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TANKFEST 2025 is only a few days away, and the most anticipated guest at this year’s event has arrived at the Tank Museum.
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The Sukhoi Su-27, nicknamed the “Flanker” by NATO, is a Soviet-made aircraft that has withstood the test of time and continues to perform in almost all aerial warfare operations.The Su-27 was designed ...
Project Stargate sounds like something out of this world – and it kind of is. No, it doesn’t refer to wormholes or the exploration of other planets, but, instead, a Central Intelligence Agency ...
The source was the Duga radar, a critical part of the Soviet Union’s early warning system to detect incoming missiles. The antenna of the Duga radar was huge; 700 meters long and 150 meters high.
The design of Pigeon Lofts changed over the course of the war. The Pigeon Loft was never intended to be used on the battlefield. Once the conflict started, the vehicles were moved from the streets of ...
Combat during the First World War was unlike anything armies had ever seen before, due to the advent of tanks and new, more effective weapons. One of the most lethal was poison gas, which floated ...
Sands of Iwo Jima, 1949.(Photo Credit: bigpix / Republic Pictures / MovieStillsDB) John Wayne stars in one of his most iconic roles as Marine Sgt. John M. Stryker in Sands of Iwo Jima.Stryker is hated ...
Remnants of the Roman-era wall in the Dossone della Melia forest, in the Calabria region of southern Italy. (Photo Credit: American Institute of Archaeology / News Release) As government archaeologist ...
Page from the Primary Chronicle, which depicts Oleg the Wise’s campaign against Constantinople.(Photo Credit: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) The early years of Igor I of Kiev’s reign are ...
In 1976, the US Navy retired its fleet of Vought F-8 Crusaders.The aircraft had an illustrious career, with the greatest kill ratio of all American fighters during the Vietnam War.This meant it wasn’t ...
Good Morning, Vietnam, 1987.(Photo Credit: snoopysflock / Touchstone Pictures / MovieStillsDB) In Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), Robin Williams portrays Adrian Cronauer, a US Air Force sergeant who ...