Conventional Weapons & Warfare History
epub, azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2014-12-29 | Author:Bob Carruthers [Carruthers, Bob]

SS Totenkopf officers drive to the front in a Volkswagen Kubelwagen Type 82, the German equivalent of a jeep, 1941. Although more comfortable than a jeep, its low centre of ...
( Category: History August 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-07-18 | Author:Pat Ware [Ware, Pat]

The GKN Warrior infantry fighting vehicle (IFV) was designed to replace the ageing FV432 APC, and at the same time to be able to provide additional firepower. Although not strictly ...
( Category: Models July 27,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-25 | Author:Hampshire, Edward [Hampshire, Edward]

KARA CLASS (PROJECT 1134B) Design development Project 1134B was clearly a development of its predecessors, but it appears to have been designed from a very early stage as an anti-submarine ...
( Category: Photography & Video July 20,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-01-25 | Author:Steven J. Zaloga [Zaloga, Steven J.]

Here, an M1 57mm antitank gun of the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment is set up on the streets of Pont-Brocard, center of the German Red Line defenses. An M4 medium ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History July 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Lee Russell

Beneath the wing of their A-6 attack aircraft, Marine pilots of VMA(AW)-242 accept a ceremonial glass of champagne at Danang after completing their unit’s 15,000th mission in March 1970. They ...
( Category: Military Technology July 6,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gordon L. Rottman

A Liberian militiaman fires an RPG-7 at rebel forces in the capital, Monrovia, 2003. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images) A US soldier watches a Medium Tactical Vehicle Replacement (MTVR) burn after being ...
epub |eng | 2012-02-16 | Author:Konstantin Nossov

A terracotta figure of a war elephant with a tower. It is hard to assert with confidence whether it is an African or an Asian elephant. Judging by the ratio ...
( Category: Animals July 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-06-15 | Author:Steven J. Zaloga

Here, an M1 57mm antitank gun of the 41st Armored Infantry Regiment is set up on the streets of Pont-Brocard, center of the German Red Line defenses. An M4 medium ...
epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:David W. Bath

CHAPTER 6 Freefall The first casualties of the Kennedy administration’s new attitude toward nuclear conflict were the Thor and Jupiter IRBMs.1 It is doubtful that Allied leaders on either side ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-18 | Author:Terry Gander

Despite its numerous troubles, many of which had been ironed out by 1945 (although case-extraction problems persisted), the 8.8cm FlaK 41 was an outstanding anti-aircraft gun to the extent that ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History June 30,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Paul J. Springer [Springer, Paul J.]

Sources Blaker, James R. 2007. Transforming Military Force: The Legacy of Arthur Cebrowski and Network Centric Warfare. Westport, CT: Praeger Security International. Singer, Peter W. 2009. Wired for War. New ...
( Category: Robotics & Automation June 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Nick Hewitt [Hewitt, Nick]

Tragically, the reason why the ‘E-boat’ was vulnerable to the feeble Lewis guns and resembled a launch was because it seems to have been one, despatched by one of the ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History June 26,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-03-30 | Author:Linda K. Miller

Figure 60. Linda’s “sandbox” tactic—chart. Figure 61. Linda’s “sandbox” tactic—diagram. Using Your Rate of Fire as a Tactic Just in case you thought rate of fire was a technique only ...
( Category: Firearms May 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-17 | Author:Anthony Tucker-Jones [Tucker-Jones, Anthony]

The American M3 Grant medium tank also received a mauling at the hands of the Tiger in Tunisia. The Americans found their treatment by the Tigers in Tunisia very sobering. ...
( Category: Military History Pictorials May 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-02-20 | Author:Damien Lewis [Lewis, Damien]

Objects required to be collected: 1) The box behind the paraboloid. 2) All panels, switchboards etc. 3) All spare parts – or samples of them, particularly valves. 4) The safe, ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History April 30,2020 )