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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

So, the design of the first serial American tank in all respects turned out to be rather archaic. After all, a similar tank, in which the gun was placed in the hull, was created in the USSR in 1931. True, it was developed by the invited German designer Grotte, but this does not change the essence of the matter. Known

The United States entered World War I only at the very end, which gave them many different benefits. But the American military believed that the war would continue until 1919, and from this the logical conclusion followed that to win they would need tanks: both heavy breakthrough tanks and very light ones

“Attempts to give an“objective”assessment of historical events run up against: 1) the lack of factual data, which are recognized by everyone as established facts, 2) the class bias of the researcher. If we assume that after 1991, having destroyed the communist formation, Russia

It is always pleasant when material written for TOPWAR readers finds its application also as a source of information for … their children! After all, children are our future, even though it sounds corny, and they should receive all the best, from food to information. And it's very good that

“There is one thing I don’t understand - writing a true history textbook is such a big problem for Russia? Or is it not needed by anyone? They lie about everything, starting with the birth of the Slavic peoples. " (Ozhogin Dmitry) “The dominance of liberals in power from the very top, in academic science, on TV, cinema is not

That would have been recovered with a generous gift - a mighty Horse - I would have kept watch for the king Under Balagier sensitively. In Provence, in Crots and in Montpellier, there is a massacre. And the knights - like a flock of crows, Shamelessly the robber-bastard. Peyre Vidal. Translated by V. Dynnik Ruins of the Peyrepertuse Castle. As you can see, the castle was perfect

This is how it happens that you choose a topic by chance, guided by the principle "like it or not like it." Then others start to like her, and in the end she begins to live her own life, and it is not you who "lead" her, but she is you! This is how it happened with a series of materials about knives and daggers - “slaughter

The new century began with various scientific discoveries. The electric telegraph could transmit any news to the farthest corner of the country, but the tsarist government's practice of informing the masses remained at the level of the middle of the last century. But revolutionary passions roamed the country and our

“We are flying, hobbling in the darkness, We are walking on the last wing. The tank is punctured, the tail is on fire And the car is flying On the word of honor and on one wing. ("Bombers", Leonid Utesov) "Treaties must be respected!" War is war, and politics - politics! At the same time, it is also not necessary to forget about the economy. Therefore, very often

For us Christians, God is God! A being of a higher order and busy with its own, "divine problems." But there were other gods: for example, gods, quite similar in their characters to people in Greek mythology. But what was the situation in Ancient Egypt, where most of the gods were beastheads? Were there

The army was led by Count Simon de Montfort, who had already participated in the fourth crusade in 1204. The Count of Toulouse also prudently took part in it, which provided his lands with immunity from the troops of the crusaders. However, he did not bring his retinue to them and led the crusaders on

Not so long ago, TOPWAR published a number of articles about the Battle of Verdun, and before that there were also materials about the fortress war of the First World War and the guns used against the then forts. And here the question arises: how was the experience of the First World War analyzed in relation to the fight against fortresses in the interwar period?

Most recently, TOPWAR published an interesting article about how the British crown got Gibraltar or "The Rock" - a rocky cliff - in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, which eventually became … an overseas territory of Great Britain, which is contested by Spain, and includes how

Probably, many people know that the lands of Russia in the past were the arena of fierce battles. This is the battle on Lake Peipus or Lake Peipus, where in 1242 the soldiers of Prince Alexander defeated the Teutonic knights, and the Kulikovo field, where in 1380 Russian soldiers repelled the invasion of Khan Mamai, and many, many

During the First World War, it was the hand-reloading rifle that was the most important weapon of the infantry. The volume of production of this type of weapon by enterprises of the belligerent countries, as well as the losses that with its help, depended on the quality, reliability and manufacturability of this weapon

When today we watch TV footage with scenes of violence on the streets of European cities, we somehow forget that at the beginning of the 20th century everything was the same in Britain. It can be said that it was simply overwhelmed by extremism. One after another, mailboxes flashed in houses, windows were broken in offices and houses

“If your right eye tempts you, pluck it out and throw it away from you, for it is better for you that one of your members perish, and not your whole body was thrown into Gehenna” (Matthew 18: 9) On the pages of TOPWAR more than once and not two were told about the brutal religious wars that were unleashed in the name of God and

Today, the assumptions about "what would have happened" have become very popular and it is not surprising that even science is engaged in them. Why? Because there are such bifurcation points in history - "points of instability" when all the enormous inertia of the economy and psychology of the masses ceases to play

Isn't it always interesting to know what and how our ancestors wrote about, say, 100 years ago? Today we are worried about the problems with Turkey, but then Russia was at war with her at all, and the journalists of that time also wrote about this war. How? How exactly did they write about her, what they paid attention to

And it so happened that on the pages of TOPWAR an extensive photo collection of images of warships of the American Civil War in 1861-1865 was posted. Unfortunately, only "pictures", without signatures, they say, who needs it, look for yourself. Commenting on the photos, many VO readers expressed their wishes to learn about