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2025-06-01 06:06

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

Unlike our launcher of the 9A52 / -2 "Smerch" multiple launch rocket system, which takes an average of 17-19 minutes to recharge, the recharge of modular six-wheel transport launch containers PU М270А1 MLRS MLRS (including modifications) takes from 5 to 8 minutes. for the West

Altius-MR Reconnaissance flight of the American strategic unmanned aerial vehicle RQ-4 "Global Hawk" along the Russian borders of the Republic of Crimea, as well as 217 km from the line of contact between the territories of Donbass controlled by the Armed Forces of Novorossiya and the Ukrainian paramilitary formations

Demonstration of the maneuverability of the F / A-18E / F "Super Hornet" When designing the F / A-18E / F "Super Hornet", the developer was very serious about the need to increase the range of the new machine. For a carrier-based multi-role fighter, this indicator is paramount, since

The first test launch of the tactical anti-tank missile AGM-114F "Halfire" from the underwing point of the suspension of the light attack aircraft "Scorpion" Reflections and disputes in the defense departments of Russia and the United States regarding the replacement of the outdated attack aircraft Su-25 and A-10A / C do not subside to this day. Initially, this

The warhead with a semi-active laser homing head of the light tactical guided missile WGU-59 / B APKWS

In view of the global pre-escalation state of the world military-strategic arena, in almost every new review, we are forced to jump from analyzing one theater of military operations to another. Each of them has its own unique tactical-geographical, tactical-technical and

The photo shows the main elements of the next generation Buk-M3 military anti-aircraft missile system: a transport and launcher for 12 TPKs with 9M317M - 9A316M missiles (left), a 9S18M3 Kupol X-range radar detector (center) and a self-propelled fire launcher 9A317M with 6-channel radar

The prototype of the long-range high-altitude fighter-interceptor MiG-31 - E-155MP (board "831"), which first took off on September 16, 1975, received all the constructive and conceptual "roots" of the widely known and unique in its kind 3-fly fighter-interceptor MiG - 25PD. "Delivered on

Getting acquainted with the endless military-technical expanses of the Chinese Internet (including forums, blog platforms, etc.), as well as watching YouTube video content for searches related to J-10A / B multirole fighters, you can repeatedly stumble upon unique acrobatic maneuvers

Back on November 7, 2017, during a meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces Valery Gerasimov announced the start of a program for the development of an improved modification of the Project 955B Borey-B strategic missile submarine. Draft design of the updated

Back in early December 2017, Leonid Shiman, General Director of the Ukrainian State Enterprise NPO Pavlograd Chemical Plant, made a rather unexpected and contradictory statement about the entry of the program for the development of the operational-tactical missile system "Grom-2" into the final phase, which even then created in Runet

One of the most important elements in maintaining the combat stability of modern shipborne and aircraft carrier strike groups, without a doubt, are promising shipborne anti-aircraft missile and anti-aircraft missile and artillery self-defense systems of short and medium range, designed

The observed trend towards a global aggravation of the military-political situation up to pre-escalation situations, caused by the reluctance of Western regimes to switch to a fundamentally new (multipolar) system of world order, is increasingly pushing defense departments, as well as private and

It is well known that three modifications of the American Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are by far the most successful and large-scale types of surface ships in the modern history of the world's naval forces. Even though the lead ship DDG-51 USS

The summer of 2012 was remembered for numerous Russian and foreign Internet observers by the unprecedented in the history of modern submarine fleets of cases of penetration of Russian submarines of the Borei and Shchuka-B classes into the near anti-submarine borders of the United States

Most of the air forces of the Warsaw Pact countries have managed to become very closely acquainted with the unique flight and technical, and therefore the fighting qualities of the advanced twin-engine fighters of the 4th generation MiG-29A ("Product 9-12B"), which began to enter service 1st

The second "multipurpose" promising destroyer DDG-1001 USS "Michael Monsoor" of the "Zumwalt" class worth more than $ 3.5 billion came off the stocks of the Bath Iron Warks shipyard, located on the river. Kennebec, Maine December 6, 2017. On central American TV channels and others

A huge amount of controversy and reflections concerning the development and future application in practice of the American concept of a "Rapid Global Strike" can be found on the Russian expanses of the global network and on Russian-language foreign military-analytical resources. It is not a secret that

Literally every week, reports continue to come in about incessant reconnaissance flights by NATO tactical and strategic electronic reconnaissance aircraft in the immediate vicinity of the most powerful air zones of prohibition and restriction of access and maneuver (A2 / AD), created in

The most popular British and American media, as well as our eminent news TV channels, are unlikely to tell about this, because most of the events will most likely be behind the curtain of obscurity and will not be subject to disclosure. We will try to consider the event more