As sparse as the selection was, we were perpetually glued to the television set. There was usually a movie a night. They were often a few years old, after being shown in the movie theaters. If the movie wasn’t shown in the theaters it would be called a “World Premiere Movie”. Tel...
Operation Barbarossa: At dawn on June 22, 1941, more than four million Axis soldiers (of whom at least three million were German), 3,360 tanks, and 7,000 artillery pieces -- supported by 2,000 aircraft -- stormed across the German-Soviet border. What Russia called the Great Patriotic Wa...
“When the Houthis seized control of Sanaa in 2014, they got thousands of missiles and rockets,” he said, including Soviet-era Scuds, Grads and Smerch launchers. But they, too, rely on Iran to develop, modify and upgrade existing arms and manufacture drones. “There’s enough evidence to...
According to military research documents and studies, the U.S. began using giant trains of balloons and sensors that were strung together and stretched more than 600 feet as part of an early effort to detect Soviet missile launches during the post-World War II era. They called it Project Mog...
President John Fitzgerald Kennedy warned the Soviet Union that if they launched missiles from Cuba against any country, the U.S would be forced to use nuclear weapons on Russia. The issue was resolved when Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev called for the removal of the Soviet missiles from Cuba....
I can find no evidence…[t]hat defense is really suffering.”Footnote 3 Though Terman’s remarks were not exactly fresh, their timing would ultimately prove uncanny. Midday on 4 October 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1 into Earth’s orbit.Footnote 4 Terman’s public ...
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The pigs, led by Napoleon and Snowball, represent the ruling class in the Soviet government, with Napoleon specifically symbolizing Joseph Stalin. The other farm animals represent the working class and the general population of Russia. The story shows how the animals overthrow their oppressive human...
Soviet ships would exit the Black Sea, head towards anchorage, and sit there for weeks or months, maybe making a show the flag visit to either an ally or someone they wanted to intimidate. Their ships were very fierce looking with all kinds of missiles and launchers showing. That was ...
By the 1980s, Western and Soviet tanks were mostly armed with smoothbore cannons of around 120mm, which remains the standard today. But the next generation of tanks may be armed with bigger guns. The Main Ground Combat System, a joint French-German initiative to develop a main battle ...