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On December 8, 1941-the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor-the VS-300 was first flown in its final configuration. By New Year’s Eve it was flying in all directions and handling better than ever. Meanwhile, the much larger Sikorsky XR-4 was being fitted with the same control scheme, and on January 14. 1942, the new helicopter was wheeled out…
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The vast salty marshlands and prairies of the Camargue are the nearest thing you can find in Europe to the…
When it agreed to the imposition of United Nations Resolution 1972 to protect the people of Benghazi Russia did not…
SM-8 The SM-8 WIG vehicle built in 1967 became the second 1/4th scale analogue of the KM ekranoplan; it reflected…
Weapons and Warfare has been updated with a save posts feature, accessibility options and a new store. While on a post page, you can now easily save a post to read later: New accessibility options…
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Hitler pictured alongside Speer, Breker and Giesler. The Eiffel Tower can be seen in the background. On Sunday 23 June…
Familiarly called the Katyusha, the Tupolev SB was first flown on October 7, 1933. Intended as a high-speed bomber, it…
Much has been written about the overwhelming preponderance of Argentine air power over the British Task Force. At the start…
Gustav Vasa was determined to build up his navy as well as his army, and he sought foreign assistance not…
A French Char B1 tank in running condition at the Saumur Tank Second Army Attempts an Operational Counterattack Huntziger, commander in chief of the Second Army, very nonchalantly countenanced a German attack in view of his own considerable reserves. He was not really worried either when a message arrived during…
Whatever negative feelings Medhurst, Boyle, Sholto Douglas and the others may have harboured towards the Polish Air Force in the desperate summer of 1940 were substantially mollified by events come the winter. All of the Polish crews proved themselves worthy of allied status ten times over during the Battle of…
Foot Berrovieri Company of the Carroccio Equitatores In the wake of the Patarine struggle, the various factions tried to develop a more inclusive government. The archbishop continued to be the nominal leader, but power gradually passed into the hands of laymen. The commune (commune civitatis), first mentioned in a document…
Together with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force, the AV-MF (Soviet Naval Aviation) is the last major service to operate fleets of combat flying-boats and amphibians. Elsewhere, the role of the patrol flying-boat was taken over by long-range landplanes in the 1950s. This process may continue, as no amphibious replacement for…
Battle of the Chesapeake. The French line (left) and British line (right) do battle. The mood at Continental army headquarters had brightened as news arrived of what Washington called the “brilliant action” in the southern theater. Britain’s heavy losses, he thought, should “retard or injure” Cornwallis’s “future movements and operations.”…
At the outbreak of the War of 1812, the artillery of the Regular Army consisted of the Regiment of Artillerists and the Regiment of Light Artillery. The former unit was organized into five battalions of four companies each, all serving as foot artillery or infantry. The Light Artillery Regiment included…
Piedmont proved to be an impenetrable barrier to every advance from the French side of the Alps. The first attempt, by way of the little-used Varaita valley, was checked by the entrenched position of the Piedmontese near Casteldelfino in October 1743. In the following year the French staff officer Pierre…
Aboukir Bay: The Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798, Nicholas Pocock, 1808, National Maritime Museum A week after the French occupied Cairo, Lord Nelson and his British naval task force appeared off the coast of Alexandria. French warships were anchored in shallow water just northeast of the city in…
British coastal assault on St Cast in Brittany in September 1758. A German map, published…
Schnellboot S-80 torpedo boat Camo Operations with the Kriegsmarine S-boats were often used to patrol…
American Lend-Lease supplies to the USSR 1941–45. Soviet historiography is mocked in the West, where…
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