Militares

Operaciones navales y terrestres en el Lejano Oriente, 1914-1918El Frente de Asia-Pacífico es a día de hoy el escenario bélico más desconocido de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Ensombrecido por las trincheras del Frente Occidental o las campañas de Oriente Medio, e incluso por la otra Guerra del (...)

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 (...)

Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean in 1943. In their most famous use, the (...)

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 (...)

The last predreadnought battleships of the US Navy were critical to the technological development of US battleships, and they were the first tool of international hard power wielded by the United States, a nation which would eventually become the world's dominant political and military power of the (...)

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 (...)