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09L (pronounced "Zero Nine Lima") is a Military Occupational Specialty in the United States Army involving translators/interpreters.
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09L began in February 2003 as a pilot program for...
25P is a Military Occupational Specialty code in the United States Army Signal Corps for the job "Microwave Systems Operator/Maintainer". (Prior to Oct 2004, the MOS was called 31P.)
"Major duties....
35T (pronounced thirty-five tango, previously 33W) using the phonetic alphabet) is the Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) for the United States Army's Military Intelligence Systems...
The 3rd Armored Division -nicknamed the Spearhead Division- and sometimes colloquially referred to within the U.S. Army as the "Third Herd", was an armored division of the United States Army. The...
The 51 mm light mortar is a weapon that can be carried and fired by one man, and is normally found in the Manoeuvre Support Section of a British Army Infantry Platoon. The Platoon mortar is...
The 5th Marine Division (known as the ‘Spearhead Division’) was formed on the 21st of January 1944 at Camp Pendleton with the 26th 27th and 28th Marine Regiments as its Infantry components1. It...
The 7th Cavalry Regiment is a United States Army cavalry regiment, whose lineage traces back to the mid-19th century. Its official nickname is "Garry Owen", in honor of the Irish drinking song...
The A-10 Thunderbolt II is a single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed by Fairchild-Republic for the United States Air Force to provide close air support (CAS) of ground forces by attacking...
Developed as a private-venture by a team led by Ed Heinemann, the compact Douglas (later McDonnell-Douglas) A-4 Skyhawk carrier-borne attack aircraft was intended to provide the US Navy with a jet...
The Admiral-class battlecruisers were a group of four British Royal Navy battlecruisers designed near the end of World War I. These ships were intended to counter the German Kaiserliche Marine...
This article is about a former military department of the United Kingdom. For other uses, see Admiralty (disambiguation).
A former British Government Department that was responsible for the...
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Admiralty law, also called Maritime Law
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Admiralty Board (Russia), the authority responsible for the Imperial Russian Navy
Admiralty Shipyard in Saint Petersburg,...
The Advanced Tactical Laser (ATL) program is a US military program to mount a high energy laser damage weapon on an aircraft, initially the AC-130 gunship, for use against ground targets in urban...
The Electronics and Space Corporation AGM-123 Skipper II is a low cost, air launched, stand-off anti ship missile which entered US Navy service in 1985. It is essentially a powerful conversion of...
The AGM-136A Tacit Rainbow was a United States military anti-radiation missile program run from 1982 to 1991.
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The requirement was for a low-cost air-launchable system to aid in the...
Developed by McDonnell-Douglas Aeronauticals, Huntinton Beach California, the AGM/RGM-84 Harpoon is an Anti Ship Missile (AshM) with a range of up to 60 miles and containing a 490-lb blast type...
The Republic of China (Taiwan) Air Force's AIDC F-CK-1 Ching-kuo (經國號戰機) is a light fighter aircraft named after the late ROC President Chiang Ching-kuo. It entered active service in...
The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft and recently, certain gunship helicopters. It is named after the Sidewinder snake, which detects...
An aircraft carrier is a warship designed with a primary mission of deploying and recovering aircraft, acting as a sea-going airbase. Aircraft carriers thus allow a naval force to project air power...
A device to launch aircraft from warships.
Operating the greatest number of aircraft and helicopters in the USAF (about 1,164 machines), Air Education and Training Command (AETC) was formed on 1 July 1993. It acquired the assets of the...
Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) was formed on the 1st July 1992, with its Headquarters at Wright AFB, Ohio, to replace both Air Force Systems Command and Air Force Logistics Command. The new...
Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) was established May 22, 1990, with headquarters at Hurlburt Field, Fla. AFSOC is a United States Air Force (USAF) major command and is the Air Force...
The Air Force Specialty Code (AFSC) is an alphanumeric code used by the United States Air Force to identify an Air Force Specialty (AFS). Officer AFSCs consist of four characters and enlisted AFSCs...
An air superiority fighter is a type of fighter aircraft intended to enter and seize control of enemy airspace. Air superiority fighters are usually expensive aircraft, and procured in lesser...
An air-to-surface missile (also, air-to-ground missile, AGM, ASM or ATGM) is a missile designed to be launched from military aircraft (bombers, attack aircraft, fighter aircraft or other kinds) and...
Although largely discredited during World War I, the battlecruiser concept continued to beguile naval staffs. Better protected than earlier British examples, later versions merged with the 'fast...
Designed by Dipl-Ing Robert Thelen, the Albatros Werke's chief designer, the Albatros D.III would provide the German Army's Flying Corps with one of its most widely employed fighters of the Great...
Albert Blithe, (June 25 1923 - December 17 1967), was a career soldier in the United States Army and a World War II paratrooper with the U.S. 101st Airborne Division, 506th Parachute Infantry...
Alfred was the youngest of the five sons of King Æthelwulf. He was born at Wantage (in Oxfordshire) in 849 AD and as a child accompanied his father on a pilgrimage to Rome. The journey across...
The AMX-10RC (6x6) armored car was developed by the now Giat Industries as the replacement for the Panhard EBR (8X8) armored car which was being phased out of service with the French Army....
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In 1956, it was proposed that France, West Germany and Italy should join forces to produce a standard tank for use by their respective armys to replace the American M47 tanks wqhich had...
Anniston Army Depot (ANAD) is a major United States Army facility fulfilling various depot operations. Primary missions are the repair of tracked vehicles and storage of chemical weapons (Anniston...
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty or ABMT) was a treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems used in...
The outcome of sea battles has always depended, in large part on the ranges at which ships could detect each other, on weapon ranges, and on the ability of ships to absorb hits. The introduction of...
The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (Russian and Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-124 «Руслан») (NATO reporting name: Condor) was the largest airplane in production, dwarfing even the C-5 Galaxy, until...
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April 17 is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 258 days remaining until the end of the year.
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69 - After the First Battle of Bedriacum,...
The ARCHER Artillery System is an international project aimed at developing a next-generation self-propelled artillery system for Sweden, Denmark and Norway. The heart of the system is a fully...
Field Marshal Archibald Percival Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell (1883-1950).
As a young officer Wavell saw service in the Boer War and World War I (where, despite losing an eye at Ypres, he became a...
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Wheeled vehicle protected by armour. Usually taken to mean that the vehicle is armed with one or more guns. The first Armoured car was probably the French Charron armoured car of 1902.
Armorflate Rubber Armor System is an inflatable ballistic armor which is manufactured by Simula Safety Systems, Inc., a division of Simula, Inc. (an Armor Holdings company).
The Armorflate system...
The Albemarle originated as the Bristol type 155 design to meet an Air Ministry requirement of 1938 for a twin engined bomber. Production was transferred to Armstromg Whitworth when it became clear...
Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC), located on Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee, is the most advanced and largest complex of flight simulation test facilities in the world.
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Wires laid across the flightdeck of an Aircraft Carrier which bring aircraft safely to a stop when they land on board. Carrier aircraft carry a hook in their tail with which to catch the wires
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The MBB1 Kormoran Anti Shipping Missile (AShM) is carried primarily by the Tornados of the German navy and Italian air force, but in its earliest Mk 1 form was also launched by F-104 Starfighters....
The Astros II is a conventional truck-based multiple rocket launcher built by Tectran in Brazil. The 10-tonnes (9.9-tons) 6x6 cross-country vehicle is equipped with armoured shutters to protect the...
