Old planes for expensive: why the US Air Force decided to buy almost 150 F-15EX
The United States Air Force has signed a contract for the purchase of one and a half hundred updated F-15 aircraft over the next 10 years. Why did the Pentagon need so many 4th generation fighters and that ...
State administration system: a grandiose project of the USSR can be implemented in Russia
Recently, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted a decree on the creation of a subsystem built on the basis of the automated system "Management" and designed to analyze the implementation of national projects. Decision...
Why Russian helicopter carriers were more expensive than Mistrals
This week at the Kerch shipyard "Zaliv" Russia for the first time in history laid down two universal amphibious assault ships. Already, many people call domestic helicopter carriers a "copy" ...
Six large ships per day: Russia shows impressive pace of development of the Navy
On Monday, July 20, for the first time in history, Russia laid down six warships at once, including nuclear submarines, as well as a "replacement" for French helicopter carriers Mistral. What are the benefits ...
Why Russia decided to "resurrect" the idea of a supersonic liner
Russia has begun to create a concept and a general target program for a supersonic civil aircraft. But why did our country need a follower of the TU-144 and the Concorde, and does such a machine have ...
"Clip wings of MS-21": Russia is increasing the production of composites for a reason
Last week it became known that the UMATEX structure of Rosatom bought out a division of Porcher Industries, one of the industry leaders in the production of technical textiles ....
Why the Soviet landing "Zubr" still has no equal in the world
The Zubr small hovercraft (project 12332) created in the USSR to this day has no analogues in the world and is the most powerful ship in its class ....
Voice control: Russia is ahead of the Americans in the creation of combat robots
The robotic platform "Marker" has successfully passed the first stage of the state testing program ....
Aggravation in Nagorno-Karabakh: will there be a war?
Another exacerbation occurred on July 12 on the border of Armenia with Azerbaijan. According to Baku, Armenia, for no apparent reason, opened fire from artillery. In turn, Yerevan claims that ...
Whose interests were defended by the White Guards during the Civil War in Russia
The White Guard is a devoted patriot of Russia, who fought with the "red plague", the ruined color of the nation. It is this image for opponents of the Soviet regime that is created in the oligarchic media and is portrayed in films ...
GTD-110M is not the only one: Russia is increasing the production of high-power gas turbines
The Russian Government announced the launch of the second "five-year plan", which will last until 2025, will be aimed at deepening import substitution and will apply to materials, components and equipment ....
The legendary Mi-8: how the Russian helicopter became the most popular in the world
In 1959, the brilliant Soviet designer M.L. Mil received an order to develop a new device, which later became the most popular and popular rotorcraft in the world. Speech ...
Russia received technology revealing invisible aircraft
The "Radio Invisibility", which at one time was successfully used in the American F-117 Nighthawk fighter-bomber and is being improved to this day, can become completely useless thanks to ...
Railgun: future "god of war" or the salvation of mankind?
A railgun is a weapon that is considered second to nuclear weapons in its destructive power. For the first time, the concept of an electric apparatus for dispersing a projectile was proposed by the French inventor Andre ...
Why the Russian self-propelled guns "Acacia" caused concern among Western experts
Russian self-propelled guns "Acacia", which is the basis of the artillery firepower of the brigade and division units of the Russian army, seriously worried Western experts. In particular, specialists from ...
What is the uniqueness of the North Pole self-propelled platform under construction in Russia
Last week, a unique ice-resistant platform for gas production in the Arctic was laid in Astrakhan. At the same time, construction of an ice-resistant self-propelled ship continues at the Admiralty Shipyards ...
Nuclear aircraft: a project of the USSR that could forever change world aviation
In the early 50s, the USSR began to implement one of the most daring ideas of the XX century. We are talking about a plane with a nuclear engine, which could forever change the face of world aviation ....
The frequent appearance of the American fleet off the coast of the Russian Federation may run into a rude reaction of Moscow
Air defense forces of the Russian Federation are ready to shoot down American planes in case of violation of airspace. The United States withdraws a third of its forces from Germany and intends to place them even closer to the Russian border - in ...
Board number 1: what is the Russian "doomsday plane"
The nuclear arms race between the USA and the USSR, which reached its zenith in the 70s, subsequently was not able to identify the leader. However, there was one aspect in which the Pentagon far exceeded ...
What threatens Russia with the project to turn rivers into Central Asia
The Aral Sea, which was once the 4th largest lake in the world, today resembles several lifeless puddles with extremely salty water. The reason for the environmental disaster was a thoughtless fence ...