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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

EIS-3 (Egorov-Ilyinsky-Staritsyn) - the device, which became serial in 1937, was intended for encryption of radiotelephones. The device was of the "masking" type, based on a simple inversion of the transmitted signal. Additionally, a high-pitched disturbing tone was fed into the communication channel. Listen

The Future Combat Air System (FCAS) is now Germany and France's most modern vision of their own fighter. The German Air Force is currently armed with the obsolete Tornado fighter-bombers, which are constantly in short supply

The first developments in the USSR in the field of cryptographic protection of information date back to the beginning of the 20s. They were aimed at encrypting the speech signal. The developments were based on the principles of single-sideband modulation of electrical sound signals, heterodyne frequency conversion, registration of speech signals on

Ukraine needs military assistance all the time. It seems that this state will persist for many years to come. However, most European countries, including Germany and France, refused to officially supply weapons to the Ukrainian Armed Forces. But the United States openly donates military equipment to the country. Moreover, according to

The speculators in the Leningrad market had a very ambiguous position. On the one hand, they sometimes took the last crumbs from the needy (children, the elderly, the sick), but on the other hand, they provided vital calories to residents dying of dystrophy. And Leningraders understood this perfectly well, when for

The Su-34 met real combat operations in August 2008 during the operation to force Georgia to peace. The scope of the aircraft was reconnaissance and strikes against ground targets. In particular, one Su-34 disabled the Georgian radar station of the Buk-M1 and Osa-AKM complexes. Was also

The cryptanalytic confrontation of World War II became a typical example of a battle of minds with a famously twisted plot. Here is a detective, a thriller, and a spy thriller in one set. On June 4, 1941, the British got hold of the German ship Gedania, which the Germans had no idea about for a long time

Doenitz's "Arctic Wolves" used radio intercepts of communications from the Soviet fleet to work in the Arctic. Fascist submarines were in the Barents, White and Kara Seas, as well as in the mouth of the Yenisei, in the Ob Bay, the Laptev Sea and off the coast of Taimyr. The main target, of course, were civilians

An important place in the defense of Donbass was taken by the so-called "pocket artillery", a typical representative of which was the 9P132 Grad-P single-barreled rocket system, which has a second name - "Partizan". It is noteworthy that the Soviet Army was not armed with such systems, although the "Partizan" from 1966

In besieged Leningrad, with the onset of the most severe time, people involved in food production became the real "aristocrats". It was they who stood out from the crowd of hungry Leningraders with their well-fed appearance, healthy skin tone and expensive clothes

The need for the B-52 to be on duty in the air with atomic weapons was caused by another exacerbation of the Cold War at the turn of the 50-60s, as well as the too long flight time of aircraft to Union facilities. The Americans had to keep aircraft with atomic weapons in the air in case of an unexpected strike

The special services of Russia did not stay away from the global trend in the light version of the weapon. In service, in particular, there is a shock-shock shot with an elastic element VGM 93.600, which is fired from a GM-94 pump-action grenade launcher. The kinetic element is extremely simple in design - it has a mass

The story about the artillery of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has to begin with the traditional thesis about the general low level of training of personnel and the unsatisfactory condition of the guns. From the very beginning of the notorious ATO, artillery reservists were called up to the troops, who were largely poorly versed in this kind

Since 1941, the 10th Intelligence Directorate of the British Navy, which was directly responsible for protecting the communications of British ships, made several changes to the ciphers of the Navy, which, however, only slightly complicated the tasks of the Nazi cryptanalysts. So, already in the spring of 41, the Germans managed to decipher

Leningraders were just outraged by those who openly profited from the tragedy of the city: “How disgusting are these well-fed, magnificent white‘ coupons ’, who carve cards from starving people in canteens and shops and steal bread and food from them. This is done simply: "by mistake"

They shoot non-lethal ammunition at limited distances from almost everything: they use carbines, grenade launchers and cannons that send projectiles at a distance of 10 to 150 meters. The main problem in the design of kinetic ammunition that does not kill, but only hurts, becomes

The beginning of the conflict in 2014, the sniper formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine met mainly with Dragunov sniper rifles (SVD) of the 1963 model. Such weapons, of course, did not allow effective work on remote targets, but it was quite suitable for battles in urban areas. In Ukraine

Money as such was worth almost nothing. It was almost impossible to buy bread in the Leningrad market of the period under review for rubles. About two-thirds of the Leningraders who survived the blockade indicated in special questionnaires that the food source, due to which they survived, was food exchanged for

At the forefront of medicine As mentioned earlier, the main damaging factor on the fields of World War II was firearms. So, in the Battle of Borodino, the proportion of such wounded in hospitals was about 93%, of which from 78% to 84% were with bullet wounds, the rest were amazed

Underestimated Art In the previous part of the story about the first steps of Russian perlustration, the state councilor and outstanding codebreaker Christian Goldbach was mentioned, who became famous for successfully exposing the Marquis de La Chetardie. This Frenchman was actually conducting subversive activities in St. Petersburg