Military History

Disbanded in 1992, but reactivated in 2015. Worth of research, perhaps in this Russian Wikipedia article we could find force composition: Link

Chilling Cold War story narrated simply and plainly. Also almost inadvertly featured the mythic "Crazy Ivan" maneouver! Link: http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=45746

When/why did NATO go from referring to these by letter (Y-Class) to spelling the name out (Yankee class)? 1967 CIA Report 1986 document

We known his existence from years ago, but now it's the first time I see this images of F-5E and A-37B tested by the Soviets, after the overruning of the Bien Hoa base in 1975: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGmBdqxrwbw Below a lot of mostly stupid comments, and a very good pun: "It's a MiG-28"!!!

At Fleet Sevastopol Info (in Russian, but the automatic translators are a miracle): http://flot.sevastopol.info/arms/

A very time-limited but very interesting Soviet/Russian Air Units OOB in 1991-1992: http://www.airbase.ru/squad/russia/ And later click on: Авиачасти Дальняя авиация СССР по состоянию на 1991 год (DA Long Range Aviation) Авиация ВМФ СССР по состоянию на 1991 год (VMF Naval Aviation) Авиация ПВО СССР по состоянию на 1991 год (PVO Strany Air Defence Aviation) 4-я Воздушная Армия (Польша, СГВ) по состоянию на 1992 год (4th Aviation Army in Poland) 16-я Краснознаменная Воздушная Армия (Вюнсдорф, ГДР, ГСГВ) по состоянию на 1992 год (16th Red Banner Aviation Army in Germany) 159-й гвардейский истребительный авиационный Новороссийский Краснознамённого орд…

Of the many sites in the Net, I think the better and longer description are on this site (in Russian): http://rbase.new-factoria.ru/missile/wobb/x22/x22.shtml

Looking for Saint Petersburg air defenses I found this web site. I visited it some years ago for WWII German Air Defence and this part is new. Apparently very dense and of complex navigation, as the organization it reflects. Don't miss it, very useful for scenario design. Also the site dates go at least to 2009, not 1990 as the site entry states! As example: Entry: http://www.ww2.dk/new/newindex.htm PVO Strany air defences entry level by weapon type/task: http://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/pvo.htm PVO Strany air defences by region/oblast: http://www.ww2.dk/new/pvo/pvostrany.htm Latvia, Estonia, Leningrad and Pskov air defences level: http://w…

Probably very useful, about the Soviet/Russian designations debate, here a inverse table on Russian Wikipedia between Russian and NATO designations, on inverse direction of the usual: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Кодовые_обозначения_НАТО Also, USSR torpedoes: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F:%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%8B_%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A1%D0%A0

Casual finding looking for data, site about the Spanish Civil War warships: http://www.kbismarck.com/mgl/spanishcivwar.htm

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

My favourite WWII era fighter, the Supermarine Spitfire, entered service 70 years ago today. Link to a collection of articles at Flight International.

Yet mostly classified, but some hints on this series of interesting articles: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1699/1

Probably of great interest, history of the SQS-26 sonar by one of its designers. Thanks Bob Mack. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA538018.pdf

Looking for operative deployment of the SSBN converted in SSN in compliance with the SALT I treaty, I've finded this in the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Thomas_A._Edison_(SSBN-610)

Shamelessly borrowed from the Admiralty Trilogy mailing list Staring at the Sea: the Soviet RORSAT and EOSAT programs (Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, November/December 1999, pdf)

Guns and trains? Yeah, that will be popular. Steam Trains Were 19th-Century Super-Weapons (War is Boring)

A light narrative of SAC operations 1957-1991 in a downloadable PDF, with very useful weapons deployment tables at the end (I think it was mentioned by someone in the Command CMANO fórum, but I was in a military history congress the last week and don't remember it very well): https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B205vpZC1pGmbU9nQjBwZUY2SFE/edit

Part 1: Super Hustler Part 2: FISH Part 3: Kingfish Part 4: Beyond Kingfish

Surviving a Falklands 'suicide' mission By Leesa Rumley Producer, Sea of Fire BBC The destroyer, HMS Coventry was one of four Royal Navy warships sunk during the Falklands conflict 25 years ago this week. Now, the captain and crew tell their story for the first time. HMS Sheffield on fire in the Falklands War on 4 May, 1982 HMS Coventry's sister ship, HMS Sheffield was hit 4 days into the war "It's like a game of chess. You've got to give up some pieces to get checkmate in the end. I was one of those pieces," says Captain David Hart Dyke. He was in command of HMS Coventry when at the height of the Falklands conflict, she was ordered to lure enemy bomb…