Antonov An-2, The Plane That Can Fly Backwards!

by War History Online - 

Last year, North Korea showed off a new camouflage scheme for one of its military aircraft. Kim Jong-Un himself was shown at the controls of one of the planes. The plane was not a new jet; it was a 1940’s biplane. The An-2 can fly low and very slow, useful if one wants to drop commandos behind their southern neighbor’s border without being seen on radar.
The new scheme is green on top and blue on the bottom, obscuring the plane from view both above and below. But, you may ask, why are the North Koreans still flying a bi-plane from the 40’s in 2016?
First flown in 1947, the Soviet Union developed the Antonov An-2, as they were rebuilding from World War II. On its first flight, it already seemed like an anachronism. Aviation was already in the jet age by that point. But the incredible sound design of the plane has kept it in use in the thousands around the globe for 70 years. Plus, it has some amazing features like its remarkable short take-off and landing distances. Also, it can fly backwards.

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Α)Unearthed Inscription May Unlock Mysteries of the Etruscan Language

• by Allison Meier

The Etruscan stele discovered in the foundations of a monumental temple, where it had been for over 2,500 years (courtesy Mugello Valley Project)

The few examples of Etruscan language that survive tell more about the dead than the everyday lives of the living, being mostly eulogies in tombs of the elite. The longest known text — and the only linen work to make it to the modern age — is a calendar reused in the binding of an Egyptian mummy. So the recent discovery of a four-foot high, 500-pound sandstone stele at Poggio Colla northeast of Florence that has around 70 legible letters and punctuation marks is huge for the study of this ancient civilization.

40 images of captured Sherman tanks in German hands!

by Jack - 

 

 

All through the history of warfare, soldiers always knew how to make good use of captured equipment. Clothing, food, and inevitably, weapons. The latter were especially attractive if they were easier to obtain and of better quality then the ones issued to troops originally. Using the enemy’s weapons did mean on the other hand that ammunition and spare parts were sometimes hard to get, and in the case of vehicles, one had to be careful not to be shot by friendly forces.

 

During World War II the German forces made extensive use of captured equipment.  This started directly after invading Czechoslovakia and it also took place in France, Belgium and The Netherlands. I am referring to vehicles like the LT vz.38 Skoda, later used by the German 7th and 8th armoured divisions, the French Char B1bis, the Somua S-35 and the Renault R-35. [The Germans made good use of some DAF M38 armoured cars, captured in The Netherlands during the Blitzkrieg in 1940, and transported to the USSR, and deployed in the fights against the soviet partisans.
The Russian T-34 tank was used a lot by the German forces, usually with very large white Balkenkreuz markings to prevent being shot by their own comrades. In North Africa also, British and American equipment and vehicles were used by the German forces, often to compensate for the huge shortages of material.

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U.S. sends Lebanese military 3 helicopters

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BEIRUT — The United States on Thursday delivered three military helicopters to Lebanon to help the country's armed forces in their battle against extremists near the border with Syria.
Thursday's delivery of three Huey II helicopters raises to 10 the number of such U.S.-made aircraft in Lebanon's fleet.

Εγκαινιάστηκαν τα γραφεία Ηρακλείου της ΛΑ.Ε. παρουσία Ν. Χουντή | Φωτός

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Πραγματοποιήθηκαν, χθές Τετάρτη 30 Μαρτίου το απόγευμα, με επιτυχία τα εγκαίνια των γραφείων της Λαϊκής Ενότητας στο Ηράκλειο, παρουσία του ευρωβουλευτή της ΛΑ.Ε. Νίκου Χουντή τα οποία μετατράπηκαν τελικά σε ανοικτή πολιτική συγκέντρωση με ομιλία και συζήτηση, στην πλ. Δασκαλογιάννη.
Ο Νίκος Χουντής στην ομιλία του αναφέρθηκε:

• Στο κεντρικό πρόβλημα της Ελλάδας
• Στο πρόγραμμα της ΛΑ.Ε. για ρήξη, ανατροπή και την άλλη πορεία που χρειάζεται η χώρα
• Με ειδικές αναφορές στο ασφαλιστικό, στο προσφυγικό, το ΝΑΤΟ και την Ελληνοτουρκική εμπλοκή, αλλά και στην προχθεσινή προσχηματική συζήτηση στη βουλή που ενώ υποτίθεται συζητιόταν η διαπλοκή, όλοι κατάλαβαν ότι ήταν για να αποσπασθεί η προσοχή από την καταστροφική πολιτική για την κοινωνία και από τα νέα μέτρα κόστους 5,8 δις που έρχονται.

Ακολούθησαν ερωτήσεις και τοποθετήσεις φίλων και μελών της ΛΑΕ και τα εγκαίνια έκλεισαν με μουσική από το μουσικό συγκρότημα «Δραβίδες» και τον Δ. Ζαχαριουδάκη.

