Armies of the world 2024, September
To fight the terrorists and rebels who have dug in in remote areas of the planet, we need "soldiers of the future." These are professional fighters participating in expeditionary campaigns - specially trained, ready to solve non-standard tasks. According to Forbes magazine, the most promising profession
For many years in the press with a certain frequency there has been a campaign for the permission-ban of PMCs. The importance of the question lies in the fact that there are PMCs. But they are not. The legal status of such companies is vague and incomprehensible to most Russians. Soldiers of fortune? Wild geese? Security structure? Or maybe bandits?
Command Post of the Future (CPOF) is an executive-level decision support system that provides situational awareness and provides collaborative tools for tactical decision-making, planning, training, and mission management
A lot will change on the border of the phase barrier separating different technological structures of human civilization and externally manifested by the global systemic crisis. And it is possible that we are going to see wars and methods of warfare that no one has ever encountered
The leaderships of many states of the world are increasingly deciding on the need for reforms in the military sector. This is due not only to the consequences of the global economic crisis, when it became necessary to cut funding, but also to make the national army more
At present, India is confidently among the top ten world powers in terms of its military potential. The armed forces of India are inferior to the armies of the United States, Russia and China, but are still very strong and numerous. It could not be otherwise in a country with a population of about 1.3 billion. By level
In the second half of June 2012, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton paid a visit to Georgia. The results of this visit were reported by the US Department of State in a statement to that effect. During the visit, a wide range of issues were discussed, including
Rethinking the Old In the fifties of the last century, when the memory of the recent World War was still fresh, the Soviet military leaders had a very original idea. Snipers worked with great efficiency on all fronts of the Second World War throughout the war. One such fighter who has
In the US Armed Forces, the main promotion was considered to be production in the next rank of the United States as a state emerged in the fight against the metropolis - England. Americans did not inherit its traditions in the field of the reward system. Therefore, orders and medals in the United States are relatively few; they are given almost exclusively for
The IDF are gradually losing the experience of a classic war, although they are permanently in a state of rebellion against the Arabs and Hezbollah
Special Forces of the Chinese Army's Hong Kong Garrison conduct a showcase counter-terrorism exercise. In the hands of the fighters 5.8-mm assault rifles QBZ95 of the first generation
Marines and Special Forces military credentials should soon open up to women, provided the head of the US Navy insists on it. naval forces
The first North Korean rocket systems, of course, were the Soviet BM-13 Katyusha, which were supplied to the DPRK during the Korean War. How many of them were delivered is not known exactly, however, as of the date of the end of the Korean War, July 27, 1953, the KPA had 203 combat vehicles
We already know firsthand that everything is in perfect order overseas with publicity. Well, each, as they say, has his own. If somewhere the US forces are victorious (even if it is the destruction of an abandoned excavator in the desert), then the whole world should know about it. For this is the victory of American democracy
At the request of readers. Big post about the 016th motorized rifle brigade named after Marshal H. Choibalsan. The brigade is one of the oldest and only non-framed units in the Mongolian army. Formed in March 1923 as 1 armored squadron of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Army. In battles on
As we can see, the air component of the A2 / AD anti-submarine component, based on the Y-8Q patrol aircraft, is a more than reliable “barrier” that extremely restricts the activities of American submarines within the “9-dotted line” (“cow tongue line”) … This line is
MODERN ZONES OF RESTRICTIONS AND NON-ACCESS AND MANEUVE "A2 / AD" - DIFFICULTY STRUCTURED DEFENSE FRONTIERS WITH A NETCENTRIC LOOK. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE BALTIC "A2 / AD-Fences" Today, the truly Western term "A2 / AD", denoting the operational-strategic concept of
This photo captures the moment when the Su-30 of the PRC Air Force converges with the Il-78 recently acquired from the Ukroboronprom State Corporation (a few seconds before refueling). The PRC Air Force is armed with 3 vehicles of this type, equipped with UPAZ-1A refueling units, thanks to which 4 links of the Su-30MK2 / MKK (16
Aircraft AWACS "Saab-2000 AEW &C" for the Pakistani Air Force A very interesting situation has developed recently with the renewal of the aircraft fleet of the Pakistan Air Force. Despite the fact that at the end of 2015 - beginning of 2016, dozens of notes appeared in the Russian and foreign media about
Contrary to the ineffective Minsk Agreements, Ukrainian military formations are again using BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket systems, as well as barrel artillery with a caliber of 122 and 152 mm. Both the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the extremist nationalist divisions of the Right Sector AUK (prohibited in
Information about the start of updating the hardware and software components of the RLPK of Australian and American F / A-18E / F / G fighters by installing new stations and terminals for transmitting tactical information appeared on March 25. It can be considered a typical asymmetric response to the
