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The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive launched through the densely forested Ardennes mountain region of Wallonia in Belgium, and France and Luxembourg on the Western Front towards the end of World War II. The Wehrmacht’s code name for the offensive was Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein (“Operation …

Battle of the Heligoland   image from cranstonfinearts The Battle of the Heligoland Bight was the first “named” air battle of the Second World War, which began the longest air campaign of the war, the Defence of the Reich. On 3 September 1939, the United Kingdom declared war on Nazi Germany …

On 19 December in 1941, limpet mines placed by Italian divers sink the HMS Valiant (1914) and HMS Queen Elizabeth (1913) in Alexandria harbour. The Raid on Alexandria was carried out on 19 December 1941 by Italian Navy divers, members of the Decima Flottiglia MAS, who attacked and disabled two …

Rare Footage of China New Fighter jets in Action Released on first day of Lunar New Year Article originally appeared on mail online  on the first day of the Lunar New Year China’s Air Force  posted a video to show its military power . Video is featuring China two  new …

F-22 RAPTOR DEMO ! MCAS Miramar Air Show In this video: Air Combat Command F-22 Raptor Demonstration Team, and United States Air Force Heritage Flight. Watch as Major Henry “Schadow” Schantz performs a demonstration on the third of three days at the Miramar Air Show on this hot, humid 86 …

On October 21st, 2011, Thomas Senkel of e-volo made the first manned flight with an electric multicopter (VTOL), the so called volocopter VC1, at an airstrip in the southwest of Germany. The flight lasted 90 seconds, after which the constructor and test pilot stated: “The flight characteristics are good natured. …

Sound travels at about 760 miles per hour, or 340 meters per second, and about 661 knots on an average day at sea level. And sometimes, you can almost see it. Going close to that speed through the air can cause some unusual visual effects. This compiled footage includes F-14s, …

The TU-144 Story! Why You Wouldn’t Want to Fly On The Soviet Concorde While the Concorde is often hailed as a triumph of modern engineering, the first supersonic transport to ever fly was actually Soviet-built. The Tupolev TU-144 flew even faster than the Concorde and it carried more passengers. What …

Aerial view of an atomic bomb explosion This is an aerial shot from Operation Buster Jangle shot Easy. November 5, 1951 detonated in Area 7 of the Nevada Test Site. 31 KT. A very famous shot. See it in “Atomic Filmmakers.” Silent.

Iraq received T-90 tanks from Russia Article Originally appeared on AMN  Russia delivered a batch of T-90 tanks to the Iraqi military on Wednesday Russians delivered a total of 73 T-90 tanks to the Iraqi military. The Iraqi military has already received the necessary training to utilize these advanced tanks, …