Militares

After the Fall of France in 1940, a new puppet state was set up in the south. Officially known as the French State, it is better known as Vichy France. This collaborationist Vichy regime's armed forces were more active and usually more numerous than German troops in the task of hunting down and (...)

In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72 designation in favour of the T-90 Vladimir. The T-90 was in fact a further evolution of the T-72 family, but the name change represented an important (...)

As the outbreak of World War II approached, Nazi Germany ordered artillery manufacturers Krupp and Rheimetall-Borsig to build several super-heavy siege guns, vital to smash through French and Belgian fortresses that stood in the way of the Blitzkrieg. These 'secret weapons' were much larger than (...)

World War II was a significant period of development for American missile programs, during which time the US built pioneering examples of guided weapons systems. However, whilst the German missiles of World War II are famous around the world, their American counterparts have remained shrouded in (...)

A lo mejor resulta que las guerras nos gustan mucho, porque si no fuera así, quizá no habría habido tantas. Pero tanto si nos agradan como si no, están ahí y pueden ser objeto de nuestros dardos de humor. Si no se pueden evitar, por lo menos despojémoslas de esas falsas capas de honor, gloria y (...)

Con el estallido de la Segunda Guerra Mundial se iniciaba un período de más de cinco años de duración durante el cual las ciudades y localidades alemanas iban a ser objeto de una sucesión de ataques aéreos sin parangón en la historia: de día por parte de los bombarderos estadounidenses y de noche (...)