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Prospective samples at the Army-2019 exposition On August 23, the Army-2020 international military-technical forum will start in the Patriot park near Moscow and its branches throughout the country. Once again, it will become a platform for demonstrating the most modern domestic samples of various
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Watchdog "Dagestan" pr. 11661 - the flagship of the Caspian flotillaThe Red Banner Caspian Flotilla is the smallest association of the Russian Navy, but it solves the problem of protecting one of the most important areas. In recent years, a systematic and effective
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The main result of 2010 can be considered the fact that the military reform carried out in Russia has suffered the same fate as all other recent reforms. The Minister of Defense is carrying out the reform.The Supreme Commander-in-Chief apparently has no time to delve into the essence of what is happening, he
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Continuation, beginning - Part I "Bulava" rocket stubbornly unwilling to fly, became famous all over the world with several invariably unsuccessful launch attempts. The chief developer of a new weapon for nuclear submarines seems willing to admit that it hasn't worked out. Chief developer
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But if the Azerbaijanis in every way praise their UAVs, the Armenians do not get tired of criticizing the Russian means of fighting them, which were in service with their army. To what extent does the Armenian assessment of Russian air defense systems correspond to reality? First, it should be noted that the Armenians criticize
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New T-90M tanks of the Western Military District, April 2020 Photo: The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in the outgoing 2020 continued the implementation of the current State Armament Programs, providing for the supply of various materiel, weapons and equipment to the troops. This year, the ground forces again received
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The Russian strategic forces of nuclear deterrence, as in the United States, consist of land (silo and mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles), naval (strategic missile submarines) and aviation components (long-range bombers with cruise missiles and nuclear bombs)
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In the fog of stars, the plane leaves Back to the assigned base, And the soldier's duty is calling us here - the landing force has been thrown to the west by order. And somewhere between the parachute lines Bratislava is burning with lights below, And the guys from Moscow and Volgograd slowly sit down on the sand
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In connection with the current state program for the rearmament of the Russian army, in recent months there has been a large number of news about the plans of the Ministry of Defense. At the same time, almost all such messages were accompanied by questions like “and when we learn not only about the plans
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Voronezh stations are designed to detect and track ballistic and cruise missiles and other aerodynamic objects. On the Internet and in print, you can find the wrong name for these stations - over-the-horizon or over-the-horizon radar. Since December 1 of last year, they joined the forces
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The airborne troops of Russia are the most important component of the armed forces and, in this regard, must show the highest combat effectiveness. At the moment, the Airborne Forces are quite capable of solving all assigned tasks; in the future, they must maintain their potential. To maintain and build
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In 2011, the Russian defense industry for the first time presented a set of military equipment (KBEV) "Ratnik". After a series of necessary checks, the kit received military approval and entered mass production. Every year the army receives several tens of thousands of such
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During a recent message to the Federal Assembly, Russian President V.V. Putin announced information about the development in our country of a number of weapons, which today have no serial counterparts abroad. This statement caused a considerable upsurge among part of the population of our country
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Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu recently visited the Arctic to personally inspect the construction of the infrastructure here for basing the new Russian nuclear submarine missile carriers of the Borey and Yasen projects, and a new residential town for servicemen of the Northern Fleet. The week before
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For Russia, the Arctic is strategically important. This is easily explained - the region is extremely rich in almost all types of natural resources. The total cost of mineral raw materials in the bowels of the Arctic regions of the Russian Federation, according to experts, may exceed $ 30 trillion, and
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To write this article, I was largely inspired by the excessive jingoistic sentiments of a significant part of the visitors to the Voennoye Obozreniye website, which I respect, as well as the craftiness of the domestic media that regularly publish materials about the unprecedented increase in our military power since Soviet times, including
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In the second part of the review, we will try to analyze how the forces and means of air defense of the Russian Aerospace Forces in the Far East are able to withstand potential aggression. At the moment, 8 S-300PS and two S-400 missiles are deployed on the territory of the Primorsky and Khabarovsk territories. And in the Jewish
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The goal of the military reform being carried out today is, among other things, the creation of well-armed (corresponding to the cost-effectiveness criterion) and highly mobile general-purpose ground forces that meet modern requirements. The main content of organizational staff reform measures
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The Russian media has repeatedly raised the topic of the overdue resignation of Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. At the same time, their forecasts were given not only by journalists, political scientists, but also retired and active military personnel, and many other citizens who are seriously concerned about
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At the end of January, a conference of the Academy of Military Sciences (AVN) was held in Moscow. A lot of reports were read at the conference and all of them are of interest to the military and civil society, because they often concerned not only purely military aspects. Of all the speeches made at the event
