History

CH-178. Back in 2008, Canadian forces operating in Afghanistan realised they lacked medium-sized strategic lift helicopters. They therefore decided to...

Louis Blériot across the Channel: 25th July 1909. 111 years ago, Louis Blériot's plane successfully crossed the English Channel! On...

Stuka in 1941: The age of Close Air Support. The Stuka was tested in very small numbers in Spain before...

One of the most sorely fought battles of the Second World War, was the fight for Kohima.

SR-71 and MiG-31: Close encounter. On the 6th of October 1986, Ed Yeilding was flying his SR-71 over the Barents...

Captain Lucas was a French Badass. Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas joined the French Navy in 1778. He was 14. From...

1886: The Torpedo Shell Crisis. 1886 saw the dawn of modern artillery and dusk of brick and mortar era fortifications....

Battle of the Atlantic Cold War edition. In the event of the Cold War suddenly heating up, the aim for...

The Kosovo Air Campaign had two aims: To force the Yugoslav leadership to withdraw its army and paramilitary units from...

First Chechen war aka the meat grinder. The first Chechen war would inflict Russia its first defeat since the fall...