Armies of the world

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As Marshal Gian-Jacopo Trivulzio (1448-1518) said, war requires three things: money, money and more money. That's what I want to talk about. Once I watched a film about the coalition war in Afghanistan. The numbers are amazing. It turned out that the cost of maintaining one coalition soldier per year

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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

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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

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A little more than half a month remains until the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, as well as the departure of the odious Obama administration from the White House. And the first sharp reaction of the new president's entourage to the latest foreign policy steps of the outgoing regime is already noticeable. So, 30

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Shan-class MAPL Each of our material, covering the military-political situation in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, usually focuses on the details of the "Three chains" strategy, which was described in the "White Paper" of the PLA literally two years earlier. This strategy is quite effective in terms of

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There has been a lot of news over the past few days about the progress of several major defense projects for the Indian Air Force. Thus, between representatives of the Russian company Sukhoi and the Indian company Hindustan Aerinautics Limited (HAL), as well as government representatives

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In the background is a new development of Iranian specialists - a single-beam launcher for long-range missiles of the SD-2M type of the Fajr complex. Above the captain's cabin, a 1-channel continuous-radiation radar for illuminating an air target of the STIR type

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The likelihood of a grand escalation of regional military conflicts throughout the Eurasian continent is becoming more realistic in the light of the development of a large-scale arms race in the Asia-Pacific region, which has recently threatened to cover not only the states of the Far East

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MBT "Oplot-T" on the railway platform The last meeting of the trilateral contact group in Minsk on the settlement of the conflict in Donbass took place on December 22, 2015. Despite the fact that the issues of withdrawing large-caliber artillery and MLRS were again discussed, the general background of the consultations, in the light of

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The leap year 2016, from the very first days of January, confirmed the title of the most difficult period in the existence of our "fragile" and imperfect world, which in just a few years of the 21st century changed to a complete

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Taking advantage of the high geostrategic significance for the NATO bloc in the Middle East theater of operations, Turkey continues to receive solid military-technical support from Western countries even when the inhuman and openly terrorist actions of its authorities and military against neighboring states, with

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Marines and Special Forces military credentials should soon open up to women, provided the head of the US Navy insists on it. naval forces