Το στρατηγικό αναγνωριστικό SR-71 “Blackbird” της Lockheed Martin υπήρξε ένα από τα καταπληκτικότερα αεροσκάφη στην ιστορία της Αεροπορίας. Πετώντας σε ύψος άνω των 26.000 μ. με ταχύτητες άνω των 3 Mach, ήταν πρακτικά μη καταρρίψιμο από τους Σοβιετικούς και ικανό να “διαβάζει” κατά το δοκούν την σοβ
The Merkava has been the main battle tank of the Israeli army for years. Began development in the 1970s and entered service in 1979 (Merkava Mk I). The tank in its original version carried a 105 mm cannon. 7.62mm machine guns and a 60mm mortar. and had a weight of 63 tons. He acted in the Lebanon wa
The Japanese army showed relatively late interest in tanks. From the mid-1920s, he began the effort to develop domestic tanks. Tanks were considered infantry support weapons, according to French doctrine. The Yasuoka Group it had the 3rd Tank Regiment with four tank companies (26 Type 89, 4 Type
The Senepa River flows for 230 km along the Cordillera del Condor within Peruvian territory. The area had come under Peruvian control after the war with Ecuador in 1941. However, Ecuador declared the relative peace treaty invalid and from 1960 began to officially claim the area. With the mediatio
HMS Rodney was the second and last battleship of the Nelson class. The ship entered service in 1928. It was designed under the limitations of the Washington Naval Armaments Treaty. She served well in World War II, taking part in the naval engagements in Norwegian waters and the sinking of the German
By the early 1960s the Israeli navy was clearly falling behind dramatically. This is why it was decided to build new ships and especially missiles. For this purpose, the German Lurssen shipyards were chosen, but with the intervention of the Arab League, the Germans backed down. So the maneuver wa
Στις 5 Σεπτεμβρίου 1972 Παλαιστίνιοι τρομοκράτες επιτέθηκαν στην ολυμπιακή ομάδα του Ισραήλ στο Μόναχο και σκότωσαν 11 μέλη της. Φυσικά θα έπρεπε να είναι κανείς αφελής για να πιστέψει ότι οι Ισραηλινοί θα άφηναν αναπάντητη μια τέτοια πρόκληση. Δύο ημέρες μετά την σφαγή η πρωθυπουργός του Ισραήλ
Ο Ανατόλι Στεπάνοβιτς Ντιάτλοφ ήταν ο άνθρωπος κλειδί καταστροφικού πυρηνικού δυστυχήματος στο Τσερνομπίλ της Ουκρανίας το 1986. Γεννήθηκε το 1931 στην Σιβηρία σε μια εξαιρετικά φτωχή οικογένεια. Σπούδασε ηλεκτρολόγος στο Νορίλσκ στον Αρκτικό Ωκεανό και κατόπιν στο Ινστιτούτο Μηχανικής και Φυσικής τ
The Treaty of Versailles, after the end of World War I, imposed on defeated Germany the surrender of the extremely powerful fleet it had managed to assemble at that time. The German navy persisted with very few warships. Nevertheless, in the 1930s plans began to be made for new powerful naval units,
The heavy cruiser Blücher was the second of a planned 5 Hipper class ships, of which 3 were built. It was named after the great Prussian marshal of the Napoleonic Wars of the same name. The vessel began construction in 1936 and was launched in 1937. She was ready in September 1939 and entered servic
The Revenge class, also known as the Royal Sovereign class or the R class, was about 8 super-dreadnought battleships to complement the five ships of the Queen Elizabeth class. Of the 8 planned, only 5 were finally built due to the end of the First World War. Construction began in 1913 and the last w
H σοβιετική επίθεση κατά της Φινλανδίας εξελίχθηκε εξαρχής καταστροφικά για τον Ερυθρό Στρατό. Με το νέο έτος (1940) ο Στάλιν διέταξε την συγκρότηση ενός νέου Μετώπου (ομάδας στρατιών) επικεφαλής του οποίου έταξε τον Τιμοσένκο. Ένας από τους σωματάρχες του πρώτου ήταν και ο Ζούκοφ. Επίσης ο Τιμοσένκ
Την άνοιξη του 1664 μια ακόμα τουρκική εισβολή στις χώρες της αυτοκρατορίας των Αψβούργων ήταν σε εξέλιξη. Μια μεγάλη οθωμανική στρατιά είχε προελάσει έως την Ουγγαρία και την Σλοβακία. Οι Τούρκοι εξαπλώθηκαν σε μια μεγάλη περιοχή έχοντας απέναντί τους τις μικρές αυστρογερμανικές δυνάμεις του στρατά
On January 24, 1970, Egyptian President Nasser visited Moscow. The Soviet Union had previously supported Egypt fighting Israel in the so-called War of Attrition, with the Egyptians refusing to accept their crushing defeat in 1967. Based on Nassers contacts in Moscow, an entire Soviet air division wa
Mausers Tankgewehr M1918 was the first purpose-built anti-tank weapon in history. It was designed to deal with the tanks of the ANTANT armies which had now become a terrifying threat on the battlefield to the common German infantryman who saw them, defenseless, rolling like an iron wave against him.
