The defeat of the Turks in Vienna in 1683 was of catalytic importance for world history. However it did not end the war between the Empire (Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation) and the Ottomans. Emboldened by their victory, the Imperials counterattacked with the intention of driving the Turks out
The Zeppelin Staaken R.VI was the most successful German heavy bomber of the First World War. Already at the end of 1914 the German command requested a bomber aircraft powerful enough and with a long range to be able to hit targets in Britain. Zeppelin, which specialized in airships, accepted the ch
The Great Northern War began in 1700 when Russia, Saxe-Poland and Denmark considered an attack against Sweden and its new king Charles XII possible. The latter, however, did not cooperate at all and in fact emerged as one of the greatest military leaders in world history, crushing one enemy army aft
Yugoslavia, for a number of reasons, offered little resistance to the German invasion in April 1941. The main reason was considered, from the Serbian side, the defection of the Croats. In fact everything went wrong, and above all, the plan for the concentration of the Yugoslav army was wrong. After
Το Project 7.01 του σοβιετικού σχεδιαστικού γραφείου MiG αφορούσε ένα «πολλαπλών ρόλων, αναχαιτιστικό μεγάλης ακτίνας δράσης» που θα αντικαθιστούσε τα MiG-31 αλλά και θα αντιμετώπιζε τα υπό σχεδίαση αμερικανικό ΑΤF (από τα οποίo προήλθε το μαχητικό F-22). Οι σχεδιαστές του γραφείου σχεδίασαν ένα πρα
Στις 9 Απριλίου 1940 οι Γερμανοί επιτέθηκαν αιφνιδιαστικά κατά της Δανίας και της Νορβηγίας. Οι Γερμανοί εξαπέλυσαν την επίθεσή τους στη Νορβηγία σε διάφορα σημεία και επιχείρησαν να αιχμαλωτίσουν τον βασιλιά της μικρής Σκανδιναβικής χώρας Χάακον Ζ’. Οι Γερμανοί πίστευαν πως η αιχμαλωσία του βασιλιά
In 1715 the Turkish danger again began to be felt on the eastern borders of the Habsburg Empire. Turkish ambitions had been revived since 1711, when Mehmet Pasha with 260,000 men defeated Peter the Greats 40,000 men in battle of Prutus. Always following the same expansionist policy, the Turks, viola
The Wealth Program was one of many plans developed during the Cold War aimed at annihilating the adversary. The goal was to develop a flying vehicle-missile drone that would fly for a very long time propelled by a thruster-type engine powered by a nuclear reactor. In early 1957 the US Air Force c
Dutch territory is largely below sea level. In order for the Dutch to be able to live on their land, they have, from time immemorial, built dams and dykes that hold back the water. Such an embankment is also the one in Afflusdik (final embankment). With a length of 32 km, the dyke-dam holds back the
In 1745 Europe was again in flames for 5 years already, from one end to the other. The cause was the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48), Austrias war of survival against France and its German allies and (at intervals) Prussia. The French had decided to finish off the Habsburgs from the imperia
Η μάχη του Στάλινγκραντ είναι από μόνη της γνωστή. Στην σύγκρουση αυτή όπου οι οδομαχίες ήταν ο κανόνας το Μηχανικό διαδραμάτισε εκ των πραγμάτων σημαντικό ρόλο. Έχοντας απωθήσει τους Σοβιετικούς στο ανατολικό άκρο της πόλης, ο επικεφαλής της γερμανικής 6ης Στρατιάς στρατηγός Πάουλους, θεωρούσε πως
“Πόλεμος πατήρ πάντων”, έλεγε ο Ηράκλειτος και είχε δίκιο. Διότι τι θα ήταν το αεροπλάνο, για παράδειγμα, αν δεν είχε συμβεί ο Α’ Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος; Από τον πόλεμο αυτό η τεχνολογία άρχισε να διαδραματίζει καταλυτικό ρόλο στον πόλεμο κι αυτό διότι οι τεχνολογικές εξελίξεις υπήρξαν πιο ραγδαίες σε σ
Κατά τη διάρκεια του Β’ Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου, στο πλευρό των Γερμανών πολέμησαν και πολλοί εθελοντές από διάφορες χώρες, μεταξύ των οποίων και οι κατεκτημένες. Αυτό ισχύει και για τους Γάλλους που πολέμησαν κατά των Σοβιετικών, στο πλευρό των πρώην αντιπάλων τους.Η 33η Μεραρχία Waffen SS «Charlemagne»
The Thirty Years War was one of the deadliest conflicts in history, with human losses comparable to the First World War, in the order of 8 million souls. The war is characterized by some as a religious conflict between Roman Catholics and Protestants, but that was not all. Like all wars, this one –
Nicholas Stephen Alkamand was born in 1922. With World War II underway, Alkamand enlisted in the RAF and trained as a machine gunner. He was assigned to 115 Bombardment Squadron which at the time operated with Avro Lancaster II aircraft. Alkamand flew his aircraft code DS664 which his crew had named
War operations in North Africa during the Second World War were characterized by a constant movement from east to west and tumbalin. In July 1941, Germans and Italians besieged Tobruk. In the besieging line of the Italians, the two hills of Spiria dominated. The two Spiria were two low hills at a ve
TheYakovlev VVP-6 was the result of a literally insane Soviet plan to counter high-flying American spy planes. At the same time, it could be a flying air base for the transport of vertical landing aircraft. It was definitely the most radical design of the Yakovlev design office and it was definit
The German battleship (according to some battle cruiser) Gneisenau was the second ship of its class and brother of Scharnhorst. They were the first two German battleships built after World War I. The so-called pocket battleships were essentially large cruisers. Gneisenau had a full displacement o
Οι εξελίξεις στην πολεμική τέχνη είναι πάντοτε αλληλένδετες με τις αντίστοιχες εξελίξεις στην κοινωνία και στη οικονομία. Από τις κλειστές, κοινωνικά και οικονομικά κοινωνίες του μεσαίωνα δεν θα μπορούσε παρά να προκύψει το αρχέτυπο του ευγενούς, έφιππου ιππότη πολεμιστή. Όσο όμως η κοινωνία εξελισσ
To North American X-15 ήταν ένα πυραυλοκίνητο, επανδρωμένο, πειραματικό αεροσκάφος που πέταξε με ταχύτητα 7,274 χιλιομέτρων την ώρα το 1967, φτάνοντας στα όρια του διαστήματος σε ύψος 108.000 μ. Συνολικά πραγματοποιήθηκαν 199 πτήσεις από 12 διαφορετικούς χειριστές.
Mikhail Gorbachev , a Russian politician, was the last leader of the USSR from 1985 to 1991. A rising figure in the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, he became secretary general of the party and took charge of the destinies of the second superpower of the time. Gorbachev contrasts sharply with h
The fall of the Roman Empire in 395 led to a rivalry between its two capitals, Rome and Constantinople, the first of Latin tradition and the second of Greek tradition. In the early days of the Church, major decisions were made according to individual traditions, but gradually Rome claimed authority
Parchment is a surface, produced from the skin of animals, that was used for writing. It was created in Pergamum, a city in Asia Minor, in the 2nd century BC. The scroll it is a surface that was used for writing, being very popular in part of the Ancient Age and the Middle Ages. It was produced fro
The Song Dynasty begins in 960 CE, and follows several decades of political chaos in China. China was then divided and in full civil war, each of the factions trying to recreate the Empire and take the lead. The Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the Late Zhou Dynasty (one of the Ten Kingdoms of So