Weapons and equipment

The patrol vehicles used by Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan and Iraq vary quite dramatically between the theatres as well as amongst the Coalition members, and have been developed and upgraded to meet the demands of the deployment.

The Fairbairn-Sykes Commando dagger has become iconic as the most widely recognized fighting knife in the world.

In the early days of World War I, Germany unveiled a new weapon the mobile 42cm (16.

The formidable Mark IV tank was pitted against the German Army from 1917 until the end of World War I.

As the First World War bogged down across Europe resulting in the establishment of trench systems, artillery began to grow in military importance.

The King's German Legion was the largest and most respected of the foreign corps which fought as integrated elements of the British Army during the Napoleonic Wars.

This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare.

This book details the exploits of the highly skilled Naval Aviators charged with achieving air supremacy over New Guinea in their A6M2/3 Zero-sens.

Named after Klimenti Voroshilov, the People's Commissar for Defence, the KVs proved a nasty surprise for German tank crews during the early days of Operation Barbarossa.

This book responds to an request by the U.

A careful examination of the development of infantry tactics from the late sixteenth to middle seventeenth century.

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Uncover the tactics, training and technology that decided the battle between two of the most famous fighters of World War II.

During World War I, the British adopted the US-designed Lewis gun as an infantry weapon, realizing that its light weight and the fact that it could be fired both prone and on the move made it ideal for supporting advances and defending captured trenches.

The Destroyer Escort was the smallest ocean- going escort built for the United States Navy a downsized destroyer with less speed, fewer guns, and fewer torpedoes than its big brother, the fleet destroyer.

This volume details the design, construction, and operation of the first six of the ten US fast battleships, two of the North Carolina class and four of the South Dakota class.

This edited collection considers the future of nuclear weapons in world politics in terms of security issues that are important for U.

A history of the Soviet Navy's cruisers, from the opening shots of the October Revolution through to the combat they saw during World War II.

With heightened tensions mounting in the Cold War, President Dwight Eisenhower's request for more accurate intelligence information on the Soviet Union was the spark that ignited the U-2 project.

Between 1890 and 1920 the US Army underwent profound changes in organization, function, composition and appearance.

In March 1941, an anti-German coup in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia prompted Hitler to order an invasion using allied Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian forces.

The M8 light armored car was the only significant wheeled combat vehicle used by the US Army in World War II.

Featuring first-hand accounts from the men flying it, and the men on the ground relying on it for protection, an illustrated history of the unique role played by this aircraft in the war in Vietnam, right up to its possible role in a tactical nuclear strike and as a mobile nuclear deterrent.

The British Army's Challenger II Main Battle Tank is one of the most awesome war machines ever built.

Throughout the wars undertaken by Frederick the Great, probably his greatest resource was his infantry.

The super-heavy tanks of World War II are heirs to the siege machine tradition a means of breaking the deadlock of ground combat.

This book completes an authoritative two-part study on the Standard-type US battleships of World War II ships that were designed to fight a different type of war than the one that unfolded.

The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, ranging from the mid-seventeenth century to the present day.

Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the American atomic bomb, the decision to use it against Japan, and the origins of U.

"e;This microhistory of the birth, life, and death of an American cruiser offers valuable insight into the early years of World War II, including the procedures, processes, and personnel of the Navy, naval life, and naval warfare.

In the age of modern warfare the changing landscape of the 21st century battlefield has demanded a transformation within the US Marine Corps Special Operations.

Pivotal to modern warfare, tanks have dominated the battlefield for over a century.

Featuring illustrations throughout, a detailed exploration of the unlikely aces among the Austro-Hungarians.

Designed and produced under the regulations of the Washington Naval Treaty, the heavy cruisers of the Pensacola, Northampton, Portland, New Orleans and Wichita classes were exercises in compromise.

The great warship the Mary Rose was built between 1509 and 1511 and served 34 years in Henry VIII's navy before catastrophically sinking in the Battle of the Solent on 19 July 1545.

This groundbreaking book covers every aspect of deadly toxic chemicals used as weapons of mass destruction and employed in conflicts, warfare and terrorism.

A highly illustrated study of the T-54 Main Battle Tank and its variants that formed the backbone of the Soviet Army during the years of the Cold War.

The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan.

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The First Carlist War broke out after the death of King Ferdinand VII, the king restored at the end of the Peninsular War thanks to Wellington's victory.

Operating astride and above the Arctic Circle, Luftwaffe pilots fought an isolated and almost self-contained war facing environmental challenges in freezing skies that set their experiences apart from those of any other pilots in World War 2.

An in-depth, illustrated history of Israeli Air Force operations in Western Negev toward the end of the Arab-Israeli War.

In June 1941 the US Army's air organisations were consolidated under a single command, the Army Air Forces or AAF.

Weapons of myth and scandal, that is the best way to describe the spigot weapons deployed by the British in the Second World War.

During the Vietnam War, both the United States and the Soviet Union supplied all manner of weapon systems to the opposing sides, including tanks and armoured vehicles.

During the Second World War navies developed low visibility camouflage for their ships, on both the vertical and horizontal surfaces, in order reduce visibility by blending in with the sea, or confuse the identity of a ship by applying more obtrusive patters.

An enthralling insight into the technical side of the secret war behind enemy lines, as SOE and OSS operatives attempted to sabotage the Axis war effort.

A rich and ambitious history reframing the Industrial Revolution, the expansion of the British empire, and the emergence of industrial capitalism as inextricable from the gun trade.

It is hard to convey the public impact of France's war to maintain her colonial grip on Algeria.

The Civil Wars single-shot, muzzle-loading musket revolutionized warfare-or so weve been told for years.