Conventional Weapons & Warfare History
epub |eng | 2013-03-16 | Author:Jeremy Black

POST-1945 Tanks were not suited to or available for many of the conflicts that followed 1945. Revolutionary forces tended not to have any, while the terrain and vegetation of the ...
( Category: Military Technology March 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-15 | Author:Terry Wieland

Savage Model 99E. CHAPTER VIII THE .250-3000—SAVAGE’S VELOCITY KING PROLOGUE In 1914, Savage Arms unveiled its own latest entry in the high-velocity sweepstakes: The .250-3000. It earned its name because ...
( Category: Ammo & Grenades March 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:The Editors of TIME

Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and 262 7th Cavalry soldiers were outmanned and outgunned at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana in 1876. The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, ...
( Category: Firearms March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-29 | Author:Brian Nicklas

AGM-78 Standard ARM Left ½ front view of an AGM-78 Standard ARM (Anti-Radiation Missile) under the wing of a Republic F-105 Thunderchief. Anti-radiation missiles home in on and destroy radar ...
( Category: Miniatures March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Martin Windrow

TACTICAL EFFECTIVENESS Viet Minh Regulars, and many Regional units, were first class; it is clear that they had successfully made the mental transition from guerrillas to soldiers. Neutral journalists who ...
( Category: Engineering March 14,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-08-18 | Author:Alexander Mikaberidze

Meantime, the Grand Army continued its passage. The Vistula Legion, which arrived at daybreak, was the first to cross around 10 a.m. The wounded Brandt, from the Vistula Legion, described ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History March 13,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-03-29 | Author:Valero, Javier Gomez [Valero, Javier Gomez]

11 Metals We’ll finish this section on colours by looking at how to paint metals. So far I’ve shown different approaches for doing so, from armour to cannons (for example, ...
( Category: Miniatures March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Steven Zaloga

This is a close-up of the periscope auxiliary flamethrower built by POA-HWS in Hawaii and used during the fighting on Okinawa. It was usually mounted on the hatch above the ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History March 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-01-01 | Author:Angus Konstam & Paul Wright

( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History March 9,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Richard Ogorkiewicz

Britain When the Second World War came to an end, the British Army, like the US Army, reduced its armoured forces to a single armoured division but stationed it in ...
( Category: Engineering March 7,2020 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2018-09-08 | Author:John B. Carpenter [Carpenter, John B.]

After the most important victories of the Soviet Union over the German fascist armies in 1941-1943, the economic situation in Nazi Germany and its satellites began to deteriorate rapidly and ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History March 6,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Rodell, Scott M. [Rodell, Scott M.]

Commentary and Notes: In this chapter on swordplay, the author follows a common plan of development seen in Chinese martial arts, namely moving from fixed step two-person exercises to moving ...
( Category: Martial Arts March 5,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2019-05-09 | Author:Francis W. Brown [Brown, Francis W.]

A block with two feathers is installed on the same axis with the trigger, which guides the sleeve that is extracted from the chamber. The left feather has a tooth ...
( Category: Conventional Weapons & Warfare History March 5,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-09-07 | Author:Scott M. Rodell [Rodell, Scott M.]

Commentary and Notes: In this chapter on swordplay, the author follows a common plan of development seen in Chinese martial arts, namely moving from fixed step two-person exercises to moving ...
( Category: Martial Arts March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-18 | Author:Anthony Tucker-Jones [Tucker-Jones, Anthony]

British infantry crossing a pontoon bridge over the Volturno. It is not clear if this is the same bridge as in the previous image. A well concealed anti-aircraft gun mounted ...
( Category: Engineering March 4,2020 )