Armament
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30 km north-west of Edwards airbase, there is a unique facility even by American standards - the Mojave Air and Space Port. Here, original aircraft created by private companies are built and tested. Work in progress
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Vandenberg Air Base, also known as the "Western Missile Range", in addition to control and test launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles and anti-missile interceptors, was used for the implementation of many American space programs, both defense and civil
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In the 21st century, the development of the American "X-series" continued. If in the past these, as a rule, were purely experimental aircraft intended for various kinds of research and achievement of record results, then recently the index "X" in the designation began to receive prototypes
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At the beginning of the 21st century, the United States began an "unmanned boom" that continues to this day. If the first UAVs were intended mainly for reconnaissance and surveillance, at the moment drones successfully destroy point targets, including moving targets, at any time of the day. This became possible thanks to
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Despite the fact that after the outbreak of World War II, the American leadership declared its neutrality, after Great Britain entered the war and in connection with the ever-increasing expansion of Japan, it became absolutely clear that the United States would not be able to sit on the sidelines. In the same time
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10 years after the end of World War II and the abolition of the occupation regime, the Federal Republic of Germany was allowed to have its own armed forces. The decision to create the Bundeswehr received legal status on June 7, 1955. At first, the ground forces in the FRG were relatively
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In the second half of 1943, Germany on the Eastern Front was forced to go over to strategic defense, which, in turn, further exacerbated the problem of the shortage and insufficient effectiveness of infantry anti-tank weapons. During World War II, the Germans created and adopted
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In the past, a number of Russian print and Internet publications have repeatedly published information about testing Soviet-made combat aircraft in the United States and conducting test air battles with American fighters. The topic of the presence in the American armed forces and on
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Soon after the German attack on the Soviet Union, it turned out that the anti-tank guns at the disposal of the Wehrmacht were of limited effectiveness against light tanks and completely unsuitable for fighting medium T-34s and heavy KVs. In this regard, the German infantry, as in the years of the First World War
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Even before the elimination of the Emu Field test site, the British asked the Australian government for a new site for the construction of a new experimental field designed to test nuclear charges and their components. At the same time, based on the experience gained during the tests on the islands
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On the territory of Australia, in addition to the British nuclear test sites, where atomic bomb tests and experiments with radioactive substances were carried out, there was a large missile test center in the central part of South Australia, which was later transformed into a cosmodrome. Its construction
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In the second half of the 1970s, the British government curtailed a number of large-scale defense programs. This was largely due to the realization that Great Britain had finally lost the weight and influence that it had before World War II. Being drawn into a full-scale arms race with the USSR was fraught with
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The Japanese army first encountered Soviet-made tanks and armored vehicles in the late 1930s during hostilities in China and during military conflicts in the area of Lake Khasan and the Khalkhin Gol River. Soviet, Chinese and Mongolian troops used light tanks T-26, BT-5, BT-7 and
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Due to its remoteness, as well as domestic and foreign policy courses conducted by the leadership of Australia, news about this country rarely appears on the news feeds. At present, the government of the Green Continent has practically withdrawn from participation in large
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After the curtailment of the British medium-range ballistic missile program and the refusal to create its own launch vehicle, the work of the Woomera test site continued. Termination of the operation of the launch complex intended for servicing and launching the Blue Streak MRBM and the Black Arrow launch vehicle
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A story about the best automatic grenade launchers would be incomplete without mentioning Russian weapons. At one time, the Soviet automatic easel grenade launcher AGS-17 "Flame" was sold all over the planet in huge numbers. This model was in service with the armies of most post-Soviet countries
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On December 18, 2017, at a military parade in Doha, the capital of Qatar, the Qatari military for the first time demonstrated the Chinese operational-tactical missile systems BP-12A, which is called a competitor of the Russian Iskander-E OTRK. The parade in the capital of Qatar was organized in honor of the National Day
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In early September 2018, the Russian Ministry of Defense issued a statement that US Air Force planes bombed the village of Hajin in the Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor on September 8. It was reported that two F-15 fighter-bombers participated in the raid, which
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Project Iceworm was the codename for an American project that included a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The project was launched in 1959 and finally closed in 1966. According to the plans of the American
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Today, automatic mounted grenade launchers occupy a prominent place on the battlefield. This weapon is designed to destroy enemy manpower and unarmored equipment located in open areas, outside shelters, in open trenches, behind the folds of the terrain. Usually the caliber of easel
