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Voting on the choice of names for several types of new weapons has ended on the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense, which the President of the country spoke about on March 1 during his message Federal Assembly, transmits RT .

As a result, the new combat laser complex was named "Peresvet", the unmanned underwater vehicle will be called "Poseidon", the newest cruise missile will be called "Petrel". About eight million people took part in the action. NSN .

Participants of the competition often offered very outstanding names. For example, it was proposed to name the combat laser "Bagheera", "Viem", "Gepard", "Gorynych", "Stargazer", "Ophthalmologist", "Matryoshka" and "Fly Swatter", reports FAN .

The main battles flared up around the naming option for a nuclear-powered cruise missile. "Alyonushka", "Albatross", "Blagovest", "Berdysh", "Vatnik", "Retribution", "Guarantor", "Argument", "Hummingbird", "Swallow", "Robin", "Peacemaker", "Nadyusha ”,“ Surprise ” - a far from complete list of names proposed by the Russians.

The editor-in-chief suggested calling the rocket "Volodya". The head of Chechnya said that the newest strategic weapon has earned the name "Palmyra" - in memory of the Russian soldiers who died in Syria.

The first example of the latest strategic weapons Russia, which Putin presented during the message, was a missile system with a heavy intercontinental ballistic missile "Sarmat" (Satan-2 according to the classification). On this moment together with the enterprises of the rocket industry have already begun the active phase of testing missile system. "Sarmat" will replace the complex "Voevoda" (Satan according to NATO classification), which was created back in the USSR.

The flight range of the Sarmat missile (16,000 km) exceeds the flight range of the Voyevoda (11,000 km), and the missile also has a large number and power of warheads, Putin explained. The Sarmat rocket weighs over 200 tons. What makes it difficult to intercept by missile defense means is that it has a short active flight segment. "Sarmat" will be equipped with a wide range of high-yield nuclear weapons, including hypersonic ones, as well as modern systems to overcome missile defense.

The head of state announced that Russia has developed unmanned underwater vehicles capable of moving at “very great depths” and at intercontinental ranges. The speed of drones is a multiple of the speed submarines, most modern torpedoes, as well as all types of surface ships, including the fastest.

Underwater vehicles have low noise, high maneuverability and are practically invulnerable to the enemy, the president added, noting that at the moment there are no means in the world that could resist them.

The latest Russian underwater drones have low noise, high maneuverability and are practically invulnerable to the enemy, which will allow them to hit wide range targets, including aircraft carrier groups, coastal fortifications and infrastructure. A multi-year test cycle of an innovative nuclear power plant for a drone was completed at the end of 2017.

Its uniqueness lies in its small dimensions and, at the same time, its ultra-high power-to-weight ratio. Its volume is 100 times smaller than that of modern nuclear submarines, but at the same time it has more strong power and switches to combat mode 200 times faster, the president said.

"Foundling", "Sled", "Zoo": what deadly weapon is hidden behind funny names

On the verbal names of domestic military equipment, which is capable of destroying all life on large areas, ordinary people know little. However, Grads, Tornadoes, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Vladimirs, Acacias, Tulips and other verbal usages that are mysterious to the majority appear in the headlines every now and then. Behind every pretty name in the domestic weapons school is a difficult fate, and most often - great story for its use or service. Almost all copies of domestic weapons, no matter what kind of troops it belongs to, have an impressive firepower or just a very serious military functionality.

They have and we have

name the technique unusual names only Soviet and Russian designers can do it. There is nothing unusual in the foreign names of military equipment, no matter what troops it belongs to. American designers, for example, call their combat vehicles almost always in a peculiar, militant style. Judge for yourself: combat helicopters they called "Cobra" and "Apache" - it is quite logical, because the cobra - poisonous snake, and the Apaches are a tribe of native North American Indians, who were pretty good at handling edged weapons. However, glancing at domestic weapons and studying this topic in detail, you involuntarily begin to smile, because “Sled”, “Foundling”, “Tenderness”, “Dubna”, “Vega” are not the names of some fantastic works, but the real offensive-defensive means.

