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In the wake of the T-72 tank's poor performance in the 1991 Gulf War, the Kremlin instructed the Russian tank industry to drop the discredited T-72 designation in favour of the T-90 Vladimir. The T-90 was in fact a further evolution of the T-72 family, but the name change represented an important (...)

Due to Poland's partitions and dissolution in the late eighteenth century, hundreds of thousands of Polish soldiers enlisted in distinct units in the armies of many countries--primarily those of the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, but also those of the German Reich and the French Republic.All (...)

Although not as well-known as the V-1 buzz bomb and the V-2 missile, the first German missiles to see combat were anti-ship missiles, the Henschel Hs.293 guided missile and the Fritz-X guided bomb. These began to see extensive combat in the Mediterranean in 1943. In their most famous use, the (...)

The Battle of the Bulge raises many questions which, until now, have not been adequately answered: How did the major tank types perform during the battle? What were the specific lessons learned' from the combat? And did these lessons result in changes to tanks in the subsequent months?Offering (...)

The 'Soixante quinze', France's legendary 75mm Modele 1897, was the first modern field gun, pioneering several critical innovations in field artillery designs, including a fast action breech and a soft recoil system. Although some of these features had been incorporated into earlier guns, the 75mm (...)

Johanna van Gogh enviudó de Theo, quedando al cuidado de su pequeño hijo, de tan solo un año. Recibió, por toda herencia, algo más de cuatrocientos cuadros y unos setecientos dibujos de su cuñado Vincent, un abultado patrimonio sin valor comercial alguno. Para poder vivir de ese legado, Johanna (...)

La historia del arte de la Antigüedad que me he propuesto no es una mera narración de los periodos y las transformaciones que aquél experimentó, puesto que tomo la palabra historia en el sentido, más amplio, que ésta tiene en la lengua griega, y mi intención no es otra que ofrecer el ensayo de una (...)