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A history of this armored car would require a great many pages, devoted to its lengthy and varied service in the British armed services; and it is ...

In 1940 the German automobile builder Vomag, which made trucks and staff buses for the needs of the Wehrmacht, received an order from the military ...

In early 1943 a ten-tube multiple rocket firing system, the Nebelwerfer 41, designed by Rudolf Nebel, was mounted on the chassis of the well-known ...

The first few months of fighting in 1914 gave rise to the picture we have now, that the war, only recently begun, would not just be long and exhaus...

The First World War is remembered as a new type of war, in which such technological developments as the tank and the aircraft were used for the fir...

On the night of July 14th, 1941 less than a month after the beginning of the Eastern Campaign near the Soviet city of Orsha, German troops felt the...

In 1938 the Germany Ministry of Armament issued a technical order to Krupp and Rheinmetall for the production of a 75mm anti-tank gun. As a result ...

The heavy eight wheeled armored car, the Sd.Kfz.234/2 ?Puma?, was one of the finest technical developments of World War II. Apart from the basic mo...

The development of armored cars in Germany began in the late 1920s. In the mid-1930s, when Adolf Hitler brought the Nazis to power, the German army...

In 1916, the French SPAD aircraft company produced one of the most successful fighters of the First World War, SPAD VIIc1, which established for it...

In the early 1930s, a small aircraft manufacturer, the Stearman Aircraft Corporation, proposed its own design for a competition announced by the US...

In the early 1930s, a small aircraft manufacturer, the Stearman Aircraft Corporation, proposed its own design for a competition announced by the US...

Aircraft in WWI often became obsolete, though having barely taken to the air. The fast pace of invention in aircraft design often led to nothing, a...

Aircraft in WWI often became obsolete, though having barely taken to the air. The fast pace of invention in aircraft design often led to nothing, a...

In 1917 the French aircraft manufacturer Soci?t? Anonyme des Establissements Nieuport produced a series of new fighters the Nieuport 24, the Nieupo...

In the middle of 1916 the French aircraft manufacturer SPAD delivered its latest fighter to the Western Front, the SPAD S.VII. This airplane matche...

1915 was a very successful year for the Kaiser's aviation. The arrival of the first true fighter, Fokker's E.III Eindecker, enabled the Germans to ...

At the end of 1917 the aircraft manufacturer Pfalz Flugzeugwerke GmbH Speyer am Rhein produced the Roland D.I and D.II under license. Work on the d...

At the beginning of WWI many aircraft manufacturers experimented with the construction of 'pusher' types, in which the propeller was fitted behind ...

Aircraft in WWI often became obsolete, though having barely taken to the air. The fast pace of invention in aircraft design often led to nothing, a...

One of Germany's biggest companies, Siemens Schuckert Werke was already world renowned at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, first of all in i...

At the beginning of 1916 the British aircraft manufacturer Sopwith produced a very successful single-seat fighter, enshrined in the history of avia...

The appearance of the Albatros D.I and D.I? fighters in 1916 was a very important technical breakthrough in the history of the development of Germa...

The history of the most successful British fighter of the First World War began in 1916, when the Royal Aircraft Factory's talented engineers, H.P....