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April 23 of this year may well qualify for the title of "Day that gave a wave of hope." For not every day several ships are laid down at the same time. It is clear that Putin's visit to Severnaya Verf gives such weight to the event, and yes, the hope that everything will not stop after

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The anti-ship complex ensures control of territorial waters and protection of coastal areas at a long distance So, for the transformation of Russia into an economically developed and

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“Let people know what happened in this war. The truth. The way it is … "(One of the few survivors of the 131st Maikop brigade) PREPARATION OF THE YOUNG MAN. Eve of the new year, 1995. Columns of Russian troops crossed the Chechen administrative border, and the forward units occupied

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The Makarov pistol is rightfully called "Kalashnikov" among pistols. This automatic 9mm pistol was designed in 1948 by Nikolai Makarov. Due to the simplicity of its device, the reliability of the proposed design and ease of use, the PM remained in production for more than half a century

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By the beginning of the Russian campaign, three volunteer regiments of foreign citizens had been created in the ranks of the SS, and with the outbreak of hostilities, the number of foreign units began to grow steadily. The participation of foreign legions in the war against the USSR was supposed to show, according to Himmler's plan, a pan-European

They like to reproach Russia with the fact that it has seized vast territories, they call it "the prison of peoples". However, if Russia is a "prison of peoples", then the Western world can rightfully be called a "cemetery of peoples". After all, the Western colonialists slaughtered, destroyed hundreds of large and small peoples, tribes throughout

Retired soldiers were not subject to poll taxation. But this measure was not enough to arrange their fate after their resignation. It was also necessary to think about how, in addition, how to attach them and ensure their existence. The Russian government was solving this problem during

The joker and the merry fellow, the captain of the Norwegian sailing ship "Gero" had him to himself. He chewed tobacco, poisoned trivial stories, ridiculously distorting English words and, at the right moments, screwing salty curses into the conversation. Inspection officer of the British auxiliary cruiser Avenger, himself

“Without Ivanov Mikhailovich with their sense of dignity and duty, every state is doomed to perish from within, in spite of any Dneprostroi and Volkhovstroi. Because the state should not consist of machines, not of bees and ants, but of representatives of the highest species of the animal kingdom, Homo

This article will examine some aspects of the combat potential of the German T-V "Panther" tanks. About armor protection As you know, German medium tanks during the war years received differential booking. On the battlefields, it quickly became clear that the 30mm armor was completely

On June 21, the Russian Federation celebrates the Day of Cynological Units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. In the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, as in other power structures, the canine service plays a very important role. Service dogs perform the functions of searching for explosives and drugs, tracing

I met Timofei Panteleevich Punev by chance. One of my acquaintances once let slip that she knew the wife of a military pilot who fought. “A fighting man,” she warned me, “and he has a temperament… You will see for yourself.” So I turned out to be the owner of a phone, which I immediately called. On

The collision with the latest Soviet tanks forced the Germans to radically revise their tank building programs. As you know, the largest tank that the Wehrmacht had at the beginning of World War II was the T-IV modification F (not to be confused with the F2!) Weighing only 22.3 tons, and

In a previous article, the author described the measures taken by the German military and industrial leadership to stop the threats posed by the T-34 - a tank with anti-cannon armor and a powerful 76.2 mm cannon. It can be said with good reason that at the beginning of 1942 the Germans did not have a single

With the armament of our fleet with hypersonic anti-ship missiles, even a small missile cruiser will pose a mortal threat to any US naval formations, including aircraft carriers. The appearance of a serial hypersonic missile means a revolution in naval art: relative parity in the system

In the USSR at the end of the 1950s. Russian designers have launched work on the formation of the appearance of the second generation nuclear submarine, intended for large-scale production. These ships were called upon to solve various combat missions, among which was the task of combating enemy aircraft carriers, as well as

So, let's continue the description of mine attacks. On the night of June 15, 2 Japanese destroyers tried to attack the cruiser Diana, which was at the entrance to the outer roadstead, but it is possible that they confused something, since one of the three mines they fired hit the previously killed firebreaker. The Japanese themselves believed they were attacking

The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) is the second-largest navy in the Asia-Pacific region with a sophisticated combat system where the latest technology is closely intertwined with ancient samurai traditions. The Japanese fleet has long lost the status of a "funny" formation

"Admiral Graf Spee" in Montevideo. Last parking On the evening of December 17, 1939, a crowd of thousands of spectators from the shores of La Plata Bay watched the spectacular spectacle. The war, which was already raging with might and main in Europe, finally reached the carefree South America and no longer as newspaper reports

One of the LCS-1 "Freedom" class single-hull littoral warships of the US Navy. This type of "coastal" is equipped with 2 gas turbine engines of the British design "Rolls-Royce" MT-30 with a total capacity of 70,700 hp. These engines are 80% unified with turbofan engines

At the end of the technical part of the description of the cruisers of the project 26 and 26 bis, a few words should be said about the structural protection of the hull from underwater damage. I must say that light cruisers could never boast of the proper level of protection: this is hampered by the very idea of a high-speed ship

Light cruiser "Molotov" So, in the previous article we examined the chances of a possible confrontation between the Soviet light cruiser "Maxim Gorky" and its British counterpart Belfast. Today it's the turn of the Brooklyn, Mogami and heavy cruisers. Let's start with the American. "Maksim

Of course, the most discussed topic in the design of domestic light cruisers of projects 26 and 26-bis is their armament and, first of all, the main caliber. Not only did it give rise to numerous disputes about the classification of cruisers (light or heavy?), But also the guns themselves

A destroyer is a class of multipurpose high-speed ships designed to combat enemy air, surface and submarine forces. The tasks of the destroyers include escorting sea convoys and formations of warships, carrying out patrol service, providing cover and fire support for sea

As we said in the previous article, logically, the rivalry between battlecruisers should have ended on ships of the Tiger - Derflinger types. The British abandoned the further development of ships of this class and concentrated on high-speed battleships with 381-mm artillery