Russian army
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On October 1, Russia celebrates the Day of the Ground Forces. This is a professional holiday for servicemen and civilian personnel of the oldest branch of the armed forces of our country. Despite the fact that the history of the Russian army goes back more than one century, the Day of the Ground Forces is a young holiday. This year he
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Successful actions of aviation formations (assault, army, fighter, transport, sea) depend not only on the characteristics of the aircraft, the quality of their weapons, but to a large extent on the training of the flight crews and the preparedness of the combat control officers
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Last Saturday the Borisoglebsk Aviation Base (Voronezh Region), which belongs to the Air Force Training Center of the Russian Air Force, celebrated a special holiday. A representative delegation of the Russian Ministry of Defense arrived in the city, led by the Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force
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It is convenient to observe a person in a familiar environment. And when the normal course of events suddenly breaks down, you can see the same person from the other side. When we arrived at the Aviadarts in the village of Dubrovichi in the Ryazan region, a holiday atmosphere reigned there. In general, pilots are people
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Good evening. It became interesting how many large warships are being built on the stocks now. Anyway, how many main warships of the new series have entered the Navy over the past couple of years. In general, here is a large photo report of the update of the Russian Navy by series. Indicated only that
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For many of us, a whole decade of life fell on the nineties of the twentieth century. The twentieth century, an extraordinary century. The more interesting it is for the historian, the more sad it is for the contemporary. The past century has given Russia many great and tragic moments, the last of which was the "dashing nineties"
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Russia is not good for anything. This is clearly shown by the World Economic Forum's World Economic Forum Davos ranking of global competitiveness. The Russian Federation occupies an honorable 66th place in it, right after Vietnam and before the South American state of Peru. Leading, as always, neutral
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If Russia does not support us from the air, we will have to retreat from Brooklyn to Long Island. Emergency report by I. Strelkov, November 2016 Every joke has its share of a joke. The recent announcement that Russia surpassed the United States in the production of military aircraft in the outgoing year clearly indicated who
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Russia's defense potential is now no more than 6% of the level of the USSR- W. Fottingen, Pentagon The bold statements of American analysts 10 years ago, supported by colorful pictures of cut planes and missiles, testified at that time about the complete decline of the Russian Armed Forces
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The most important problem of military education in Russia is the modernization of the officer training system. Changes have been made to the training and education of cadets of military schools. But new sections are still being added, the list of planned topics is constantly expanding. At the same time, there are many
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The US monopoly on nuclear weapons ended on August 29, 1949 after a successful test in the USSR at a test site in the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan of a stationary nuclear explosive device with a capacity of about 22 kilotons. Subsequently, the Semipalatinsk test site was created in this area
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Google Earth updates satellite images of a significant part of Russia several times a year. In recent years, the country's leadership has been paying serious attention to improving the defense capability of the Russian armed forces; many positive changes in this area can be seen in the photographs
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The regiment was disbanded in 1999, but the memory of service in it still unites many of those who passed here not only the school of combat, but also the real school of life. For them, the service here became an important stage in their life and seriously influenced their further destiny. They all do not forget the alma mater and their
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The modern world, in a sense, differs little from the world it was 200 or more years ago. This is not about progress, high technologies and achievements, in the field of the development of democracy and the protection of human rights, etc. No one can deny that wars continue as before. And in this
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In order to ensure the safety of air, land and sea transport, as well as to solve a number of special tasks on the basis of government decrees, a long-range radio navigation support system (LRNO) was created in the Soviet Union
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According to some independent specialists and experts, the Russian army loses about two thousand people a year in non-combat losses, over 5 years an amount is accumulated that is comparable in state with a full-fledged division. Official figures are much less so in 2006 non-combat losses - 554 people, 2007
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Having visited several events within the framework of the Army Games as a correspondent, I would like to ask the Ministry of Defense a few questions. To be absolutely precise, the questions are addressed to the press service of the Ministry of Defense, but since it is still part of the ministry, the questions are asked to the highest instance
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The military exercises, which have taken place since March 28 in southern Russia, have caused a wide response. Perhaps, in recent years, there has not yet been such a contradictory assessment of the maneuvers carried out by the Russian troops on the part of our foreign, as they say, partners. Considering how the Russian military
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On April 15, 1904, two days after the tragic death of Admiral Makarov, the Japanese fleet began shelling Port Arthur. However, this attack, later dubbed "third flip-fire", was unsuccessful. The reason for the failure is revealed in the official report of the interim
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Today (August 31), a surprise check of the combat readiness of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is being completed. In total, more than 100,000 servicemen of various types and branches of the armed forces took part in the maneuvers in various military districts. Units and formations of the Ground Forces were involved in a surprise check
