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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

For us Christians, God is God! A being of a higher order and busy with its own, "divine problems." But there were other gods: for example, gods, quite similar in their characters to people in Greek mythology. But what was the situation in Ancient Egypt, where most of the gods were beastheads? Were there

The army was led by Count Simon de Montfort, who had already participated in the fourth crusade in 1204. The Count of Toulouse also prudently took part in it, which provided his lands with immunity from the troops of the crusaders. However, he did not bring his retinue to them and led the crusaders on

Not so long ago, TOPWAR published a number of articles about the Battle of Verdun, and before that there were also materials about the fortress war of the First World War and the guns used against the then forts. And here the question arises: how was the experience of the First World War analyzed in relation to the fight against fortresses in the interwar period?

Most recently, TOPWAR published an interesting article about how the British crown got Gibraltar or "The Rock" - a rocky cliff - in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, which eventually became … an overseas territory of Great Britain, which is contested by Spain, and includes how

Probably, many people know that the lands of Russia in the past were the arena of fierce battles. This is the battle on Lake Peipus or Lake Peipus, where in 1242 the soldiers of Prince Alexander defeated the Teutonic knights, and the Kulikovo field, where in 1380 Russian soldiers repelled the invasion of Khan Mamai, and many, many

During the First World War, it was the hand-reloading rifle that was the most important weapon of the infantry. The volume of production of this type of weapon by enterprises of the belligerent countries, as well as the losses that with its help, depended on the quality, reliability and manufacturability of this weapon

When today we watch TV footage with scenes of violence on the streets of European cities, we somehow forget that at the beginning of the 20th century everything was the same in Britain. It can be said that it was simply overwhelmed by extremism. One after another, mailboxes flashed in houses, windows were broken in offices and houses

“If your right eye tempts you, pluck it out and throw it away from you, for it is better for you that one of your members perish, and not your whole body was thrown into Gehenna” (Matthew 18: 9) On the pages of TOPWAR more than once and not two were told about the brutal religious wars that were unleashed in the name of God and

Today, the assumptions about "what would have happened" have become very popular and it is not surprising that even science is engaged in them. Why? Because there are such bifurcation points in history - "points of instability" when all the enormous inertia of the economy and psychology of the masses ceases to play

Isn't it always interesting to know what and how our ancestors wrote about, say, 100 years ago? Today we are worried about the problems with Turkey, but then Russia was at war with her at all, and the journalists of that time also wrote about this war. How? How exactly did they write about her, what they paid attention to

And it so happened that on the pages of TOPWAR an extensive photo collection of images of warships of the American Civil War in 1861-1865 was posted. Unfortunately, only "pictures", without signatures, they say, who needs it, look for yourself. Commenting on the photos, many VO readers expressed their wishes to learn about

And it so happened that in 1937, several German firms were entrusted with the design of a new, heavier model of the tank, which was supposed to replace the Pz Kpfw III and Pz Kpfw IV that had just been adopted. So far, they have satisfied the military, but they understood that sooner or later, but

And it so happened that in 1956 in the USSR, at the Kiev Film Studio, a very good (color) war film "Missing in Trace" was shot, which was released in 1957. The film starred the then famous film actors Isaac Shmaruk, Mikhail Kuznetsov, Sofya Giatsintova and others

Strategy and Tactics The strategy of the Mughals was based on a combination of the use of elite cavalry and well-fortified defensive fortresses. At the same time, the tactics of the Mughals were flexible: they took into account that the use of cavalry and war elephants was more effective on the plains of northern India than in

Not so long ago, TOPWAR published material about the KV-1 tank. I read it and remembered that long before I started publishing my magazine "Tankomaster" and, accordingly, writing about tanks, I had the opportunity to read an interesting book by engineers of the famous Kirov plant, which was called "Constructor

In November 1095, Pope Urban II (1042-1099) addressed a large gathering of nobility and clergy of France in Clermont with an inspired sermon, during which he called for an expedition to help Christians of the East - primarily the Byzantines - against the Turks, as well as for the liberation of Jerusalem and

"… and put a copper helmet on his head, and put armor on him …" (First Book of Kingdoms 17:38) derivative from the French salade, and in French this word, in turn, came from Italy, from

Memories of the games in the war aroused keen interest among VO visitors and … why not continue this topic? This time the story will be devoted to the theme of children's technical creativity that is close to me, which I was engaged in as a child, and then quite seriously as an adult

The cavalry has always been the most important element of the Mughal army. It has been divided into four main parts. The best, at least the highest paid and most heavily armed, were the elite Ashadi horsemen or "noble warriors." Many of their descendants still hold the title

After the article about the "war", several VO readers at once asked me to continue this topic and it is clear why: every adult is a boy at heart, and besides, he is often not played enough. It was for me that I was lucky that I had a huge garden, an old house with mysterious "snags" full of old books