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Название: The Battle of Bennington: Soldiers and Civilians
Автор: Michael P. Gabriel, Tyler Resch
Издательство: The History Press
Год: 2012
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 125
Размер: 61,59 Мб
Язык: английский

On August 16, 1777, a motley militia won a resounding victory near Bennington, Vermont, against combined German, British and Loyalist forces. This laid the foundation for the American victory at Saratoga two months later...

Название: Thinks He's a Bird: From Postal Clerk to Pathfinder Pilot
Автор: Ian Campbell
Издательство: Big Sky Publishing
ISBN: 1922615153
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 456
Размер: 8,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1941 when Keith Watson, a teenage postal clerk from country Queensland, enlisted in the RAAF, he had absolutely no idea what he was getting himself into. The following four years were an adrenaline-filled ride of love, loss, mateship, ambition, courage and sacrifice, all recorded in an intimate 800-page diary.

Название: Australian Force Somalia: 1992-1993
Автор: Bob Breen
Издательство: Sky Publishing
Год: 2022
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 184
Размер: 16,2 МБ
Язык: Английский

In 1992, civil war, drought and economic collapse left four million Somalis destitute, displaced and starving. Twenty-six nations sent their young men and women to make sure that food reached those who needed it. Australia joined this international 'coalition of the willing' with the Australian Force Somalia comprised of a 1,000-strong battalion group based on 1st Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment from the 3rd Brigade in Townsville as well as a small national liaison headquarters from 1st Division in Brisbane.

Название: The North American Mustang Mk.IV over Italy and the Balkans
Автор: Phil H. Listemann
Издательство: Philedition
Серия: Squadrons! No.11
ISBN: 2918590800
Год издания: 2015
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 48
Формат: PDF
Размер: 101,5 MB

The North American P-51 is among the most famous fighters of WW2, and the P-51D probably the model the most known. The RAF became a late user of this model as Mustang IV, and they participated to the last weeks of the war over Italy and the Balkans in the fighter-bomber role, the Australian 3 Squadron and the South African 5 Squadron being among the major units which flew the Mustang IV with great success.

Название: Combat Aircraft 2022-02
Издательство: Key Publishing
Формат: True PDF
Cтраниц: 100
Размер: 29 Mb
Язык: English

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Название: The North American Mustang Mk.IV in Western Europe
Автор: Phil H. Listemann
Издательство: Philedition
Серия: Squadrons! No.10
ISBN: 2918590703
Год издания: 2015
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 43
Формат: PDF
Размер: 99,9 MB

The North American P-51 is among the most famous fighters of WW2, and the P-51D probably the model the most known. The RAF became a late user of this model as Mustang IV, and they participated to the last weeks of the war over the continent in escorting the British bombers or over the sea escorting off the Norwegian or Danish coasts the Beaufighters or Morquitos of Coastal Command.

Название: The Supermarine Spitfire Mk.VII
Автор: Phil H. Listemann
Издательство: Philedition
Серия: Squadrons! No.6
ISBN: 9782918590453
Год издания: 2014
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 46
Формат: PDF
Размер: 94,7 MB

The Spitfire Mk.VII was one of the less known Spitfire mark. Designed to make interceptions in high altitude, the Luftwaffe had actually almost diseppeared from the English sky when Mk.VII was introduced into service in the spring of 1943. Underemployed during over a year, the RAF decided to use it in the offensive role in 1944 before being phased out from front line service in Autumn 1944

Название: A Field Guide to Ghost Guns
Автор: Robert E. Walker
Издательство: CRC Press
Год: 2022
Формат: True PDF
Страниц: 145
Размер: 110 Mb
Язык: English

While it has always been legal for a citizen in the United States to manufacture their own firearm, the sale and distribution of such items is illegal under current U.S. law. The primary impediment to individuals making their own weapons has been access to the tooling and machinery required to convert raw materials into finished parts for assembly. However, in the last fifteen years this paradigm has changed drastically.

Автор: Rothenberg Gunther Erich
Название: The Art of Warfare in the Age of Napoleon
Издательство: Indiana University Press
Год: 1981
Формат: pdf
Размер: 44,16 Мб
Страниц: 284
Язык: английский

In a comprehensive study of a crucial era in warfare--from the last decades of the ancient regime to Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo--Rothenberg describes the organization, training methods, equipment, tactics, and strategy of France and its adversaries. He also explores staff systems, logistics, fortifications, medical services, and insurgency and counterinsurgency.

Название: Autonomous Weapons Systems and International Norms
Автор: Hendrik Huelss and Ingvild Bode
Издательство: McGill-Queen's University Press
Год: 2022
Страниц: 297
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true), epub
Размер: 21.7 MB

Autonomous weapons systems seem to be on the path to becoming accepted technologies of warfare. The weaponization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises questions about whether human beings will maintain control of the use of force. The notion of meaningful human control has become a focus of international debate on lethal autonomous weapons systems among members of the United Nations: many states have diverging ideas about various complex forms of human-machine interaction and the point at which human control stops being meaningful.