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"Chrysanthemum". Photo: Bogdan Rudenko

Sometimes cute, gentle and kind names for formidable army equipment are given in such a way that a person who is not initiated into the intricacies of military affairs will not immediately understand what type of weapon they are talking about. For example, when you hear that "Pinocchio" successfully hit the target at the training ground, you, as a person familiar with Soviet cartoons, involuntarily wrinkle your forehead in an attempt to remember when Pinocchio learned to shoot and what target he hit. However, "Pinocchio" in the Russian Ministry of Defense is nothing more than a heavy jet system salvo fire, built on the basis of the T-72 tank and capable of literally burning out all life on an area in 40.000 square meters. "Pinocchio" with a 12-cylinder diesel engine has been successfully operating in military conflicts for a long time - first in the Charikar Valley in Afghanistan and South Salang, and then in 2000 in Chechnya. The thermobaric ammunition of the “son of Papa Carlo”, who instead of legs has impressive tracks, was enough to neutralize any enemy.

Also for lovers of floristry there is a special flower series. Only we are not talking about a family of bright and colorful, pleasantly smelling flowers, but about formidable self-propelled artillery mounts: Carnation, Hyacinth, Chrysanthemum, Tulip, Peony.

Jokes about innocent names, when you personally observe the work of these machines, immediately disappear. 2S1 "Carnation" - the "smallest" artillery system in this "dimensional grid". It fires 122 mm caliber ammunition at a range of up to 15 kilometers. But in the case of another “flower” - the Pion self-propelled artillery system, everything is somewhat more interesting, because it is this self-propelled unit capable of firing special, as the military say, or, simply, nuclear weapons over a distance of over 20 kilometers. The history of the creation of a nuclear weapon for this self-propelled gun is also full of surprises. First of all, because of the name, because the special nuclear munitions are called "Kleshchevina", "Sapling" and "Perforator".

The last name, according to the memoirs of a retired lieutenant colonel of the armed forces of the USSR Andrei Mikhailovich Savenkov, at all, terrified even on experienced foreign military men: “Yes, the story with the name is, of course, the plot for the film, at least. Then the term "limited nuclear destruction" was in common use, for which, in fact, artillery of a similar plan was intended. Ammunition, of course, came up with good ones from a practical point of view. But from the point of view of names, apparently, they decided to unleash fear on the enemy, while still standing at the drawing board. As far as I remember, when the NATO headquarters found out how the name for the ammunition sounds in Russian and what it means, I think that gray-haired generals were added there instantly, ”the expert said in an interview with Zvezda.

"Svirel", "Foundling", "Sled" and "Zoo"

"Zoo". Photo: Konstantin Semyonov

Funny names, according to the stories of the military, in the Soviet and Russian army do not count. “He runs with a good hundred, or even more,” ironically remarks in an interview with Zvezda the commander of one of electronic warfare units ZVO Andrey Tikhonov. And it is true that no name, then irony, then laughter, then awareness, and only then - the study of history. When you read about the types of shots for underbarrel grenade launchers, in general, you don’t expect a funny trick, because a grenade flying out of a device placed under the barrel of an assault rifle is capable of completely turning a small fortification. But even here the creators Soviet weapons distinguished themselves by creating the "Foundling" - a 7P24 grenade with a detonation mechanism after a collision with an obstacle. The expelling charge of a grenade throws it to a height of about two meters and then an explosion occurs. That's really, truly, a foundling!

Also, the Svirel deserves a separate story - a 40-mm round for a standard GP-30 underbarrel grenade launcher with acoustic impact. The principle of this ammunition is difficult to describe in words. However, if for a second you imagine the explosion of a meteorite flying into planet Earth, the simultaneous play of a thousand orchestras and the buzzing of a hundred or two bees, you can get a little closer in sensations to what the enemy experiences when such ammunition is used on him. A strong noise when a grenade is detonated is also accompanied by light exposure. talking plain language, the Svirel light and sound grenade provides the enemy with such a musical part that the mental and physical health of any, even the most prepared enemy, will be undermined for several minutes.

