Modern War
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The coastal navy of Yugoslavia and its successor Montenegro employed a number of submarine designs for more that seventy years. The remnants are now for sale. more...
Soviet and now Russian cosmonauts have carried firearms in space for decades and continue to do so. more...
From the first Mercury missions to todays Space Shuttle flights US Astronauts have been armed with rugged edged weapons. more...
The USS Card was mined by sappers of a Vietnamese underwater demolition team while docked in the heavily defended Saigon Harbor, then capitol of South Vietnam. more...
The US Marine Corps used horses often over the course of their service. The golden age of these Horse Marines was 1909-1938. more...
The Danish Madsen Light Machinegun was used in a dizzying 40+ variants by no less than 36 countries on five continents over the past three centuries. more...
Designed in 1896 in Denmark, the Madsen Light Machinegun has served dozens of countries in more than a hundred years of warfare from 1904 to the present day more...
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South Africa's WarMemorial, France
By:
Mari Nicholson
121 Officers and 3032 other ranks walked into the woods. Six days later, two officers and 140 other ranks walked out. The numbers still shock. more...
By: Steve Sagarra
The development, test, and use of the first atomic bomb by the United States during World War II. more...
Dan Daly:Legendary Enlisted Marine
By: John Crandall
Daly fought the Boxers in China, the Cacos in Haiti, served aboard numerous ships, fought in the "Bananna wars", and fought the Germans in WWI at Belleau Woods. more...
By: Murray McLeod
This article covers the career of Hughie Edwards in war and peace. One of Bomber Command's legendary figures. Read of his remarkable operational missions. more...
By: John Crandall
This was a hard fought World War I battle that lasted most of a month as U.S. Marines tenaciously drove the Germans out of a strongly fortified wooded position. more...
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