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The 28th separate disciplinary battalion in Mulino is one of the two remaining disciplinary battalions in Russia. The second is near Chita. But even in those days when there were more disbats in the country, Mulinskiy was considered one of the most prosperous, if in general the words "prosperity" and "disbat" can be put side by side. Several
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Every year on July 26 in our country, amateurs and professionals of parachuting celebrate the Day of the parachutist. The Aviation Equipment Holding of Rostec State Corporation includes the Research Institute of Parachute Engineering, which is one of the few enterprises in the world that independently
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The ancient philosophers said: The future will be as we lay it in the present. This truth is well known and confirmed by many years of experience, both in the development of society and in the development of a single individual. Today, both military and civilian experts perfectly understand: without a clear understanding and
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Approved by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation on February 5, 2010 I. GENERAL 1. The Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation (hereinafter referred to as the Military Doctrine) is one of the main strategic planning documents in the Russian Federation and is a system officially adopted in
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There are only a few days left until the end of 2015. It's time to take stock of the outgoing year and complete planning for the next one. The Russian Ministry of Defense also sums up the results of the outgoing year and draws conclusions about the success of the work. The outgoing 2015 has not been easy for a variety of reasons
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Crimea became part of Russia in March this year. This federal subject on land has no common borders with other Russian regions and therefore is considered an exclave (more precisely, a semi-exclave, since it has access to the sea). Thus, since the spring of this year, the Russian Federation has two
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In the last days of the outgoing year, it is customary to sum up and draw conclusions about the work of certain structures. The armed forces are no exception to this rule. During 2016, the Ministry of Defense and related departments continued to implement a wide variety of programs, as well as
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The main task facing the command of the Russian Airborne Forces, as a military command and control body, is the multipurpose rearmament of airborne troops in the shortest possible time (the next 3-5 years). Colonel-General Vladimir Shamanov, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Airborne Forces, told reporters about this
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How unique electronic warfare equipment does the Russian army have? Recently, Russian electronic warfare systems have acquired the aura of a kind of superweapon, which, in the opinion of ordinary people, is capable of causing panic in a potential adversary with just one activation
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The construction of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is one of the most important tasks solved by the state within the framework of organizing the defense of our country. The issues of the current state of the Russian army, the directions of its further development are an object of close attention and a subject for
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For the past couple of years, the main topic concerning the Russian armed forces has been the upcoming rearmament. In 2011, a corresponding State Program (the so-called GPV-2020) was launched, during which 20 trillion rubles are planned to be allocated for new weapons and military equipment. This huge
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Colonel-General Alexander POSTNIKOV, Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, answers questions. - Alexander Nikolaevich, the Ground Forces played an important, often decisive role in the defense of our Fatherland. Has their value changed in modern conditions, taking into account the tendency of increasing the specific
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In just a few months, the military department and the defense industry will begin implementing the new State Arms Program for 2018-2025. Fulfilling the new plans of the Ministry of Defense, many enterprises will build and manufacture a lot of equipment and weapons
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Another opus performed by Vladimir Vaschenko was published by Gazeta.ru, thus provoking a rather strong reaction in the media and the Internet community. Quite heartbreaking material about the state of affairs in military unit 54046, telling about how terrible the life of all servicemen in Boguchar is. Since we were in
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They do not emit a warlike roar, they do not sparkle with a polished surface, they are not decorated with embossed coats of arms and plumes - and quite often they are generally hidden under jackets. However, today it is simply unthinkable to send soldiers into battle or ensure safety without this armor, unprepossessing in appearance
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Platoon on the offensive Organizing and conducting an offensive battle of a rifle platoon to a height (Example 8) In January 1944, our troops conducted an offensive operation in the Novosokolniki area. On the evening of January 15, the 1st Rifle Company of the 155th Guards Rifle Regiment of the 52nd Guards Rifle
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"God forbid you to live in an era of change." This famous phrase is attributed to Confucius or interpreted as ancient Chinese wisdom in general. Naturally, change is not the same, the whole difference is whether for better or for worse changes are taking place. Recently I had a chance to read one commentary on the Military Review
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Since April, the newest anti-aircraft missile systems S-350 "Vityaz" began to enter service with the RF Armed Forces. One of the innovations for air defense systems is the use of chassis from Bryansk manufacturers. We are talking about an automobile platform created at the Bryansk Automobile Plant (BAZ). This is an enterprise that is five
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On May 31, 2006, a new professional holiday appeared in the calendar of holidays and memorable dates - the Day of the Nuclear Support Specialist. This date is celebrated in our country annually on September 4. The date was not chosen by chance. The fact is that on September 4, 1947, a Special Department was created in the Soviet Union
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Visit of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense to KnAAZ, August 2020. In the foreground is one of the assembled Su-57As part of the current state armament programs, the re-equipment of key branches of the armed forces continues. In these processes, special attention is paid to the modernization of the aerospace forces. Plans for