It covers equipment from all services of the Soviet Armed Forces except the Navy, for which sufficient material was unavailable. Unclassified Russian, English, and German Language sources were used, and Russian expansions were provided when they could be found. The dictionary is intended as a ...
On 31 October 1979, Soviet informants under orders from the inner circle of advisors under Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev relayed information to the Afghan Armed Forces for them to undergo maintenance cycles for their tanks and other crucial equipment. Meanwhile, telecommunications links to ...
Soviet Union (1941) Improvised Armored Lorry – Estimated 3 Built Desperate Times After the annexation of Estonia, the Red Army occupied the country and absorbed military equipment into the Red Army. After the bloody nose that the USSR was dealt by the Wehrmacht, the Army and Navy were ...
Soviet Union (1941-1942) Superheavy Tank – Fake The best known fake tank The KV-VI, or KV-VI Behemoth, is one of the most famous fake tanks on the internet. A super-heavy tank project armed to ludicrous proportions, with three prototypes claimed to have been built 1941-1942, serving ...
Instead, the crew, armament, and other equipment were located in the two extended engine nacelles that ended in glazed tail cones (gondolas), somewhat similar to the later German Fw 189. The two extended engine nacelles were, technically speaking, the plane’s fuselage. The semi-monocoque ...
Especially the lack of modern equipment, tanks, airforces and training doomed the Northern Chinese Warlord Forces associated as guard and police by Wang in the region and like the most autonomous western regions of China, unlike the Center and South, they clearly were the Chinese weakest link. ...
produced in Germany since 1944, had an increased hardness due to high carbon content and gets brittle. In contact with the projectile, even without penetration of armor, from the inside often had a place of chips, which led to the defeat of the crew members and damage to interna...
79pp. Following the 1989-1990 political events in EasternEurope,the Soviet Union is hastening to remove its armed forces from that region. The force of thirty- nine divisions, with all of its associated organizations and equipment, is currently the object of an enormous withdrawal that will be...
“The key task is to produce a wide range of unmanned aerial vehicles and to set up serial production of such promising technology as quickly as possible,” Putin explained, adding that it is necessary to “fully meet” the needs of the armed forces and increase drone production and the tec...
The Germans had formidable tanks, aircraft, and infantry weapons, while the Soviets relied on the sheer size of their forces, coupled with the robust T-34 tanks and other equipment. The Battle of Stalingrad saw intense urban warfare, with both sides employing a mix of infantry, artillery, and...