Militares

The battleships of the Kriegsmarine are only four vessels in total, which they managed to put into operational service in 1935-1941. The first two of those, Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, did not make as spectacular combat career as the other two. So far, no extensive memories of seamen sailing them (...)

Ingénieur allemand, Hugo Junkers fut le pionnier de la construction d'avions entièrement métalliques et, à partir de 1914, il mit au point plusieurs modèles dédiés au transport aérien. Aboutissement de cette suite d'avions, le prototype du Junkers 52, conçu en 1930 à la demande de la compagnie (...)

Under the Lend-Lease agreement with the US during WWII, the Soviet Union received large quantities of war materiel, including many aircraft; the Bell P-39 Airacobra takes a special place among them. The P-39 was dismissed as hardly suitable for combat both by the US and England, who turned it over (...)

An aviation legend designed in the mid-1940s, the Canberra entered service in 1951 with RAF Bomber Command. It served in the conventional, interdictor and nuclear bomber role with the RAF, in the UK, Germany, the Middle East and Far East. Its performance and adaptability made it ideal as a (...)