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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

We used to think that our helicopters are some of the best in the world, and some of them have no equal. However, as we know, as a result of a long-term tender, the Indian Ministry of Defense ultimately decided to purchase the American AN-64D Apache Longbow helicopters

Units loyal to Assad have to be built from scratch Over the past week, Syrian government forces have reported on several successful operations, in particular in the north-west of the country in the so-called Salma enclave, where the Russian front-line bomber Su-24M was shot down last November. Truth

Interest in Russian history is growing in Finland Russia and Sweden have no common border, but this was not always the case. Since the time of Novgorod Rus, military-territorial conflicts have arisen between our countries 18 times and lasted 139 years in total. The much more famous 69 years of the Russo-Turkish wars fade away on this

Soviet troops, equipped with the latest technology, successfully fought gangs on the territory of ChinaIn the 30s of the last century, China was going through an extremely difficult period. After the Xinhai Revolution of 1911, the country disintegrated into de facto independent but officially unrecognized province-states

An ice squad is conducting a transit battle. At the end of January, the results of the competition "Technical and economic model of the Northern Sea Route" were summed up. The revival of the Arctic is one of the strategic directions of Russian policy. But in order to ensure our constant presence in high latitudes, it is necessary to lead to

The armies of eastern recruits can only go to war under a white flag If the armed forces and military-industrial complexes of Ukraine and Belarus are among the largest in Europe (albeit mainly due to its voluntary disarmament), then four other neighboring countries

About the Military Doctrine of the Red Army in the early 1920s - are we defending or attacking? The last quarter of the 20th century was marked in Russian history by the introduction into scientific circulation of a huge array of previously inaccessible documents. But little-explored topics remain. One of them is a discussion in the early 20s of the Military

"Bald dandy, enemy of labor" - in the words of the caustic poet, in our time, Alexander I would be called a hipster. Admire his ceremonial portrait by Stepan Shchukin: elegant tanks, a small neat "Mohawk" covering an early bald spot … At first nothing betrayed him

At the end of the story about the medals of the Catherine era, we will tell you about her last significant "manet" - the medal for the capture of Prague. But, since the short period of the reign of Paul I that followed did not "spoil" the Russian soldiers with well-deserved awards, first let's look a little ahead

"The key role is assigned to the creation of robotic systems." With these words, the Ministry of Defense describes the ways in which Russian military science will develop in the coming years. However, this is not the only element of today's understanding of what the war will look like already in the near

No wonder it is said that the big is seen at a distance. The time is palpably approaching when the need for an objective, unbiased assessment of the experience of building a socialist society in our country began to appear. An experience that failed catastrophically, thank God, without an apocalyptic

The "VPK" correspondent followed in the footsteps of the Caspian monster Veterans of our fleet and shipbuilding proudly recall what a stir in NATO caused Soviet ekranoplanes - uncontrolled air defense systems, low-flying, all-weather multi-purpose vehicles: missile attack carriers, landing

I recall the last sailing of the Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Navy, Admiral of the Soviet Union Fleet Sergei Gorshkov, in the Northern Fleet, which took place on October 6, 1984, and fell on the Commander-in-Chief's check of the year's results

February 10. / TASS /. Exactly 110 years ago, on February 10, 1906, the British warship Dreadnought was launched in Portsmouth. By the end of the same year, it was completed and entered into the Royal Navy. "Dreadnought", combining a number of innovative solutions, became the ancestor of a new

One of the most widespread radio systems (RTK) in the world, used as part of airborne early warning and control systems (AWACS), is the Erieye system, developed by the Swedish company Saab Electronic Defense Systems

February 9, Poland marks a tragic date - the beginning of the Volyn massacre. It was on this day, 73 years ago, that a bandit offspring calling themselves the "Ukrainian Insurgent Army" attacked the first Polish village of Paroslya (this is today's Rivne region of Ukraine). 173 peaceful Poles were brutally killed, in

The Swedish king Gustav III cherished ideas that were far from reality. About, for example, that, taking advantage of kinship and Masonic brotherhood with the Russian Tsarevich Pavel, to beg him for the Baltics. And then completely ride a white horse to Senate Square and throw the Bronze Horseman off the pedestal

American corporations begin the first work on the creation of the next, sixth, generation fighter. It is supposed to replace all other existing American fighters (except for the F-35) and will be able to guarantee the destruction of super-maneuverable Russian combat aircraft. Bid

The Moscow Kremlin is the heart and soul of the capital, its source. The Moscow Kremlin is a stronghold of power, a citadel of Russian statehood. It was here that the fate of people, the fate of the country, the fate of peoples were decided. The Moscow Kremlin has always been perceived as the sacred center of the country

For the army, which safely survived the 90s, difficult times are coming. Belarus was objectively lucky in terms of military development. As a legacy from the USSR, she inherited one of the best military districts, located on the main - western strategic direction and acting as the second echelon of groups