The Atchisson Assault Shotgun, also known as, Auto Assault-12 (AA-12) was a firearm first developed in 1972 by Maxwell Atchisson. It served as the basis of several later weapons, including the...
The Atlantikwall (English: Atlantic wall) was an extensive system of coastal fortifications built by the German Third Reich in 1942 until 1944 during World War II along the western coast of Europe...
The Atlas Cheetah was a fighter aircraft operated by the South African Air Force (SAAF) between 1986 and 2008. It was first built as a major upgrade of the Dassault Mirage III by the Atlas Aircraft...
After World War II interrogation of German designers had uncovered a wartime design study which had been aimed at turning the standard 25cm K5(E) railway gun into a road-mobile weapon. The German...
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The McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II is a family of second-generation vertical/short takeoff and landing or V/STOL ground-attack aircraft of the late 20th century. British Aerospace rejoined the...
The Avro Type 652 Anson was designed in August 1933 to meet an Imperial Airways requirement for a light transport with accommodation for four passengers. The A. V. Roe design team, led by Roy...
The Avro Shackleton was a British long-range maritime patrol aircraft for use by the Royal Air Force. It was developed by Avro from the Avro Lincoln bomber with a new fuselage. It was originally...
The Avro Vulcan is a delta wing subsonic jet bomber that was operated by the Royal Air Force from 1953 until 1984. The Avro Vulcan ruled the skies for more than two decades as a major component of...
In 1934 the United States Army issued a specification for a long-range high-altitude daylight bomber for its Air Corps. The Boeing Aircraft Company responded with a prototype, the Boeing model 299,...
The B-1 Lancer is a strategic bomber used by the United States Air Force. Its origins began in the 1960s as a supersonic bomber with sufficient range and payload to replace the B-52 Stratofortress,...
First flown in December 1939, the Consolidated B-24 Liberator was one of the most important aircraft of World War II, ending up as the most produced American aircraft in history with over 18,000...
The North American B-25 Mitchell was an American twin-engined medium bomber manufactured by North American Aviation. It was used by many Allied air forces, in every theater of World War II, as well...
The Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit is a multi-role stealth heavy bomber, capable of deploying both conventional and nuclear weapons. It is operated exclusively by the United States Air Force. Its...
The B-52 Stratofortress was conceived as the giant silver sword of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command. Flown for decades on atomic alert, it also undertook the massive conventional...
A single heavy cruiser was allowed by treaty to the US Navy in the late twenties. Launched in 1937, the Wichita was essentially an 8-in gunned version of a Brooklyn. As the Brooklyns spawned the...
Band of Brothers is an acclaimed 10-part television World War II miniseries based on the book of the same title written by historian and biographer Stephen Ambrose. It was co-produced by Steven...
The REC7 (formerly known as the M468) is the designation for an upgrade to the M16/M4. The REC7 is manufactured by Barrett Firearms Company, who are probably best known for producing the M82 .50...
Battlecruisers were large warships of the first half of the 20th century first introduced by the British Royal Navy. They evolved from armoured cruisers and in terms of ship classification they...
A battlefield commission is given to enlisted soldiers who are promoted to the rank of Commissioned officer for outstanding leadership on the field of battle.
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Normally, enlisted men...
A famous English victory over the French fought on the 25th October 1415. King Henry V with an exhausted army of perhaps 9,000 men was engaged by a vastly superior force of about 20,000 Frenchmen....
Battle of Breakneck Ridge (5-15 November 1944)
On 2 November the US X Corps captured the coastal town of Carigara at the head of the Leyte valley. Part of XXIV Corps had already penetrated to the...
A decisive battle between the English and French (26 August 1346) during the Hundred Year War. An English army led by King Edward III and the Black Prince were advancing on Ponthieu when they were...
A battle in which Edward I of England was victorious over the Scots. Sir William Wallace unwisely decided to face the English forces in open battle, but his cavalry fled and his spearmen proved no...
A battle fought at Flodden Bridge, Northumberland on the 9th of September 1513. With King Henry VIII of England on campaign in France the Scots crossed the border but were soundly beaten by the...
The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1 – July 3, 1863), fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg Campaign, was the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War...
The Battle of Otterburn took place according to Scottish sources on 5 August 138812, or 19 August according to English sources34, as part of the continuing border war between England and...
The Battle of Poitiers was fought on the 19 September 1356 between the French and an English force, commanded by Edward-the Black Prince, which had been carrying out a raid in central France. The...
The Battle of Shiloh, also known as the Battle of Pittsburg Landing, was a major battle in the Western Theater of the American Civil War, fought on April 6 and April 7, 1862, in southwestern...
Having obtained additional funding from Parliament, King Edward III set about solving the threat posed by the large French Invasion Fleet that King Philip had assembled at Sluys . On the 22nd of...
The Battle of Stirling Bridge was fought on the 11th of September, 1297 and resulted in the Scots under William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat an English army, inflicting heavy losses and briefly...
A naval engagement on the 13th of December 1939 between the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spey (already at sea when war broke out) which had sunk eight ships in the South Atlantic, as well...
A naval battle during the Napoleonic War and a major British victory. The engagement, on the 21st of October 1805, saw a combined French and Spanish fleet of 33 ships of the line and seven Frigates...
The Battle of Wake Island was the first encounter of American and Japanese infantry in the war. The attacks on the Island began simultaneously with the Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 8, 1941...
Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries. Battleships evolved from northern European...
Battleship Row was the grouping of eight battleships in port at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese launched the Attack on Pearl Harbor. These ships bore the brunt of the Japanese assault. They were...
Built by the Likachev Motor Plant in Moscow, the BAV-485 amphibious truck entered service with the forces of the Warsaw Pact in 1952. The vehicle itself was produced to complement the smaller GAZ...
The Beriev A-40 Al'batros ("Albatross", NATO reporting name: Mermaid) was a jet-engined amphibious flying boat designed by the Beriev Aircraft Company for the anti-submarine warfare role. Intended...
Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (died 1979) was born the son of the Rt. Rev H.H.M.Montgomert, Bishop of Tasmania,in 1887 and spent his youth in Tasmania,...
The Tomahawk is an Air-breathing cruise missile which can carry either a W80 nuclear bomb in the 200-kiloton range (land attack) or a 1000-lb HE sized conventional warhead as in a Bullpup B...
Tube Launched, Optically Tracked, Wire Guided, Anti-Tank Missile (TOW) is a US system that first entered US service in 1965. Its origin began with a 1962 US Army's Missile Command request for an...
A billet is a term for living quarters to which a person, generally a soldier, is assigned to sleep. Historically, it referred to a private dwelling that was required to accept the soldier. The...
The R-40 series of Air-to-Air missiles was developed by the Bisnovet OKB (which became the Vympel company), during the early 1970s, for the Mikoyan MiG-25 (Foxbat) and the Sukhoi Su-15 (Flagon-A),...
The Blackburn Buccaneer was a British low level strike aircraft serving with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. Designed and initially produced by Blackburn Aircraft it was later known as the...
Meeting the requirements of specification O.30/35, the Blackburn Roc was essentially a fighter variant of the Blackburn Skua shipboard dive-bomber. The design and construction of the two aircraft...
A black operation, or black op, is the generally accepted worldwide military parlance for types of covert operations typically involving activities that are either secret or of questionable ethics...
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An important weapon in the Soviet arsenal during the cold war era, the Russian BM-21 Multi-Rocket system first appeared in 1964 and was used by many other Warsaw Pact nations (except Czechoslovakia...
