The U.S. Navy appears to be quite serious about the future BBG(X) missile battleships. The 2027 budget proposal requests $1 billion for …

Marking the 120th anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Alexandrovich Astrov, one of the key Soviet tank designers   Usually, when people talk …

For a long time, naval warfare remained the last bastion of “large platforms”—destroyer, frigates, and aircraft carriers. But recent years have shown that even …

An article by Evgeny Belash from the WARSPOT website, dated November 23, 2014.   “To the tank. They call it ‘Toteninsel’—‘Death Island.’ Only …

A vintage article from 80 years ago in *Flying* magazine (February 1946 issue), which I think will be of interest to readers and colleagues.   …

As a follow-up to the article “The Il-62 Returns to the Skies,” I’d like to share a story about yet another “stopgap” aircraft intended to replace the retiring …

Just the day before yesterday, we reported on the new, entirely Vietnamese-made T-1 tank. As a follow-up to that post, I’d like to share a story about the Far …

In April 2026, documentation appeared in the public database of the Federal Institute of Industrial Property (FIPS) that could change our understanding of …

“People like to say that the First Crusade began at Clermont. Perhaps, for history, that is true. But for me it began several days later, in a quiet chamber of …

Place a Soviet AKM next to a late-production Yugoslav Zastava M70 and the ancestry of the latter is immediately obvious. The same long-stroke gas-piston …

In late May 2026, a shipment left Australia for the United States that, under normal circumstances, would hardly have attracted any media attention. It …

Whichever way you look at it, the appearance of the T-34 as we know it was largely the result of an extraordinarily fortunate combination of …