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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

The answer to this question is very difficult: large-caliber rifles create a powerful flash and rumble like artillery weapons, and silent samples do not have a long firing range. You have to choose which is more important: stealth or power. The solution to the sniper dilemma came from the city, traditionally

I, who served almost equally on both "diesels" (as they were condescendingly called in the early 70s) and the newest at that time nuclear-powered ships, I would like to pay tribute to the memory of the officers and sailors of the 182nd submarine brigade of the Pacific Fleet ( Pacific Fleet), not marked with high awards and

In the popular Soviet TV series "Seventeen Moments of Spring," Stirlitz's courier, Professor Pleischner, delivers the encrypted message of a Soviet intelligence officer in a capsule, which he hides in his mouth. In case of danger, the small capsule should have been swallowed, but the professor did not notice the "flower" signal on the windowsill and he himself

Next year, on March 17, General Alexei Alekseevich Ignatiev will turn 140 years old. In the encyclopedia you can read about him: “Count Alexei Alekseevich Ignatiev (March 2 (14), 1877 - November 20, 1954) - Russian and Soviet military leader, diplomat, adviser to the head of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, a writer from the Ignatiev family

The author of these lines, perhaps one of the few researchers, had a chance to hold in his hands a genuine personal file of the Hero of the Soviet Union Stepan Andreevich Neustroev, which was kept in one of the closed archives under the heading "Secret". Thanks to this, intricate details were revealed, not

80 years ago, on June 1, 1936, flights between Moscow and Vladivostok began. Flights were carried out from the Frunze Central Aerodrome, better known as Khodynka. However, in the same 1936 it was closed for major reconstruction, during which it was necessary to build a concrete

"There were so many prisoners that the squadrons of hussars drowned among them" On April 27, 1915, the attack of the 3rd Cavalry Corps destroyed the enemy's combined arms army. The actions of the Russian cavalry in the First World War were sometimes of strategic importance, but they remain a solid blank spot

“When I just moved here, in 1989, my little daughter and I went together to the Krasnaya Gorka fort. I started climbing concrete debris in the blown-up casemate and got stuck. When I shone forward, I saw what made me work on the fort all my life … in front of me

Why the United States and Turkey are starting a new stage of hostilities in Syria A new wave of exacerbation of the Syrian conflict is inevitable. The United States does not have any puppet regimes under its control in the region. The only chance to retain influence is to change the government in Syria

The Russian military is improving the basing system in the Far East and, in particular, in the Kuril Islands. So, in April, a three-month expeditionary voyage of a detachment of ships of the Pacific Fleet began to the islands of the Great Kuril ridge. "The main goal is to study the possibilities of the prospective basing of forces

Alexander Matrosov and Oleg Koshevoy were deleted from school textbooks Ideological war is a struggle for the ideological foundations of states and communities. A targeted negative impact on the system of educational standards qualitatively changes the mentality of the people, their values and priorities, leads

The process of creating aircraft carriers in the USSR took place in difficult conditions of conflicting opinions in the circles of the country's military and political leadership. Therefore, the first in the class of aircraft-carrying ships - the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser (TAKR) of the project 1143 "Kiev" had limited tasks and was created as

Oddly enough, there have always been political parties in Russia. Of course, not in the modern interpretation, which defines a political party as a "special public organization", the guiding goal of which is to seize political power in the country. Nevertheless, it is known for certain that, for example, in the same

To the 100th anniversary of Lieutenant General Boris Semyonovich Ivanov One of the most important components of national security is state security, whose tasks include identifying and eliminating external and internal threats to the state, counteracting their sources, protecting state

The role of Beria in the creation of atomic and rocket weapons has not yet been properly assessed Seventy years ago, in the spring of 1946, events took place in the USSR that marked the beginning of the implementation of two most important defense projects - atomic and missile. 9 April, Resolution of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No

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