Vauban star "forts": French army goes retro in Mali. The French have been dealing with an Islamist insurgency in Mali for several years now. Following United Nation Security Council Resolution 2085 and...
Read moreFlashback: Su-25 Frogfoot. It looks like a scene out of Afghanistan in the 1980's when the Soviets were there, with a road convoy protected by low flying Frogfoot on overwatch. But those...
Read moreLun-class Ekranoplan: Forbidden visit. In August 2020, somebody travelled all the way to Daguestan to explore the inside of the only Lun class Ekranoplan ever built. The MD-160 Lun entered service with...
Read moreFleron fortress: Ghost fort. The fort that (officially) no longer exists...Hidden under the Belgian town of Fleron lies a relic from the past.. Built in 1891, Fleron fortress was one of the...
Read moreBlue Peacock Nuclear Mine: Warning, may contain chicken. The Brits are well known for thinking outside of the box in all sort of engineering fields, including weapon design and manufacturing. But with...
Read moreLuftwaffe's last battle. The German air service was created clandestinely in 1933. It saw action between 1936 and 1939 during the Spanish Civil War. It then took part in WWII, fighting on...
Read moreArdennes 1944: Battle of the Bulge. Hitler's last gamble. On the 16th of December 1944, the German army counter-attacked the allies in the Ardennes. The operation involved 200,000 Wehrmacht troops supported by...
Read moreChuck Yeager: In honour of a legend. Chuck Yeager passed on the 7th of December 2020. This legendary test pilot did it all. Over a career that spanned decades, he accumulated 17,000...
Read moreBattle of Jutland / Skagerrakschlacht. On the 31st of May 1916, The Imperial German Navy attempted to lure a portion of the British Navy Grand Fleet into a trap and destroy it...
Read morePashinyan: Political betrayal? Has the Armenian political leadership betrayed its own armed forces as well as its population? There has been a lot of mud slinging in Yerevan since the Armenian defeat...
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