Intelligence and publicity - "two things are incompatible". So is the case during the life of the scout. The situation has not changed after his death. On the gravestones of intelligence is not accepted to specify their profession. A rare exception is a monument at the cemetery Troekurov capital."Life is given to exploration. 25 years at the head of the GRU."

17-10-2018 admin 81 0

Of General Mikhail Kirponos soldier's fate is not spared, not cherished. Survived two civil war Finnish partisans. Before the great Patriotic war became hero of the Soviet Union. War met at the front lines – the commander of the southwestern front. The surprise attack of Nazi Germany on the Soviet Union played a tragic role. In mid-September 1941, the Nazi hordes with a powerful shot across the front picked up "ticks" near Kiev, a large number of troops of the Front.

15-10-2018 admin 118 0

Who knows, maybe China, ranking among the leaders of the modern world, would now be quite different in their structure and the government policy, if not for the tragic event which occurred 70 years ago. Then off the coast of Crimea during a fire that occurred on Board the Soviet ship, killed one of the most influential people in China who could lead the country instead of Mao Zedong.

22-09-2018 admin 181 0

Make Soviet submarines quieter! How to get around sanctions, but at the same time a large scale attack? The story of the great scandal of the 1980s "Toshiba-Kangsberg"...

03-08-2018 admin 411 0

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 543 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 712 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 1133 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 1405 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 1066 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 1241 0