I subscried to Military Parade Magazine

Just recently.

Price 200E for annual substriction (6 numbers + CD ) ...

Any other suscribers ?

Its an OK magasine. It focuses too much on the past and future rather than the present for my taste. The two I subscribe to are MDF and Red Star, they focus more indepth on the current issues of the RF.

Vladimir79 wrote:Its an OK magasine. It focuses too much on the past and future rather than the present for my taste. The two I subscribe to are MDF and Red Star, they focus more indepth on the current issues of the RF.

Whats a MDF?
Well I tend to like reading about future project and because of it I dicaded to subscribe right now.

Cozz in the future we will se PAK-FA (finished with specs), Graney, Borei, Bulava, T-95, S-400M, S-500, PAK-FA, new heavy ICBM, new destroyer, new carrier etc ....

Can those things reach Vietnam? Their ain;t any local magasines about weapons

Viktor wrote:

Whats a MDF?
Well I tend to like reading about future project and because of it I dicaded to subscribe right now.

Cozz in the future we will se PAK-FA (finished with specs), Graney, Borei, Bulava, T-95, S-400M, S-500, PAK-FA, new heavy ICBM, new destroyer, new carrier etc ....

MDF is Moscow Defence Brief, it is a more 'realistic' analysis of Russian defence issues. It sifts through the propoganda to paint a more realistic picture. Military Parade tends to focus on pipedreams that never comes to reality, although it isn't all about that.

milky_candy_sugar wrote:Can those things reach Vietnam? Their ain;t any local magasines about weapons

Anywhere there is mail they can go, if you don't have mail there are online editions as well.

Vladimir79 wrote:
MDF is Moscow Defence Brief, it is a more 'realistic' analysis of Russian defence issues. It sifts through the propoganda to paint a more realistic picture. Military Parade tends to focus on pipedreams that never comes to reality, although it isn't all about that.

Yes I read MDB. (from recently only limited version) how mutch is substriction.

great... anyway how about posting some articles there in here

I'm also like to know the current defense issues in Russia

Im short of time lately ... but will post new issues soon.

I have recived my first number.

Mil Parade seems to be written by people in the trade, so some of the articles appear to be more in depth adverts than critical articles.

It is nice and refreshing for me from the west because most of the stuff I have access to in the past has been western estimates which are generally negative.

I have bought the "Russia's Arms" catalogs from Mil Parade and have found them to be very useful when looking at all the types of things the Russians have for sale.

Hi everyone.

Sorry to resurrect an old thread but I had a question about Military Parade. Does the subscription include access to archives of back issues? I'm gearing up to write a dissertation, and this magazine, be it English or Russian, would be pretty good source for me. I looked over the website, but didn't notice anything about it, and thought the subscribers here would know.

I suppose while here, since Im not sure where else I could ask, I was wondering if anyone could recommend either some books or journals, preferably in English, about the armed forces of the Russian Federation from 2000 on. Anything would be helpful, be it reforms, force structures, acquisitions, whatever. I have a number of sources, but I'm certainly not above asking you folks here. I've looked around a bit and Ive been impressed with the knowledge of people here.

Thanks in advance. If it seems like my second question is going unnoticed, I'll make a new thread in the introductions section.

I bought a CD a while back that had the old issues on it in PDF form.

If you have a copy of the full PDF program then it is excellent as you can search in various ways all the contents of the issues.

The CD I bought was an archive of the older issues, I haven't got it in my hand at the moment but I think it was for issues from about 1997 through to about 2000 or so.

Send them an email and they might have similar offers now.

Vladimir79 wrote:

Viktor wrote:

Whats a MDF?
Well I tend to like reading about future project and because of it I dicaded to subscribe right now.

Cozz in the future we will se PAK-FA (finished with specs), Graney, Borei, Bulava, T-95, S-400M, S-500, PAK-FA, new heavy ICBM, new destroyer, new carrier etc ....

MDF is Moscow Defence Brief, it is a more 'realistic' analysis of Russian defence issues. It sifts through the propoganda to paint a more realistic picture. Military Parade tends to focus on pipedreams that never comes to reality, although it isn't all about that.

wow, sounds like Popular Mechanics....

Vlad , would you have the article from latest MDF

Russian Military Spending in 2011-2020

If you do can you share with us ?

Subscription to MDF is a pain , I tried but they dont accept credit or debit card.

Same with military parade subscription , its all in russian and for english readers there is no subscription mechanism via credit cards.

That is because Russian banks and credit card companies fight over too many things.

The credit card companies give guarantees to their card holders for certain things but because Russia is not in the WTO then there is a lot of red tape to doing business, and red tape for credit card companies just means high cost for Russian companies using credit cards... so most that I have dealt with simply don't bother.

My advice is to try Western Union money transfers or direct bank to bank transfers into their account... they usually have some standard arrangement they prefer depending on where you are.

I bought a couple of disks last year and it was a real pain that was long and drawn out... mostly because my bank at this end didn't really know what they were doing.

The Russian lady I was dealing with for the product I ordered was very patient and understanding... I suspect she was used to problems in dealing with banks.

BTW they either took Euros or USDs so I checked the exchange rate before I transferred the money and found that the Euros price was cheaper in New Zealand dollars at the time so I saved a bit of money paying in Euros instead of US Dollars. The bank teller looked at me funny when I said I wanted to deposit x amount of Euros into the account... she expected US Ds I think.

Thanks Garry , I am just trying out to get it subscribed through a friend of mine in US to see if he could subscribe MDB on my behalf and then I can wire him.

All this bank to bank transfer etc is a big mess here and I really do not know how that will go.

Is Military Parade still around? Their website appears to be dead.

TR1 wrote:Is Military Parade still around? Their website appears to be dead.

Dont know, Im not signed anymore but I think it might. Send them an e-mail.

Looks live to me...

http://www.monch.com/mpg/publications/military-technology

Issues 1-6 shown on the above page and issue 7 due shortly...

They are talking of Military Parade magazine and not Military Technology.

They website is dead and I guess so is their magazine

http://www.milparade.com/

Damn, that is a shame... though I seem to remember a few years ago the website not working for a bit because someone forgot to pay the bills.

Hopefully it is a temporary thing... maybe they are giving their site a full overhaul and upgrade with a new web manager...

The thing is that the last time their site went down it was the .com site. The .ru site stayed frozen but was accessible.

Not so this time...