The Boeing Company is a major aerospace and defense corporation, originally founded by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas...
Bombers are military aircraft designed to drop bombs on enemy targets from the air. They originated in with the World War I appearance of aircraft such as the de Havilland DH4 and German Gotha, and...
In 1926, with a need to re-equip the RAFs fighter squadrons, which at the time lacked a warplane with the performance that would allow them to intercept and tackle the new generation of bombers,...
The armed forces of the United Kingdom, commonly known as the British Armed Forces, Her Majesty's Armed Forces or the Armed Forces of the Crown, encompasses the Royal Navy, British Army and Royal...
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Since the end of the First World War, aircraft types in British military service have generally been known by a "type name" assigned by their manufacturer, or (for various imported types) bestowed...
The BvS 10 is an All Terrain Armoured Vehicle produced by BAE Systems Hagglunds of Sweden. This vehicle, referred to as Viking by the UK forces, was originally developed as a collaboration between...
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The C-130 Hercules is the workhorse of the RAF transport fleet. Over the years it has proved a versatile and rugged aircraft, primarily intended for tactical operations including troop...
The Lockheed C-5 Galaxy, also known as "Fat Albert" was the world's biggest transport for two decades and has hauled cargo in American military actions from Vietnam onward. Although not as large as...
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The capital ships of a navy are its "important" warships; the ones with the heaviest firepower and armour. There is usually no formal criterion for the classification, but it is a useful concept...
The Cardwell Reforms were a series of wide-ranging military reforms introduced by Edward Cardwell, the Secretary for War in the Gladstone administration.
In spite of much early resistance from the...
The Carronade was a short smoothbore, cast iron cannon, developed for the Royal Navy by the Carron Company, which was a short stubby weapon that would revolutionize Naval gunnery and tactics. For...
The first castles in Europe were built in France, east of the Loire River, in the 10th century. They were made of wood and often consisted of a mound (or ‘Motte’), on which could be built one...
Castle Heights Military Academy was a private military academy in Lebanon, Tennessee, USA.
The Academy was founded as Castle Heights School in 1902. In 1918, it became a military preparatory...
The design of the Centurion was begun in June 1943 under the designation as Cruiser Tank A41 with a General Staff's requirement for a tank not to exceed 40 tons and not wider than the 10'8" of a...
In the early 1970s, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany combined resources to develop a new Main Battle Tank (MBT) for introduction in the late 1980s. Differences in design...
The FV4034 Challenger 2 (CR2) a Main Battle Tank being used by the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom, built by Vickers Defence Systems (now part of BAE). Succeeding the Challenger 1, it has been...
A development of the Challenger I, Vickers Defence Systems commenced deliveries of an ordered 386 Challenger II MBTs to the British Army in 1994. Production was undertaken at the Vickers factories...
There have been three tanks named Challenger in British military service.
Cruiser Tank Challenger in service during World War II.
Challenger 1 in service from the late 1980s to early 21st...
A chaplain is typically a priest, ordained deacon or other member of the clergy serving a group of people who are not organized as a mission or church, or who are unable to attend church for...
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Guns which are mounted in the same turret or mantlet and which rotate together. They need not elevate together.
The loss of the mighty battlecruiser HMS Repulse and the brand new (and still not fully worked up) Battleship HMS Prince of Wales, overwhelmed and sunk by waves of Japanese bombers in December...
Colt 45 may refer to:
Colt Single Action Army, a revolver produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company
M1911, a semi-automatic pistol produced by Colt's Manufacturing Company
.45 Colt and .45 ACP,...
The introduction of the horse into North America by the Spanish was to revolutionise warfare as conducted by the native Indians and, for one group in particular, the Comanche (or Nermernuh as they...
Combat engineering vehicles (CEVs) are armoured vehicles built for engineering work on the battlefield or for the transportation of sappers.
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The F470 Combat Rubber Raiding Craft (CRRC), also known as the "Combat Rubber Reconnaissance Craft," is a specially fabricated inflatable rubber boat often used by the Navy SEALs and US Marines,...
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AGM-53 Condor, an American air-to-surface missile
Antonov An-124, a Russian/Soviet transport aircraft (NATO reporting name "Condor")
C-30 Condor, an American...
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The Convair B-36 (nicknamed Peacemaker) was a strategic bomber built by Convair and operated solely by the United States Air Force (USAF). The B-36 was the largest mass-produced piston engined...
The Convair XFY Pogo tailsitter was an experiment in vertical takeoff and landing. The Pogo had delta wings and three-bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a 5,500 hp Allison YT40-A-16...
CornerShot is a special-purpose weapon that can fire around corners. It was designed in the early 2000s for SWAT teams and special forces in hostile situations usually involving terrorists and...
1. A full-rigged sloop of war which carried 20 guns on the upper deck.
2. A small warship of modified trawler design, equipped with guns and anti-submarine devices. Corvettes did work on...
The Cougar is an armored fighting vehicle designed to be resistant to anti-vehicle mines and improvised munitions.
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The Cougar is a family of armored vehicles produced by Force Protection...
Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. (September 15 1914 – September 4 1974) was a United States Army General who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968-72 which saw U.S. troop...
A bow made of wood or, later steel, the string being released by a trigger mechanism. They were heavier and more cumbersome than Longbows but had greater powers of penetration.The crossbow was...
The military expeditions preached in the west after 1095 to provide aid for eastern Christians were originally called “Pilgrimages”. The term ”crusade” became established out of the habit...
Cuirass (French cuirasse, Latin coriaceus, made of leather, from corium, the original breastplate being of leather), the plate armour, is formed of a single piece of metal or other rigid material...
Cuirassiers were mounted cavalry soldiers equipped with armour and firearms, first appearing in late 15th-century Europe. They were the successors of the medieval armoured knights. The term is...
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The Curtiss JN-4 is a series of aircraft built by the Curtiss company of Hammondsport, New York, later the Curtiss Aeroplane and Motor Company. Curtiss combined the best features of the model J and...
The Dassault Mirage III is a supersonic fighter aircraft designed in France by Dassault Aviation in 1954 in response to an Armée de l’Air requirement for a small single-seater all weather...
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David Kenyon Webster (June 2, 1922 - September 9 1961) was an American soldier, journalist and author. During World War II he fought with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...
Debellatio (also debellation) (Late Latin "Defeating, or the act of conquering or subduing", literally "warring (the enemy) down", from Latin bellum "war") designates the end of a war caused by...
December 18 is the 352nd day of the year (353rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 13 days remaining until the end of the year.
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A defense contractor (or defence contractor, also sometimes called a military contractor) is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a defense department of a...
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) manages all of the defense intelligence programs and provides intelligence support to the (United States) Secretary of Defense and the JCS. DIA relies upon the...
In January 1947 the British Air Ministry issued a specification for a new bomber that would be able to deliver a nuclear bomb from high altitude and within a fraction of the speed of sound. At this...
Denver "Bull" Randleman (1920 - June 26 2003) was a sergeant in the United States Army during World War II. He was a member of the famed Band of Brothers of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry...
Under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles (1919), the German Navy was not allowed to build armoured ships exceeding 10,000 tons standard displacement. So the Deutschlands were, until 1940,...
Diego Garcia is an atoll located in the heart of the Indian Ocean, some 1,000 miles (1,600 km) south off India's and Sri Lanka's southern coast. Diego Garcia is the largest atoll by land area...
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Corporal Donald Hoobler (June 1923-January 1945) fought in World War II as part of Company E ("Easy Company") of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division.
