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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

Pochentong airfield. Soldiers dragging ammunition off the plane The capture of Phnom Penh on April 17, 1975 was, of course, the greatest triumph of the Khmer Rouge in their history. On this day, they turned from partisans into the ruling organization and power in Cambodia, which they renamed Democratic

Reichsmarschall and commissioner for the four-year plan Hermann Goering (in a white jacket) examines a model of a metallurgical plant Anyone who read about German policy in the occupied territories of the USSR during World War II should know this name - “Green folder

Since our beloved adversaries do not indulge in the innovations of their nuclear arsenal, we will be content for now with the products of the previous era - the W-80. Photo: flickr.com Kelly Michals Recently, the United States announced that they may soon abandon the moratorium on nuclear tests, announced yet

Corvette "Cheonan" The death of the South Korean corvette "Cheonan" turned out to be such a complex story, in which truth, half-truth, fiction, lies and concealment of facts were intricately intertwined that even now, ten years later, it is not easy to understand it. Due to some political events, she acquired

Ceremony in memory of those killed on the Sewol ferry. With a silent reproach: why not rescued? In the epic of the South Korean ferry "Sewol", the reasons for the crash of which was the previous article, there is another very important point: why are there so many dead? 304 people is a lot. Especially considering

The Sewol Ferry in Its Best Times It just so happened that I became a participant in a long debate about the circumstances of the mysterious crash of the South Korean Sewol ferry, which capsized and sank on the morning of April 16, 2014 during its flight from Incheon to Jeju Island. Killed 304

Sunrise Ace in all its glory Its silhouette most of all resembles a cruise liner, only completely without portholes - a blank board. At first glance, the ship causes a slight shock and even some rejection, nevertheless

Typical collective farm hydroelectric power station. Photo of low quality, but giving an idea that such an object was built from scrap materials If the details of major battles are described by day, and sometimes by minute, rivets on tanks

Project 1174 large landing ship. In this case - "Saratov". Launched in 1964, that is, the ship is 56 years old. Surprisingly, he is still afloat. Photo: Artem Balabin Discussion of the advantages and advantages of the Sunrise Ace car carrier ship for military transport in the previous article is very

Khaidarkan is a picturesque place. In the photo - dumps and concentration plant of a mercury plant Sometimes, when discussing ammunition, in particular, cartridges, one can come across the statement that lead azide used in primers is such a more powerful and modern initiating explosive compared to

Heisenberg Reactor at Haigerloch. Now it is a museum The history of the uranium project of the Third Reich, as it is usually presented, reminds me very much of a book with torn pages. All of it appears as a history of continuous failures and failures, a program with unclear goals and a useless waste of valuable

Radar "Fara-VR" installed on the AGS. A very dangerous enemy due to the range and accuracy of detection. Radars are gradually moving from the sky to the earth and become one of the factors of success in ground battles. In recent years, quite a few samples of radar stations have appeared

The dosimeter is the cornerstone of preparations for a nuclear war "It was a nuclear winter. A radioactive snow was falling, the dosimeter was crackling comfortably …" So a story about a nuclear war with a New Year flavor could begin. But the article is not about that, but about the readiness for a nuclear war and its consequences. Or

Fushun coal mine, the largest in Manchuria and in the world This part of the history of World War II is little known due to the almost complete absence and rarity of literature, especially in Russian. This is the military-economic development of Manchukuo, a state formally independent, but in fact

USAF's Newest Hope The battle for air supremacy over the western Pacific Ocean off the coast of China has definitely reached a new technological level. In a previous article on this topic, I already wrote that the United States is faced with two factors that significantly weaken them

The Project 68-bis cruiser Murmansk on the rocks off the coast of Norway in 2008

New times Since 1991, the process of degradation of the armed forces of the USSR, and then of Russia, began. All subsequent processes negatively affected all types of aircraft of the Air Force, Air Defense and Navy, but the MiG-29 received the most painful blows. Except, of course, for those types that were just

It all began with the coming to power in the USSR of Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev. To retell for the hundredth time what happened to our country after that is a routine and uninteresting occupation. Therefore, let's go straight to the point. The purpose of this work is to understand how strong the end of the cold

BOD "Gifted" in the Sea of Japan, 09/17/1983 What will we dispose of? In the first part of the article it was shown that the USSR and then the USA began a large-scale reduction of fleets at the turn of the 90s of the last century. Let us ask ourselves a question - what was good in this process and what was bad? It's obvious that

Americium, which will be discussed in this article Small and low-power nuclear charges have historically been unlucky. In those blessed times, when nuclear charges of all types were actively developed and tested, there was no suitable isotope for them. Only plutonium-239 and