Victory 84 Biography Henrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, nicknamed the Prince of the Hunt night was probably one of the most talented pilots of the Luftwaffe. Very calm, never losing his cool, he approached his prey as quickly as possible and only fired with certainty so as not to wake up his opp
Victory 21 Biography Oswald Boelcke was one of the most famous German pilots of the Great War and the first fighter tactician If we had to sum up oswalds personality in one word Boelcke, one of the first German pilots of the Great War, who defined the tactics of air combat, we would hardly be fa
one of the greats of the Luftwaffe Joachim Müncheberg is one of the friendliest characters in the Luftwaffe and was among the best fighter pilots when he accidentally disappeared in March 1943.Born on December 31, 1918, at Friedrichshof in Pomerania, he joined the Lutwaffe shortly before the declar
Victory 352 Biography Three hundred and fifty-two planes shot down, such is the feat that realized, during the Second World War, the German fighter pilot Erich Hartmann. The authenticity of this figure - it must be said that almost all of the 352 victories were obtained on the Eastern Front - was
HANNES GENTZEN At the top of the individual prize list in April 1940 Hannes Gentzens name may not be widely known.And yet, this Luftwaffe major was, at the age of 34, the first official ace of the Second World War world.When the war broke out, Gentzen, then Hauptmann,commanded the I./ZG 2 which, wh
Victory 301 Biography In 1104 missions, Gerhard Barkhorn managed to achieve 301 victories, which made of him the second fighter of the Luftwaffe and the second world ace Born on March 20, 1919 in Konigsberg (East Prussia), Gerhard Barkhorn joined the Luftwaffe in 1938. A year later, he flew a Me
Victory 62 Biography Excerpt - Until the end on our messerschmitt - Adolf Galland It was in the squadron of the famous Captain Manfred Von Richtofen that Lieutenant Ernst Udet made his debut and obtained 62 victories (he had painted on the rudder of his aircraft the motto you will not get me dur
While the Polaris were replaced by the Poseidon in the early years 70, a new SLBM ballistic missile program was launched, the Trident. The first model of this program (Trident I) has a range of 7,200 km from a huge 18,700 ton launcher submarine, capable of loading twenty-four machines. During the co
The first Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine (SSN) entered service in 1976; 33 units of this type are in Command. This class follows the experimentation done with the Glenard P. Lipscomb (SSN-685), built between 1971 and 1974, and is much larger than previous SSNs. Submerged speed is signifi
LSSL is the new designation, fortunately simplified at the same time, of the LCS(L)(3), or LCS(L).Mk3; as it is the only American-built LCS(L). (the Mk.1 and Mk.2 having been British and ephemeral), there are no more variants to differentiate within the new category, hence the name LSSL. This family
The “Landing Ship, Tank” (LST on the list of ship registration codes of the US Navy or Bâtiment de Débarquement de Chars in the French Navy) is a type of vessel for amphibious operations created during World War II to unload heavy vehicles on unprepared places such as beaches. 1,051 of these ships
Displacement :90t Dimensions :Length :33.53 m Width :6.40 m Draught :1.58 Drive :4 gasoline engines developing 5,000 hp and driving 4 shafts.Speed :29 knots Armament(s)... 2 single 6 guns, 1 twin 20 mm cannon, 2 twin 12.7 mm machine guns and (optional)4 457 torpedoes mm.Crew: up to 30 officers
The first British cruisers studied after the First World War were the Counties very different from the precedents which were the first Washington cruisers. Because of their high freeboard and the antique look of their three funnels, but also because the British did not cheat displacement as blatantl
The bulk of Britains light cruisers were obsolete by 1930, and various other navies were commissioning modern 152mm-armed ships, such as the German Koenigsberg-class cruisers, with mask mounts and other recent upgrades. Such was the background that guided the studies of the five cruisers of the Lean
The term escort applies to all kinds of vessels, and mention should be made of the contribution of minesweeping sloops and half-coastal, half-ocean minesweepers, two types of vessels which made themselves very useful in both roles. The situation was a little confused, because there were still in ser
The last Flowers were launched at the beginning of 1942 and, insofar as the knowledge of their limits for operations in the North Atlantic had already led to the realization of the real frigate, the corvette seemed to have reached the end of its life. development. There were, however, a number of sm
The powerful small ships of the Black Swan class (thirteen units built) had little in common with other sloops of the Royal Navy, most of which came to be seen as minesweepers or simply patrol boats. The first vessels, however, received devices for sweeping mines, although it is difficult to underst
Aware as early as 1938 of the insufficient number of escorts, the Ministry of the British Navy developed what received the name of fast escort in order to provide convoys with both anti-aircraft and anti-submarine cover without mobilizing the precious destroyers which proved ill-suited to this type
Dates commissioning date: expiration date : Constructor : United Kingdom Users : Royal Navy Canada usa Norway France Yugoslavia Categories Corvette Escorts ASM Main Features Displacement :900 t. Default - 1245 t. Full Charge Dimensions:62.5 m long, 10.11 m wide, 4.14 m draft . Sp
Manufacturer nationality:Great Britain Category: ASM Escort Displacement :1,370 standard t. Dimensions : Length :90.90m Width :11.12m Draught :3.91m Drive :2 4-cylinder triple expansion steam engines developing 5,500 hp and driving 2 shafts. Speed :20 knots. Autonomy: 12,970 km at 12 knots.
Brexit is the process of leaving the United Kingdom from the European Union started in 2017 and scheduled to end on December 31, 2020. On January 31, 2020, the UK left the EU, becoming the first country to do so. After this date, there was a period of eleven months for various treaties and agreem
In the year 458 AD Constantinople had been the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for some 63 years. Emperor Leo I ruled, who had ascended the throne the previous year becoming the first to be crowned by the Christian Patriarch of the city. A boy was also born in the city of Damascus (present-day S
Imaginary portrait of Tarquin the Superb in the Promptuary of the Medals of the Most Renowned Personages by Guillaume Rouillé, 1553. Year 509 BC. During the siege of Ardea, while banqueting with their cousin Lucius Collatinus, the sons of the king of Rome Tarquin the Superb decide to return to v
Battle of Meloria of 1284 The Battle of Meloria it was a historic naval battle that involved the fleet of the Republic of Genoa . It sanctioned the definitive end of Pisa as a seafaring power in Italy during the Middle Ages . After the great contrasts that occurred in previous centuries