In 1663 the Turks once again invaded the lands of the Habsburg Empire with a large army of 100,000 men. The Austrians fearing a Turkish attack on Vienna concentrated their small available forces on the Raab River in Hungary, leaving other areas to their own devices. The siege was built at the confl
On the night of April 14-15, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and slowly began to sink. And most people may know in every detail the story of the fictional passengers of the Titanic Jack and Rose, as imagined by the screenwriters and captured by James Cameron, but few know that there were also Greek
It is often said that anything can become a weapon if the wearer has enough imagination and ingenuity and it seems to be absolutely true. Perhaps this is why British soldier William Speakman won his countrys highest honour, the Victoria Cross, fighting in Korea with... bottles. Having exhausted
Ο όρος «καταραμένοι στρατιώτες» αναφέρεται στους Πολωνούς μαχητές που αντιστάθηκαν στον σοβιετικό ζυγό, από το 1944 μέχρι και τις αρχές της δεκαετίας του 1950. Παρόμοια αντιστασιακά κινήματα υπήρξαν σε όλες τις ανατολικοευρωπαϊκές χώρες που πέρασαν στον σταλινικό ζυγό, όπως στις Βαλτικές χώρες -Λετο
Δεν ξέρουμε αν έχουν δημοσιευτεί ξανά στο ελληνικό κοινό αυτές οι φωτογραφίες, για αυτό και τις ανεβάζουμε. Είμαστε στον Μάρτιο του 1922 στο Αφιόν. Λίγους μήνες πριν από την μεγαλύτερη καταστροφή του ελληνισμού. Διακρίνουμε στις φωτογραφίες τον Μουσταφά Κεμάλ, τον συνεργάτη του τον πρέσβη της κομ
LOUIS X LE HUTIN or THE QUARRELEUR (Paris, 1289 - Vincennes, 1316.) King of France (1314-1316). Son of Philippe IV le Bel.The reign of Hutin foreshadows Capetian decadence in all areas. When he succeeded his father in 1314, after having inherited Navarre nine years earlier, this monarch suffered th
Symbol of the samurai caste, the katana is a saber (curved blade with a single edge) of more than 60 cm. It is worn slipped into the belt, cutting edge pointing upwards at the left side of the belt (downwards also if the wearer is a rider). The wakizashi-katana set is called the daisho. Some periods
In early 1943, after his crushing defeat at El Alamein , the Afrika Korps retreated towards Tripoli pursued by the British. Hitler wanted him to stop retreating and engage Eighth Army in an epic battle in which he would be wiped out without having surrendered. Fortunately for Rommel, Kesselring had
It is curious that the oldest cathedral in Christianity does not present the simple and original beauty of the Romanesque, the exquisite and archetypal majesty of the Gothic, the classical Renaissance evocation or the overwhelming magnificence of the Baroque. It is a question of a building that is d