"Sled"

When the military asks: "Where is the one hundred and twentieth sled?" the subconscious says that even the usual, traditional for Russia types of winter entertainment have some use for the military. And only a minute later, when the mortar crew delivers a heavy 120 mm mortar with an impressive ground stop, you understand that the "Sled" is a heavy army mortar, weighing more than 200 kg, which is simply impossible to cope with alone. However, "Sled", "Foundling" and "Svirel" are just the tip of the iceberg. The most simple part for study by Western linguists.

"Zoo"- this is what can baffle even a highly erudite civilian. The problem is that when you hear the name from certain type or object, most people, lining up associative series, will in his reasoning move towards something alive, without even thinking about what the military calls the unique development "Zoo" Soviet designers, designed to determine enemy artillery positions. 1L219M, according to the Russian military, is a "complex for the control artillery firing". If we talk about a unique development in a simple and plain language, then the "Zoo" is a complex of special radar and auxiliary equipment that can detect and detect the coordinates of any enemy artillery at an impressive distance and almost instantly bring aircraft or their own artillery there.

great and mighty

The prevailing opinion is that the funny names of the Soviet and Russian technology given by some specially trained person, do not correspond to reality. Reality with names domestic technology simple, like the Soviet weapon itself.

“The names of Soviet technology almost always came from the ciphers of research and development. Hence such unusual names appeared, ”an authoritative Russian military expert and Chief Editor magazine "Arsenal of the Fatherland" Viktor Murakhovsky.

However, according to Murakhovsky, there were exceptions in the domestic military design business. “It used to happen that the names were given only later to the officially adopted equipment. For example, the T-72 tank, which was put into service, was later called "Ural", in honor of Uralvagonzavod. And although the name was not considered official at first, even in the technical operation manual it was later called "Ural".

"Vladimir". Photo: Bogdan Rudenko

The story with another tank, no less famous, T-90, the development of which once literally pulled the entire tank-building industry of the country out of the abyss. T-90 - a formidable tank, appearance and whose weapons terrify NATO headquarters, in addition to the official, factory name, it also has a proper name - "Vladimir". However, the tank is named, despite general delusion, not in honor of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Russia Vladimir Putin, but in honor of the chief designer of the tank - Vladimir Mikhailovich Potkin, who, having endured a huge amount of stress, suddenly died right at the workplace on May 13, 1999.

History with the names of the domestic military equipment- a real treasure for lovers of interesting things in weapons. More long years, according to the confessions of the military themselves, the topic with the names of weapons will excite our potential opponents. “The Western mind will never think of calling the handcuffs “Tenderness”, and the jamming system “Moshkara”. You see, here understanding is still at the mental level, if not subconscious, ”says a military representative of the Ministry of Defense in an interview with Zvezda Nikolai Koshkin.

"Poplar"

The rich and powerful Russian language played with domestic weapons in a pair sport, in fact, driving the entire Western system designations. Concluding the topic unusual names, in the head suddenly arises beautiful song Mark Bernes, Do Russians Want Wars? And knowing that "Silence" (shooting complex) and "Topol" (mobile missile system) are not just the author's fantasy, but also weapons embodied in metal, Mark Bernes' song takes on a completely different meaning.

It is generally accepted that the security and protection of citizens in the state is carried out by the police. But this does not mean that there is an armed law enforcement officer at every dark entrance, back alley, private house. It's just not possible.

And crime in our country can threaten the average citizen everywhere. In addition, criminal communities do not experience a shortage of firearms of criminal origin.

Against this background, the desire of law-abiding citizens to ensure their safety and the safety of their loved ones by any means (only legal means are implied) is quite understandable.

And there are not so many ways. One of them is the confrontation with a legal firearm against a criminal armed with a firearm (usually a combat one). The law prohibits ordinary citizens from owning a rifled "short-barrel" (pistol).

We will not discuss now how right or wrong it is, what projects are emerging to mitigate weapons legislation. This is a different story. Law is law.

While it is in effect, any person (subject to certain conditions) can acquire several units of legal firearms and its counterparts, produced specifically for the civilian population.

Of course, for example, it cannot be compared in efficiency with any " Tula Tokarev”, but still the average person, with a trauma in his bosom in an emergency, will meet an armed attacker not with his bare hands.

