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The FN FiveseveN Pistol
Designed to defeat Soviet body armor, the 5.7 came out too late for the Cold War but has found a use with Special Units around the world.
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Baltic Air Policing by NATO
When the three Baltic States joined NATO in 2004, the next day member nations sent in air support to protect them.
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Baltic Air Defense After 1994
When the Soviets left in 1994, the three Baltic countries immediately began building an air defense organization.
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Ilse Koch She Wolf of the SS
Ilse Koch was possibly the worst and most notorious of all of the female SS Nazi's in the terrible Concentration Camps of World War Two.
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The Battleships of Chile
Chile, part of a three-way South American Naval Race just before world war one ordered a pair of Battleships from Britain that went on to lead a life on their own.
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The Battleships of Brazil
Brazil started a South American Naval Race between the three "ABC" countries when she ordered a class of new Dreadnoughts in 1906
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Overview of South American Battleships
Argentina and Chile entered a three-way Naval Arms Race with Brazil just before World War One that led to a half century of South American battleships.
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The Inglourious Basterds in Historical Reference
The commando unit in the movie Inglourious Basterds has some basis in fact with actual operations in World War Two.
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Jack Hinson's One Man War: A Civil War Sniper
A look at author Lt Col Tom C McKenney ( USMC retired) new book about unknown Confederate Sniper Jack Hinson's One Man War: A Civil War Sniper
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Wax Bullets in Modern Combat
Designed for low-cost training, these rounds have always been in the background of Police and Military use.
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Wooden Bullets Used in Peace and War
Designed for training and practice, these less-than lethal wooden bullets were often used in combat over the last 100 years
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The Ise Class Battleships 1916-1945
Born in the First World War and converted in peacetime, these durable and proud battleships found their end at the close of the Second World War.
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The WWII Hybrid Battleship Carriers of Japan
Meant to bridge the gap between carriers and surface ships, the old battleships Ise and Hyuga of the Japanese Navy underwent an odd conversion
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The Heavy Cruiser IJNS Mogami
The INJS Mogami was a modern and unique vessel in the Imperial Japanese Navy in WWII and became one of the world's only cruiser-carriers.
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The Japanese Mogami Class Cruisers
The Mogami class heavy cruisers of the Imperial Japanese Navy were a supporting actor in the great naval Battles in the Pacific in World War Two
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Adolph Hofrichter Officer Murderer
Oberleutanant Adolph Hofrichter, in an attempt to gain promotion, set out to murder ten officers ahead of him for an appointment to the General Staff Academy in 1909.
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Use of the SKS Today
A product of WWII, SKS rifle, withdrawn from Soviet front line use in the 1950s is still seen all over the world in military and police use.
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The Military History of the SKS
The SKS-45 rifle was seen in one form or another on virtually every Cold War battlefield in the latter part of the 20th Century.
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SKS Assault Rifle Variants
Designed in the Soviet Union the SKS rifle was produced in no less than 8 countries in several variants over the past sixty years.
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The Origin and Design of the SKS
Springing from an evolution of designs by Sergei Gavrilovich Simonov, the SKS became one of the first assault rifles.
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Union Submarines of the Civil War
From a slow start the US Navy experimented with several submarines in the Civil War.
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Confederate Submarines of the Civil War
The Confederate Navy designed and used a number of submarine craft to varying degrees of success in the Civil War.
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Submarines of the US Civil War
Both sides in the Civil War designed and built submarines of various kinds with mixed results.
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Albert Pierce and the Battle of Mobile Bay
Plucked from Mobile Bay during the 1864 battle, Alfred Pierce told how he and his secret sub attacked a Union warship
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The Accidental Army Documentary
The 1914-1920 Czech Legion is the focus of a new documentary entitled "The Accidental Army: The Amazing True Story of the Czechoslovak Legion" by the Czech Legion Project
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