Air defense
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The development of a 152mm anti-aircraft gun with an SSP was carried out in the post-war years. The technical design of the anti-aircraft guns in 1949 was presented by OKB-8 under the name KS-52. The main characteristics of the KS-52 project: - the rate of fire is at least 10 rds / min; - the mass of the projectile used - 49 kilograms; - the total weight of the gun - 46
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Over the past years, the main method of ensuring low visibility of aircraft for enemy radar stations has been a special configuration of the outer contours. Stealth aircraft are designed so that the radio signal sent by the station is reflected anywhere, but not to the side
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Since the recent Operation Cloud Pillar never made it to the ground phase, all combat throughout the week followed the same pattern. Israeli military aircraft attacked targets in Gaza, and drones carried out reconnaissance and monitoring of the results of the attacks. Anti-Israel
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At the last forum "Technologies in mechanical engineering 2012" JSC "Vega" for the first time presented one of its own initiative-developed projects - a control room under the code "Rosehip-Aero" to provide radio monitoring and blocking of detected remote control channels of aircraft solutions. V
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The European Missile Association MBDA, in a press release distributed on December 4, 2012, for the first time officially announced that the Royal Guard of Oman became the first customer and operator of the ground-based version of the VL MICA (Ground Based Air Defense) anti-aircraft missile system developed by MBDA
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In the 1930s and 1940s, the German military industry was one of the most developed in the world. The pace of military build-up was significant. But she had one unique property - gigantomania, which was reflected in the development of all types of weapons, including anti-aircraft weapons. For destruction
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On March 11, 2013, the Swedish Armed Forces Material Support Agency (FMV) announced the signing of a contract with the German company Diehl Defense worth 270 million Swedish kronor ($ 41.9 million) to supply the Swedish armed forces with new short-range anti-aircraft missile systems IRIS-T SLS
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At the recent LIMA-2013 exhibition in Malaysia, the Kolomna Machine Building Design Bureau (KBM) presented several of its developments. Among other projects, the Luchnik-E short-range anti-aircraft missile system was shown. It continues the line of similar systems, and also unites in
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Receiving and receiving cabin of the ground-based radio range finder P-35M In 1978, after graduating from the Tambov Military Aviation Technical School with a degree in ground radar, I was sent to the training ground of the VP Chkalov Air Force Research Institute. It was a classic "point" - one of many in the track system
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The ground forces of Poland are currently using the ZSU-23-4, which today cannot perform the tasks of covering the airspace of battalions and brigades on the march and in defense. Although most of them have been upgraded to the level of ZSU-23-4 "Biała", equipped with a new
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The sound of the ship's guns is impressive. 170 rounds per second - a wild howl, intolerable to the human ear. Because of this, our naval officers prefer the AK-306 mounts with a lower rate of fire than the AK-630 and "Broadsword". In October 1943, near Yalta, German
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The state program for the rearmament of the army continues and there are constant reports of the supply of certain types of weapons or equipment. In February of this year, it was reported that in recent years the share of new weapons has grown by 10%. So, in 2008 this indicator was equal to six percent, and according to
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Just a few days ago it became known that the military and political leadership of our country is considering issues related to the creation of new missile defense systems. Almost simultaneously with the corresponding message from the press service of the presidential administration, new information appeared, allegedly
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The features of the use of modern front-line aviation and its weapons directly speak of the need to create combined anti-aircraft systems, simultaneously armed with artillery installations and missile systems and at the same time capable of moving in the same formation with tanks or other combat
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On May 10, near the village of Semirovice (near the city of Gdynia Pomerania), the formation of the 1st missile battalion of anti-ship coastal defense complexes was completed. The division was created on January 1, 2011, but began to be completed only in the fall of 2012. This decision was made by the Polish
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A conference on the development of air defense of the ground forces was held last Thursday at the Military Academy of Military Air Defense (Smolensk). Representatives of the Ministry of Defense and Industry discussed the state and prospects of domestic anti-aircraft systems, and also examined some
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A unique object is located several tens of kilometers northeast of Moscow. It has the shape of a truncated tetrahedral pyramid with a base width of about 130 meters and a height of about 35 meters. On each facet of this structure there are characteristic panels of round and square shapes
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This year, the Polish army will receive an anti-aircraft missile battery POPRAD (Poprad is the name of the river). System certification ended in early June. This complex was very interested in the military, and the company (Bumar Electronics SA), which is its developer, will put it on military tests
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In the middle of the last decade, a leading Chinese manufacturer of weapons and military equipment, NORINCO, created and tested a new self-propelled anti-aircraft gun designed to provide air defense of stationary objects. The new combat vehicle was supposed to protect airfields
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The rocket of the American portable anti-aircraft complex FIM-92 Stinger was so successful that it was chosen for use on self-propelled air defense systems. This is how the AN / TWQ-1 Avenger complexes appeared based on the HMMWV car, the M6 Linebacker on the M2 Bradley BMP chassis and a number of other interesting systems. Like
