Alfa class Project 705 Lyra Project 705 Lyra is a class of Soviet nuclear attack submarines, known in the West by its NATO code Alfa class. They were the fastest submarines in the world, and those for military use that could reach the greatest depths of diving, only the K-278 Komsomolets being able
A small ship is extremely difficult to escape from the enemy when he is overwhelmingly superior in sea and air. This was also the case in World War II. On February 27, 1942, in the Java Sea, the Japanese crushed the allied naval forces. Only four small Dutch vessels survived the disaster. But thr
An adage ensures that any revolutionary always finds more revolutionary than him to remove him from power. In the case of the French Revolution, the example of the Girondins perfectly illustrates the definition. In the Legislative Assembly, which sat for the first time on October 1, 1791, the right
The Great Persecution is the third of the general persecutions, so named by eyewitnesses because of its violence in Palestine. It was also the longest:launched by four imperial decrees promulgated from February 303 to February 304, it was still not completed in 315 in the province of Asia, even if i