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The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces plans to draft conscripts on a territorial basis already in 2011. Such work, according to Interfax, citing a source in the Ministry of Defense, is already being carried out by the military department within the framework of the general "humanization of the army" announced

The United States is trying to obtain immortal biological objects, completely subordinate to their creators and able to act as soldiers. The rulers have always sought absolute power, dreaming of enslaving the world. For this purpose, they were ready to allocate any funds. In the USA is held

At the suggestion of the Russian Defense Minister in the Armed Forces, a five-day working week with two days off will be introduced for conscripts, and civilians will take over cooking for personnel, cleaning the territory and premises in military camps. The Ministry of Defense also wants

In 1973, the US Navy began development on the "space cruiser" program, a manned orbital interceptor designed for "scientific and military research." The fleet was particularly interested in a system that would get rid of Soviet observation satellites

The Bulava may fly … but when? Testing of the Bulava sea-based ICBMs will continue this summer, although on December 9 last year, the next launch of this missile ended with the expected unsatisfactory result. And then I was surprised by the disinterested, sluggish reaction of experts

By December 2010, the Ministry of Defense intends to create operational-strategic commands (OSK) on the basis of the existing military districts, which will control the four cardinal points. Today, we recall that there are 6 military districts in Russia - Moscow, Leningrad, North Caucasian

Head of the Center for Military Forecasting - on the correct age of conscription, "wrong" contract soldiers and real enemies of Russia Vasily Smirnov, the Chief of the Russian General Staff, said that the Ministry of Defense proposes to increase the term of the spring conscription of citizens for military service until the end of August

Why the program of recruiting parts and formations by contract soldiers stalled Back in the mid-90s, Russia, following the example of the advanced countries of the West, decided to acquire a professional army. The idea itself is good. This became especially clear during the first campaign in Chechnya, when the fight against mothers

Until recently, this ship was considered very little known. Not many sources wrote about this machine - a kind of one of its kind, but so far the LRV project is striking in its sophistication, which favorably distinguishes it from other projects of military spaceships (for the most part

Illustration: Snob.Ru / Ilya Viktorov, Igor Burmakin This case could have occurred in any military collective, therefore I do not name the number of the military unit or the name of the unit, but for the sake of figurativeness I will say whether we had it. In those ancient years, when typewriters, after buying in

In the new 2017, the French armed forces intend to implement several new programs related to the rearmament of combat units. One of such projects concerns the sphere of anti-tank missile systems. Currently, the French army is armed with several systems of this

If in an Indian film a gun hangs on the wall, in the final scene it will certainly sing or dance. Comparison of the Indian naval forces with the Bollywood film studios is not accidental - after all, like any Indian cinema, the Indian Navy is a real trash. But at the same time, trash of the highest level! Bright

At the time of the collapse of the USSR, the military-industrial complex of Ukraine included 3.5 thousand enterprises. There were about 700 factories that produced exclusively military products. But after the declaration of independence, as in the entire post-Soviet space, the Ukrainian military-industrial complex began to rapidly degrade: the number of defense

There was little entertainment in the military town at one of the naval arsenals … Due to the remoteness of the military unit from any centers of civilization, dismissals were not practiced as such. There were only trips to the cinema on Saturdays and Sundays. Often they brought something Indian for some reason, five times they watched "

Somehow, rummaging through the expanse of the Internet in search of information about the jacket of a Belgian paratrooper bought on the occasion (for some reason the jacket was called "Congo"!) mechanic

V. Vasnetsov "Oleg and the Magus" This article will focus on the formation of early pre-state or potestary institutions and the factors of their emergence in Eastern Europe. Introduction At the turn of the 9th - 10th centuries. there was a unification of the tribes of Eastern Europe under the rule of the Russian clan, which put

VM Vasnetsov "A Knight at the Crossroads". Timing Saint Petersburg Speaking about the collapse of the clan system and the formation of the communal-territorial structure of Ancient Russia, one must understand that this process was not one-time. It took a rather long period from the end of the 10th - to the end of the 11th century, and possibly even to

N. Roerich. Idols. 1901 This work tells about the earliest period in the history of the Eastern Slavs of the 8th – 9th centuries. This is not a retelling of successive historical events, but the first work of a cycle dedicated to the phased development of Russia - Russia, based on current scientific research on this

King Himself VII century. Reconstruction of the author. Origin There is no definite answer to the question of the origin of the word "sword". If at first it was assumed that the Proto-Slavs adopted this term from the Germans, now it is believed that in relation to the ancient Germanic language this is not a borrowing, but a parallelism

The storming of the city by the Slavs. A modern depiction based on the Milan manuscript of the 6th century. Drawing by the author Foreword This article continues the cycle on the Slavic weapons of the early period