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Battle of Callantsoog
Landing at Callantsoog by Dirk Langendijk A Waste of Blood and Treasure: The 1799 Anglo-Russian Invasion of the Netherlands With the Netherlands overrun by French Republican forces, the British and Russian governments sent an allied army of 48,000 men under the Duke of York to liberate the country and restore the House of Orange. The largest operation mounted by Pitt’s…
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The S-500 Prometheus
The S-500 Prometheus is touted as being capable of intercepting stealth warplanes. Air defence missile battery: Image for illustration. S-400 air defence system in Syria Russian S-500 air defence system (ADS) the future development of the popular S-400 will enter serial production next year following its recent successful test in…
Sukhoi Su-25 Grach
Su-25 Frogfoot By the early 1980s the single-seater close support Su-25 Frogfoot was supporting Soviet forces in Afghanistan, where it proved to be a difficult target for Afghan antiaircraft guns. Series production of the army’s Su-25 started at the Tbilisi aircraft plant in 1976, with test flights being conducted up…
Upgraded Tu-160M bomber
The Russians will likely build about 50 of the new Tu-160M—production versions of which will feature new avionics and upgraded versions of the Kuznetsov NK-32 afterburning turbofan. Russia flew the maiden flight of the upgraded Tupolev Tu-160M ‘Blackjack’ strategic bomber on 2 February, 2020, the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) announced.…
Gangut (Russian Navy, Battleship, 1914)
Russian battleship laid down at the Admiralty Yard in June 1909 and launched in October 1911 as part of the naval building program of 1909, which included three other dreadnought battleships, Petropavlovsk, Poltava, and Sevastopol. These were the first dreadnoughts built for the Russian navy. Gangut was 23,000 tons, armed…
Sukhoi Su-27 ‘Flanker’
A Su-27 ‘Flanker-B’ of the 582nd Fighter Aviation Regiment, part of the Soviet 4th Air Army based at Chojna, Poland, in 1990. In the same year this unit withdrew its 32 Su-27s from Poland and relocated to Smolensk, Russia, where it disbanded in 1992. Sukhoi’s Su-27 family represents the most…
Leipzig: Battle of the Nations
Johann Peter Krafft (1780-1856)-‘victory declaration after the battle of Leipzig, 1813’-oil on canvas-1813 Berlin-Deutsches Historiches Museum. The Battle of Leipzig, also known as the Battle of the Nations, was fought between Napoleon and the three Allied armies that had been approaching the city for several days: the Army of Bohemia…