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As part of the Arms and Security 2019 exhibition in Kiev, the Ukrainian defense industry presented its new product - the Neptune missile system based on the KrAZ off-road truck chassis. The exhibition will run in the capital of Ukraine from 8 to 11 October. First winged
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In the realities of today, combat swimmers and naval special forces are the real elite of the armed forces. Large sums of money and technical resources are spent on equipping and equipping such units. Especially for them, unusual weapons are being developed, such as the Russian two-medium
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During the First World War in Great Britain, submarines were called submarines, which were armed with powerful artillery weapons. The idea of creating such a ship, the main weapon of which would not be torpedoes, but artillery, was in the air from the very beginning of active use
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130-mm artillery mount AK-130 Once battles at sea were won by ships armed with more powerful artillery. The peak of the development of artillery ships was the battleships of the Second World War. At the same time, the naval battles of the 1940s showed that the time of artillery monsters is running out
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To date, the largest ships of the Russian maritime border service are the ships of Project 22100 "Ocean". These ice-class vessels are classified as 1st rank border patrol ships (PSKR). In Russia, Project 22100 patrol boats are the first ships of this type that were developed
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Aircraft carrier "Shandong" On December 17, 2019, the second aircraft carrier, named "Shandong", was included in the PRC fleet. The new ship became the second for China. According to this indicator, the naval forces of the PRC have already bypassed the Russian fleet. At the same time, both the first and second Chinese aircraft carriers are still
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Damen LST 100, all renders: products.damen.com On December 9, 2019 in the UAE in the emirate of Sharjah at the shipyard of Damen Shipyard Sharjah, which is part of the large international shipbuilding group Damen Shipyards Group (headquarters in the Netherlands), a new combat
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The incident involving two warships of the US Navy and the Russian Navy, which took place in the northern Arabian Sea on January 9, 2020, was interpreted differently by each of the parties and ultimately boiled down to mutual accusations. At the same time, this news attracted increased attention to the participants
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Photo: forums.airbase.ru Project 23130 medium tanker "Akademik Pashin" On January 21, 2020, the procedure for raising the flag of the auxiliary fleet of the Russian Navy on a new support ship - the medium sea tanker "Akademik Pashin" was held in a solemn ceremony. From this day on, the tanker of project 23130
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Sea trials of the frigate Reformador On February 6, 2020, a new warship entered the Mexican Navy. The ceremony of commissioning the frigate "Reformador" took place in the city of Salina Cruz. The frigate was built at the local naval shipyard according to the Damen SIGMA 10514 project. Frigates and corvettes of this series
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Commissioning of the SS 511 Oryu submarine On March 5, 2020, the 11th submarine of the Soryu series was launched in the Japanese city of Kobe. The boat will become part of the Japanese naval forces under the designation SS 511 Oryu. New Japanese diesel-electric submarine became the first combat
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Huska 10, render In Rybinsk, at the local enterprise Rybinskaya Verf, which has been part of the Kalashnikov group of companies since 2015, work is underway on a project for a new hovercraft called Huska 10. New multifunctional vessel designed for civil and military
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Attack helicopter Ka-52K On May 22, TASS announced the conclusion of a contract between the Russian Ministry of Defense and the Zaliv shipyard (Kerch) for the construction of two UDCs for the Russian Navy worth about 100 billion rubles. For the Russian fleet, universal landing ships are a new project. In the USSR, and
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The LCVP landing craft is approaching the Omaha landing zone, photo: waralbum.ru In the United States, they are seriously thinking about creating a new landing vehicle. The new development in the American press is already called the Higgins boat of the XXI century. The famous landing craft LCVP and its closest relatives, created after
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LCM-3 ferries light tanks M24 Chaffee across the Rhine, March 1945 For the United States, the Navy has always been of great importance, as the country successfully fenced off from the rest of the world by two oceans. During World War II, the United States created a whole series of good landing craft, which were widely used in various
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USS Enterprise (CVN-65) in the Atlantic, 2004 The aircraft carrier Enterprise, launched on September 24, 1960, became not only the first aircraft carrier with a nuclear power plant, but also the first and only ship built according to this project. The aircraft carrier owns several
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The leader of the destroyers "Kharkov" November 6 marks 77 years since the fatal for the Black Sea Fleet operation "Verp" - the raid of the leader "Kharkov" and two destroyers, "Merciless" and "Capable", on the communications of the German-Romanian troops in the sea south of the Kerch Peninsula. The result of the operation was
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As part of the OASuW (Offensive Anti-Surface Weapon) program, Lockheed Martin will develop an AGM-158C LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) anti-ship missile. LRASM, which is a modification of the AGM-158B JASSM-ER (Joint
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As reported on February 26, 2018, a large international shipbuilding group of companies Damen Shipyards Group, it received a contract from the South African procurement agency Armscor, directly subordinate to the South African Ministry of Defense, for the construction of three ships for the South African Navy. It's about building three
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Yamato on test On the morning of April 7, 1945, at about 10 o'clock, the pilots of two PBM Mariner patrol flying boats noticed a Japanese squadron heading towards the island of Okinawa. In the center of it was a huge battleship, similar to the two that the Americans had already met during
