Military History

From Air Force Magazine, July 2007 A top airpower analyst looks back at the greatest air war that never was. How the West Would Have Won By Christopher J. Bowie Driving through Germany these days, one frequently encounters abandoned runways surrounded by huge, camouflaged, and “hardened” aircraft shelters. Their concrete walls and heavy sliding doors typically are painted a dark green, matching the colors of the surrounding countryside. Future generations may well wonder how and why these relics came to be scattered across Europe. What was their purpose? The answer is that, in the 1980s, those massive shelters housed and protected thousands of sleek fight…

How Wonston ex-Navy chief urged Maggie to recapture Falklands Hampshire.net TWENTY-five years ago, Admiral of the Fleet, Sir Henry Leach, was First Sea Lord and head of the Royal Navy. He famously persuaded Margaret Thatcher the Falkland Islands could be re-taken from the Argentines. Sir Henry, now 83, lives in Wonston, near Sutton Scotney, and gathered with veterans and royalty in central London last Sunday to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the liberation of the South Atlantic islands 8,000 miles from Britain. He was given a place of honour on a red-carpeted dais with other top brass from the services in 1982, Lady Thatcher and Tony Blair, as the Pr…

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Japan's WWII super-submarine found scuttled off Hawaii (CBC News)

IGNORANCE IS RISK THE BIG LESSON FROM DESERT STORM AIR BASE ATTACKS Christopher M. Centner MANY observers have declared that the air campaign was the decisive component of Operation Desert Storm and that air base attacks were a critical component of the campaign. These attacks helped achieve air superiority, destroy many of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, and lessen the long-term threat that Iraq poses to its neighbors. The video images from the campaign tend to give spectators the impression that air base attacks were flawlessly planned and executed. In reality, the anti-air base component of the air campaign highlighted a major--and dangerou…

In 1905, Japanese Battleships Pulverized a Russian Fleet (War is Boring) I recently convinced my oldest daughter to write a paper about the Battle of Tsushima for a college history course. She received an 'A'.

A very interesting list/inventory of Indian Air Force MIG-21s (to be retired September 2025) on the very chaotic bharat-rakshak site, found casually and otherwise very difficult to find!: https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/indianairforce/database/aircraft/listing.php?qacid=50#google_vignette As other examples: https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/indianairforce/database/aircraft/C-1539 https://www.bharat-rakshak.com/indianairforce/database/aircraft/

With the Indian Do-228 and Alize now in the HCDB, we can read this link to the Indian Naval Air Squadron 310 "Cobras" history, in search of inspiration for scenarios in exotic places: http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/NAVY/Aviation/Squadrons/47-INAS-310.html

The interesting PLUTO OTH at RAF Akrotiri, and other glimpses on the Cold War secrets: http://i56578-swl.blogspot.com.es/2015/02/uk-oth-radar-pluto.html https://cryptome.org/2012/01/0060.pdf Others over the horizon radars: https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Category:Radar

As explained: http://www.academia.edu/20424662/Waveforms_for_the_Waves

Very detailed: http://www.f-106deltadart.com/

English variant: https://mig-21.de/english/default.htm

Per CNN. Here.

In Russian, but you can employ on-line translators: http://militaryrussia.ru/blog/topic-465.html

Very interesting site, but mainly photos , about American submarines 1900-1940: http://pigboats.com/

Interesting sonar and towed array photos of contemporary US and Russian submarines, including internal layout/dameged ones: http://imgur.com/a/UlM8T

Historical evolution plainly narrated here: http://www.navairdevcen.org/PDF/THE%20EVOLUTION%20OF%20THE%20SONOBUOY.pdf Other interesting site, some other times referenced: http://www.prc68.com/I/Sonobuoy.shtml http://www.prc68.com/I/crypto.shtml#SOSUS

A topic often discussed on our IRC channel. The Battlecarrier Was Part Battleship, Part Aircraft Carrier (War is Boring blog) And one of the handful of 'hypotheticals' to appear in the HCDB database.

So I was just reading about the Iranian navy and was wondering if anybody knew how the Iranians got their Kilos to Iran? I know they could have gotten them to the Caspian Sea by river but then how to Bander Abbas? Any knowledge would be appreciated. Thanks, David

https://theintercept.com/2016/01/28/israeli-drone-feeds-hacked-by-british-and-american-intelligence/