Kinds

All firearms are subdivided by our legislation into:

• civilian samples;
• service samples;
• combat hand weapon.

Combat pistols and machine guns are available only to such categories of citizens as the military, employees law enforcement, representatives of other paramilitary state organizations (weapons are in service with special services). For this reason, we will not dwell on it in detail in this article, but will consider those types of firearms that are available to other wider categories of citizens.

Official

The Makarov pistol" - bright representative service weapon

The service "firearm" is legally available to those officials, which, by the nature of their activities, are obliged to protect the life and health of people, important objects, to engage in environmental protection, and to engage in cash collection.

Basic list of requirements:

• should not fire a burst;
• visually determined differences from models of military small arms;
• magazine can hold a maximum of 10 rounds;
• lead-filled bullets, hard metal cores are prohibited;
• compliance with state standards of the Russian Federation.

Produced in smoothbore and rifled versions, with long and short trunks. Muzzle energy - a maximum of 300J. Private security companies can arm themselves.

civil

Used by hunters, athletes, as a means of self-defense. The types of weapons that are allowed for civilian circulation on the territory of the state can be seen in the special resolutions of the Government of the Russian Federation.

These are the samples of Russian and foreign gunsmiths who received a certificate from the Russian State Standard.

The assortment of "citizen" today is simply huge, respectively, and the price for it can be different. There are also rare samples on sale that were released back in the 80-90s of the 19th century (for example, in the photo of Webley Mars - the “Desert Eagle” of the late 19th century).

Helpful information: You can get comprehensive information about any type of modern and rare weapons on the Soldierweapons website. It can be called an encyclopedia, which presents the entire list of weapons.

The main types of civilian weapons:

1. For self defense:
2. Sports in smooth-bore and rifled versions (small-caliber rifle, pistol or shotgun for clay shooting);

   

3. hunting is produced in smoothbore, rifled or combined versions, Russian “civilian” is in great demand from rifled (a new invention of Russian gunsmiths, when combat machine a pin is driven in, a tide for a bayonet is cut off, etc.), military weapon during the Second World War, inexpensive samples of foreign manufacturers, certified by state bodies of the Russian Federation;

   

4. (rocket launchers), his device is simple, the purpose is to give a signal.

   

Modern designs on store shelves hunting weapon Russian and foreign production with hard-to-pronounce names coexist today with "civilian" military weapons.

For example, the first thing that comes to mind is the Kalashnikov assault rifle - a real symbol of a bygone era! Any citizen with a permit to purchase rifled weapons, can become its owner (though without a bayonet and with a smaller capacity store).

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At the end of 2016, the Russian army special forces received the latest irony optical-electronic surveillance system. The device is a combination of a surveillance system and a kind of military Internet. The complex allows special forces to detect a person and equipment at a distance of up to 7 kilometers at any time of the day, fix an object in photo or video mode and immediately transfer information to command post through closed channels.

But perhaps the most remarkable thing about this device is its name. It is not clear why "Irony", perhaps this is a kind of army sense of humor, a message to the enemy. "Our Version" tried to understand the logic of strange names Russian systems weapons.

The tradition of giving original names to weapons originated in the 16th century, when throwing explosive ammunition first appeared in the French army. The soldiers aptly dubbed them pomegranates, indeed, in shape they were very similar to these exotic fruits. Five centuries have passed, grenades are still called all weapons of this type. A whole type of weapon was given the soldier's nickname of the M9 anti-tank grenade launcher, which entered the US Army during World War II. It seemed to the fighters that the grenade launcher was similar in shape to a brass instrument - a bazooka, the whistle of a projectile flying out also resembled the sound musical instrument. Later, the name "bazooka" became a household name in the West, especially in the United States, now any grenade launcher or just a portable, powerful and large weapon is called that.

