Russian servicemen have started using North Korean Type 73 machine guns, the first machine guns were spotted at a firing range in November. The Type 73 machine gun was adopted by the DPRK army in 1973 and is still in use. The Type 73 machine gun is a clone of the Kalashnikov machine gun and the...
An episode of the battle between the Russian robotic platform NRTK "Courier" and the Ukrainian FPV drone. Technical information on the ground drone NRTK "Courier" is in the link to the video in the comments to the video. In this case, the robot can be said to have replaced the reconnaissance...
Russian long-range aviation received modernized aircraft. The modernized aircraft received improved navigation systems and modern on-board equipment in 2024. The main representative of Russian long-range aviation for many years has been the Tu-95MS, these are aircraft carriers of the Kh-55 and...
An episode of the battle of the Russian 114th brigade in the Kurakhovsky direction, in the Donbass. During the battle, a Russian portable electronic warfare system was used, protecting soldiers from drones. The model of the electronic warfare system is not reported. The video shows an attack by...
A resident of the Tyumen region of Russia filmed a train of military equipment. The video shows the M1989 Koksan self-propelled guns produced by the DPRK, which were previously shown, and an unknown model of military equipment. The video is of low quality and it is difficult to draw conclusions...
The first footage of the launch of the Russian reconnaissance UAV "Merlin-VR" has been published. The drone "Merlin-VR" was developed by the Smolensk Research Institute of Modern Telecommunication Technologies, based on the UAV "Merlin-21BM". The UAV "Merlin-VR" is one of the largest UAVs of the...
The Ukrainian 44th Mechanized Brigade demonstrated the use of a Polish Rosomak APC with Mk 310 PABM-T programmable air-burst ammunition. The Ukrainian Rosomak APC fires Mk 310 PABM-T programmable projectiles from a 30mm Mk44 Bushmaster II automatic cannon. Before feeding the projectile into the...
Footage of Russian servicemen training on Chinese-made Desertcross 1000-3 buggies, which we previously covered. Desertcross 1000-3 all-terrain vehicles weigh 1,050 kg and have a load capacity of 550 kg. Servicemen learn to ride all-terrain vehicles on difficult road sections, master first aid...
Russian sappers of the Karbyshev engineering battalion have started using FPV drones for mining and demining in Ukraine. The video shows the installation of POM-2 mines and demining using a Russian FPV drone. POM-2 anti-personnel fragmentation mines were developed in the 1980s in the USSR. The...
The Russian army began to use rare 122 mm D-74 guns. One of the D-74 guns was spotted with the 238th Guards Artillery Brigade. Serial production of D-74 guns began in the USSR in 1956. Presumably, D-74 guns were produced until the mid-sixties. D-74 were exported and were in service with almost...
The first real North Korean 170-mm M1989 Koksan self-propelled guns were recorded by eyewitnesses on one of the military trains in Russia. There is little information about the M-1989 Koksan self-propelled guns; they were created in the 1970s on the chassis of T-54, T-62 or Type 59 tanks. With a...
Footage of Russia's first military tracked drone "Depesha", controlled via fiber optic cable. The first samples are being tested in the troops. The robotic platform "Depesha" is produced on a wheeled and tracked chassis. The ground drone "Depesha" is controlled using a joystick, VR glasses, a...
The Russian army is gradually being replenished with robotic platforms for various purposes, they are already being actively used, but their production volumes are still small. Rostec presented the robotic tracked complex "Caracal", produced by "Kurganmashzavod", it was first shown in the...
Servicemen of one of the Russian units showed an unusual homemade tracked assault vehicle, created on the basis of the medium artillery tractor ATS-59G. The military tractor was equipped with protection from drones, such as "Tsar-mangal", unlike the classic protection, here there are rubber...
The Israeli Air Force struck an ammunition depot and a base of the 23rd brigade of the former Syrian army in the province of Tartus. Presumably, F-16I aircraft were used in the attack, the type of bombs or missiles used is not reported. As a result of the strike, the military depots were...
Rare footage of the Russian Il-76MD military transport aircraft taking off from the Khmeimim airbase in Syria, under the cover of a Russian Ka-52 helicopter. The Ka-52 helicopter is equipped with the Vitebsk onboard electronic warfare system, which, in the event of a threat, will protect the...
The first footage of the new augmented reality flight helmet for pilots of Russian fifth-generation Su-57 fighters. The new helmet significantly simplifies the control of the Su-57 aircraft's weapons. When using missiles with an infrared homing head, the pilot sees when the target is captured...
The first footage of the Russian Su-57 aircraft with a flat nozzle on its engines. The footage shows that the test Su-57 is equipped with only one new AL-51F1 engine with a flat nozzle, the second engine is the standard AL-41F1 power plant. The new Su-57 nozzle has four independently controlled...
Ukrainian long-range kamikaze drones A-22 attacked the Russian building of the OMON "AKHMAT-Grozny" in the Chechen Republic in the city of Grozny. The strike was carried out using a Ukrainian light aircraft Aeroprakt A-22, converted into a heavy kamikaze drone. The Aeroprakt A-22 Foxbat aircraft...
Footage of the strike by the Russian FPV aircraft-type drone "Molniya-1" on the Ukrainian IFV YPR-765, produced in Holland. Technical information about the UAV "Molniya-1" in the link to the video in the comments to the video. YPR-765 was produced in Holland under license since 1974. It is not...
