Military History

The Bomb Didn't Beat Japan... Stalin Did (Foreign Policy)

A very interesting and concise entry on Wikipedia About USAFE, full of ideas for Cold War scenarios: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Air_Forces_in_Europe

Two items stand out in naval history on today's date. First, the destruction of the Royal Navy's battlecruiser HMS Hood at the hands of the Nazi battleship Bismarck, on 24 May 1941. And, the rescue of 33 sailors from the sunken USS Squalus, on 24 May 1939:

I saw very scarce publications and with few data about naval decoy launchers evolution and history. This page probably has interest about the topic, and yes, now the automatic translators do well his job and almost anything is understable later. http://www.mdc.idv.tw/mdc/navy/usanavy/E-countermeasure-SRBOC.htm I used this translator in the site of the Spain most popular newspaper, but it is probably the versión of any other of common use, and I think you can use also any other: http://servicios.elpais.com/traductor/?sl=es&tl=zh-CHS&slurl=es&tlurl=zh-CHS 起源 在1960年代，美國海軍使用的艦載誘餌是CHAFFROC ，主要彈種為MK-76金屬干擾絲火箭，改裝自空Zuni 五吋空射火箭彈。CHAFFROC主要採用擾亂（Distraction ）模式操作，在…

I'm not sure if we known this site with construction number details: http://www.uswarplanes.net/index.htm http://www.uswarplanes.net/c130.HTML

The use of drones is on the media headlines from 2002, but they were in the aviation history from his very begin. A few known fact is they were extensively used in the Vietnam War. As instance, at least 578 were lost over North Vietnam and China between 1964-1975. A very interesting report about it of ACIG here: http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_344.shtml

The 1983 War Scare (National Security Archive)

Adm. Sir Max Horton and Western Approaches Command: Turning the tide in the Battle of the Atlantic (Defense Media Network)

From Air Force Times [excerpt]

Cancelled: Britains High-Mach Heartbreak (Air & Space Magazine)

Digesting the new planes in the DB. I think these sites are worth of mention: About the Buccaneer, SAAF and other SA planes (on this site they're great ideas and data for the DB. The data values I think were obtained directly of the SAAF, and illustrated some obscure data no habitually represented): http://www.saairforce.co.za/the-airforce/a...uccaneer-s-mk50 IPMS of South Africa: http://img.ipmssa.za.org/index.php/knowled...neer-smk50-saaf Splendid site about the Buccaneer: http://www.blackburn-buccaneer.co.uk/0_Contents.html

Some in-depth articles, but only in Spanish language: http://www.u-historia.com/uhistoria/tecnico/intecnico.htm

A lot of information, but I think it will be difficult to separate concrete data from too much information ... http://www.rnmuseumradarandcommunications2006.org.uk/HOME_PAGE.html http://www.rnmuseumradarandcommunications2006.org.uk/PAGE%2019.htm

50 Years Later: The Legacy of USS Thresher (USNI News)

Simple and fascinating: http://es.scribd.com/doc/119476487/Utility-Flight-Hb-1-Mar-1959

A curious site with a lot of cruise books. Perousing in the commisioning or cruise books you can sometimes find valuable or unknown data, but regrettably very few times (Recently I saw in a commisioning book of HMS Eagle she was equipped with a multipurpose Sonar 184 (also for torpedo avoidance) from the 1964 refit, and I suppose also HMS Ark Royal from the 1964 refit). These sonars are not listed in any database, and probably them were previously equipped with Sonar 132 or other passive torpedo avoidance sonar, as the other big British warships. http://www.axfordsabode.org.uk/comishbk.htm As example http://www.axfordsabode.org.uk/pdf-docs/arkroy10.pdf were we can see…

Apparently a little more serious than other Russian sites, including fighter bases. Also, I almost don't feel as strange to brownse in Russian sites easily without known Russian language (And my region in Spain is full of Russian inmigrants, it's usual for me to hear Russian daily, and it's a sweet tongue, perhaps some day I would understand it ...): http://tu-128.ru/

Never forget the very difficult to find and complete Russian Aircraft Museum by Alexander Savine (last update 1998!!!!): http://www.ctrl-c.liu.se/misc/ram/alphabet.html

Discovered a few minutes ago, a British warships photo collection (only 1980s?) by Beareye2010, with interesting comments, some 2297 photos !!!: http://www.flickr.com/photos/50256734@N05/with/5476848243/#photo_5476848243

The 24 year anniversary is fast approaching ... The Komsomolets Disaster (Studies in Intelligence, 1995 issue, CIA Library)