by Ed Nash | Dec 3, 2020 | Military History, Weapons
Throughout the Cold War the Soviet Union, faced with the overwhelming naval superiority of the Western powers, invested heavily in anti-ship missiles. An arms race developed as both sides built better weapons and counters with each spending huge sums of...
by Ed Nash | Dec 2, 2020 | Miscellanous
Since it was established in 1958, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) has protected the airspace above the United States and Canada, watching for intruders and launching interceptors to challenge any that may try to penetrate the defences of...
by Ed Nash | Dec 1, 2020 | Military History, Weapons
Anyone with even a vague interest in the Second World War has probably heard of the STEN submachine gun. Simplicity personified, the STEN was designed when Britain was facing its darkest hour after the fall of France in 1940. Expecting a German invasion and...
by Ed Nash | Nov 30, 2020 | Current Developments, Military History
This is the fourth in a series on the Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) of the Civil Conflict in Burma (also known as Myanmar). See links below for the rest of the series. One of the more powerful of the Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs), the Kachin...
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