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Underbarrel Shotguns: History of Development and Operational Experience
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A photo of a Ukrainian special forces soldier, likely taken in a combat zone, recently appeared online. What makes this image stand out is that the soldier is …

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Flawed Leopards: Which Version of the German Tank Is Considered the Worst?
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It was announced as early as 2023—if not 2022—that Leopard tanks would be delivered to Ukraine. However, the “joy” of many Ukrainian tank crews was dampened by …

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Why were 45-mm cannons, despite being obsolete, still being produced right up until the end of the war?
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The history of these guns is quite complicated, and it has raised (and perhaps still raises) many questions. During the Soviet era, of course, no inconvenient …

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The An-70—a project that survived the collapse of the Soviet Union but did not survive the Maidan in Kyiv
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We have written about the An-70, a promising Soviet—and later Ukrainian—military transport aircraft, on numerous occasions on our website. However, all of …

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Vitaly Penskoy. A Few Thoughts on Tyrann-5’s Foreign Policy. And Kazan Once Again
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Все части цикла Here is the next installment in an interesting series of articles from VK by medieval historian Vitaly Pensky, which I think will be of …

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Yuri Pasholok. The Swedish Perspective in the Second Half of the 1940s
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Landsverk Pricken, Leo, Lansen, and other promising Swedish tanks from 1944–51 Contents: Despite their neutral status, the Swedish military was well aware …

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Would animals from the Paleogene and Neogene periods have survived on Earth today?
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An interesting article from the “Citadel of the Sane” channel on Yandex Zen. This article continues the “What If” series, which explores—purely as a thought …

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Turkey is joining the ranks of countries that build diesel-electric submarines. The MILDEN (Milli Denizaltı) submarine has been laid down at the shipyard in Gölcük.
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It may seem surprising, but today, fewer countries build diesel-electric submarines than nuclear ones. While nine countries either have nuclear submarines or …

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An American Dream. The SC-10 Jupiter Heavy Military Transport Aircraft. United States
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I’m sorry to disappoint anyone who thinks this is going to be about yet another American startup developing a new super-heavy aircraft. That’s not the case at …

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Alexey Kozlenko. Friends and Strangers
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An article by Alexei Kozlenko from the WARSPOT website, dated September 24, 2018 Contents: In 1962, a 6th–7th-century burial ground belonging to the …

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Yuri Pasholok. The Moscow Dual-Purpose Bicycle
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A story about the MD-1 (Moscow Road, first model), the most widely used bicycle of the Red Army It would be hard to call the bicycle a little-known mode of …

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Yuri Pasholok. An Alternative StuG IV for a Sane Person
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A story about the experimental German tank destroyer Versuchs-leichte Panzerjäger IV (Panzerjäger 39), based on the Pz.Kpfw.IV tank The first German tank …

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