Armament
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Aircraft carriers are one of the most important strike forces of the surface fleets of major naval powers. In this case, the speed of lifting into the air of the aircraft wing located on the aircraft carrier is of particular importance. The combat power of an aircraft carrier directly depends on the deck, its correct location
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I will begin my article with the following statement: the newest rocket with a reactor on board the Burevestnik is, of course, a wonderful product, only for war, practically unusable. According to some reports, this is a Burevestnik in flight
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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
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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
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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
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Before you is a guided missile of close air combat R-73 on an aircraft launcher of the APU-73-1D type. Around the edges of the solid propellant rocket nozzle, a complex frame structure is visible, which ensures the movement of 4 spoilers of the gas-dynamic thrust vector deflection system. It is this construction
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In early June 2013, the site defenseindustrydaily.com reported that the penultimate modification of the AIM-9X Block II "Sidewinder" was brought to the level of a multipurpose WTO and is capable of striking both air and ground targets. One of the main investors in the system optimization program
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The main disadvantage of the Tamir interceptor missiles of the Iron Dome complex is the impossibility of effectively intercepting high-altitude stratospheric targets, as well as supersonic objects moving at speeds of more than 2200 km / h in pursuit
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Anti-aircraft guided missile "Aster-30" is equipped with an advanced high-explosive fragmentation warhead with a directional density of the field of dispersion of fragments, its mass is about 20 kg. Even in those rare cases when the Aster-30 does not hit the target with a direct hit, the deviation from the target rarely exceeds 3-4 m, and
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A stealthy 5th generation J-20 tactical fighter with a new stealth offload. The total number of PL-21D guided air combat missiles simultaneously deployed in inconspicuous overhead containers and internal weapon bays can reach 16-18 units, which is one of the best
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Guided air combat missile "Astra Mk.1" Independent development and serial production of promising guided missile weapons for various carriers is today an important indicator for assessing the level of the military-industrial complex of any more or less developed state. In
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The armed forces of Poland received enormous attention from Washington and the leading American arms corporations in just a few years after the beginning of the aggravation of the military-political situation in the small, but very complex and unpredictable European theater of operations. Close proximity to
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Counter-battery radars for artillery reconnaissance 1L260 "Zoo-1M" (left) and AN / TPQ-47 (right) In previous studies, we returned several times to a comparative review of various types of domestic radar systems of the RF Radio Engineering Forces with their American counterparts. Eventually
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Over the past six months, the news sections of dozens of domestic and foreign military analytical resources have not ceased to be full of headlines and short publications about the advancement of a promising project of an American promising multipurpose air-launched tactical missile
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A lot of discussions on the Russian Internet have caused the news of the impending acquisition of operational combat readiness of the heavy ultra-long-range hypersonic air-to-air missile R-37M, which should become the largest caliber for gaining air supremacy in ammunition
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While working on articles in the series "Stories about Weapons", "One's Own Among Strangers" and "Another Lend-Lease", the amount of used materials and photographs has long been calculated in terabytes. And here, inevitably, you begin to think and compare. Moreover, as we have already written more than once, the history of the appearance
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In this article, intended for beginners, we would like to talk about one of the physical training methods, which, in our opinion, should be an integral part of any activity. In principle, it is already used in so many places in one way or another, but this material can help to look at this
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Bicycle troops, bicycle infantry, or, as they were called earlier, "scooters" - these are combat-ready, highly mobile units that appeared long before the First World War. Despite their seeming archaism, they not only existed in many countries, but also successfully adopted
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Looking through fishing gear, I came across an old army hat, which served me faithfully on business trips to places where the sun often turns from friend to enemy. A simple cotton bucket hat with a simple soldier's red star. Those who have their army youth
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In the previous article "Useless Civil Defense", we found out that in the event of a nuclear war, we, firstly, will not be warned of a nuclear strike, and, secondly, we will not have time to run to the shelters. Ballistic missiles have such a short flight time that they do not allow
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Americium, which will be discussed in this article Small and low-power nuclear charges have historically been unlucky. In those blessed times, when nuclear charges of all types were actively developed and tested, there was no suitable isotope for them. Only plutonium-239 and