Animals and insects can be deadly

Most manufacturers prefer to give names to weapons, emphasizing their menacing and deadly nature. The founders of this tradition are the Germans. Movies about the war give a glimpse of the formidable heavy predatory German tanks"Tiger" and "Panther", about the deadly and sharp multi-purpose anti-aircraft complex "Gepard". The arsenal of the Russian army also contains weapons that evoke an unpleasant association only by their name: the famous BM-21 Grad field rocket system, from which, of course, you can’t hide under an umbrella. Jet system salvo fire caliber 300 millimeters "Smerch", each projectile of which will destroy all life within a radius of a kilometer.

The S-300VM "Antey-2500" air defense system is named after the mythical giant who forced all strangers to fight and killed everyone he defeated, and then built a temple to his father Poseidon from their skulls.

Often the names of Russian weapons systems are dominated by motifs that are completely unassociated with formidable types of weapons. For example, there are many borrowings from representatives of flora and fauna. At the same time, unlike German names, Russian systems are named after quite peaceful animals. For example, the 96M6M multi-purpose target missile system is called the Boar, and the 140-mm M-14S rocket projectile is just the Belka. An experienced automatic grenade launcher TKB-0134 was simply called "Kozlik". The N-001VP radar sighting system for the Su-27 is an exotic Panda. The powerful 533-millimeter homing torpedo SET-65 is named quite harmlessly "Enot".

Many names for Russian weapons systems are borrowed from the feathered order. The 6S1 silent rifle-grenade launcher system is called the "Canary", the 324-mm aviation anti-submarine torpedo - "Hummingbird". For some reason, the 9-millimeter silent single-shot grenade-pistol was called the “Woodpecker” as the loudest bird in the forest. At the end of the bird theme - about the Tu-160 supersonic strategic bomber-missile carrier, which among the pilots received the romantic nickname "White Swan" (pictured). Recall that cruise missiles long range with a nuclear warhead, which this aircraft is armed with, can wipe out entire cities from the face of the earth.

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Internet users working at airports have listed the most unusual things they have ever found while searching luggage and hand luggage. Among them were sex toys, animals and even dead people.

There are many Russian weapons systems with the name of insects: for example, the 64-mm RPG-18 anti-tank rocket launcher was named "Fly", the infantry rocket flamethrower - "Bumblebee", and the mobile robotic intelligence complex RTO 2 - "Grasshopper". Combines the types of weapons listed above radar complex artillery reconnaissance and fire control 1L219 "Zoo".

Artillery and flowers

For manufacturers of artillery weapons, almost all names are associated with flora. The Russian army is armed with a self-propelled artillery mount with a 203-mm gun 2A44 "Peony", as well as self-propelled howitzers 2S1 "Carnation" and 2S3 "Acacia", as well as 152 mm self-propelled gun"Hyacinth", 240-mm self-propelled mortar "Tulip", 82-mm automatic mortar 2B9 "Vasilyok". The powerful experimental liquid single-stage ballistic missile medium range ground-based R-12U "Cactus". The upgraded version of the T-72 tank with the use of a 120 mm caliber gun and NATO standard ammunition, on the contrary, received a fairly peaceful name - "Banana".

Sometimes it seems that military engineers in the names tried to lay a variety of emotions. The 9M216 rocket projectile with a thermobaric warhead was named "Excitement". The explosion of one such ammunition will indeed cause a fair amount of anxiety, since it creates a continuous void with a diameter of 25 meters with a temperature at the epicenter of over a thousand degrees. But in the names of the 122-mm cluster rocket projectile 9M22K "Decoration" and the 240-mm chemical rocket projectile MS-24 "Laska", perhaps they went over with cynicism.

Aviation adopted the "Ballerina"

Some weapon names are similar to medical terms: the R-410M tropospheric radio station is called Diagnosis, the BTR-80A armored personnel carrier is called Violent, the BMM-1D airborne medical vehicle is ambiguously called Traumatism, and the 65s941 software and hardware complex is called Tonus. Soviet atomic bomb implosion type RDS-7 with a nucleus of uranium 235 received a near-psychiatric diagnosis - "Fool", it is possible that a warning is encrypted in the title. The weight of the bomb was 4.6 tons, the charge core contained several tens of kilograms of uranium, the charge power reached a megaton. In any case, it would hardly have occurred to anyone to use such weapons while in their right mind.