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The holiday calendar of the Russian Federation tells all of us that the Day of Knowledge (September 1) is replaced by the Day of the Russian Guard. How is it, - an uninitiated reader might think - Rosgvardia, on the basis of a presidential decree, only this year appeared as an independent combat-ready
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This week, a large-scale strategic command-and-staff exercise Kavkaz-2016 started at the ranges of the Southern Military District, including the waters of the Black and Caspian Seas. Dozens of ships, hundreds of aviation units, armored vehicles, artillery and anti-aircraft systems, more than 12.5 thousand military personnel in all
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I'll start with a story. 10th Guards Tank Ural-Lvov Order of the October Revolution, Red Banner, Orders of Suvorov and Kutuzov Volunteer Division named after Marshal of the Soviet Union R. Ya. Malinovsky. Ural (Ural-Lvov) Guards Volunteer Tank Corps was
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The termination of the recruitment of cadets to the higher educational institutions of the Russian Ministry of Defense, of course, shocked many prominent representatives of both the military and civil society of our country. However, here it is just right again to talk about the amazing passivity of the relevant structures in the leadership
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In short, I’ll write a few words. I have just returned from a business trip to one of the radio centers of the Russian Navy. What can I say about your overall impression of what you saw? That the company of Gavrikov, headed by Marshal of Stools Tolya Serdyukov, which includes
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I must say right away that I am outraged by the use of the phrase "PROFESSIONAL army", in the sense that is now being put into this expression - that is, an army formed and recruited on a voluntary basis, on "hire" or contract service. To the person who first came up with
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A great groan stands on the Russian land. The damned reformers from the Ministry of Defense did not confine themselves to the defeat of our glorious army, they now encroached on the sacred - on the system of military education. A terrible thing happened: it was announced that neither this year nor the next year military universities will not accept cadets
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The power structures of the world's leading democracies are involved in dirty deals in the arms market In the spring of 2008, a number of publications appeared in the authoritative American newspaper The New York Times, which led to a very unsightly corruption scandal related to the supply of arms and ammunition to Afghanistan
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There are such trips that if I knew where a difficult one would take, I would never go. But we could not refuse to accept the invitation to ride to one of the sections of the railway construction bypassing Ukraine. And off we go … Kolesnikovka village, Kantemirovsky district, Voronezh region. Heap place
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Today, the army and the navy still have the opportunity to study military science at training ranges, shooting ranges, in the sky, in the seas and oceans. The title of this note, as army veterans know, was the slogan that adorned the parade ground of the military unit in all garrisons "indestructible and legendary." And also on her
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The servicemen are in particular need of spiritual support, and the military priests of the Russian Orthodox Church should appear in the army and navy in the near future, said Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia at a meeting with the personnel of the 16th squadron of submarines of the Pacific Fleet on the pier of the closed port city of Vilyuchinsk
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It is immoral to economize on the health of the defenders of the homeland. Contradictions between the army and society associated with the radical steps of the military reform are aggravated again. According to sources from the military department, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has decided all organizational staff reductions in military medical
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Structural transformations of the RF Armed Forces, providing for the creation of four United Strategic Commands and a single system of material and technical support, are aimed primarily at improving the management structure of the Armed Forces. The number of control units in the RF Armed Forces
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Today in Russia the next, autumn, military conscription begins. The Ministry of Defense has no doubts that the conscription plan will be carried out, despite health problems and a demographic pit, about 280 thousand citizens of draft age will be conscripted
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Recently, the number of deaths of conscripts in the internal military units of the Russian Federation has become more frequent. Recently, stories have died down, which received massive publicity in the domestic media, related to the death and humiliation of conscripts of tank and infantry units. What is the cause of the hatred and
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A week ago, the traditional autumn conscription campaign began in Russia. And although its beginning was marked by a small incident - the call was officially announced even before the text of the corresponding decree of Dmitry Medvedev was published on the website of the President of Russia and in Rossiyskaya Gazeta
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Most people in the West consider NATO to be one of the strongest and most successful military-political associations at the present time. The North Atlantic Alliance has lived longer than almost all others, it includes the most states and, finally, it was able to achieve its main goal, and without making
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The 80th anniversary of the Airborne Forces has been ignored by the President and Minister of Defense. They did not want to meet with the paratroopers and did not even send the usual on-duty greetings in such cases to the participants of the anniversary concert in the Kremlin Palace, where on July 31 of this year. attended by about 5,000
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How to recognize "Grandfather" It is not difficult, because the appearance and manners of the 'old men' are the best business card. Their 'identifying features' are: a hook on the collar of a tunic or overcoat is unfastened; the cap (cap, hat) is famously pushed to the back of the head; hair is longer than the statutory norm; the belt plate is bent, and
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Do not rush to shout about the bad boys who rushed to divulge this secret. My interlocutors are quite adult people, and they will be older than me. And what they told me, and told me, definitely, a little bit, was not done at all from a desire to slander or defile what is holy. On the contrary, the main