Voennyi Sbornik

112-133

Authors: Vladimir I. Afanasenko

In the summer campaign of 1942 both warring sides were planning offensive operations with strategic goals. Stavka expected during successive operations from south to north to break the main enemy grouping in the Crimea, Donbass, in the direction of Moscow, Leningrad unlock. The German command was preparing a major impact on the southern wing of the Soviet-German front. For this it was quantitatively and qualitatively enhanced the southern group of German troops, sent here as the main forces of the Allies, Romanian, Hungarian and Italian troops, two divisions of the Slovaks. The Soviet command of the Bryansk, South-Western and Southern Fronts failed to reveal the direction of the main Wehrmacht forces and organize defenses in the offensive zone percussion groups of forces of Germany and its allies troops.

145-163

Authors: Artyom Y. Peretyatko

The article is analyzed the materials of Russian periodical press in 1860. It is about the Militärgrenze and the project of organization of the Slavic rebellion in the Austrian Empire, developed by B. Katalinich. The author concludes that the authors of journal publications (N.P. Glinojecky, only Russian officer, who wrote regularly about Grenz infantry and M.I. Dragmirov, who was well-known military theorist) is not considered Grenz regiments as a military settlement. They considered them as a part of the regular Austrian army and exaggerating their fighting efficiency. Special attention is paid to the project B. Katalinich, who was a junior officer in the four armies: Austrian, Mexican, Serbian and Russian. His project of the Slavic rebellion was very unreal, but the Minister of war D. A. Milyutin, the chief of Main staff F.L. Heiden and other top Russian officials expressed interest to him. The result of the study is the conclusion that the project of B. Katalinich could have some influence on the Russian-Austrian and Russian-Croatian relations in different conditions, but was proposed too late.

182-192

Authors: Igor V. Yurin, Artem A. Gonchar

In this article is described the attack on the Italian naval base Taranto, carried out exclusively by the forces of English carrier-based aircraft 11 of November 1940 of year, – the first in the history of war shooting at sea the case of applying the aircraft carriers for inflicting of impacts on the sea bases and the based in them warships. This operation laid way to numerous alliterations in the course World War II. Strategic situation in Mediterranean theater of military actions changed radically after this impact.