Hoobler was...
Donald Malarkey is an American soldier who fought in World War II, best known for being one of the soldiers portrayed in the Band of Brothers television miniseries. Malarkey was born in Astoria,...
In parachuting, a drop zone or DZ is the area above and around a location where a parachutist freefalls and expects to land.
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During the Battle of Normandy (1944) and later the battle of...
The DUKW1 2½-ton amphibious truck was developed by the US National Defense Research Council to a military specification in October 1942.
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The vehicle was based on many of the mechanical...
The Grumman E-2 Hawkeye is an American all-weather, aircraft carrier-based tactical Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft. The twin turboprop aircraft was designed and developed in the 1950s by...
Out of all of America's eyes in the skies, the AWACS is probably most recognizable because of the giant rotating radar dome atop the plane. AWACS is an acronym for Airborne Warning And Control...
For the military unit profiled in Band of Brothers see E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment (United States)
Easy Company was the phonetic designation of the fifth company in a battalion of any given...
The EC-130E Commando Solo is the Psychological Warfare version of the USAF’s fleet of Lockheed EC130 Electronic Warfare aircraft. These aircraft are operated exclusively by the 193rd Special...
E Company, 506th Infantry Regiment was a company of the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division during World War II on the frontlines in the European...
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Edward "Babe" Heffron (born May 16, 1923) is an American former United States Army paratrooper.
Born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a veteran Private First Class of Easy Company, 2nd...
Émile Henri Muselier was a French Vice-Admiral at the declaration of war against Germany. He was born on 17 Apr 1882 at Marseilles, France and was educated at the Brest naval school. On the...
This most successful class began as a logical development of the Yorktown design and, though less strictured by treaty considerations, grew further as Europe plunged into war. The order for a...
Eugene Gilbert "Doc" Roe Sr. (October 17, 1921 - December 30, 1998) was an American soldier who served during World War II and fought with Easy Company of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment,...
Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine multi-role canard-delta strike fighter aircraft. It was designed and is built by a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers through Eurofighter GmbH,...
Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) can refer to two related missile defense concepts:
Most common: the Raytheon-manufactured interceptor component with subcontractor Aerojet of the U.S....
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The Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV) is the newest USMC amphibious vehicle, intended for deployment in 2015. It was renamed from the Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle in late 2003. The USMC...
The North American F-100 Super Sabre was developed as a replacement for the venerable F-86 Sabre, following the same general design layout but with a capability of achieving speeds in excess of...
The Lockheed F-104 Starfighter was an American single-engined, high-performance, supersonic interceptor aircraft that served with the United States Air Force (USAF) from 1958 until 1967. One of the...
The Convair F-106 Delta Dart was the primary all-weather interceptor aircraft for the United States Air Force from the 1960s through the 1980s. Designed as the so-called "Ultimate Interceptor", it...
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle is a fighter pilot's dream. The F-15C Eagle is fast, amazingly agile, and climbs like a rocket. It has the best combat Radar in the world, and can detect and...
The Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II is a fifth-generation, single-seat, single-engine, stealth-capable military strike fighter, a multirole aircraft that can perform close air support, tactical...
1. The Wildcat was born out of a 1936 competition to provide the US Navy with its first monoplane fighter. Although the Brewster F2A Buffalo fighter ultimately won the contract competition, the...
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Westland WAH-64D Longbow Apache
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Agusta A-109
Britten Norman Islander...
This is a list of aircraft used by the Fleet Air Arm.
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T Mk.4N
T Mk.8
Westland Sea King
AEW Mk.2 & 2a
HC Mk.4
HAS Mk.5U
HAS M. 6
Westland Lynx
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HMA...
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This is a list of aircraft used by the Royal Flying Corps.
Airco (de Havilland) DH1
Airco (de Havilland) DH2
Airco (de Havilland) DH4
Airco (de Havilland) DH5
Airco (de Havilland) DH6
Armstrong...
This is a list of military aircraft used by the Royal Naval Air Service.
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List of aircraft of...
List of bomber aircraft is organized by grouped years, countries, and bomber aircraft type.
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Breguet Bre.4
Breguet Bre.5
Breguet 6
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Breguet 16...
This is a list of Field Marshals of the United Kingdom, with their respective years of appointment.
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Admiral Billard...
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Afghanistan
HM Nasrullah Khan (1875-1920)
Albania
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This is a list of main battle tanks, and other vehicles serving that role, in active military service with countries of the world. A main battle tank (MBT) is the type of powerful, heavily-armoured...
Acrid: Bisnovat R-40
Adder: Vympel R-77
Alamo: Vympel R-27
Alkali: RS-1U/RS-22
Amos: Vympel R-33
Anab: Bisnovat R-8
Apex: Vympei R-23
Aphid: Molniya (now Vympel) R-60
Archer: Vympel R-73
Ash:...
Kangaroo: Raduga Kh-20
Karen: Zvezda-Strela Kh-25MR/ML
Kayak: Zvezda Kh-35
Kazoo: Raduga Kh-59m Ovod-M
Kedge: Yvmpei Kh-29
Kegler: Zvezda-Strela Kh-25 MP/ Kh-27
Kelt: Raduga KSR-2
Kent: Raduga...
List Of NATO Reporting Names For Bombers
Backfire: Tupolev Tu-22M
Badger: Tupolev Tu-16
Bark: Ilyushin Il-2 Shturmovik
Bat: Tupolev Tu-2
Beagle: Ilyushin Il-28
Bear: Tupolev Tu-95/Tu-142
Beast:...
Fagot: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15
Fang: Lavochkin La-11
Fantail: Lavochkin La-15
Fantan: Nanchang Q-5/A-5
Fargo: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-9
Farmer: Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19
Fencer: Sukhoi Su-24
Fiddler:...
Harp-Kamov KA-20
Halo- Mil Mi-26
Hare-Mil Mi-1
Harke- Mil Mi-10
Hat-Kamov KA-8/KA-10
Havoc - Mil Mi-28
Haze-Mil Mi-14
Helix- Kamov KA-27/KA-32
Helix B-Kamov KA-29/KA-31/KA-33
Hen-Kamov KA-15
Hermet...
Madcap: Antonov An-71
Madge: Beriev Be-6
Maiden: Sukhoi Su-9U
Mail: Beriev Be-12 Chaika
Mainstay: Ilyushin/Beriev A-50
Mallow: Beriev Be -10
Mangrove: Yakovlev Yak-27R
Maxdome: Ilyushin Il-87...
Camber: Ilyushin Il-86
Camel: Tupolev Tu-104
Camp: Antonov An-8
Candid: Ilyushin Il-76
Careless: Tupolev Tu-154
Cash: Antonov An-28
Cat: Antonov An-10
Charger:Tupolev Tu-144
Clank: Antonov...
Pilsudski, Joseph (1867-1935)
Sources
Tactical Genius in Battle (Simon Goodenough, Phaidon Press, 1979)
Mölders, Werner – 3.J/88 Condor Legion 14 Kills
Schellmann, Wolfgang –Condor Legion 12 Kills
Harder, Harro –Condor Legion 11 Kills
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Spanish_Civil_War_air_aces
The Army's Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) is a system of categorizing career fields. Related jobs are grouped together by Career Management Field (CMF) numbers. For example, 11 is the CMF...
The following is a list of flying aces of the Vietnam War.
Name
Country
Service
Victories
Nguyễn Văn Cốc
North Vietnam
Air Force
9
Mai Văn Cường
North Vietnam
Air Force
8
Nguyễn...
