New command tiers were established, divisions became brigades, and the idea of absorbing professional soldiers into the ground forces was refined. The problems of generating a suitable corps of non-commissioned officers, of training suitable officers, and of marrying equipment to strategic need are ...
Karachayevo-Cherkesiya will send off 500 new soldiers. It is 76th by population. TheRiakchr.ruportal indicates that 70 men are bound for the Ground Forces, 6 for VDV, 131 VKS, 189 Natsgvardiya, 78 Railroad Troops, and 15 MChS. Fifty of the troops for VKS will serve in nearby militar...
Russia is modernizing an active stockpile of up to 2,000 nonstrategic nuclear weapons, including those employable by ships, planes, and ground forces. These include air-to-surface missiles, short range ballistic missiles, gravity bombs, and depth charges for medium-range bombers, tactical bombers...
“One way or another, the Russian air forces made into part of the Aerospace Forces [VKS] in 2015 have hundreds of aircraft equipped with the aerial refueling system, and this number is growing. Most likely, judging by everything, even though earlier deprived of this capability in the framew...
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North of the Chernigov bridgehead heavy Russian forces, including cavalry reinforced by a few light tanks, delayed the advance of the 134th Infantry Division by a well-conducted defensive action, In the course of this action heavy fighting took place at the narrow stretch of firm ground north,...
and then delay the Japanese advance into Manchuria until Russian reinforcements could arrive via theTrans-Siberian railroadand overwhelm the Japanese land forces in Manchuria. The result was the formation of theSecond Pacific Squadron.[15]This would consist of five divisions of the Baltic Fleet, incl...
The academy’s works on the collection and publication of sources on the history of Russia and on the study of the Orient were significant. Lomonosov laid the groundwork for Russian philology. In 1783 the Russian Academy was established to study problems of the Russian language and literature. ...
The rebels face the daunting task of healing bitter divisions in a country ravaged by war and still split among armed factions. Turkey-backed opposition fighters are battling U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in the north, and the Islamic State group is still active in some remote areas. ...
The rebels face the daunting task of healing bitter divisions in a country ravaged by war and split among armed factions. Turkey-backed opposition fighters are battling U.S.-allied Kurdish forces in the north, and the Islamic State group is still active in remote areas....