The Armoured Suicide Vehicle Based Improvised Explosive Device (ASVBIED) really came to the world’s attention when they were heavily used by the Islamic state, ISIS, in Iraq and Syria. Basically an armoured suicide car bomb, these simple and brutally effective weapons were used by ISIS in hundreds, possibly thousands of attacks.
Avia B.135; The Czechoslovak “Almost Was” That Became a Bulgarian Bomber Killer
The end of the First World War saw the creation of several new countries as the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were broken up by the victorious allies. One of these was Czechoslovakia. Having a rather precarious existence in central Europe, sandwiched between...
