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In the near future, promising Russian armored personnel carriers will be equipped with a new 57 mm automatic cannon. This is reported in the thematic collection "Rocket-technical and artillery-technical support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - 2018." For the first time, the change of guns on combat armored vehicles was begun at the turn of the century.

Russia and China gathered to conquer deep space hand in hand

Russia and China are considering the possibility of creating joint programs for the study of deep space. As the head of the Roscosmos state corporation, Dmitry Rogozin, said on the social network Twitter, Russia and its Chinese colleagues are developing a program of long-term cooperation in the field of rocket production, rocket engine building, navigation, and satellite building.

1933 Light FAI Armored Car

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Overview of the American tank T-34 (Heavy Tank T34)

The American T 34 is a heavy tank developed in the USA in 1945. It is an upgrade of the T-30 tank. The history of this model began when the US military decided to equip one of the prototypes of the T-29 with a 120 mm cannon used in the model T 53. The resulting hybrid was given the designation T 34, but later, after the end of the second world war, work on modernization was extremely slow.

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Reliable shotgun Fabarm Prestige xlr5

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