his path is the path of the builder of that New Russia

Work on the creation of large and heavy ekranoplanes has been resumed in Russia. According to domestic media reports, a similar device with a takeoff weight of 500 tons is currently being created. The details of the project have not yet been disclosed, but it is already known that the promising

It cannot be said that before Hitler's attack, the nature of the future war and the role of large mechanized formations in it, no one in our country understood and did not foresee. Quite the opposite, in the USSR, the development of tank forces proceeded in accordance with the doctrine of "deep operation". It was nominated by the Soviet military

In May 1996, the National Museum of the United States Air Force, located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, announced the receipt of a new exhibit. The Pentagon and the defense industry donated a unique aircraft to the museum, the very existence of which until recently was a secret. Only

There are more types of aircraft in the Air Force than there are real tasks for them By 2020, the Russian Air Force is planning to have two or three types of highly specialized aircraft for each combat mission. Differing in price, the new machines have almost the same characteristics and capabilities. On the contrary, the USA and

Astronomers quite unambiguously define active maneuvers of spacecraft of Chinese origin in near-earth orbit as training tests to capture and disable potential enemy satellites. Including navigation devices such as GPS or GLONASS, as well as

The presentation of the country's first "airship" took place in Russia. It took place on August 8, 2013 in the city of Kirzhach, located on the territory of the Vladimir region. Here "Avgur Aeronautical Center" presented the Russian-made airship AU-30. Modern Russian airships

In many textbooks, you can find a mention of the appearance in 1963 of an unidentified flying object off the coast of California, USA. This fact cannot be refuted, since this is practically the only case in the history of mankind when the appearance of a UFO was filmed

Two hundred and twenty years ago, on April 15, 1795, Empress Catherine II signed the Manifesto on the annexation of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Duchy of Courland and Semigalsk to the Russian Empire. This is how the famous Third Section of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ended, as a result of which most of

The myth of the “Belarusian European state”, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which opposed the aggressive claims of “Asian” Moscow, is the foundation of the modern mythology of Belarusian nationalists One of the tenets of the Belarusian nationalist ideology is the statement that

Supplies from Great Britain and the United States supplemented the Soviet industry in those industries where there was not enough capacity of their own

240 years ago, on January 10 (21), 1775, Emelyan Ivanovich Pugachev was executed on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. Calling himself "Emperor Peter III", the Don Cossack raised the Yaik Cossacks to revolt. Soon, the uprising escalated into the fire of the Peasant War, which engulfed a huge region and caused panic among

Ask a Russian what he can say about the Kalashnikov assault rifle, the immediate answer will be the words "reliable", "reliable" and "unpretentious" in one sequence or another. The second answer, after a little thought, is "simple and easy to use." And the third, if the citizen is slightly well-read, “cheap

"Without the right to fame, for the glory of the state" The motto of the Foreign Intelligence Service. The fate of an illegal intelligence officer is always special. It is one thing when a person works at an embassy, trade or cultural representation legally, and he has both diplomatic immunity and the passport of his native country. AND

Poland marked its appearance on the map of Europe in modern times with an attack in March 1919 on Russia, which lay in the ruins of civil war and intervention. Despite the almost lightning-fast seizure of Kiev, Vilno and Minsk, in order to solve the task set by Pilsudski, “to reach Moscow and write to

Ataman-sadness … This is how the Don was nicknamed the hero of the Great War, the ataman of the Great Don Army, Aleksey Maksimovich Kaledin (1861-1918), who passed away when it seemed to him that there was no longer any possibility for the Don to resist the onslaught of the godless pro-German forces … But Kaledin had and other

One of the manifestations of the Stalinist repressive policy in the countryside is considered the decree of the Central Executive Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, issued on August 7, 1932, "On the Protection of Property of State Enterprises, Collective Farms and Cooperation and Strengthening Public (Socialist) Property"

Not that in a complaint to the Chinese side, but still. It is clear that business is business, and there are partners and competitors here. But, frankly, the passage of some Chinese media about the downed Su-25 is more than strange. It is clear that there is a lot of unclear in the story of the downed attack aircraft. And the way in the Ministry of Defense