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Last Wednesday, June 19, Russian President V. Putin, accompanied by Defense Minister S. Shoigu, St. Petersburg Governor G. Poltavchenko and other high-ranking officials, visited the St
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The Chinese approach to the creation of modern military equipment is widely known. Unable to make any combat vehicle or system on its own, China turns to other countries in order to purchase and copy the necessary equipment or initiate the start of a joint project. results
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An article titled "Shield Repair" appeared in one of the spring issues of the Ukrainian specialized publication "Defense Express". Its author, Vladimir Tkach, gives examples of samples of anti-aircraft missile systems that are in service with the Ukrainian army, and also gives certain
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In the seventies of the last century, several new types of anti-ship missiles entered service with NATO countries. The use of the latest technology made these ammunition especially dangerous for enemy ships. A high-speed missile equipped with an effective homing head and flying at
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Recent weeks have been rich in news regarding the Russian missile warning system. Several important events took place within a few days. At first it became known that the newly built radar station would soon undergo state tests
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The SAMP-T anti-aircraft missile system is designed to provide air defense of troops and mechanized formations on the march, as well as to provide anti-aircraft cover for stationary objects of great importance from a massive air attack of a wide
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In the late fifties of the last century, the ZU-23 anti-aircraft gun was created, which received the nickname "Zushka" in the army. At that time, the rate of fire at the level of 2 thousand rounds per minute, the power of 23-mm ammunition, the firing range of up to 2.5 kilometers and the accuracy of fire were sufficient to carry out
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"Zoo-1" (index GRAU 1L219M) - radar reconnaissance and fire control (counter-battery radar). The radar system is designed for reconnaissance of enemy missile and artillery firing positions (mortar positions, artillery positions, MLRS positions, tactical missile launchers and
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The active use of front-line strike aviation, including the growing role of combat helicopters, led to the fact that already at the beginning of the sixties in the leading countries of the world projects of self-propelled anti-aircraft guns began to appear, capable of accompanying troops on the march and protecting them from existing
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On September 10, British Defense Secretary F. Hammond, during the DSEI-2013 exhibition of weapons and military equipment, announced the signing of a contract for the supply of Sea Ceptor anti-aircraft missile systems to the Navy. In the next few years, the British Navy will receive complexes and missiles with a total cost
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On September 26, Turkey announced the completion of the T-LORAMIDS (Turkish Long Range Air And Missile Defense System) tender, which had lasted for several years. After a long comparison of applicants and searching for the most advantageous offer, the Turkish military and officials made
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According to Jane's Defense Weekly, in the first days of October, the South African company Denel Dynamics (a division of the Denel concern) tested its new development - the land-based version of the Umkhonto anti-aircraft missile system. Over the past few years, the company's specialists have been working on
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Israel's anti-missile defense will "choke" when repelling missile strikes and collapse at the decisive moment. The reasons for this "ending" were named by the Israeli expert in the field of missile defense systems, Dr. Nathan Faber. Dr. Nathan Faber, a well-known specialist in missile defense systems (ABM), believes that
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On October 29, a regular joint meeting of the Collegium of the Ministries of Defense of Russia and Belarus took place. One of the results of this event was the statements of the head of the Russian military department S. Shoigu concerning the development of a unified regional air defense system. In order to increase
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The absence of a ZSU in the air defense of troops is one of the saddest moments in the history of the Red Army. After the end of the Second World War, in the USSR, she seriously took up the correction of errors. The most famous ZSU in the world was the Soviet ZSU-23-4 "Shilka", but few people know that she had a stronger brother, the ZSU-37-2 "Yenisei"
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Western military experts, analyzing the situation in the military-industrial complex of the Russian Federation, invariably note the high competitiveness of the segment associated with the development and production of air defense equipment. For example, the famous Australian think tank Air Power Australia (APA)
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From August 27 to September 1 this year, the next International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2013 is being held on the territory of the Transport and Exhibition Complex Rossiya (Zhukovsky, Moscow Region). Now this exhibition event deservedly occupies one of the leading places in the row
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At the IDET-2011 military exhibition held in Brno (Czech Republic) in May, and at the Le Bourget (France) air show in June, an experimental sample of a modernized Soviet medium-range anti-aircraft complex 2K12 "Cube" with an equipped anti-aircraft guided system
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The development of the self-propelled air defense system "Kub" (2K12), which was intended to protect troops (mainly tank divisions) from air attack weapons flying at low and medium altitudes, was set by the Decree of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the USSR dated 07/18/1958. " should
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Raytheon, together with the German company RAMSYS, developed the RAM (RIM-116A) anti-aircraft missile. RAM was designed as a missile designed to provide surface ships with an effective, inexpensive, lightweight self-defense system capable of hitting attacking anti-ship cruise missiles. RAM