Had another chance to talk with Prof. Alaric Searle of the University of Salford on the ongoing war in Ukraine and related subjects.
As I have said many times, the 1930s was an era when a whole host of new technologies came to fruition in aeronautics, and this helps explain the sheer number of aircraft and concepts produced in that decade. Of course, many of these proved to be dead ends but even...
The United States has just awarded a contract for a new attack aircraft, though it might appear a little different from the sort of aeroplanes that the services of that nation’s military generally acquire. On the 1st August, the United States Special Operations...
The German aircraft designer Kurt Tank is justifiably famous for creating one of the most iconic aircraft in history. But I think it is fair to say that he is primarily remembered for one aircraft in particular. The Indian HAL Marut. HAH! Only kidding. Of...
The First Arab-Israeli War of 1948 is one of the most politically significant conflicts of the latter half of the 20th Century. In terms of the military history of the war, most of it focuses on the ground conflict, or else on the hodgepodge group of flyers, many of...
It’s often overlooked that the United States didn’t declare war on Nazi Germany during the Second World War, rather Hitler performed that honour himself after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour in December 1941. This has been at times been listed as one of the great...
