Militares

El 24 de julio de 1936 salió de Barcelona un número indeterminado de hombres y mujeres con la intención de conquistar Zaragoza. Muchos de los voluntarios habían combatido en las calles barcelonesas durante los días 19 y 20, derrotando a los militares que se habían sublevado contra el gobierno del (...)

Developed for the Air Force in the early 1950s as a next-generation interceptor following Convair's pioneering delta-wing F-102, the F-106 excelled in every aspect of the Air Defense Command mission. With its advanced Hughes radar system, Falcon air-to-air missiles, and a top speed in excess of (...)

The World War 2 fighters designed by A.S. Yakovlev's and his team are rightfully considered the weapon of the Victory in the history of the Soviet Union and Russia. Their speed, maneuverability and firepower made them famous over the Eastern front. Yet to this day, historians and aviation (...)

El desastre que el Ejército español sufrió en Annual 1921 ha sido objeto de diversos estudios que, con mayor o menor fortuna, han tratado de explicar los sucesos. Ahora ALMENA EDICIONES ofrece la fuente original: las conclusiones a las que llegó el general Picasso tras finalizar su investigación.En (...)

Biografía de Francesc Viñals, piloto de la aviación republicana durante la Guerra Civil y último jefe de la segunda escuadrilla del grupo 26 de Polikarpov I-15 Chato.

Initially developed by Savoia-Marchetti as a transport, the aircraft had evolved into a dedicated medium bomber by the time the S.79-I made its combat debut in the Spanish Civil War in 1936. During World War 2, it became Italy's most successful bomber, and the most produced, with around 1370 built (...)

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 (...)

LA GUERRA DE VIETNAM VISTA DESDE EL AIREUn viejo y enfermo piloto, el coronel de los Marines de los Estados unidos Bradley Redneck Towsend, pasa sus últimos días en una granja en la América profunda. Su aburrido día a día es interrumpido por la llegada de un joven marine que le pregunta sobre el (...)