The 5th generation J-31 multipurpose fighter is planned to be equipped with a high-resolution optoelectronic TV / IR sighting system, similar to that used on the F-35A AAQ-40 EOTS (optically transparent yellowish turret under the radar nose cone) J-20 - NARROW SPECIALIZED MACHINE … FOR AIR
Single-seat modification of the light multipurpose interceptor "Mirage-2000-5Ei" of the Taiwan Air Force. The interest of the Chinese special services in the vehicle is justified by many factors, one of which is the use of MICA-EM medium-range missiles as the main weapon of air combat (in the photo
The same F-16C Block 25F multipurpose fighter, the first to receive an exclusive camouflage from the Russian super-maneuverable multi-role fighter of the 4 ++ generation Su-35S. The American "aggressor" from the 57th group of imitation of enemy tactics will not repeat the fourth part of the super-maneuverable
Even before the active phase of the military confrontation for the independence of the LDNR, the Donetsk militias managed to take away the Mandat-B1E ASP from the Topaz, which is now in service with the Armed Forces of Novorossiya. ASP possesses high parameters of counteraction to most communication means, including the lower part of the cellular range
The photo shows a joint flight of an Iranian strategic air transport tanker based on a Boeing 747, an F-14A Tomcat fighter-interceptor, an F-4E fighter-bomber and a MiG-29UB combat training fighter over Tehran on April 18, 2015, in the air unit military parade in
The Egyptian Air Force is armed with 7 modernized AWACS E-3C "Hawkeye-2000" aircraft. To cover the strategically important and missile-hazardous air routes of Egypt, 5 aircraft are quite enough, which will be able to monitor 10 thousand air objects and give coordinates to
The MiG-31B / BM of the Air Defense Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan will become a very important air component of the Unified Regional Air Defense of Russia and Kazakhstan, and in the future, the Unified ABM SCO on the Central Asian air force. Now heavy long-range interceptors are being upgraded to the modification of the "BM", due to which one
The main firing element of the SAMP / T anti-aircraft missile system is the Arabel multifunctional radar. Passive HEADLIGHTS, as well as the drive of the antenna post allow scanning the airspace in azimuth at a speed of 360 deg / s (60 rpm), scanning in elevation
When designing the Avenger and Sea Avenger UAVs, the greatest attention was paid to reducing the aircraft's radar signature, comparable in size to a medium-range administrative passenger aircraft. For this, the tail unit is represented by only two full-revolving
Developed on the basis of the P-800 Onyx anti-ship missile system (Index 3M55), numerous modifications of the PJ-10 BrahMos supersonic tactical missiles make the Indian army the most powerful tactical strike force in the entire Eurasian continent on a par with the Russian Armed Forces. New opportunities will open up for the Indian Army
F / A-18F Royal Australian Air Force "Super Hornet" Approval by the US State Department of another possible defense contract for the supply of a large consignment of 450 AIM-120D long-range air-to-air missiles to the friendly Royal Australian Air Force
The A330MRTT strategic tanker aircraft are multifunctional long-range aircraft. In addition to the functions of an air tanker, they are able to take on board cargo weighing up to 45-50 tons (provisions, military equipment, tactical electronic systems and much more)
All production versions of carrier-based multipurpose interceptor fighters of the F-14A "Tomcat" family have an important tactical advantage - a two-seater cockpit. As on the Su-30SM or F-15E, on the Super Tomkats the 2nd pilot acts as an avionics operator, controlling the AN / APG-71 radar station
One of the main reasons for the creation of ground positional missile defense areas in the territories of the western states of the Arabian Peninsula, which will also include the new air defense / missile defense control center in Qatar, is the absolute impossibility of the actions of Aegis ships of the US Navy from the Persian
The population of northwestern Syria identified the appearance of the anti-submarine "Bear" (Tu-142M3) in the Middle East by the "proprietary" bass hum of 4 15,000-horsepower NK-12MP turboprop engines, as well as by the characteristic outline of the airframe with a prominent ventral drop-shaped radio-transparent
As it became known on April 25, 2016, the Krasukha-4, Khibiny and Himalayas ground-based and air-based electronic warfare systems will not become the only horror for the command of the US Armed Forces, as well as the NATO Joint Armed Forces in various theaters of military operations. According to TASS, the Concern
The tactical strike fighter F-15E "Strike Eagle" and a wide range of its versions will continue to operate in the 21st century in the Air Force of the current owners of these machines. Working side by side with the 5th generation aircraft, these aircraft fully compensate for the many serious shortcomings of the purchased
History repeated itself later, namely in November 2015, at the Malabar-2015 exercise, but with our Halibut B-898 (Sindgudhwai) as part of the Indian Navy. The diesel-electric submarine was able to freely "destroy" the next American MAPL SSN-705 "City of Corpus Christi" (class "Los Angeles"), from which it becomes
The USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), which participated in the Vietnam War, is "loading" the suspensions of the F / A-18C Hornet carrier-based multipurpose fighter-bombers. In front of us is a guided gliding bomb of the AGM-154 JSOW family. Smart bomb