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It is no secret that for many Soviet officers it was very prestigious to own a captured pistol. Most often, German short-barreled weapons could be at the disposal of the infantry commanders of the platoon-battalion level and the military personnel of the reconnaissance units. That is, those who

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A rare photo - two identical Russian warships of non-Soviet construction together. But that should stop being rare. Photo: defenceimagery.mod.uk Having decided on the principles that should underlie the sane shipbuilding policy of Russia, you need to subject them at least

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The High-Precision Complexes holding (part of the Rostec state corporation) was formed in 2009. Judging by the brand's popularity in Russia and abroad, the consolidation of the scientific and technical potential of specialized enterprises was successful. Not every integrated structure can boast

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About spilled blood - as a general to a general In February 2021, shortly before the next anniversary of the armed conflict on Damansky Island, a very lengthy and, to put it mildly, somewhat strange material was published in Nezavisimaya Gazeta. It was a big interview with a retired major general

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In the minds of the majority of Europeans, and even the citizens of Russia, the expanses of Southern Siberia, Altai, Mongolia, Northern and Central China have always been an area of settlement for the peoples of the Mongoloid race, but this is far from the case. Already in 3000 BC, Southern Siberia was inhabited by the clans of the Indo-European

In the process of creating a nuclear submarine - a carrier of sea-based cruise missiles and special forces groups (SSGN), into which the first four Ohio-class SSBNs were converted, as well as littoral combat ships (LBK, recently, in accordance with changes in the classification, they became frigates) on

In Russia, new technologies have been developed for the manufacture of glazing of the cabins of military and civil aircraft from silicate glass. Such products turn out to be lighter and stronger than if they were created from previously used organic materials. Silicate glass is also used in other areas - from

Compared to an airplane, a glider has a number of disadvantages. First of all, this is the inability to take off on its own: the glider can be launched using another aircraft, a ground winch, a powder pusher or, for example, a catapult. The second negative is the seriously limited range

In just a month, seven transport ships of the first allied caravan arrived in Arkhangelsk. Until the end of the year, the ports of the USSR received seven such caravans - from "PQ.0" to "PQ.6", consisting of 52 vessels. Thus, in 1941 alone, 699 aircraft were delivered to Arkhangelsk from England and the USA, 466

The January 1945 offensive of the troops of the 1st Belorussian and 1st Ukrainian fronts, launched on the Vistula, went down in history as the Vistula-Oder strategic offensive operation. One of the bright, bloody and dramatic pages of this operation was the elimination of a group of German troops surrounded by

More than two decades have passed since the day when the news fell on the heads of the citizens of the USSR, already disappointed in Gorbachev's perestroika, that Vadim Bakatin, the last chairman of the KGB, made an unusual gift of 74 drawings and a short description on one sheet to the American ambassador in Moscow. Most of all

On a rainy March day in 1869, an officer was buried in St. Petersburg. Behind his coffin to the very gates of the city Lutheran cemetery was Tsarevich Alexander Alexandrovich, the future Emperor Alexander III. The deceased committed suicide. Suicide is a grave sin for a Christian. For him

Today, May 13, is the 70th anniversary of the Kapustin Yar training ground. The military historian Vladimir Ivanovich Ivkin told the NVO correspondent how this complex test complex was created, who stood at the origins, what work was carried out on it. Of particular interest are previously unknown facts from

On February 9, 1995, the Golden Star was brought to the hospital by two generals. Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General of the Army Mikhail Kolesnikov, and Chief of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, Colonel-General Fyodor Lodygin. Kolesnikov read out the presidential decree and handed over to Chernyak

On April 30, 1945, senior sergeant Nikolai Masalov, risking his life, brought out a German girl from under fire, which became the plot of the monument to the Liberator Soldier in Berlin The monument in Berlin's Treptower Park is widely known not only in our country and not only in Germany. But not everyone knows what the idea is

As happens every three years, the French ground forces have launched a new campaign to recruit personnel into their ranks. It includes posters, television and internet spots. Its cost is 2 million euros. The campaign is aimed at the personal qualities of the applicants, gradually moving away from the slogan:

Cities and factories, tanks and ships were named after Kliment Voroshilov. Songs were composed about him, and every pioneer dreamed of earning the honorary title of "Voroshilov shooter". He was a symbol of the Soviet dream - a simple locksmith who became the people's commissar of defense and even the head of state. But the recent

Electronic warfare is conducted strictly according to science. Over the past three years, the Armed Forces have made a significant leap forward in both rearmament and combat training. And how was the development of the electronic warfare (EW) troops during this period? What new types of weapons and military equipment entered service, how is it going

The older generation remembers this day - April 26, 1986, exactly 30 years ago. And he remembers the first weeks after … I, for example, was 13. I, still a girl, trained with a group of climbers in the Crimea in May, mastering the rocky route of Mount Kush-Kaya near Foros. Once I heard how adults

On April 24, 1946, the first two jet fighters in the USSR made their first flights: Yak-15 (test pilot M.I. Ivanov) and MiG-9 (test pilot A.N. Grinchik) Almost immediately after the end of World War II, scientific the technical elite of the Soviet Union at an accelerated pace of

May 3, 1946 began the Tokyo trial of the main war criminals If we are to judge for the outbreak of wars, then we should start with the main driving force of armed conflicts - politicians. However, they themselves consider such a formulation of the question unacceptable, because, from their point of view, they go to

"Admiral Kuznetsov", "Liaoning", "Nimitz": who is worth what According to the degree of compliance of the ship's combat effectiveness with its purpose, our aircraft carrier is inferior to the "American" in local conflicts by about 14 percent, in a large-scale war - about 10 percent. At the same time, "Kuznetsov" is superior in the same

The Great Patriotic War of the Soviet people against the German fascist invaders was worthily crowned with the Victory Parade. On June 24, 1945, twelve consolidated regiments of the fighting fronts, sailors, the troops of the Polish and Moscow garrisons marched along Red Square in a solemn march. Front regiments consisted of

The construction of its own fifth generation fighter by Japan was a landmark step for the country. The aircraft industry of the Land of the Rising Sun has risen to a qualitatively new level - and in this sense, Japan is trying to catch up with both Russia and the United States. From the point of view of military-political

Pyongyang has once again surprised the world On April 23, the North Korean Central Telegraph News Agency reported on the successful tests of a sea-launched ballistic missile. According to official data, they were carried out in order to check the operation of the underwater launch system at maximum depth, and