Military business

You are holding this manuscript thanks to a happy accident, or perhaps providence. For it is unlikely that the person who wrote these memoirs wanted fame or ...

February 22, 1932, the Council of Labor and Defense (STO) of the USSR issued a decree on the construction of 30 small submarines, with the first six due for ...

Thanks to the School of Tank Technology, Krupp’s correspondence and meeting notes survived to provide us with a detailed insider view of the development o...

The English battleships Nelson and Rodney occupy a special place in military history. When creating them, for the first time in world practice, the designers...

The main features of the Poltava-class battleships were: an increase in the design displacement adopted for Baltic battleships to 10,000 tons, a fundamentall...

Italian battleships were designed taking into account the political and strategic situation of their time. Italy was in an alliance with Germany and the Aust...

During the Second World War, battleships ceded their leading role at sea to aircraft carriers, and in the post-war years their combat use became completely p...

As practice shows, today's "tank masters", paying great attention to the materiel of tanks, as a rule, do not delve into the specifics of tank weapons. They ...

Dunkirk and Strasbourg are remembered not only for the fact that they became the first French capital ships built after the First World War. They are rightfu...

In the fall of 1941, a new soldier’s specialty appeared in the Red Army - armor piercer. This is how fighters with anti-tank rifles (PTR) began to be called....

The governments of various exotic republics and decrepit monarchies were confident that the presence of several dreadnoughts in the fleet would raise their i...

Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy is an honored test pilot, cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, the only cosmonaut who was awarded this title during the Gr...