Militares

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 estrategia más importante del gobierno del Tercer Reich en España tuvocomo objetivo la consolidación de una red de apoyo y espionaje de primer nivelen todo el territorio. El presente trabajo descubre con objetividad la organizaciónde una verdadera Quinta Columna nazi construida a partir de la (...)

The Soviet Union's cruise missile submarines from the modified Whiskey, to the Oscar II classes were among the most formidable vessels of the Cold War. They were initially designed to carry land attack nuclear-tipped cruise missiles designed to strike targets on the eastern coast of the United (...)

The first Italian armoured cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911-12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armoured cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z, during World War I, but post-war the army, focusing on the (...)

No hubo una Segunda guerra mundial, nos dice Max Hastings, autor de Armagedón, sino dos, completamente distintas: la que se desarrolló en Europa y la que tuvo por escenario el oriente de Asia y el Pacífico, con más de treinta millones de muertos. Este libro nos habla de esta otra guerra, no menos (...)

In November 1859, the French warship La Gloire was launched. She was the world's first seagoing ironclad - a warship built from wood, but whose hull was clad in a protective layer of iron plate. Britain, not to be outdone, launched her own ironclad the following year - HMS Warrior - which, when she (...)

Amphibious assault ships have been at the centre of nearly all of Britain's expeditionary campaigns since World War II, from the Suez crisis of 1956 to operations as far afield as Borneo (1963 66), the Falklands (1982), Sierra Leone (2000) and Iraq (2003). In major operations such as Suez and the (...)

A new history of the development of the Dutch fleet in the early 20th century, and the role these warships played in World War II, from the defense of Rotterdam to the Battle of the Java Sea and beyond.In the late 19th and early 20th century, a combination of coastal defense for the homeland and (...)

Terminada la contienda, los nazis fugados de Alemania contaron con el apoyo explícito y directo de las autoridades franquistas, o de hombres destacados de Falange, para escapar de los tribunales de justicia Aliados. La Costa del Sol puede tener el dudoso orgullo de haber sido refugio y residencia (...)

Terminada la contienda, los nazis fugados de Alemania contaron con el apoyo explícito y directo de las autoridades franquistas, o de hombres destacados de Falange, para escapar de los tribunales de justicia Aliados. La Costa del Sol puede tener el dudoso orgullo de haber sido refugio y residencia (...)