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France’s first carrier entered service in the interwar period, but for a very long time the French navy trailed behind international counterparts in naval aviation.

China flies the domestically designed two-seat JH-7 Flying Leopard, around 240 of which serve in the PLA Air Force and Naval Air Force.

Celebrating the bands 25 greatest moments from that era is the easy part — the hard part is acknowledging that Pantera, primarily due to the tragic deaths of founding brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul, will never again play live and never again record new music. Fortunately, the vast Pantera catalog — the music that made the group one of the most important and exciting metal acts of all time — will live forever. From that extensive archive of material, we present to you our picks f...

How Vietnamese Commandos Captured a Secret U.S. Military Base This base was one of many ‘Lima Sites’ in Laos intended to facilitate aerial supply of U.S.-allied forces. Heres What You Need to Remember: Only thirty years later did the United States officially acknowledge the battle at the clandestine site. Etchberger would finally be awarded the Medal of Honor in a ceremony on September 1, 2010. Earlier in the 2000s, Vietnamese veterans of the battle helped U.S. military personnel locate th...

The B-1B was intended to deliver nuclear weapons to the Soviet Union. Fortunately, it never undertook that mission; instead, it ended up hunting insurgents in Afghanistan and firing cruise missiles at nearly abandoned Syrian air bases.

Between 1918 and 1942, Russia’s army was torn down and rebuilt four times. Heres What You Need To Remember: The Red Army had an unbelievable capacity for pain. In the first six months of Operation Barbarossa, the army was completely destroyed. Yet it managed to rebuild, and went on to defeat the most formidable war machine of that era. What do you do when your army is destroyed, over and over again? For Russia in the mid-twentieth century, the best answer was “build a new army.” Between ...

His People’s Militia amounted to almost nothing. Heres What You Need to Remember: In the West, some 150,000 VS men served and had helped to man the West Wall fortifications, as well as hold the Upper Rhine, but in the end, the VS had not achieved Himmler’s or Bormann’s goal. It is estimated that a million VS “troops” were taken prisoner by war’s end, and thousands more were killed and wounded. On October 18, 1944—the 131st anniversary of the Battle of the Nations’ victory over ...

The Best Le Creuset Dutch Oven Alternatives For When You Can’t Justify the $350 Price Tag SPY 12/9/2020 © Courtesy of Le Creuset If I was stranded on a deserted island and could only bring one piece of cooking equipment it would be a dutch oven. Let’s be honest — few things can compete with the dutch oven when it comes to kitchen must-haves, and a Le Creuset one? Well, that’s the cream of a very expensive crop. Le Creuset has set the standard for top-performing French cookware for d...