A minigun is a machine gun with a high rate of fire, equipped with several guns whose rotation is driven by an external source, on the principle of Gatling, and using a caliber of ammunition for rifle lower than 20 mm. Beyond 20 mm caliber, this type of weapon is referred to as a Gatling type automa
In 1968, General Giap, the glorious victor of the battle of Dien Bien Phu against the French, was now the Minister of Defense in the Hanoi government. Not without reason, his opinion was of great importance at the end of decisions related to the development of military operations. Giap devised a hig
The conflict that led to the outbreak of the Crimean War began in 1848, far away from the Crimea, in the Holy Land. In 1847 a conflict broke out over control of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. At that time only the Orthodox and pre-Chalcedonian Armenians had the keys to the temple, granting
When the 1914 war broke out, Lieutenant Jürgen von Arnim, from an old aristocratic military family, was twenty-five years old. He will earn his captains stars by fire and serve in the Imperial Guard. An officer by tradition with a brittle look, he succeeded in entering the Reichswehr of 100,000 men