Είχαν προηγηθεί η συνέντευξη τύπου του ευρωβουλευτή στα γραφεία της ΛΑ.Ε και οι συναντήσεις του με τα Δ.Σ. των Δικηγόρων και των Φαρμακοποιών όπου αφού είχε προηγηθεί ενημερωτική συζήτηση στα επι μέρους προβλήματα, επιβεβαιώθηκε:

• Ότι το γενικό πρόγραμμα (το 3ο μνημόνιο, όσο και τα δύο προηγούμενα) δεν βγαίνει.
• Ότι χρειάζεται ανατροπή στην πορεία της χώρας για να βρεθεί λύση και λύσεις στο γενικό και στα επιμέρους,
• Ιδιαίτερη αντιμετώπιση και προετοιμασία (ενημέρωση και σχέδιο) απαιτείται για τα κόκκινα δάνεια και την πρώτη κατοικία
• Σημαντικό ρόλο στον αγώνα αυτό έχει η λαϊκή συμμετοχή όπως και οι φορείς αλλά και τα επι μέρους κινήματα.

«Δεν πείραζε μύγα, τώρα είναι εκτελεστής του Ισλαμικού Κράτους»

Δεν πείραζε μύγα, τώρα είναι εκτελεστής του Ισλαμικού Κράτους»

Posted by: Vassilis Batzis in Διεθνή, Ειδήσεις, Προτεινόμενα 4 ώρες ago 0 Comments 4 Views

Είναι από τις περιπτώσεις που δεν μπορείς να αναγνωρίσεις το ίδιο σου το «αίμα». Ένας άνθρωπος φιλήσυχος, που ανατράφηκε με τα κηρύγματα αγάπης του Ισλάμ μαθαίνοντας να σέβεται τους συνανθρώπους του, έχει εξελιχθεί σε έναν από τους αρχιεκτελεστές του Ισλαμικού Κράτους, πρωταγωνιστώντας στα βίντεο φρίκης που δημοσιεύουν οι τζιχαντιστές.
Μετά τις τρομοκρατικές επιθέσεις στις Βρυξέλλες, ο Χιτσάμ Τσαϊμπ είναι αυτός που ανέλαβε να επικροτήσει εκ μέρους του ISIS σε δημόσια «θέα» το μακελειό στο αεροδρόμιο και το Μετρό της βελγικής πρωτεύουσας, εκτελώντας ακολούθως έναν άγνωστο φυλακισμένο με μια σφαίρα στο πίσω μέρος του κεφαλιού του.

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A)Europe Courting Godfather Erdogan

by Judith Bergman

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7719/eu-turkey-migration

• Erdogan has boasted that he is proud of boldly blackmailing EU leaders into paying him protection money.
• Erdogan's threats were almost criminally sinister: "... the EU will be confronted with more than a dead boy on the shores of Turkey. There will be 10,000 or 15,000. How will you deal with that?"
• According to the agreement, 80 million Turkish citizens will have visa-free access to the European Union.
• The nightmare scenario for a desperate EU is that no matter how much it bows to extortionist demands from Turkey, the migrant crisis will continue to grow. Even if Turkey closes down all migrant routes from Turkey into Europe, refugees could take new routes through North Africa or the Caucasus.
• Meanwhile, 800,000 migrants are currently on Libyan territory waiting to cross the Mediterranean, according to French Defense Minister Jean-Yves le Drian.

4 Reasons Hannibal Couldn’t Win the War for Carthage

by Willian Mclaughlin - 

Hannibal Barca inflicted one of the worst defeats ever suffered by the Roman army at the battle of Cannae. Nearly 70,000 men were killed in the heart of Italy by Hannibal’s much smaller army. This was far from the only disaster that Rome suffered in the early years of the Second Punic War. Hannibal played on the Roman general’s over-aggression at the battle of the Trebia River and ambushed the Romans after they crossed a freezing river.

Shooting the 88mm FLAK Gun (Watch)

by Joris Nieuwint

Watch this original WWII 88mm FLAK (Flieger Abwehr Kanone) being fired over and over, and over.
The 8.8 cm Flak 18/36/37/41 (commonly called the eighty-eight) was a German 88 mm anti-aircraft and anti-tank artillery gun from World War II. It was widely used by Germany throughout the war, and was one of the most recognized German weapons of that conflict. Development of the original model led to a wide variety of guns.
The name applies to a series of related guns, the first one officially called the 8.8 cm Flak 18, the improved 8.8 cm Flak 36, and later the 8.8 cm Flak 37. Flak is a contraction of German Flugzeugabwehrkanone meaning “aircraft-defense cannon”, the original purpose of the eighty-eight. In English, “flak” became a generic term for ground anti-aircraft fire. In informal German use, the guns were universally known as the Acht-acht (“eight-eight”).

Tiger`s reputation may be in need of a rewrite

 

“To a New Yorker like you, a hero is a weird type of sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers.” The line is from the 1970 Second World War comedy Kelly’s Heroes: Donald Sutherland’s early-hippie tank commander Oddball had grave misgivings about pitting his American Sherman against a trio of feared German Tiger tanks.

