Panzerjager 90
Swiss anti-tank missile carrier. It is based on a MOWAG Piranha I 6x6 armored personnel carrier chassis.
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Slammer
The Slammer (Sholef) is a 155mm self-propelled howitzer variant of the Merkava with automatic loading system. The gun has a range of 40+ km with ERFB-BB. Two prototypes appeared in 1984 and 1986 but didn't entered production.
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Stuka Hunters
During the first 24 hours of operation Overlord (from 21.00 5. June 1944 to 6. June), the Normandy landings, the aircraft of the USAAF and the RAF made a total of 25.275 sorties, of which 15 004 accounted for the direct support of the ongoing invasion. Only thing the all-powerful Luftwaffe was able to do during the first 24 hours of the landing was only 319 sorties carried out by aircraft of Luftflotte 3. In addition, only a smaller part of them was directed directly over the invasion beaches.
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D Day - 6.6.1944
In May 1943, Washington decided that another front in Europe, specifically France, would open in May 1944. The Soviet Union, led by Stalin, insisted and stressed the need for a multi-directional attack on Germany in order to relieve the Soviets, who had already fought the German occupiers for years at the cost of heavy casualties.
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Oberleutnant Stanislaw Jasinski
Biography of one of the first organizers of the Polish Air Force.
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Maresuke Nogi
Count Nogi Maresuke, also known as Kiten, Count Nogi, was a Japanese general in the Imperial Japanese Army and a governor-general of Taiwan. He was one of the commanders during the 1894 capture of Port Arthur from China. He was a prominent figure in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, as commander of the forces which captured Port Arthur from the Russians.
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China from the boxing uprising to the civil war
Development of China in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Orders at the exhibition General of the Three Armies: Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli
Few soldiers have reached general ranks in the armies of the three states.
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Praga RN
The Praga RN (Fast Freight) was a medium-sized truck produced by the Praga car factory from 1933. The vehicle was powered by a petrol six-cylinder engine. In 1934, the Praga RND (Fast Freight Diesel) version was produced, equipped with a four-cylinder diesel engine. The RN/RND cars were modernized many times over time and remained in production for about 20 years. Both types became one of the most widely used trucks in Czechoslovakia, with several thousand being used by the Czechoslovak army.
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Škoda Š-I-D
The T-32 (Š-I-D) tankette was a Czechoslovak-designed tankette used exclusively by the Kingdom of Yugoslavia during World War II. Its design was based on the Škoda MU-4 tank and built specific to Yugoslav specifications.
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Coastal patrol boats in Southeast Asia
Offshore patrol vessels are being adapted for longer range patrols with a range of weapons to suit growing mission profiles.
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Brig. gen. Stanislaw Sosabowski
Stanisław Franciszek Sosabowski was a Polish general in World War II. He fought in the Polish Campaign of 1939 and at the Battle of Arnhem (Netherlands), as a part of operation Market Garden, in 1944 as commander of the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade.
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Kanji Ishiwara
Kanji Ishiwara was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He and Itagaki Seishirō were the men primarily responsible for the Mukden Incident that took place in Manchuria in 1931.
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TCG Anadolu
Anadolu (L-400) is an amphibious assault ship of the Turkish Navy that can be configured as a V/STOL aircraft carrier. It is named after the peninsula of Anatolia which forms the majority of the land mass of Turkey. The construction works began on 30 April 2016 at the shipyard of Sedef Shipbuilding Inc. in Istanbul, with the keel being laid on 7 February 2018. TCG Anadolu was commissioned with a ceremony on 10 April 2023.
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S-125 Neva / Pechora
The S-125 Neva/Pechora is a Soviet surface-to-air missile system that was designed by Aleksei Isaev to complement the S-25 and S-75. It has a shorter effective range and lower engagement altitude than either of its predecessors and also flies slower, but due to its two-stage design it is more effective against more maneuverable targets. It is also able to engage lower flying targets than the previous systems, and being more modern it is much more resistant to ECM than the S-75.
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IAI Heron TP
The Heron TP was designed as a multi-mission platform to address local and international customers' needs and to perform a variety of strategic missions, including intelligence gathering, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance, using various payloads, with a high level of reliability.
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Jagdpanzer 38D
The small and cheap Jagdpanzer 38(t) proved to be an effective tank destroyer. The main problem with it was that BMM and Škoda who made the vehicles simply could not keep up with the demand. In the hope of getting its production repositioned to Germany in late 1944, Alktett was instructed to oversee the projected construction of a new vehicle, later designated as Jagdpanzer 38 D. While the work continued until the end of the war, only two prototypes were completed (or none at all).
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407. Squadron RCAF
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) played an important role in the defeat of Germany during the war. No. 407 was the second Canadian unit in Coastal Command and spent its entire service career on maritime patrol.
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Oberleutnant Franz Peter
Austrian flying ace credited with six aerial victories in World War I while flying for Austria-Hungary's Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops.
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Spear MK 2
SPEAR is a fully autonomous, vehicle-mounted 120mm soft recoil mortar system for high-mobility platforms. SPEAR delivers effective fire support by combining the flexibility and effectiveness...
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