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C
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The American Lockheed XFV (sometimes referred to as the Salmon) was an experimental tailsitter prototype built by Lockheed to demonstrate the operation of a vertical takeoff and landing fighter for...
The Logistics Vehicle System (LVS), is a modular assortment of eight-wheel drive all-terrain vehicles used by the United States Marine Corps.
The LVS was fielded in 1985 as the Marine Corps heavy...
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The M113 series of armored personnel carriers was developed by FMC Corporation (now United Defense) for the US Army, and has become one of the most widely used military vehicles in the world today....
History
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M24 Sniper Weapon System, a sniper rifle
M24 mine, an American landmine
M-24, a Japanese midget submarine that participated in the...
The Light Tank M24 was an American light tank used during World War II and in postwar conflicts including the Korean War.
By 1942 it had become evident that the 37mm gun was inadequate for the...
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André Maginot was a French politician from Lorraine. A member of the Chamber of Deputies, he had been seriously wounded early in the First World War, and thereafter worked tirelessly in his...
Advances in tank design, armour, and engine technology allowed tank designers to increase the capabilities of tanks significantly without always resorting to heavier designs, although weights did...
Marcel Albert was born in Paris on the 25th November 1917. On leaving school he took a job as a metal worker with the Renault Company before joining the Armée de l'Air on the 7th December 1938....
The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) is a combat system developed by the United States Marine Corps to combine existing and new hand-to-hand and close-quarters combat (CQC) techniques with...
Following the evacuation at Dunkirk and the fall of France there was an urgent need to replace all the vehicles that had been lost in France. Consequently when the Italians launched their invasion...
Martello towers are a series of fortified towers constructed along the eastern and southern coastlines of England between 1804 and 1812 as a coastal defence against Napoleon’s threatened...
Martial arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. They may be studied for various reasons including combat skills, fitness, self-defense, sport,...
The MBDA Apache is a French-developed air-launched anti-runway missile, manufactured by European arms company MBDA. The Apache system is at the base of the SCALP EG concept, notably for the...
A medium bomber is a bomber aircraft designed to operate with medium bombloads over medium distances; primarily to distinguish them from the much larger heavy bombers and smaller light bombers. The...
Mervyn Sharp Bennion (May 5 1887 - December 7 1941) was a captain in the United States Navy who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. While mortally wounded, he remained in command of...
The Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet,was a German rocket-powered fighter aircraft designed by Dr. Alexander Martin Lippisch who, for many years, had been working on tailless sailplane designs. In January...
The Mikoyan MiG-29 (Russian: Микоян МиГ-29) is a 4th generation jet fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union for an air superiority role. Developed in the 1970s by the Mikoyan design...
Militaria are artifacts or replicas of military, police, etc., collected for their historical significance. Such antiques include firearms, swords, knives, and other weapons; uniforms, helmets,...
A military base is a facility directly owned and operated by and/or for the military or one of its branches that shelters military equipment and personnel, and facilitates training and...
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Military intelligence (abbreviated MI, int. Commonwealth, or intel. U.S.), is a military discipline that focuses on the gathering, analysis, protection, and dissemination of information about the...
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The Mil Mi-24 (NATO reporting name: "Hind") is a large helicopter gunship and low-capacity troop transport produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and operated from 1972 by the Soviet Air Force,...
The MIM-104 Patriot air-defense system grew out of a 1964 US Army requirement for a new missile (SAM-D) that could defend against medium- to high-altitude high- performance aircraft and ballistic...
In 1963 the three independent service ministries were merged to form the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This large organisation which directly affects the lives of about half a million servicemen,...
The Mitsubishi F-1 is Japan's first domestically developed jet fighter, and was the first fighter to enter production in Japan since the end of World War II. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Fuji...
The Mk 110 57 mm gun is a multi-purpose, medium caliber gun. The Mk 110 is similar to the Bofors 57 Mk 3. The Mk 110 can fire salvos at up to 220 rounds per minute, and has a range of...
Due to the popularity of the series M*A*S*H, colloquial use might refer to any mobile military field hospital.
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A Mortar is a short piece of ordnance with a very wide bore, the width of which in early pieces equalled the length of the Mortar. It was formerly employed against forts during sieges owing to its...
Mounted infantry were soldiers who rode horses instead of marching, but actually fought on foot with muskets or rifles. The original dragoons were essentially mounted infantry.
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The Mowag Piranha is a family of armoured fighting vehicles designed and manufactured by the Swiss Mowag corporation (now the European part of General Dynamics European Land Combat Systems). Four...
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NATO reporting names are unclassified code names for military equipment of the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw pact and China). They provide unambiguous and easily...
Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake or NAWS China Lake is an airborne weapons testing and training range operated by the United States Navy and its contractors. It is located in the northeast of...
When Britain went to War in August 1914 it was very much the Admiralty's policy that Mines were primarily the weapon of the weaker naval power. As a consequence the British possessed a stock of...
The ships and personnel of a nation, used for purposes of war. The first English Navy was built by Alfred the Great to fight the Danes. Under King Henry VIII and the Stuarts the navy was greatly...
Many believe the Vietnam air war was a one-sided conflict for the U.S. However, most of the aces in the war were North Vietnamese, in fact, the leading Ace of the Vietnam War was a North Vietnamese...
General Nguyen Vo Giap was born at An Xa, a small farming village in Quang Binh province, some 60 miles north of the old Imperial capital of Hue on the 1st of September 1910.
His father, an ardent...
The Nieuport Type 17, which appearing in mid 1916, rapidly established itself as an outstanding fighter. Although it retained the basic geometric porportions of the Nieuport Types 11 and 16, the...
The BAE Systems Land and Armaments XM1203 Non-Line-of-Sight Cannon (NLOS Cannon) is a 155 mm cannon intended to provide improved responsiveness and lethality to the "Unit of Action" (UA)...
A victor gives no quarter when the victor shows no clemency or mercy and refuses to spare the life in return for the surrender at discretion (unconditional surrender) of a vanquished...
First Lieutenant Norman Dike was an officer in World War II. Dike was a Yale graduate and the son of a New York State Supreme Court Judge. He was transferred from Division HQ to Easy Company, 2nd...
In 1928 John K Northrop and Ken Jay formed the Avion Corporation at Burbanks, California. In the previous year Northrop had designed Lockheed’s first aircraft, the Vega, and his first design for...
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Northrop Grumman Newport News (NGNN), formerly called Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company (NNS&DD or simply NNS), is the largest privately owned shipyard in the United States....
The Northrop XP-79 "Flying Ram" was an ambitious American design for a flying wing fighter aircraft; it had several notable design features. Among these, the pilot would operate the aircraft from a...
The Northrop YA-9 was a prototype attack aircraft developed for the USAF, but passed over in preference for the Fairchild YA-10 that became the A-10 Thunderbolt II in service.
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Oceanic-Creations AB is a company based in Sweden, founded in 1986 around the so-called '''Oceanic-Creations Composite Technology''' (OCCT), a special process for producing a carbon fibre based...
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Early in 1969 US Commanders in Vietnam made the ill-advised decision to mount a large–scale training operation, codenamed Operation Apache Snow, to bolster sagging morale amongst the troops and...
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Operation Condor has been the codename of a number of military operations:
French operation:
Operation Condor (1954) was the name of a French intelligence service GCMA operation during the Battle...
Operation Frankton was a World War II British Combined Operations military commando raid on Nazi German shipping in Bordeaux harbour, France, in December, 1942, by 12 men of the Royal Marines Boom...