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The rating of the best automatic easel grenade launchers of our time could not have been imagined without the German model of this weapon from the world-famous company Heckler & Koch. The HK GMG automatic grenade launcher, created by the specialists of this company in the mid-1990s, consists of
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In the matter of creating automatic grenade launchers, China went its own way. The designers from the Middle Kingdom decided not to take the Soviet / Russian 30-mm ammunition and not to turn to the NATO-standard 40-mm ammunition, having released their intermediate version. Modern Chinese easel
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The Mk.47, or Striker 40, is the most advanced American belt-fed heavy-duty automatic grenade launcher. Like most models of such weapons developed in NATO countries, it was originally created for the use of 40x53 mm ammunition and allows the use of all types
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Today, at the mention of the phrase a hand-held anti-tank grenade launcher, an image of the RPG-7 materializes in the head of many. The grenade launcher, which was put into service back in 1961, is familiar to many from films, news stories from all over the world and computer games. However, the RPG-7 was far from
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Some weapons firmly enter our lives through the cinema. One such example is the American light jet flamethrower M202 FLASH, which would not have received such fame and recognition if it had not been included in the movie "Commando" in due time. Action movie classic
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Underwater Nuclear Explosion, Project Domenic, 1962 The Cold War years gave the world many images of nuclear weapons. This is not only about strategic offensive weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. During the confrontation between the United States and the USSR, there were
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The model of the nose cone, created in the framework of the "Dove" project. Carrier pigeons were quite actively used during the First and Second World War. The use of pigeons as winged messengers has a thousand-year history; this use of birds was known even in the army of Alexander the Great
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During the Second World War, a large number of unusual weapons were created in Great Britain. Many of them were not created from a good life. After the defeat of the expeditionary force in France and the loss of a huge number of various weapons in Great Britain, the German
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For what I adore our readers, it is for perseverance. Yes, fortunately, sometimes in the comments you can easily collect one or two articles easily and naturally. But no, you will also shower the whole PM with advice. So what was arranged for me after this article: “Gasoline and diesel fuel of the Third Reich:
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In general, there is even such a term: interbellum, that is, the interval between the two world wars. And in this interval, from 1918 to 1939, specifically in Germany, they managed to fit two armies. The first is a kind of garbage of the imperial Reichswehr, permitted by the Treaty of Versailles, and, in fact, since 1933
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Not so long ago, in one of the materials, I sadly complained that the moronization of society in the information space is taking on alarming proportions. I am translating: the people are getting dumber. And here is another confirmation of this. Actually, I was looking for information completely on this topic, but I was simply shocked at how many people in
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Probably, no one will argue that communication has been one of the most important components of a modern army for decades. Even during the Second World War, the one who could provide the best information exchange between headquarters and units and units received a huge advantage. AND
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The term "wunderwaffe" (wunderwaffe, miracle weapon) originated in Nazi Germany as a designation of a fundamentally new weapon, or a weapon significantly superior in characteristics to everything previously created and capable of bringing significant changes on the battlefield. Later, the term "wunderwaffe" received
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This article is intended to expand the series of articles "Civilian weapons", which includes articles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, transforming it into something like the series "Civil security", in which the threats that lie in wait for ordinary citizens will be considered in more a wider context. In the future, we will consider
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Can you even understand what the next war might be like? How reliably did the leaders of states and military leaders imagine what the First World War or the Second World War (WWII) would look like, and how much did their forecasts coincide with reality during the waging of these wars?
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From about the middle of the 20th century, the 30 mm caliber became the de facto standard for automatic cannons. Of course, automatic cannons of other calibers, from 20 to 40 mm, were also widespread, but the most widespread was the 30 mm caliber. Especially widespread rapid-fire 30 mm cannons
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Death Statistics The modern battlefield is filled with a huge number of weapons designed to defeat the enemy. Barrel and rocket artillery, aircraft weapons, guided missiles, mortars, easel and hand grenade launchers. It would seem that in these conditions the role of small arms as
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155 mm shells, like the artillery caliber of the same name, are among the most popular in the world. They are produced by a variety of countries, many of which, keeping up with the times, have made these ammunition adjustable. Introducing a version of the top 5 most successful 155mm rounds from a point
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On August 8, the American Internet edition We Are The Mighty published an interesting article authored by Alex Hollings. The loud headline "America's nukes are absolutely tiny compared to Russia's" was followed by a discussion of
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Camouflage suits "Lovat Scouts", early XX century. Photo Imperial War Museum / iwm.co.uk The stereotypical image of a sniper, stealthily approaching a firing position and waiting hours for his target, is unthinkable without a ghillie-type camouflage suit. This piece of equipment represents a large