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The dosimeter is the cornerstone of preparations for a nuclear war "It was a nuclear winter. A radioactive snow was falling, the dosimeter was crackling comfortably …" So a story about a nuclear war with a New Year flavor could begin. But the article is not about that, but about the readiness for a nuclear war and its consequences. Or
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Radar "Fara-VR" installed on the AGS. A very dangerous enemy due to the range and accuracy of detection. Radars are gradually moving from the sky to the earth and become one of the factors of success in ground battles. In recent years, quite a few samples of radar stations have appeared
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Heisenberg Reactor at Haigerloch. Now it is a museum The history of the uranium project of the Third Reich, as it is usually presented, reminds me very much of a book with torn pages. All of it appears as a history of continuous failures and failures, a program with unclear goals and a useless waste of valuable
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Khaidarkan is a picturesque place. In the photo - dumps and concentration plant of a mercury plant Sometimes, when discussing ammunition, in particular, cartridges, one can come across the statement that lead azide used in primers is such a more powerful and modern initiating explosive compared to
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Since our beloved adversaries do not indulge in the innovations of their nuclear arsenal, we will be content for now with the products of the previous era - the W-80. Photo: flickr.com Kelly Michals Recently, the United States announced that they may soon abandon the moratorium on nuclear tests, announced yet
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Soon, the miracle bracelets will have to help the Russian military to fight saboteurs more effectively. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation should receive the novelty by the end of November 2016. It is reported that the Ministry of Defense will spend on the supply of a set of technical security equipment
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As it became known the other day, Russia continues to develop and test advanced types of weapons designed to protect against possible attacks. Last week, there were reports of another test launch of Russia's latest anti-missile missile. Like several times before
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Sensational and frightening reports of foreign weapons development have long become commonplace, and therefore managed to lose some of their "terrifying" potential. Nevertheless, more and more new articles regularly appear, the authors of which are trying to convince the reader of the impending threat. This time
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The nuclear weapons created in the United States during the Second World War were intended for use in the Axis countries (Germany and Japan) with the prospect of their use in the future against the USSR. Already in July 1944, Germany feared the atomic bombing of Dresden, and in September of the same year in the United States
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Yes, as promised, we are starting a series of analytical stories about the equipment obtained under Lend-Lease, and comparing this technique with what we had. But at the very beginning, faced with a huge problem, we immediately admit that it will not always work out compare, because often we have analogues, to
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Continuing the story about Lend-Lease, today we present, so to speak, the "coat of arms" of Western supplies to the USSR during the Great Patriotic War. Maybe someone will disagree with us and say that the coat of arms or there, the flag, plane ("Airacobra", for example) or there, a tank … But if
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Continuing the conversation about the supply of cars to the USSR, we came up with another legendary car. Yes, not just a car, but its three hypostases, which are on display at the UMMC Museum of Military Equipment in Verkhnyaya Pyshma. Famous American "Jimmy" surrounded by love and care, today our
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The Second World War, according to experts, was a war … of wire communication! According to independent estimates, during the war, landline communications occupied up to 80% of the total picture with communications in the war. Suddenly? It seems to be the twentieth century, radio communication and all that … However, it is so. Not radio communication, but wired was
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Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has developed an advanced Counter IED and Mine Suite (CIMS) set to clear the route and move in the head of a troop convoy
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Saudi soldiers abandon expensive American tanks at the first shots of the Houthis, and the Syrians are unable to master the Pantsir air defense missile defense system supplied by Russia. What are the problems facing the supply of modern and high-tech military equipment? For many decades, the main
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Liberals and representatives of many Western NGOs and various foundations for many years with enviable consistency reminded us of the "nuclear" exercises at the Totskoye training ground in the Orenburg region and at the Semipalatinsk training ground, where the military personnel of the ground and airborne troops (the last in Semipalatinsk), and
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Small-sized station MBRLS-MF2 developed by "Phazotron-NIIR" and NTs SRSiM MAI. Photo Bastion-opk.ru In a number of situations, a modern ground-based robotic complex (RTK) or an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) needs radar equipment. Due to objective limitations, such
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The second variant of the conflict between Russia and NATO is nuclear-free. According to the author, the chances that the countries participating in it will be able to refrain from the use of nuclear weapons are vanishingly small, the likelihood of the start of a global nuclear missile war is much higher, but still there is some negligible probability of a non-nuclear
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The information about Russian superweapons, voiced by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin in the course of his message to the Federal Assembly, produced the effect of an exploding bomb in the Internet space. The latest missiles "Dagger", laser systems, hypersonic units "Avangard" here