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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 our publications, we wrote a lot about artillery systems that covered themselves with glory on the fields of the Great Patriotic War. About systems that some of our readers remember, saw or worked with. But there are copies of such systems in our archives that few have heard of, and even fewer of those

The United Arab Emirates is building its own defense industry, but it is not yet truly developed. In many areas, the dependence on foreign supplies of certain products remains. However, attempts are being made to create their own samples

Hello to all fans of huge calibers! We decided to start this article not quite traditionally. Simply because they considered it appropriate to tell about one of the little-known episodes of the war on the Karelian Isthmus. Due, probably, to the absence of more or less crucial battles in this area, we generally

China seeks to develop its armed forces, and for this it needs new weapons. New concepts are regularly proposed that can be implemented in promising projects with certain advantages. Recently it became known that Chinese scientists are working on a new option

We have already talked about the predecessor of the heroine of our story, the 76-mm mountain gun of the 1938 model. Weapon stories. 76-mm mountain gun model 1938 Today we will talk about the next generation. The 76-mm mountain cannon of the 1938 model has proven itself very well in the fields (more precisely

Anti-tank guns appeared in Russia in the fall of 1914. No, this statement is not a typo or the author's desire to prove that Russia is the "homeland of elephants." It was just that the anti-tank guns had a different purpose at that time, the fight against enemy machine guns, and not penetrating the armor of the tank, but

Successful combat tests of the super-heavy T-100 tank in the Finnish War of 39, allowed the designers of plant No. 185 to think about the serial production of their brainchild. Moreover, according to the decision of the military council of the North-Western Front, at the end of 39, the plant received an application for the creation of an engineering assault

The Chinese industry, including the defense industry, is well known for its tendency to copy foreign designs, both with and without a license. Most often, copies of foreign weapons and equipment were adopted in their original form, but there are interesting exceptions. So, within the framework of the SM-4 project

Indeed, "Sprut-B" is a very peculiar phenomenon in the history of our artillery. Currently, the 2A45M Sprut-B is considered the most powerful anti-tank gun in the world. Meanwhile, this is a story with a kind of continuation, and, I would say, the continuation turned out to be very successful. And it all began

It's probably worth starting with the definitions. And already they will set the further development of the theme of our story. So, today no one needs to explain what self-propelled artillery units (ACS) or self-propelled guns are. And self-propelled? "Self-propelled" - go by themselves. "Self-propelled" - move themselves

Continuing the theme of artillery weapons of the Russian army, we turn to the story of a weapon that is hard not to see at any exhibition, in any museum or any other site where it is exhibited. A weapon that a very small number of gunners can call their relatives

We often use the worn-out expression "God of War". An expression born too long ago to be true to us. Just a cliché. Just words. In an age with huge intercontinental missiles in mines equipped with nuclear warheads, smart and deadly

The story of the 152-mm howitzer M-10 mod. The year 1938 is interesting already because the assessments of this system are so contradictory that they puzzled the authors even after writing the article. On the one hand, the combat use of this weapon in all its guises in the Red Army gave rise to many criticisms

We are already accustomed to talking about pre-war artillery systems in excellent tones. Every system is a masterpiece of design thought. But today we are talking about a howitzer, which does not cause such admiration. Howitzer, which came to the Red Army from the distant 1909. But nevertheless, with honor

The SU-100 self-propelled anti-tank artillery mount was created on the basis of the T-34-85 medium tank by the Uralmashzavod design bureau in late 1943 - early 1944 and was a further development of the SU-85. By that time, it had already become clear that the 85 mm SU-85 gun was not worthy

I want to start an article quite frivolously. Finally we got there! Not to Berlin, as the heroine of our story, but to the history of the creation, construction and combat use of one of the first large-caliber artillery systems, created by Soviet designers. So, the most famous unknown hero

In the early thirties, Soviet specialists began to work out the appearance of promising self-propelled artillery installations. Various options for such a technique have been proposed, considered and tested, and some of them, having confirmed their potential, have found application in practice. Others were

The M-30 howitzer is probably known to everyone. The famous and legendary weapon of the workers 'and peasants', Soviet, Russian and many other armies. Any documentary film about the Great Patriotic War almost necessarily includes footage of the firing of an M-30 battery. Even today, despite its age, it is

The hardest thing is to talk about the tools that have been heard for a long time. In the pre-war period, according to this indicator, the first place should be given, without hesitation, to the 122-mm divisional howitzer of the 1910/30 model. Probably, there is no military conflict of that time, where these howitzers did not appear. Yes, and on

It is difficult to imagine a modern armed conflict that does not use improvised military equipment of handicraft production. Various armed formations, preparing for battles, install available weapons of one kind or another on available civilian vehicles. For some time now