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Dak To was a small Green Beret outpost nestling in a river valley near the junction of the Cambodian-Laotian border with Vietnam. Strategically the base sat across Highway 14, the main north-south...
Anderson, Lt.Col. Bill, 195th Airlanding Field Ambulance, RAMC
Anderson Lt.Col. John The Nottinghamshire Yeomanry (Sherwood Rangers).
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In World War II, Operation Quicksilver (Allies, 1944) was a sub-plan of Operation Fortitude, the 1944 deception plan designed to induce the Germans to hold troops away from Normandy in belief that...
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Operation Rolling Thunder (1965-1968) was the first of four distinct phases of the air war against North Vietnam. As initially conceived the campaign had three objectives:
To reduce infiltration...
Operation Tractable was a military operation commanded by II Canadian Corps in Normandy in August 1944. Its aim was to break German defenses blocking the Caen to Falaise highway and to allow the...
Oshkosh Corporation (OSK), once named Oshkosh Truck, is a manufacturer of specialty trucks and truck bodies for defense, industrial and fire emergency applications. It is based in Oshkosh,...
The North American P-51 Mustang originated from a request made by the British Air Purchasing committee to the North American Aircraft Corporation in April 1940. The Committee wanted the corporation...
75 mm PaK-40 Anti-Tank Gun
In 1939 the German army issued a specification for a 75mm Anti-tank gun (Panzerabwehrkanone) to Krupp and Rheinmetal, but development was given a low priority until...
The Palletized Load System (PLS) is a logistics supply program that entered service in the United States Army in 1993. It performs line haul (long distance), local haul (short distance), unit...
The parafrag bomb was invented by George Churchill Kenney in the 1920s and put to good use in the Southwest Pacific theater. It was a relatively small bomb (24 pounds or 11 kilograms) scored to...
On the 27h of April 1972 USAF F-4D’s of the 8th Fighter Wing (8TFW) attacked and severely damaged the heavily defended Thanh Hoa bridge in North Vietnam. What made this bombing raid different...
Pegasus Bridge is a bascule bridge (a type of movable bridge) over the Caen Canal, near Ouistreham, France. The bridge, also known as the Bénouville Bridge after the neighbouring village, was a...
The Rb 12 Penguin anti-ship missile (U.S. designation AGM-119), made by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (KDA). At 9 ft 8 in (2.96 m) long in its Penguin 2 version, this highly versatile...
A name given by the Romans to those tribes living in Scotland north of the River Forth and speaking a partly Celtic and partly Non-Celtic language. They were first mentioned in Constantius...
Pierre Le Gloan was one of those men who had a natural talent for flying. Having gained his wings in 1932 at the age of 19, by the outbreak of war he was an Adjutant-chef in the 5eme Escadrille of...
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The term pre-dreadnought refers to the last type of battleship before HMS Dreadnought (1906). They were designed and built between about 1890 and 1908.
Pre-dreadnoughts were evolved from earlier...
Owners or captains of privately commissioned ships permitted under government license (letters of marque) to attack enemy shipping. Without such authorization they were pirates. Sir Francis Drake...
Project Habakkuk or Habbakuk (spelling varies; see below) was a plan by the British in World War II to construct an aircraft carrier out of Pykrete (a mixture of wood pulp and ice), for use against...
PTARMIGAN is a second-generation mobile secure battlefield system that incorporates the latest technology and has been designed to improve communications reliability, capacity and...
Pykrete (also known as picolite) is a composite material made of approximately 14% sawdust (or, less frequently, wood pulp) and 86% water by weight then frozen, invented by Max Perutz and proposed...
The Panzerhaubitze 2000 ("Armoured howitzer 2000"), abbreviated PzH 2000, is a German 155mm self-propelled howitzer developed by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann (KMW) and Rheinmetall for the German Army. The...
Royal Air Force unit responsible for providing air transport to members of the Royal Family and other VIPs.
On the 1st April 1995 the Flight was amalgomated with No.32 Squadron to become No.32 (The...
A device whereby the position and range of distant objects, such as ships or aircraft, may be established by means of radio waves. Radar (Radio detection and ranging) which was developed by British...
The Raduga KSR-5 (NATO reporting name AS-6 Kingfish) is a long-range, air launched cruise missile and anti ship missile developed by the same OKB-155 (with assistance from Tupolev) as a lighter and...
Ramstein Air Base is a United States military airbase in the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz.
The east gate of Ramstein Air Base is about 16 kilometers, or 10 miles, from Kaiserslautern (locally...
Raytheon Missile Systems Company is a subsidiary of Raytheon Company. Headquartered in Tucson, Arizona, its president is Louise Francesconi. Formerly, known as Hughes Missile Systems Company before...
The SAAB RBS-15 is a Stand-Off Anti Ship Missile.
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Redstone Arsenal is a U.S. Army post located next to the city of untsville in Madison County, Alabama, and is included in the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. The primary tenant...
The celebrated adventure novelist, Jack London, supposedly once muttered: "If I was King, the worse punishment I could inflict on my enemies would be to banish them to the Solomons".
It is not...
The imposition of indemnities upon Germany by the allied powers following World Wars I and II. After World War I the payment of reparations was stipulated by article 232 of the Treaty of Versailles...
A reserve fleet or (less formally) mothball fleet is a collection of naval vessels (both warships and support vessels) that are fully equipped for service but are not currently needed and thus...
Richard D. Winters (born January 21, 1918) is a former United States Army officer who commanded Company "E" ("Easy Company" was its respective designation in the military alphabet at the time) of...
The RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) is a small, lightweight, infrared homing surface-to-air missile in use by the United States Navy, German Navy, Hellenic Navy, Egyptian Navy and South...
Colonel Robin Olds (1922-2007) would become an air fighting legend by adding four kills in Vietnam to the thirteen victories he had achieved whilst flying P-38 (five) and P51s (eight) against the...
The Rockwell XFV-12 was a prototype supersonic United States Navy fighter which was first built in 1977. The XFV-12 combined the Mach 2 speed and AIM-7 Sparrow armament of the F-4 Phantom II in a...
Ronald Speirs (April 20, 1920 - April 11, 2007) was a United States Army officer who served in the U.S. 101st Airborne Division during World War II. He was initially a platoon leader in Company "D"...
The most recently established of the three British armed services, the Royal Air Force was established on the 1 April 1918 from the amalgamation of the Army's Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval...
The Royal Marines (RM) are the marines and amphibious infantry of the United Kingdom and, along with the Royal Navy and Royal Fleet Auxiliary, form the Naval Service. They are also the United...
Private Roy Cobb was a soldier who served with the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne Division, in Easy company during World War II. He was played by Craig Heaney in the 10-part...
With its unique stance of neutrality, Sweden has found its airspace violated by both NATO and Russian aircraft. Reluctant to purchase a foreign design, Saab undertook the conversion of a...
Flt Lt Saiful Azam was an ace fighter pilot who fought for three different countries during three different wars and emerged as the only fighter pilot to have been awarded a state medal by three...
The Saiga-12 is a Kalashnikov-pattern 12 gauge combat shotgun available in a wide range of configurations. Like the Kalashnikov rifle variants, it is a rotating bolt, gas-operated gun that feeds...
The GKN Defence AT 105 Saxon (4x4) Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) was developed as a private venture by GKN Sankey, using wherever possible standard commercial components. Its origins lay in the...
