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• A12 Infantry Tank Mk II Matilda II

  All British tanks were lost in the battle in France, because they could not be taken away, Matilda II fought here at Arass and for the Germans its armor was an unpleasant surprise, they could destroy only by fire from large-caliber cannons. Its cannon (2 pdr.) was relatively powerful and was sufficient at that time for all German tanks.

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• AH-IV-R

  The light tank (sometimes referred to as a tankette) was created in ČKD according to the requirements of the Romanian army for a light tank for cavalry.

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• Amiot 143

  Monograph of a French bomber.

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• Amiot 351 B.4

  All British tanks were lost in the battle in France, because they could not be taken away, Matilda II fought here at Arass and for the Germans its armor was an unpleasant surprise, they could destroy only by fire from large-caliber cannons. Its cannon (2 pdr.) was relatively powerful and was sufficient at that time for all German tanks.

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• Amiot 354 B.4

  The French twin-engine all-metal bomber Amiot 354 was one of a series of machines that were being prepared for rearmament of the French Air Force,

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• Ampulomet 1941 System Kartukov

  It is a rare little-known weapon. It is sometimes referred to as a flamethrower, but it is basically a primitive projectile launcher (today we would probably say a grenade launcher).

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• Atatürk - the father of the Turkish nation

  The biography of a remarkable man who transformed Turkey into a modern state.

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• Borgward B 1000

  The car was adopted into the Wehrmacht's armament in 1938 and, although it did not use the standard chassis, was produced in only a slightly modified version until 1943 for military use.

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• Charles de Gaulle

  A biography of a French soldier and a statesman, whose legacy - Gaullism - is still claimed by a number of French political groups.

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• Crusader III AA Mk.II

  When Crusader III appeared on the African battlefield, it was a welcome reinforcement, but it soon became apparent that the tank was accompanied by mechanical failures, and at the end of the African campaign it was already considered obsolete and reassigned to training. The AA version was created at the request of the troops, to fight German aircraft deeply attacking convoys of vehicles and other ground targets.

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• FCM 36

  The FCM 36 or Char léger Modèle 1936 FCM, was a light infantry tank that was designed for the French Army prior to World War II. It had a crew of two and was equipped with a short 37 mm main armament and a 7.5 mm coaxial machine gun. Power was provided by a diesel engine.

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• Fiat CR.32 Chirri

  History of the Italian fighter

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• Flettner Fl 265

  A single-seat helicopter with interlocking rotors, originally intended as a reconnaissance, built only a few pieces that were tested on the ship.

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• Grenade No. 82

  An effective and reliable weapon usable both against armored targets and buildings, as well as against enemy infantry.

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• Guillaume le Maréchal

  Guillaume le Maréchal (in English sources the name is transliterated as William Marshal) - brief biography

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• Hand Grenade No.77 Mk I a Mk II

  British hand grenade introduced during WWII as a means of signaling and laying a smokescreen.

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• Yak-23 in American marking

  One of the little-known episodes of the "Cold War" is the trial of the Yak-23 in the United States. It is, of course, known that the tests took place, there is even a short film from these tests on the Internet, but how the plane got to the USA is a mystery to many. Find out more in the following text.

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• Korvettenkapitän Zdeněk Eugen Hudeček - Czech submarine commander

  The curriculum vitae of the commander of the Austro-Hungarian submarines and ships.

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• Le Redoutable

  The ship was part of President Charles de Gaulle's 1958 program for nuclear deterrence and France's autonomy and independence in defense and attack. The program was approved in 1960-64 as French defense doctrine, and submarines carrying ballistic missiles were built as part of it.

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• OSV-96

  The weapon is primarily intended for snipers (counting on fighting with opponents with individual protection and fighting with enemy snipers), its other tasks are according to the Russian server: fighting lightly armored targets, defending the coast against small ships, destroying naval mines, and diversion tasks such as destruction of aircraft on stands, radar vehicles and artillery missile systems.

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• PM-63 RAK

  In the second half of the 1950s, the Polish Armed Forces experienced a shortage of small arms suitable for special units. It was to be as small as possible with the ability to replace at least partially an automatic weapon

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• PPSCh-41

  PPSh-41 (pistolet pulemjot Spagin)

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• PPSCh-43

  briefly to the submachine gun

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• Anti-tank rifle Mauser 1918

  In the second half of WWI, along with the discovery of a new phenomenon on the battlefield - the tank - began to look for solutions to give the infantry a means of combating this threat.

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• Sanna 77

  Further development of Czechoslovak submachine gun 23 in Rhodesia and later South Africa.

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• T-17

  It is a prototype of a reconnaissance tank constructed in the late 1920s in the design office of S.A. Gisburg and E. Grote. It followed the older T-16 and used parts of the fuselage of a single-seat reconnaissance tank Liliput.

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• Valtion Lentokonetehdas Mörkö-Morane

  This aircraft was a radical modification of the original French fighters MS.406C1, in which was built a Soviet engine VK-105P and propeller VIŠ-61P

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