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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

The UK government has announced that it is ready to invest 60 million pounds (almost 3 billion rubles) in the project of the private company Reaction Engines. The company's engineers expect to build a working model of a brand new commercial jet engine. The

The mysterious American spacecraft (we are talking about the space unmanned vehicle X-37B) has been in low-earth orbit for a year now, performing various tasks related, apparently, to long-term, but unknown space goals. This is the third long-term flight of the device

On December 8, 2013, the Proton-M launch vehicle was successfully launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome, which launched an English communications satellite into space, which is one of three vehicles with which the Anglo-American corporation expects to create a global mobile communications system. Derived on

Two large US space companies continue to quarrel over the Russian rocket engine RD-180, which is produced in the Moscow region by NPO Energomash and is designed for launch vehicles belonging to the middle class. American antitrust authorities suspect United Launch

The cosmic history of mankind will lose more and more details every decade. The more we succeed, the less significant the very important achievements of the past will seem. Perhaps in schools it would be better to study not the history of political confrontations

In 1955-1956, spy satellites began to be actively developed in the USSR and the USA. In the USA it was a series of Korona devices, and in the USSR a series of Zenit devices. First generation space reconnaissance agents (American Corona and Soviet Zenith) took photographs, and then released

A few days ago, a short message flashed in the news feed of the domestic media about the planned launch of a privately-built spacecraft in the United States into near-earth orbit. It is not surprising that against the background of the events in Ukraine exciting every Russian person, such news could hardly

A few days ago it became known that the Samara Central Design Bureau "Progress" proposed a new engine for promising super-heavy launch vehicles, using liquefied natural gas as fuel. According to the latest reports of the domestic press, their ideas about the future of rocket engines

Potential adversary is doomed to maintain a perimeter defense Today, no one doubts that the defense doctrines of the leading states are military space. The strategic American concept of a rapid global strike, among other things, provides for the widespread deployment of space

Already in 2-3 years, the Russian aeronautical rocket complex for space purposes, being developed as part of the Air Launch project, can carry out the first tests. The latest version of the ARKK "Air Launch" was presented at the last in the Moscow region Zhukovsky air show

India has become one of the space superpowers. Indian scientists managed to solve a very difficult problem - they put their own satellite into Martian orbit. As a result, India became the first country in the world that managed to realize its mission to Mars the first time. At the same time launched by the Indians

Several foreign private companies are currently working on launch vehicle and spacecraft projects. It is expected that the "private traders" thanks to such projects in the future will be able to squeeze the world leaders of the space industry, as well as help them by taking on some projects. The first

The American aerospace agency NASA is going to abandon the use of Russian manned transport spacecraft "Soyuz-TMA" in favor of similar vehicles of its own production. Currently, American astronauts are airlifted aboard the ISS by Russian Soyuz

"Angara" against the "fifth column" On July 9, 2014, a significant event took place, which will become an epochal not only for the Fatherland, but for the entire world space. For the first time in the world a modular rocket “Angara” was launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome. It seemed that not only on the eve of the launch, but

Foreign and domestic media regularly make attempts to compare one or another military equipment. Based on the available information, they are trying to draw conclusions about the superiority of one sample over others. A few days ago, the American edition of Business Insider

As it was before Now, dear reader, we are forced to temporarily move away from the main theme of our story. We will not make any progress in understanding rocketry until we think about a number of questions. You can study the technical characteristics of launch vehicles for years, but you still don’t understand why

Design principles Now it becomes clear why for many years the Soyuz spacecraft, the legendary Royal Seven, received an absolute monopoly on the delivery of astronauts to the ISS. It is difficult to find epithets for this ship. "Soyuz" is "space Kalashnikov", "orbital

From Ukraine - back to the USSR I must say that the Zenit launch vehicle was more fortunate in this regard. Yes, the Energia-Buran space program was closed, but we have Zenit, which was the side block of the first stage of the Energia launch vehicle. That's why

Today, much and often is said about the economic collapse in Ukraine, and somehow the rocket and space industry of this state is lost in this gigantic stream of necessary and unnecessary information. It is from this country that I will begin my story. This is done for a number of reasons. Firstly

The West has been discussing various options for toughening sanctions against Russia for quite a long time due to the crisis in Ukraine. So far, only the United States has gone on to impose sanctions, which are not limited only to sanctions lists against officials and heads of state-owned companies. Apparently