Militares

Décorations militaires :1931-1935 : insigne de guide de haute montagne, de sport, de la Luftwaffe (Flugzeugführer, Beobachter), croix d'honneur de la guerre de 1914-1918.1936-1937 : décoration de service de la Wehrmacht, médaille de sauvetage Fallschirmschützen-Abzeichen de la Luftwaffe et du (...)

Las galeras fueron los barcos icónicos en las guerras del Mediterráneo durante más de dos milenios y nos evocan la imagen de decenas de remos golpeando las aguas del Mare Nostrum para impulsar la nave hasta lograr la velocidad de embestida... y allí, bajo la línea de flotación, se encontraba su (...)

Ante la pasividad mostrada por el gobierno de su país de adopción respecto a las atrocidades cometidas por el ISIS en Irak, Mike Peshmerganor, seudónimo de un soldado noruego de origen kurdo, decide regresar por su cuenta a su región natal para combatir contra el autoproclamado califato yihadista. (...)

The Vickers Wellington was one of very few aircraft types to have been in production and frontline service throughout World War II, and more than 10,000 Wellingtons were built in the period. They took part in the first RAF bombing mission of the conflict when, on 4 September 1939, 14 examples from (...)

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 (...)

During the 17th century, Europe experienced only four years of general peace: 1610 and 1680-82. This scenario of almost continuous strife provided the terrain for the rise of the standing professional armies. The states were eager to avoid a repetition of the chaos and destruction that had plagued (...)