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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

In 1976, Mitsubishi began work on the creation of a new main battle tank, which was to replace the existing Type 61 and 74 machines. In addition to Japanese engineers, specialists from the German companies MaK and Krauss-Maffei took part in the development of the tank. who took part in

For many years, Russian tank crews pinned their hopes for rearmament with Object-195, which was widely advertised, and specialists from the Ural Design Bureau of Transport Engineering (OJSC UKBTM) were close to implementing the project and putting it into production. But in 2010

British tank Mark I In EnglandThe first projectsAn answer to the question how; by what means to break through the front, they were looking for in all the belligerent armies. One of the first to try to answer it was the English Colonel Swinton, who had been in France since the beginning of the war. On October 20, 1914, Swinton turned to the military

The idea of creating a simple and inexpensive armored car on serial "cargo" units is not new. Such designs were especially popular in the USSR in the 1930-50s: take, for example, the post-war BTR-40 and BTR-152 (they were based, respectively, on the all-wheel drive GAZ-63 and ZiS-151). Then our country

The head office of the Merkava program, which is run by the Israeli Ministry of Defense, and the IDF ammunition corps, are well aware that their tank has reached the maximum permissible mass ceiling, and improving its protection cannot be achieved by increasing reactive or passive protection. And this

The skating rink of war is not a figurative expression. Someone thinks this brainchild of a gloomy American genius is a demining machine, someone is a freeway tank, but it is, of course, first of all - a symbol of a tank breakthrough, heavy, fast and unforgiving. This "roller of war" was originally made for demining

Finally, this semi-Zamorian miracle came into our possession. I will tell you about my impressions of this car after the first trip. To begin with, I will refresh your information about the technical characteristics of SPM-1, so to speak, from the original source - the operating manual: “Vehicle SPM-1

The opinions of a number of military experts and leaders that Russian-made tanks are inferior to foreign vehicles in terms of their combat capabilities and characteristics are completely unfounded, said Vyacheslav Khalitov, deputy general director of a research and production corporation

This is another option for converting old Soviet tanks into BMP. The prototype of the BMPV-64 heavy armored personnel carrier was developed in Ukraine as a private initiative of the Kharkov armored personnel carrier. The first prototype was completed in 2005. This vehicle represents the deepest modernization of the well-deserved T-64 MBT

“Anyone can take their own car and hang armor on it in the workshop. That's what they do. " With these words, the experts evaluated the novelty of the Georgian defense industry, presented at the parade in Tbilisi. The main goal of the innovation is to demonstrate powerful industrial potential

The intensity of modern combat operations, the high level of workload and the experience of using the BMP-3 in the countries of the Persian Gulf made it necessary to refine the vehicle in terms of improving its ergonomic characteristics

The adoption of the Challenger tank by the British Army did not remove from the agenda the issue of the main battle tank, which would replace all Chieftain tanks. The transfer of MBT to the "Challengers" was not intended, and after the arrival of this tank in the troops it became completely impossible. The tank collapsed

An article published on military.china.com by an online writer named Shu Zhongxing in December 2009 was dedicated to a sensational interview with the general designer of the Type 99 tank Zhu Yusheng in the TV show "Great Masters" on CCTV10. A.2

The Russian army may receive the Italian Iveco LMV M65 armored vehicles. SKD assembly of equipment, according to the Ministry of Defense, is planned to be carried out at KAMAZ. But a domestic machine of a similar class - the famous GAZ-233036 "Tiger" - is already in service with the Russian army. By

In the period between the two world wars, Poland created its own tank building industry. State factories supplied the army with armored vehicles, tankettes and light tanks. However, after the Second World War, being part of the Warsaw Pact, the Polish military industry

On April 28 this year, Lieutenant General Yu. Kovalenko, the former 1st Deputy Head of the Main Armored Directorate of the RF Ministry of Defense, speaking about Russian tanks, said that the Russian military industry has a lot to offer even the most demanding customer. So, he noted that it is not so

The permanent scandal shaking the Russian defense industry and the Russian military department in connection with the procurement of new armored vehicles reached its climax after the statement by the Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces Alexander Postnikov about the obsolescence of the samples offered by our industry. After that, the search for a common language

No matter how much has been written about the war that ended 65 years ago, and about this tank - you can't tell everything, much less feel it. But it is also impossible to get away from this topic … The order of the gray-haired, gloomy colonel from the old 1968 film "In War, As In War" somehow engraved in the memory once and for all:

The main battle tank of Sweden under the index STRV-103, also known under the designation "S", is of particular interest, because for the first time in the world history of tank building quite interesting design solutions were applied, in particular, the installation of two different types of engines - diesel and

In the first half of the last century, the "motorized mechanization" of the assault forces was assumed mainly due to cars, off-road motorcycles and small tanks. The experience of World War II forced, if not to change these views, then to slightly shift the emphasis. With all the specificity