 

Brad Pitt’s murderous Wardaddy character faces a similar, though decidedly bloodier dilemma in the newly released movie Fury when his squad of four Shermans faces off against a “goddamn Tiger” deep inside Germany late in the war. As the introduction grimly informs us: “U.S. tank crewmen suffered staggering losses” when up against superior German tanks such as the Tiger. A hulking Tiger is also one of the last things Capt. John Miller, played by Tom Hanks, sees before dying in Saving Private Ryan .
Whenever Hollywood shifts its attention to Second World War tank combat, the German Panzerkampfwagen VI, aka the Tiger, inevitably lumbers into view, more often than not pitted against the thinly-armoured though heroically-crewed Sherman tanks that were a mainstay of the American, British and Canadian armies. It’s a classic David and Goliath match-up, but with armour-piercing shells in place of rocks and foreheads.

Top 15 Worst Nazis

by War History Online - 

 

The Third Reich, which lasted from 1933 to 1945, was one of the most, if not the evilest regime in history.

 

It attracted some of the most wicked characters who, given unprecedented power over life and death, made the killing of millions of people into state policy.
Some of the most infamous and evil Nazis that were responsible for the Holocaust include:

10 Interesting Facts About The End Of The First World War

by Colin Fraser

 

Here are ten interesting facts about the Armistice, that ended WW II.

Operation Jericho – Mosquito Attack on Amiens Prison – Success or Bloodbath?

by Nikola Budanovic - 

Operation Jericho was an air raid conducted by the RAF with an intention to free the captives of the Nazi-held Amiens prison in France. The raid happened on 18 February 1944, and though it wasn’t a large-scale operation, its precision and accuracy meant that it contributed greatly to the war effort and helped to raise the morale of the French, living under Nazi occupation.
In Amiens there was a high-security Nazi prison which held 717 prisoners, most of them being captured resistance fighters and political figures that were captured due to their support for the rebellion against Nazi occupation.

The Anatomy of a Dirigible: Photos of detailed construction of an Airship

Airship is a type of an aerostat, with an impressive structure and really impressive terminology, we really  got blown away by the wide spectrum of names there are for an aircraft (aerostat, airship, dirigible, zeppelin, blimp, lighter-than-air- aircraft ).
Dirigible can navigate through the air under its own power. Aerostats gain their lift from large gas bags filled with a lifting gas that is less dense than the surrounding air.
In early dirigibles, the lifting gas used was hydrogen, due to its high lifting capacity and ready availability. Helium gas has almost the same lifting capacity and is nonflammable, unlike hydrogen, but is rare and relatively expensive. Significant amounts were first discovered in the United States and, for a while, helium was rarely used for airships outside the United States. Most airships built since the 1960s have used helium, though some have used hot air.Airships were the first aircraft capable of controlled powered flight, and were most commonly used before the 1940s, but their use decreased over time as their capabilities were surpassed by those of aeroplanes. Their decline was accelerated by a series of high-profile accidents, including the 1930 crash and burning of British R101 in France, the 1933 storm-related crash of the USS Akron and the 1937 burning of the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg. From the 1960s, helium airships have been used in applications where the ability to hover in one place for an extended period outweighs the need for speed and manoeuvrability such as advertising, tourism, camera platforms, geological surveys, and aerial observation.

He slammed his hand on the table and said to Hitler “I will not take orders from a local Nazi chieftan”… and got away with it

by Joris Nieuwint - 

This is General Dietrich von Saucken. As you can see, he is literally the archetypal monocled patrician Prussian general.
In World War I, he was wounded seven times in battle, and decorated very highly for valour. He stayed in the German army, and at one point was posted to Russia, where he learned to speak the language.
He served in numerous battles of World War II, being decorated many more times. He had a reputation for trying to save as many of his men as possible.

The WWII tandem-winged & twin-engined British experimental plane

Maximum speed: 102 mph. source

Libellula, a tandem-winged and twin-engined British experimental plane which gives the pilot an excellent view for landing on aircraft carriers.

The M.35 was completed and flown in six weeks but proved to be unstable. Wind tunnel tests showed the problems to be curable and George Miles conceived a heavy bomber, the M.39, to be powered by three turbojet engines, or in its initial form with two high-altitude Rolls-Royce Merlin 60s or Bristol Hercules VIIIs.

A five-eighths scale model of the bomber was built and designated M.39B, flying for the first time on 22 July 1943 and proving to be aerodynamically stable. Flight trials were initially on a private basis, but in 1944 the M.39B went to the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, where it suffered two accidents. After extensive repairs the work ended.

April 1941: Operation “Marita” and the Greek “Maginot Line” that cost the nazi Germans dearly

by Pierre Kosmidis - 

 

 

On October 28th, 1940, fascist Italy launched an unprovoked and ultimately disastrous attack on Greece which signaled it’s entry in World War Two.

For Sale: 1944 North American P-51D Mustang

For sale, by court order this amazing P-51D Mustang! It feels like a barn find but it probably isn’t, you can’t fly it straight away as it is in need of some serious tender love and care!
1944 North American P-51D Mustang 25NT
Serial #44-84896
Comes with an additional Packard Rolls Royce V150-9 Engine