Archive for the ‘Defense’ Category
Posted on February 18, 2010 - by Venik
Mistral for Russia
France’s decision to sell four Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Russia was met with heavy criticism in the US, Georgia and the Baltic States. Interestingly enough, Russia’s decision to buy the four vessels for more than $2 billion was met with a lot of criticism within Russia as well. This is really the first time in [...]
Posted on February 9, 2010 - by Venik
Sukhoi T-50 Production and Procurement Details
The PAKFA (Russian abbreviation for the Prospective Frontal Aviation Complex) fighter project is currently scheduled to enter production at the end of 2014. The single-seat model is expected to enter service with the Russian AF in 2015. The dual-seat model for the Indian AF is expected to enter service two years after that. The two-seater [...]
Posted on February 6, 2010 - by Venik
Sukhoi Stealth Fighter’s First Flight
As many of you already know, last week the Sukhoi T-50 stealth fighter prototype – Russia’s long-awaited answer to Lockheed-Martin’s F-22 – completed it’s maiden 47-minute flight from the manufacturer’s test airfield in the Russian Far East. The single-seat aircraft features low-observable geometry, two widely-separated engines with 3-D thrust-vectoring nozzles, internal weapons bays, all-movable angled [...]
Posted on September 16, 2009 - by Venik
UN Finds Israeli War Crimes
The report by the UN fact finding mission on the Gaza conflict released on September 15 brings to light numerous war crimes committed by Tzahal against Palestinian civilians. A few quotes from the UN report:
The mission concluded that actions amounting to war crimes and possibly, in some respects, crimes against humanity, were committed by the [...]
Posted on August 9, 2009 - by Venik
Russians in Afghanistan
AP’s recent “Safety of Russian planes in Afghanistan questioned” by Catrina Stewart is exactly why female journalists should stick to writing about Gucci purses, chihuahuas, and SUVs. After some, no doubt, extensive research on the subject of military transport aviation, this broad came to the conclusion that the reason NATO keeps hiring Russian cargo aircraft [...]
Posted on July 15, 2009 - by Venik
Talking to Taliban
Coalition losses in Afghanistan continue mounting. Most casualties are sustained when troops are at their bases or on routine patrol missions. Recent reports suggest that the coalition is short on operational helicopters. Available fleets of attack helicopters and ground attack planes are stretched thin providing cover to supply convoys and ground patrols. The overall situation [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Second World War, Panzertruppen
A small gallery of German tank forces during the Second World War. Includes some rarely-seen color photos of Panzertruppen commanders. “The mainstay of the Panzerwaffe was the Panzer division. These consisted of a panzer brigade (two tank regiments) and two motorized or mechanized infantry regiments. All forces of a Panzer division were mobile. Support elements [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: African-Americans in WWII
A small gallery of photos showing African-American soldiers during the Second World War. About 125,000 blacks served in US combat units overseas during the war. “Many soldiers of color served their country with distinction during World War II. There were 125,000 African Americans who were overseas in World War II. Famous segregated units, such as [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Second World War, part 2
A collection of various photos from the Second World War. The second gallery. Photos of various events and people in no particular order. “The start of the war is generally held to be September 1 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Germany[4] by most of the countries in [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: The US in Second World War
A photo gallery of the US soldiers and civilians in the Second World War. “As with World War I, the United States did not enter World War II until after the rest of the active Allied countries had done so. The United States’s first contribution to the war was simultaneously to cut off the oil [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Second World War, part 1
A collection of various photos from the Second World War. The first gallery. “The start of the war is generally held to be September 1 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Germany[4] by most of the countries in the British Empire and Commonweath, and by France.[5][6] Many belligerents [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: The Battle of Kursk, part 1
The first part of the gallery of the Battle of Kursk, the greatest tank battle of all times. “The Battle of Kursk refers to German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest series [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: The Battle of Kursk, part 2
The second part of the gallery of the Battle of Kursk, the greatest tank battle of all times. “The Battle of Kursk refers to German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest series [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Eastern Front
A small collection of Second World War photos from the Eastern Front in no particular order. “It was the largest theatre of war in history and was notorious for its unprecedented ferocity, destruction, and immense loss of life. It bore the bulk of the Holocaust as the site of all extermination camps, death marches, ghettos, [...]