Some titles Russian weapons create a mood and encourage action. So, the bulletproof vest "Visit" seems to call for an urgent visit, the 40-mm grenade-shovel "Variant" always gives a rich choice. The 9K11 anti-tank guided missile has a cute and harmless name "Baby", while it is a fairly serious ammunition designed to destroy tanks, fortifications and surface targets. The ship's radar MR-352 "Pozitiv" tunes in the right way, the enthusiastic mood is created by the peculiar name of the "Ecstasy" multiple-action flash and noise grenade. The graceful 30-mm aviation automatic gun 9A-4071 "Ballerina" causes tenderness.

The comical name "Obzhimka" is confusing - this is the name of the Soviet 120-mm self-propelled artillery gun based on the chassis of the Object 934 light tank.

Some names are associated with mystical characters, for example, the 105.2 mm RPG-29 "Vampire" anti-tank grenade launcher is modern weapons to attack all types modern tanks, armored and unarmored vehicles, as well as manpower in defensive structures various types. A very ambiguous name was invented for a heavy flamethrower system - "Pinocchio". It is difficult to compare the character of a good children's fairy tale and a flamethrower, which, at a distance of 6 thousand meters, burns an area of ​​​​up to 4 square kilometers under a clean one.

Anatoly TSYGANOK, Head of the Military Forecasting Center of the Institute of Political and Military Analysis:

- There is a lot of creativity in the names that Russian engineers come up with for their weapons, sometimes they are witty, unusual, sometimes even flirtatious, sometimes evoke a direct association, for example, the TOS-1M heavy flamethrower system was named "Sun". In others, there is a Russian flavor, for example, take the Gzhel body armor or the L-183-1 Bukvitsa EW control and verification equipment. It seems to someone that some names of Russian howitzers, anti-aircraft systems and rockets - a kind of mockery of an imaginary enemy, I do not think that this is done intentionally. I do not exclude that in modern conditions bright names weapons systems is a kind of marketing ploy, because it is obvious that weapons with sonorous, memorable names sell better on the arms market.

The name, based on its external similarity with any objects, dates back to the 16th century. It was then that grenades appeared in the arsenal of the French army, and the soldiers, without thinking twice, gave them the name of the fruit - and they are similar in shape and the grenade burst into small fragments resembles numerous pomegranate seeds. The same applies to lemonade. And the M9 anti-tank grenade launcher, which entered service american army during World War II, soldiers named the bazooka after the musical instrument. At the same time, the names that demonstratively emphasized the deadly and threatening nature of machine guns, tanks, and missiles received the greatest popularity. All of us have heard of the German Panther and Tiger tanks.

However, all this has a very remote relation to Russia, since our engineers, as always, went their own way. The names of Russian weapons are often unusual, witty, and sometimes even flirtatious. Sometimes there is a feeling that all the names of domestic self-propelled guns, rockets and anti-aircraft systems are a real mockery of likely adversary. Looking at the names of Russian military equipment and weapons, you understand that KVN could only be born in this country.

For example, in Germany there is a tank "Leopard", in Israel - "Merkava" (war chariot). In France there is a tank "Leclerc", in America "Abrams", both named after famous generals. We also have a modification of the T-72B2 "Slingshot" tank, named after the slingshot. Or another example from the field of artillery. The Americans called their self-propelled guns "Paladin", the British "Archer" (Archer), everything seems to be clear. And if you look at domestic developments, there are only flowers: Carnations and Acacias, Peonies and Hyacinths, the latter, among other things, can also fire nuclear weapons. Probably not a single potential adversary will dare to smell such a bouquet.

SAU 2S5 "Hyacinth"

It should be noted that flowers occupy a special place in the work of Russian designers. The Russian army is armed with a whole "garden". We have a 152-mm self-propelled gun "Hyacinth" (its second unofficial name "genocide" more accurately reflects the capabilities of the gun). There is a "Pion" - self-propelled guns with a 203-mm 2A44 cannon, there is a "Tulip" - a 240-mm self-propelled mortar, self-propelled guns 2S1 "Carnation" and 2S3 "Acacia", as well as an 82-mm automatic mortar 2B9 "Vasilek", and this not the whole bouquet yet. If we talk directly about the "Bouquet", then this is the name of the escort handcuffs for 5 people.

