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Ancient history

  • Lockheed's "Black Bird", the aircraft of 3,540 km per hour (vid.)

    Lockheed Martins SR-71 “Blackbird” strategic reconnaissance aircraft has been one of the most amazing aircraft in Air Force history. Flying at an altitude of over 26,000 m at speeds of over Mach 3, it was practically unshootable by the Soviets and capable of reading Soviet territory at will. A to

  • Merkava:The Israeli killer fighter... From Mk I, to Windbreaker (vid.)

    The Merkava has been the main battle tank of the Israeli army for years. Began development in the 1970s and entered service in 1979 (Merkava Mk I). The tank in its original version carried a 105 mm cannon. 7.62mm machine guns and a 60mm mortar. and had a weight of 63 tons. He acted in the Lebanon wa

  • Japanese tanks in Manchuria... battle against Soviets (PHOTO)

    The Japanese army showed relatively late interest in tanks. From the mid-1920s, he began the effort to develop domestic tanks. Tanks were considered infantry support weapons, according to French doctrine. The Yasuoka Group it had the 3rd Tank Regiment with four tank companies (26 Type 89, 4 Type

  • When Mirage F1 fighters shoot down Soviet Su-22s with Matra Magic II (vid.)

    The Senepa River flows for 230 km along the Cordillera del Condor within Peruvian territory. The area had come under Peruvian control after the war with Ecuador in 1941. However, Ecuador declared the relative peace treaty invalid and from 1960 began to officially claim the area. With the mediatio

  • HMS “Rodney”:The Life and Action of an Extraordinary Battleship (VIDEO)

    HMS Rodney was the second and last battleship of the Nelson class. The ship entered service in 1928. It was designed under the limitations of the Washington Naval Armaments Treaty. She served well in World War II, taking part in the naval engagements in Norwegian waters and the sinking of the German

  • When the Israelis literally STOLE warships from the French

    By the early 1960s the Israeli navy was clearly falling behind dramatically. This is why it was decided to build new ships and especially missiles. For this purpose, the German Lurssen shipyards were chosen, but with the intervention of the Arab League, the Germans backed down. So the maneuver wa

  • The Mossad does not forget and takes revenge up to 25 years later... "Wrath of God"

    On September 5, 1972, Palestinian terrorists attacked Israels Olympic team in Munich and killed 11 of its members. Of course one would have to be naive to believe that the Israelis would let such a challenge go unanswered. Two days after the massacre, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir formed Com

  • Anatoly Dyatlov:He blew up Chernobyl or RBMK-1000? (VIDEO)

    Anatoly Stepanovich Dyatlov was the key man behind the catastrophic nuclear accident in Chernobyl, Ukraine in 1986. He was born in 1931 in Siberia to an extremely poor family. He studied electrical engineering in Norilsk in the Arctic Ocean and then at the Moscow Institute of Engineering and Physics

  • Bismarck vs Hood... The protagonists &VIDEO from the real duel

    The Treaty of Versailles, after the end of World War I, imposed on defeated Germany the surrender of the extremely powerful fleet it had managed to assemble at that time. The German navy persisted with very few warships. Nevertheless, in the 1930s plans began to be made for new powerful naval units,

  • 1940:The Norwegians sink the German heavy cruiser Blycher (VIDEO)

    The heavy cruiser Blücher was the second of a planned 5 Hipper class ships, of which 3 were built. It was named after the great Prussian marshal of the Napoleonic Wars of the same name. The vessel began construction in 1936 and was launched in 1937. She was ready in September 1939 and entered servic

  • R Class:The Old Dogs of the Royal Navy "Bite" &WWII

    The Revenge class, also known as the Royal Sovereign class or the R class, was about 8 super-dreadnought battleships to complement the five ships of the Queen Elizabeth class. Of the 8 planned, only 5 were finally built due to the end of the First World War. Construction began in 1913 and the last w

  • A lone battalion savagely "bloodies" an entire enemy division

    The Soviet attack against Finland was disastrous for the Red Army from the start. With the new year (1940) Stalin ordered the formation of a new Front (army group) headed by Tymoshenko. Zhukov was one of the bodyguards of the first. Tymoshenko was also endowed with new powers. So in January 1940 it

  • Battle of Leva:Field of Turkish corpses, 8,000 casualties against only 200

    In the spring of 1664 another Turkish invasion of the lands of the Habsburg Empire was underway. A large Ottoman army had advanced as far as Hungary and Slovakia. The Turks spread over a large area facing the small Austro-German forces of Marshal Montecucoli. Montecucoli deployed his approximatel

  • The Israelis shoot down the Soviet Air Force over the Sinai

    On January 24, 1970, Egyptian President Nasser visited Moscow. The Soviet Union had previously supported Egypt fighting Israel in the so-called War of Attrition, with the Egyptians refusing to accept their crushing defeat in 1967. Based on Nassers contacts in Moscow, an entire Soviet air division wa

  • Mauser T-Gewehr:The First Anti-Tank Weapon in History (BINTEO)

    Mausers Tankgewehr M1918 was the first purpose-built anti-tank weapon in history. It was designed to deal with the tanks of the ANTANT armies which had now become a terrifying threat on the battlefield to the common German infantryman who saw them, defenseless, rolling like an iron wave against him.

  • So many Turks that the Christians could not fail...

    In 1663 the Turks once again invaded the lands of the Habsburg Empire with a large army of 100,000 men. The Austrians fearing a Turkish attack on Vienna concentrated their small available forces on the Raab River in Hungary, leaving other areas to their own devices. The siege was built at the confl

  • The four Greek passengers of the Titanic who perished in the disaster (vid.)

    On the night of April 14-15, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg and slowly began to sink. And most people may know in every detail the story of the fictional passengers of the Titanic Jack and Rose, as imagined by the screenwriters and captured by James Cameron, but few know that there were also Greek

  • Empty beer bottles... The "secret" weapon that saved a battalion

    It is often said that anything can become a weapon if the wearer has enough imagination and ingenuity and it seems to be absolutely true. Perhaps this is why British soldier William Speakman won his countrys highest honour, the Victoria Cross, fighting in Korea with... bottles. Having exhausted

  • North Europe:Resistance to the Soviets after World War II

    The term damned soldiers refers to the Polish fighters who resisted the Soviet yoke, from 1944 until the early 1950s. Similar resistance movements existed in all Eastern European countries that passed under the Stalinist yoke, such as in the Baltic countries - Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania - but also i

  • As if a day hadn't passed... Kemal with the Soviet and the Azeri (PHOTO)

    We do not know if these photos have been published again to the Greek public, that is why we are uploading them. We are in March 1922 in Afion. A few months before the greatest disaster of Hellenism We can see in the photos Mustafa Kemal, his partner the ambassador of communist Russia Aralov and

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