Archive for April, 2009
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: African-Americans in WWII
A small gallery of photos showing African-American soldiers during the Second World War. About 125,000 blacks served in US combat units overseas during the war. “Many soldiers of color served their country with distinction during World War II. There were 125,000 African Americans who were overseas in World War II. Famous segregated units, such as [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Second World War, Panzertruppen
A small gallery of German tank forces during the Second World War. Includes some rarely-seen color photos of Panzertruppen commanders. “The mainstay of the Panzerwaffe was the Panzer division. These consisted of a panzer brigade (two tank regiments) and two motorized or mechanized infantry regiments. All forces of a Panzer division were mobile. Support elements [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: The US in Second World War
A photo gallery of the US soldiers and civilians in the Second World War. “As with World War I, the United States did not enter World War II until after the rest of the active Allied countries had done so. The United States’s first contribution to the war was simultaneously to cut off the oil [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Second World War, part 2
A collection of various photos from the Second World War. The second gallery. Photos of various events and people in no particular order. “The start of the war is generally held to be September 1 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Germany[4] by most of the countries in [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Second World War, part 1
A collection of various photos from the Second World War. The first gallery. “The start of the war is generally held to be September 1 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and subsequent declarations of war on Germany[4] by most of the countries in the British Empire and Commonweath, and by France.[5][6] Many belligerents [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: The Battle of Kursk, part 2
The second part of the gallery of the Battle of Kursk, the greatest tank battle of all times. “The Battle of Kursk refers to German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest series [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: The Battle of Kursk, part 1
The first part of the gallery of the Battle of Kursk, the greatest tank battle of all times. “The Battle of Kursk refers to German and Soviet operations on the Eastern Front of World War II in the vicinity of the city of Kursk in July and August 1943. It remains both the largest series [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
Photos: Eastern Front
A small collection of Second World War photos from the Eastern Front in no particular order. “It was the largest theatre of war in history and was notorious for its unprecedented ferocity, destruction, and immense loss of life. It bore the bulk of the Holocaust as the site of all extermination camps, death marches, ghettos, [...]
Posted on April 30, 2009 - by Venik
The Road to Afghanistan
The expedient defeat of NATO-sponsored Georgian army last August by the Russians left many hardliners in Washington and Brussels itching to respond. NATO’s decision to break formal contacts with Russia was a testament to NATO’s own political weakness. To add to the Alliance’s humiliation, the economic crisis forced the West to seek improved relations with [...]
Posted on April 28, 2009 - by Venik
Russian Frigate Detains Somalian Pirates
The “Admiral Panteleyev” frigate of Russia’s Pacific Fleet detained a suspected pirate vessel with 29 aboard around 6pm Moscow time on Tuesday 15 kilometers from the shores of Somalia. In addition to the crew, the detained vessel was carrying seven AK-47s, various types of handguns, aluminum ladders with grappling hooks, satellite navigation equipment, multiple fuel [...]
Posted on April 26, 2009 - by Venik
Su-35 Crashed in Russia
According the Russian media, a Su-35-4 (third flying prototype) crashed on Sunday around 11am local time while taking off from the runway of Sukhoi’s KnAAPO manufacturing plant in Komsomolsk-na-Amure. It has been reported that the aircraft collided with an unidentified obstacle at the end of the runway and was completely destroyed. Yevgeniy Frolov, one of [...]
Posted on April 24, 2009 - by Venik
Silver Lining
State Duma – the lower house of the Russian Parliament – voted over the objections of the Communist Party to adopt the redesigned red star marking for military aircraft. The new design is similar to the old one, but features a smaller red star surrounded by a thin blue border. Unexpectedly, the new legislature was [...]
Posted on April 21, 2009 - by Venik
Open-Sourcing JSF
The Wall Street Journal reports that Chinese hackers broke into the Department of Defense computer systems and stole several terabytes of information related to the $300-billion Joint Strike Fighter project. Let’s imagine that three terabytes (this would be the minimum to qualify as “several”) of data were transferred over a 10-mbps connection. This is a [...]
Posted on April 20, 2009 - by Venik
Loudicrous
It seems Lou Dobbs decided to join the choir of starry-eyed optimists who believe that the recession is over that the American economy will begin to recover any month now. Lou, what is the point of parading Nobel Prize-winning economists on your show if all you do is interrupt them with your idiotic ideas? I [...]
