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Infantry of the German army could be considered as the best one for it’s time. It had been combined successfully features seemed to be incompatible: high discipline and moral and possibility to show successful tactical i...Читать подробнее >>>
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Soviet armored car BA-10...Читать подробнее >>>
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Samurai Battles puts you in command of brave warriors clashing on the battlefields of feudal Japan! Assemble your army using magnificently detailed and historically accurate miniatures, then fac...Читать подробнее >>>
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It could be supposed that at the moment of battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 the Soviet infantry was weaker than the Wehrmacht’s infantry with technical means, but it had been totally compensated with incredible cour...Читать подробнее >>>
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Soviet 85-mm anti-aircraft gun....Читать подробнее >>>
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The Russian main combat tank T-90 was developed in 1989 by Design Bureau of "Uralvagonzavod" enterprise in Nizhni Tagil, Russia as one more modification of the tank T-72 (T-72BU). In 1993 he was added to armoury with ind...Читать подробнее >>>
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76-mm tank gun L-11, mounted on KV, didn’t prove to be suffi ciently powerful to fi ght Pillboxes and other fortifi cations. A new KV-2 tank, fi tted with the M-10 152-mm howitzer in the turret, was designed for the de...Читать подробнее >>>
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German Heavy Anti-Aicraft Gun FLAK 36/37...Читать подробнее >>>
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On 20 May 1941 German paratroopers landed on the island of Crete occupied by British troops. It was the start of the Operation Mercury, one of the most famous landing operations during World War II. In order to capture a...Читать подробнее >>>
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At the end of the XVIII century the French Revolution radically changed the French army: it became a truly mass, because the draft was introduced. New army required a new permanent structure which would have been able to...Читать подробнее >>>
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During the years of the Afghanistan war the Soviet Army widely used small maneuverable groups to combat enemy convoys and caravans. The units were deployed in helicopters to the place of action. Usually these groups incl...Читать подробнее >>>
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Mi-35 is a multipurpose helicopter gunship, “flying infantry fighting vehicle”, developed in Mil’s Design Bureau. Transport-and-fighting helicopters of that type are designed for destroying of enemy’s armoured troops be ...Читать подробнее >>>
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Since middle of WWII Germany had a shortage of metal, therefore a series of simplifi cations were introduced since 1943 in the manufacturing process of vehicles. These resulted in a design change of the 4,5t heavy tru...Читать подробнее >>>
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Su-50 (T-50) is Russias fifth-generation multirole fighter. It is expected to replace fighters Su-27 and MiG-29 in Russian Air Force. The aircraft is built with the requirements of low radar visibility, and is able to re...Читать подробнее >>>
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In the era of fire-arms the infantry was called “Queen of Battle”. Such name is most suitable for the Russian infantry. Large in number and steady in fighting , this infantry allowed the Russian army to repul...Читать подробнее >>>
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The German heavy tank “Tiger” had been manufactured during only two years – since August of 1942 till August 1944, but it stayed unforgettable in the story of the World War II. Almost impenetrable front armour in combina...Читать подробнее >>>
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Production of the combat helicopter Mi-24V started in 1976. This version was equipped with the radically new antitank missile system “Shturm-V” with guidance system “Raduga-Sh”, capable of s...Читать подробнее >>>
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In May 1989, the 1st squadron of the Kubinka Centre (later the 237th composite air regiment), located near Moscow, received Su-27 fighters. Early in 1991, the six-aircraft aerobatics team was set up. “The Russian K...Читать подробнее >>>
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The cuirassiers were always the elite force of Napoleon’s army. Their crushing close-formation attacks were deservedly hailed as the decisive factor in Napoleon’s success....Читать подробнее >>>
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At the beginning of the WWII on 01 September 1939 the Wehrmacht was equipped with 11.200 anti tank guns 3,7 cm Pak 35/36 that could effectively fight Polish and Soviet light tanks of the early period with their l...Читать подробнее >>>
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Having invaded the Soviet Union on June, 22nd, 1941, the Germans reached the boundaries for attacking Moscow in September. One of the fiercest battles of World War II took place in the western surroundings of Moscow from...Читать подробнее >>>
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The Prussian armi of Frederick II was supposed to be the best in Europe. The Prussian cavalry was the elite of the Prussian army, and "Black Husars" were the elite of Prussian cavalry. Hussar regiments were created by Fr...Читать подробнее >>>
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Eighteen-pound “unicorns” (smoothbore artillery pieces) and 12-pound cannons were widely used in Russia during the War of 1812. In the Battle of Borodino, these guns were stationed on the well known Rayevsky battery s...Читать подробнее >>>
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The Bf-109 F2 was adopted by the Luftwaffe in 1941. Its armament consisted of MG-151 15-mm machine gun, which fi red 950 shots/minute. Its latest feature was the use of an electric drive for its engine overchargers. T...Читать подробнее >>>
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These dragoons successfully fought both in mounted and foot order. The number of Dragoon regiments reached 33. Their most famous action happened in the battle of Lesnaya village when the first corps of Russias armed forc...Читать подробнее >>>
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At the time of beginning of Barbarossa operation the most part of Wehrmacht’s transport vehicles was from lorry had been produced as per “Program of expedited production of lorries” (Schnell Programm). They had sufficien...Читать подробнее >>>
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In 1941-1942 because of high deficiency of anti-tank means the Soviet army had been used for fighting against the German tanks more than 60 thousands dogs trained in accordance with the special program and equipped with ...Читать подробнее >>>