Schwerer Gustav (English: ''Heavy Gustav'') and Dora were the names under which the German 80 cm K (E) railway guns were known. They were developed in the late 1930s by Krupp in order to...
Originally, inhabitants of Ireland. the Scots began to settle in western coastal areas of Britain during the 4th and 5th centuries, and many Scots who came from Dalriada (a kingdom in modern day...
Sea Sparrow was developed from the AIM-7 Sparrow air-to-air missile as a lightweight "point defense" weapon that could be retrofitted to existing ships, often in place of existing gun-based...
The Second London Naval Disarmament Conference opened in London, the United Kingdom, on December 9, 1935. It resulted in the Second London Naval Treaty which was signed on March 25, 1936.
The...
September 11 is the 254th day of the year (255th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 111 days remaining.
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Originally designated HU2K-1 and named Seasprite, this exceptional helicopter was at first powered by a single turbine engine mounted close under the rotor hub and was able to carry a wide range of...
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In 332 BC, Alexander the Great set out to conquer Tyre, a strategic coastal base in the war between the Greeks and the Persians. Unable to storm the city, he blockaded Tyre for seven months, but...
The two Sikh wars of the 1840s were caused by the anarchy of the Punjab spilling over into the territory administered by the British East India Company.
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In June 1918 the United States authorities purchased 143 Clerget engined Sopwith Camels with the intention of equipping four combat fighter squadrons to be employed on the Western Front. The first...
Descended from the company's successful S.VII model, and with lessons learnt from the inadequate S.XII (a cannon armed version of the S.VII), the Spad ( Société Provisoire des Aéroplanes...
The Special Atomic Demolition Munition (SADM) was a United States Navy and Marines project that was demonstrated as feasible in the mid-to-late 1960s, but was never used. The project, which...
The Split S (also called a reversed Immelmann turn or spelled with a hyphen as Split-S) is one of the oldest air combat maneuvers, but is still considered useful, mostly to disengage from combat....
By the end of the 1960s the World War II vintage Fletcher, Allen M Sumner and Gearing class destroyers were well overdue for replacement in the United States Navy. Since no new hulls had been laid...
Standard missile refers to a family of several different American missiles.
RIM-66 Standard (SM-1MR/SM-2MR), a medium range surface-to-air missile, the successor of the RIM-24 Tartar...
The Sten (or Sten gun) was a family of British 9 mm submachine guns used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War. They were notable for having a...
The Mauser Sturmgewehr 45 (aka StG45(M), literally "Storm Rifle" or "Assault Rifle" 1945) was a prototype assault rifle developed by Mauser for the Wehrmacht at the end of World War II, using a...
One of the most remarkable tanks to see service in any of the world’s armies since the end of World War 2, the Stridsvagn 103 was designed by Sven Berge of the Swedish Army as an alternative to...
The Stryker Mobile Gun System is an eight-wheeled armored fighting vehicle mounting a 105 mm tank gun, based on the Canadian LAV III light-armored vehicle, which in turn is based on the Mowag...
The Studies and Observation Group was established 24 January 1964 as a joint service subsidiary branch of the Military Advisory Command Vietnam. Despite the rather unassuming name the...
Sun Bin (died 316 BC) also known as (Sun Pin, Sun the Mutilated, or Sun Tzu II), was a military strategist who lived during the Warring States Period in ancient China. Born in Qi, he was a member...
Sun Tzu (Sun Zi) ("Master Sun") is an honorific title bestowed upon Sun Wu (c. 544 BC – 496 BC), the author of The Art of War, an immensely influential ancient Chinese book on military strategy....
A supercarrier is a ship belonging to the largest class of aircraft carrier, and generally has a displacement greater than 75,000 tons. Most countries that have carriers operate ones that have a...
Super-heavy tanks were designed in response to the arms race of ever-increasing armament and armor in tanks. Although some models were built, they were impractical and saw no active service or...
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T-28 multi-turretted Soviet tank of the 1930s
T-28 Super Heavy Tank, a U.S. experimental self-propelled gun of World War II
T-28 Trojan, a U.S. trainer and close-support aircraft of...
The T28 (later called 105 mm Gun Motor Carriage T95) was a prototype heavily armored tank destroyer, designed for the US Military during the Second World War. It was originally designed to be...
The Russian T-54 was Main Battle Tank developed shortly after the end of the Second World War, with the first prototypes being completed in 1946 and the first production examples being delivered in...
The Tactical High-Energy Laser, or THEL, is a laser developed for military use, also known as the Nautilus laser system. The mobile version is the Mobile Tactical High-Energy Laser, or...
In 1915 the British Landship Committee was exploring several possible solutions to the problem of crossing trenches and wire with a bullet-proof machine. Among these was a suggestion from a Colonel...
The TDI Vector is a prototype .45 ACP submachine gun developed by Transformational Defense Industries. It utilizes asymmetrical recoil and in-line design to reduce recoil and muzzle climb. This...
USS Tennessee
USS Washington
Launched: March 1906
Renamed: USS Seattle converted to Seaplane carrier
USS North Carolina
Launched: October 1906
Renamed : USS Charlotte
USS Montana
Launched: December...
The Terrapin "4-ton amphibian" was a British manufactured, amphibious armored transport of the Second World War. It was first used at Antwerp in 1944, and to great effect during the Battle of the...
The Thach Weave was an aerial combat tactic developed by naval aviator John S. Thach of the United States Navy early during World War II.
Thach had heard, from a report published in the September...
The Hundred Year War was a prolonged but intermittent conflict between England and France between 1337 and 1453. The causes of the war lay in an open dispute between both nations over the...
With a few exceptions most American tank (and combat car) design before the Second World War was in the hands of the US Ordnance Department, with the majority of work being carried out at the Rock...
Thomas Meehan III was an officer in the United States Army during World War II who commanded Company "E" of the 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. After...
The Thompson was introduced into the US Marine Corps in 1922 for the purpose of guarding mail trains after a rash of robberies (which ceased after the Marines took over). The United State Military...
The name Tiger was given to two German tanks of the Second World War:
Tiger I, Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I
Tiger II, Panzerkampfwagen VI Ausf. B Tiger II (also known as the Königstiger or King...
At the outbreak of the Second World War the British Ministry of Supply replaced the Master-General of Ordnance's responsibility for the procurement of munitions. The Ministry promptly set up two...
Corporal Tony Stein (September 30, 1921 - March 1, 1945) was a United States Marine who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry in repeated singlehanded assaults...
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Top Ten is a Military Channel program which rates and ranks ten famous weapons or systems across military history since the 20th century. It uses a subjective scoring of factors such as service...
The Russian equivalent of the US Sidewinder Air-to-Air missile (the early models being almost identical to the AIM-9B Sidewinder) the K-13 family of missiles was first seen on Soviet fighters on...
A torpedo is a long cylindrical device, with a warhead at one end and propellers and a rudder at the other. Most torpedoes nowadays are electrically propelled and are powered by a battery. They...
Designed to a 1943 specification for Heavy tank capable of breaking through fortifications, the Tortoise emerged as a wooden mock-up in May 1945 with completion of a prototype in 1947. Armed with a...
The treaty between the allied powers and Germany that ended World War I. It was aimed mainly at ensuring that Germany would never again be a military power. Germany ceded Alsace-Lorraine to France,...
Some of the weirdest aircraft ever to have flown, the Vakhmistrov's series of composite bomber/fighter designs was an experimental product of the 1930s. Using the biggest bomber of the day, the...
A turret is a device that protects the crew or mechanism of a projectile firing weapon and at the same time lets the weapon be aimed and fired in many directions.
