The Bren Gun Literally Waged War During World War I and II
While never completely replacing the Vickers, the Bren did serve as the primary support arm for British and Commonwealth troops through World War II and Korea.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Bren gun wasn t the best submachine gun of the war - but it was cheap to make, easy to use, and reliable to a fault.
While all the combatant nations engaged in World War I fielded machine guns during the conflict, the British Army’s Vickers was arguably the best medium machine gun of the war, while their Lewis gun an American design but perfected by the English was the most effective light machine gun.
really failed.
It s not usual for Russia to admit that its weapons have failed. Especially Russian media, purveyor of glorious stories of space MiGs and interplanetary tanks.
Yet Russia s Sputnik News recently published an article on Russian and Soviet weapons that fizzled. For each military vehicle that is accepted into service, there are often roughly ten others that never proved to be either effective or economically viable, Sputnik News tactfully reminded its readers. However, they are not usually born in vain – some of them are later used for the development of new generations of weapons.
Sputnik News cited five examples:
Stealth doesn’t just apply to aircraft submarines have been incorporating stealthy features for decades.
Here s What You Need To Remember: Ironically, much of the work on these stealth planes originated from a Soviet mathematical paper that the Kremlin, not understanding its importance, had released - and translated into English!
Stealth, or the idea of reducing the ability of the enemy to detect a weapon, has been around since the first caveman sewed a pocket into his clothing and hid a rock in it.
Thousands of years later, with the ability to detect objects on the ground, in the air and at sea using electromagnetic radiation, hiding weapons in plain sight has become much harder. The idea of making an aircraft invisible to radar waves was not pursued as the properties of radar with regards to object shape were not fully understood.
France is Finally Building Another Aircraft Carrier
The first steel cut is now set for 2025 and construction will follow, with sea trials slated to begin in 2026.
Here s What You Need To Remember: The Charles de Gaulle is the only nuclear-powered carrier outside the United States - but it s approaching the age of twenty, and is no longer as cutting-edge as it was. The new carrier is scheduled to come out in 2038.
It won’t be taking to the seas for nearly twenty years, but the future flagship of the French Navy was officially given the green-light this month. French President Emmanuel Macron announced the construction of a new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier as part of the PANG program to replace the national fleet’s current flagship
The growth of the PGM complex has spurred several types of resistance.
Here s What You Need To Remember: There is no doubt that precision-guided munitions have been tremendously useful in America s foreign wars. But they can t do everything, as one evaluation shows, and sometimes have consequences.
How has the growth of the Precision-Guided Munitions (PGM) complex changed the balance of international power? More specifically, how has the U.S. military’s embrace of this system of weapons affected its ability to accomplish U.S. national goals? The president’s decision to pursue the war against ISIS strictly through the means of airpower and seapower makes the question particularly relevant. The United States will fight ISIS with precision-guided munitions, and apparently little else. It’s worth asking how effective they are in accomplishing national ends. The answer, it turns out, is surprisingly mixed.