The Soviet weapon has a reputation of reliable, but coarse and inaccurate. However, it often cost an extensive research. The report in 1979, entitled "Effects of fire from automatic weapons", describes the statistical methodology used for weapons testing during the Soviet era. There are also many tables of firings, starting in 1977, which compares the accuracy of different samples infantry weapons. In tests using various weapons involved both experienced and average soldiers, shooting from different positions, including shooting from moving vehicles at night and even return fire against the muzzle flashes in the dark. These tests helped bring the average number of shots required to defeat or destroy a number of targets, including helicopters, vehicles and personnel of the enemy. This article attempts to summarize the conclusions that can be drawn from these tables is firing, comparing the results shown AK-74 and AKM.

05-06-2018 admin 153 0

The mighty German fortress, absolutely impregnable. Where do you find such a infantry that would be able to take it? Of course, in the Soviet divisions in 1945!

31-05-2018 admin 263 0

Preparing for the next exercises, in which the main role was to play the troops of the airborne forces. As expected, the exercises and military-sports holidays, which is expected to be the big bosses, all polished to a mirror Shine, and all actions honed to the fully automatic.

07-05-2018 admin 696 0

The country celebrated the anniversary of withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. In this regard, I want to focus on one of the Afghan lessons. No, I'm not going to write about geopolitics or about the problem of global Islamic terrorism, which Russia started this war. Want to talk about purely military aspect, the willingness of the army to conduct combat operations.

17-02-2018 admin 1164 0

Not all models of manned spacecraft to reach a full flight crew. This could be and finish, but the further fate of the ship can arise in different ways. Buran, the Soviet answer to the space Shuttle has made just one test flight. And in the eyes of many he is already one of this flight surpassed the Shuttle, making unmanned the fact that the Shuttle was always doing pilots. In the end, his fame he can compete with some of the ships, which successfully flew people. Some of the other ships almost forgotten and seldom mentioned outside specialized sites. One of these ships could greatly affect the results of the lunar race, but instead fell victim to Soviet secrecy.

06-02-2018 admin 917 0

Known teleobservation Alexei Pushkov makes, in my opinion, a sensible political reporting, but it shows a flippant attitude to science. It bothers me more than the question of whether Americans on the moon. Alexey Pushkov, member of the State Duma, the representative of the political elite. I see here a common root with the disrespectful attitude of this part of society to science, including to the national academic science.

14-01-2018 admin 1071 0

7-8 January 1988 took the fight for hill 3234, which became the legend of the Afghan war.

08-01-2018 admin 1637 0

In contrast to the older MiG-21, operating the MiG-25 remains very small. Most of them are in the air force of Algeria and the Syrian Arab Republic, although in recent years there have been reports that the MiG-25 returned to service in Libya. Most of the "flying foxes" was decommissioned shortly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and some remained for some time in the air force of the former Soviet republics. Iraqi MiG-25 was mostly destroyed during the war in the Persian Gulf, and those that remained were destroyed in the operation "desert Storm".

30-12-2017 admin 1067 0

December 28 marks 110 years since the birth of the head of Soviet intelligence of Paul of Phytin, the man who emerged victorious from the confrontation with the strongest intelligence agencies of the world.

30-12-2017 admin 932 0

Alas, the success of a technical system does not always depends only on its excellence. And the sad story of the carrier rocket "Zenit" clearly shows how great the technical side of the rocket instead of a brilliant career and outstanding achievements were in a situation when you have to just survive. December 26 kicks off the last of the already made "Zenith" and, despite the news this year, it may be the last in the history of this launch vehicle.

27-12-2017 admin 1134 0