Militares

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 (...)

El origen de este libro está en la intuición de que cierta clase de operaciones que las Fuerzas Armadas desarrollan actualmente en el exterior, que abarca-remos bajo la denominación genérica de "operaciones de estabilización", presentan aspectos que recuerdan a las acciones desarrolladas durante el (...)

The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific lessons learned' from the combat? And did these lessons result in changes to tanks in the subsequent months?Offering (...)

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 'Soixante quinze', France's legendary 75mm Modele 1897, was the first modern field gun, pioneering several critical innovations in field artillery designs, including a fast action breech and a soft recoil system. Although some of these features had been incorporated into earlier guns, the 75mm (...)