Judging by other names, it can be noted that sentimentality is not alien to our military engineers. Apparently, the dull dullness of army life is pressing on them, so they yearn for romance and spiritual awe. Probably, it is precisely because of this that the radio direction-finding meteorological complex RPMK-1 is called "Smile", the thermobaric warhead 9M216 - "Excitement", the 240-mm rocket MS-24 with a chemical warhead - "Laska", the 122-mm rocket 9M22K with a cluster Warhead - "Decoration". Special mention should be made of the UAZ-3150 Shalun car, the MP-352 Pozitiv shipborne radar and the 23-mm rubber bullet Hello. The “Visit” body armor, the “Variant” grenade launcher-shovel, the playful infantry shovel “Azart”, the “Tenderness” handcuffs and the “Ecstasy” multiple-action flash and noise grenade can also be attributed to the same series.

grenade-shovel "Variant"

Experienced automatic grenade launcher TKB-0134 we call "Kozlik", and the ground portable DV-SV radio receiver R-880M "Shrimp". Of the overseas animals, you can meet in the Russian army "Panda" - the N001VP radar sighting system for modifications of the Su-27, and "Hummingbird" - a 324-mm aviation anti-submarine torpedo. All this is crowned by the 1L219 - "Zoo" artillery reconnaissance and fire control complex, and you know, there is even some logic here.

They beat the military and the eternal theme of health. That is why today the Russian army has at its disposal the armored personnel carrier BTR-80A "Violence" and the heavy TRS station R-410M "Diagnoz". In addition, there is a special medical machine for airborne troops BMM-1D "Traumatism" and software and hardware complex 65s941 "Tonus".

UAZ 3150 "Naughty"

Found in the names of military products and references to other completely non-military professions. So, for example, the 30-millimeter 9A-4071 automatic cannon is called "Ballerina", and the autonomous integrated secondary air traffic control and state identification radar is called "Stewardess". Some of the military designers were apparently well acquainted with the work of the Courier, hence the name for the 15P159 mobile ground-based missile system with the RSS-40 small-sized ICBM.

There are also quite hospitable, primordially Russian notes in the name of our weapons, for example, in the Gzhel body armor or the EW L-183-1 Bukovitsa control and verification equipment. These names are quite suitable for the formation of the Russian folk image. This also includes the immensely joyful names for the RT-23 UTTKh (RS-22) Molodets ICBM and the TOS-1 Pinocchio and TOS-1M Solntsepek heavy flamethrower systems, as well as the MRG-1 55-mm shipborne seven-barreled grenade launcher MRG-1 Twinkle.

TOS-1 "Pinocchio"

If we take this issue seriously, then we can figure out that the names of weapons are given in accordance with established traditions:
- according to the modification letter: Angara - S-200A, Vega - S-200V, Dubna - S-200D, etc.
- by the name of the competitions or R&D: "Judge", "Rook".
- by abbreviation: "Nona" - New Ground Artillery Gun, "Kord" - Kovrov Gunsmiths-Dyagterevtsy, etc.
- based on the logic of the series: ACS - "flower series": "Peony", "Hyacinth", "Tulip", etc.; air defense systems - "river series": "Tunguska", "Shilka", "Neva", "Dvina"; MLRS - various natural phenomena: "Grad", "Hurricane", "Smerch", "Tornado".
- associative names: MANPADS - "Needle", "Arrow"; complex for setting radio interference "Moshkara"; camouflage sniper suits - "Kikimora" and "Leshy".
- army humor: a sapper shovel - "Azart", handcuffs "Tenderness", a shot to an underbarrel grenade launcher - "Foundling", a heavy flamethrower system "Pinocchio".
- in honor of the creators: the T-90 tank has the name "Vladimir" (after the name of the chief designer of the machine), the Antey-2500 air defense system (after the name of the creator company).
- according to a pronounced action or property: the “Hoarfrost” fire extinguishing system (sprays the powder), dynamic protection"Contact" (triggered by contact).

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