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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

In 1972, the command of the Indian ground forces decided on the requirements for a new main battle tank, which was planned to be adopted by the army. By this time, the Indian industry already had experience in the licensed assembly of the British tank "Vickers" Mk1 ("Vijayanta") and the Soviet

National Pakistani military-industrial complex HIT (Heavy Industries Taxila) in early 2010 created the latest modern wheeled armored vehicle Burraq class MRAP. Cristofer F. Foss lifts the curtain for International Defense Review and posts some interesting

Israel began developing its own tank in 1972, and in 1977 the first photographs of prototypes of the Merkava tank were presented to the press. The first public display of the tank took place in 1979 on the Israeli independence day. The specifics of Israel and special design

It would not hurt to buy weapons and military equipment (AME): 1. Clearly imagine where and how this sample will be used. Is there a need for it at all? 2. There should be objective criteria for assessing and indicators of the effectiveness of samples. How much the sample meets the highest

The infamous Jordanian design bureau named after King Abdullah II (King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau - KADDB) continues work begun almost a decade and a half ago to create various types of heavy tracked armored vehicles on a tank chassis. Mainly thought by KADDB

Typically, combat vehicle designers take the following path. First, a light machine is created, and then a heavier one is created on its basis. The Italians from the Iveco-Oto Melara company did exactly the opposite. First, they created a heavy wheeled tank destroyer "Centauro", and only then on its base

The main Chinese battle tank - Type 99 (factory index ZTZ-99) was first shown to the public during a military parade in Beijing on October 1, 1999. The appearance of the 3rd generation tank presented by China caused quite a stir. This tank was a breakthrough for the Chinese tank building. According to their

One of the myths of the Great Patriotic War about "miracle tanks", invulnerable, sweeping everything out of their way, was the myth about the new tanks of the Soviet Union - T-34, KV, in the initial period of the war. It has even been suggested that the German armed forces had to use aircraft to knock them out

“Do tanks have a future or are they out of date? Can they still play an important role on the battlefield, and if so, which one, and what types of tanks are needed? Over the past 40 years, major military experts have repeatedly proclaimed that tanks are outdated or out of date. However, whenever

Germany became the first country in the West to create an infantry fighting vehicle. (The BUM 1 appeared in the GDR after 1966.) BMP "Marder" was developed in 1966-1969 by Rheinmetall AG by order of the Bundeswehr, was adopted by the Bundeswehr in 1971 (2436 units delivered in total)

Heavy armored vehicles have shown their reliability in battles with bandits, terrorists and insurgents

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