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There is one, one might say, fatal flaw in the minds of the naval commanders who have left the ship: a lack of understanding of the role of naval aviation. This problem cannot be considered purely Russian, in many fleets of the world there has been and there is a mutual dislike between aviators and sailors. But only in Russia
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It is regrettable that the national defense consciousness is still tragically poorly aligned with the variety of factors of sufficiency in defense construction. Such a feeling also remains from the statements of our leadership on the topics of defense construction, apparently believing that
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The name "Dmitry Donskoy" is significant for the history of the Russian fleet. In different eras, it was worn by sailing battleships, a propeller-driven steam frigate and an unfinished cruiser of Project 68-bis. Today in the lists of the Navy there is also a ship carrying the name of the Grand Duke on board - a heavy nuclear
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Having agreed in the last part that we need an adequate domestic theory of naval power, we need to adapt it to geography, because Russia's position on the seas is unique. The Soviet Navy has partially solved the "geographical problem." And the Russian Navy will have to solve it too
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Natural emeralds are rarely flawless … Increased fragility is a characteristic feature of the stone … (http://mineralpro.ru) “There were twenty-seven strong, high-speed ships with the latest artillery: they surrounded us with a tight, iron ring, proud, intoxicated by yesterday's victory and all the successes
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When we say that the main way in which a fleet accomplishes its mission is to establish dominance at sea in designated areas, we must always keep in mind a few exceptions, a task that must be prepared for in order to never be fulfilled. At first glance, obvious
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We can talk for a long time about what the fleet should do, but another question is no less important - where the fleet will do it. If you look at the fleet as an instrument of foreign policy, then it should do what is ordered, wherever. We need to provide convoys from the Baltic to Venezuela
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By the beginning of June 1904, all the battleships of Port Arthur had acquired technical readiness to go to sea. On May 15, "Sevastopol" was repaired, on May 23 - "Retvizan", two days later - "Tsarevich", and, finally, on May 27, "Pobeda" returned to service. Reasons to continue to defend in Arthur's inner roadstead
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Despite the fact that surface ships with guided missile weapons possess powerful air defense systems, aviation in naval warfare continues and will continue to retain its importance as a reconnaissance and strike weapon. The presence of deck (naval) aviation significantly increases the detection range
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Fans of military history will remember that Nazi Germany at some point became obsessed with the idea of creating superweapons. "Superweapon" and "Weapon of retaliation" became the pivotal concepts of German military propaganda. I must say that the Germans did a lot. They en masse used winged
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Submarines of the Russian navy Its experts analyze both issues of modern naval forces and everything related to ships of the past. Perhaps one of the most interesting graphs
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The frigates of the Black Sea Fleet strike with cruise missiles at the enemy in Syria. Real photo from a real war. This photo is our destiny. No need to try to get away from it, it won't work anyway Roman Skomorokhov asks the question: "Does it make sense for Russia to wage war at sea?" To me, to a person
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Many specialized naval publications, depending on their own loyalty and attitude to the subject and accessory, began to either glorify the Japanese submarines of the "Soryu" type, or carefully promise the coffin to the Russian "Varshavyanka". It is worth understanding the subject, why would it suddenly. Japanese
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Dedicated to Italian ships … The word "seems to be" is very suitable for many definitions concerning Italy. It seems to be a sea power at the beginning of the 20th century. It seems to have had a navy, an army and an air force. It seems to have participated in both world wars. It seems that one of them was among
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It is not in vain that you can never write about planes or tanks the way you write about ships. The ship is a thing in itself, as if playing for a long time on the stage of history, if you're lucky. Therefore, fate often arranged such tests for them that one simply wonders how this could have happened at all
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Not the first article on the topic, obviously not the last. But - in a radically different key. To begin with, I am happy to state the fact that something has broken down in the Ministry of Defense. And it broke for the better. Let me boldly emphasize my personal opinion that it was the General Staff that finally got through to our managers in the Ministry of Defense. Other
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Let's make a small digression from our aviation reviews and get to the water. I decided to start like this, not from above, where it is important to blow bubbles of all sorts of battleships, battle cruisers and aircraft carriers, but from below. Where passions boiled no less comic, albeit in shallow water. Speaking of torpedo boats, it is worth
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The state armament program until 2027 includes "ships similar to helicopter carriers." These words were given by the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade of Russia Oleg Ryazantsev. The ship is uniquely similar to the helicopter carrier "Ship similar to the helicopter carrier". Yes, the Russian language is great and mighty, especially in
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In many media outlets there was information that the Smerch, an upgraded MRK of project 12341 Gadfly, came out for testing in the Pacific Fleet. you need to plunge into history, that, fortunately, there are no problems
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Information is primarily what the media convey to the consumer. This is a postulate. Information in the media can be radically different from what actually exists, and this will not even be a lie. This is simply "such a method of presentation" or facts interpreted by an expert in this way. Let's take a business newspaper