A turret is usually a rotating...
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The son of a tanner, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) graduated from West Point in 1843, his one distinction being a first in horsemanship. After service in Mexico, where he was twice cited for...
Unconditional surrender is a surrender without conditions, except for those provided by international law. Announcing that only unconditional surrender is acceptable puts psychological pressure on...
The United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) is the only current major command which can trace its formation to before the foundation of the US Air Force in September 1947. USAFE was formed on...
The US Marine Corps maintains three active and one reserve combat divisions to meet its operational responsibility under the National Security Act of “Providing rapidly deployable forces for...
The United States Navy maintains a number of its ships as part of a reserve fleet, often called the "Mothball Fleet". While the details of the activity have changed several times, the basics are...
The United States Service academies, also known as the United States Military Academies, are federal academies for the undergraduate education and training of commissioned officers for the United...
As soon as the United States formally entered World War I, plans for an expeditionary force were put into action, but to the United States Marine Corps' chagrin they discovered that they were not...
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Arizona has been the name of three ships of the United States Navy. They were all named after the state of Arizona, which was admitted to the Union as a state on 14 February 1912. Prior to that, it...
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USS Enterprise may refer to the following specific vessels:
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With respect to watercraft, USS (United States Ship) is officially only used for...
The supercarrier USS Forrestal (CV-59), formerly AVT-59 and CVA-59, was named after former Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal and was the lead ship of her class of aircraft carriers. The other...
USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) is to be the lead ship of her class of United States Navy supercarriers. As announced by the U.S. Navy on January 16 2007, the ship will be named after the 38th...
Laid down at Cramp Shipyard, Philadelphia on the 7th of May 1891 the 10,288 ton (11,528 ton full load) Indiana came close to matching many foreign battleships in fighting capability (although she...
USS Mississippi (Battleship No. 23), the lead ship of her class of battleships, was the second ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the U.S. state of Mississippi. After her career in...
USS R-3 (SS-80) was an R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine of the United States Navy. Her keel was laid down on December 11 1917 by the Fore River Shipbuilding Company in Quincy,...
Four ships of the United States Navy (and two ships of the Confederate States Navy) have been named USS Tennessee in honor of the 16th state.
The first USS Tennessee (1865) was a wooden screw...
The USS Tennessee was a screw frigate built of wood at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and launched July 8 1865 as the Madawaska. Powered by two Ericsson vibrating lever engines, she departed New York...
The second USS Tennessee (ACR-10), also referred to "Armored Cruiser No. 10", and later renamed Memphis and renumbered CA-10, was a United States Navy armored cruiser, the lead ship of her class....
USS Tennessee (BB-43), the lead ship of her class of battleship, was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 16th state.[1]
Her keel was laid down at the New York Navy Yard...
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This article is about the USS Tennessee (BB-43), a U.S. Navy battleship, during the years 1941, 1942 and 1943.
1941
Pearl Harbor
On the morning of...
USS Tennessee (SSBN-734), an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, was the fourth ship and first submarine of the United States Navy to be named for the 16th state. There had also previously been...
South Africa began development of an indigenous multiple rocket launcher in 1977 as a counter to the various Soviet systems in service with neighbouring African countries. The Valkiri entered...
V Amphibious Corps (VAC) was formed on 25 August 1943 at Pearl Harbor from PhibCorpsPacFlt, under the command of Maj.-Gen. Holland Smith. Originally it included VAC Administrative Command, but this...
The Vickers FB5 Gunbus was based on the company's earlier series of experimental fighter biplanes (EFB1 to 5). Over 200 machines were built with the majority serving over the Western Front with the...
Scandinavian sea warriors who raided much of northwest Europe between the 8th and 11th centuries. They penetrated most of the British Isles, Scotland and Ireland being settled mostly by Norwegians...
Visby is the latest class of Corvette to be adopted by the Swedish Navy, the ship's design heavily emphasizes ''low visibility'' or Stealth technology. The first ship in the class is named after...
The Vought XF5U "Flying Flapjack" was an experimental U.S. Navy fighter aircraft designed by Charles H. Zimmerman during World War II. This unorthodox design consisted of a flat, somewhat...
The K-13 (NATO reporting name AA-2 Atoll), was one of the world's most proliferated air-to-air missiles. Developed by the Soviet Union as a reverse-engineered copy of the AIM-9 Sidewinder, it saw...
The Egyptian army has relied in the main on copies if Soviet–produced multiple rocket launcher systems, reflecting the heavy Russian influence on the country in the 1950s and 1960s. However,...
A conflict between Great Britain and the USA, also known as the Anglo-American War, from 1812 to 1815. It arose from the seizure of US shipping attempting to run the Royal Navy's blockade of France...
Technician Fourth Class Warren H. "Skip" Muck (?- January 10, 1945) fought in World War II as part of Company E ("Easy Company") of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, U.S. 101st Airborne...
The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, limited the naval armaments of its five signatories: the United States of America, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the...
Weaponology is a television show on the Military Channel. It centers around the history of firearms and military groups. New episodes air on Tuesdays in the United States.
Seasons
The first season...
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Experience with the turbocharged versions of the company’s earlier Whirlwind helicopter during the 1950s gave Westland a good appreciation of the capability of a helicopter with such a...
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In 1915, William E. Boeing, a filthy rich landowner from Seattle who had made his fortune in the timber trade, entered into partnership with Commander G. Conrad Westervelt, a serving naval officer...
William J. "Wild Bill" Guarnere (born April 28, 1922) is a veteran sergeant of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) attached to the 101st Airborne Division of the...
The Scottish National hero William Wallace (c.1270-1305) was the second son of a Scottish Knight. He emerged in 1297 as a leader of the opposition to English rule and gained fame for defeating the...
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In June 1940 the US army issued a specification calling for a 1/4–ton combat truck with all-wheel drive to carry a 600lb payload and weigh no more than 1,300 lbs. From the 135...
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World's Deadliest Aircraft covers the classic fighters, bombers, and choppers that won the battles in the sky from WWII to the Gulf War. It airs on the Military Channel.
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War between the United States of America and Germany (April 1917-November 1918) following the latters declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare on any merchant vessels found in British coastal...
King of Persia (485-465 bc). The son of Darius I, he led the 2nd Persian expedition against Greece in 480 bc. The Persians defeated the Greeks at Thermopylae, but were then defeated on sea at...
The McDonnell XF-85 Goblin was a fighter aircraft, conceived during World War II and intended to be carried in the bomb bay of the giant Convair B-36 bomber as a defensive "parasite fighter" and...
The XM307 Advanced Crew Served Weapon (ACSW) is a developmental 25 mm belt-fed Grenade Machine Gun with smart shell capability. It is the result of the OCSW or Objective Crew Served Weapon project....
The first fighter to be designed by Alexander S Yakovlev, dubbed the Krasavec (Beauty) and initially designated I-26, was flown for the first time in March 1939, being displayed publicly during the...
German airship employed during the Great War (1914-18). Designed by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, who had been inspired by the French use of observation balloons during the Franco-Prussian war...
Developed for the Wehrmacht, the Zielgerät 1229 (ZG 1229), also known in its code name Vampir, was an active infra-red device for the Sturmgewehr 44 assault rifle intended primarily for night...
A War in southern Africa (1879) between Great Britain and the Zulu tribes of king Cetshwayo (d.1884)..
To punish the Zulus for a series of depredation raids into the Transvaal, Lord Chelmsford, the...
