Militares

In 1906, the British launched one of the most revolutionary ships ever built - HMS Dreadnought. Besides being a big ship powered by turbines the ship was constructed with "all big guns". This meant that the earlier battleships were typically equipped with just 4 main guns intended to engage other (...)

The Mirage F1 emerged from a series of design studies performed by French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Aviation. Having originally sought to develop a larger swept wing derivative of the Mirage III, which became the Mirage F2, to serve as a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) propulsion testbed (...)

The birth of the Ninth Squadron (Novena Escuadrilla) of the Spanish Navy Fleet Air Arm (Flotilla de Aeronaves in short FLOAN) took place in 1987 with the receipt of the first three AV-8B aircraft from McDonnell Douglas factory in St. Louis on October 6 of that year. Deliveries continued for a total (...)

La tercera explosión de una carga de profundidad logró alcanzar al submarino que comenzó a descender lentamente con el autor de éstos relatos a bordo. Ramón Cayuelas vivió a bordo del submarino republicano C-5, las 44 horas más angustiosas y difíciles de su vida, al ser hundido a 85 metros de (...)