#Artillery

The aftermath of the Ghouta CW massacre is highly instructive. The attack was the most clear violation of Obama's "red line" on the use of chemical weapons in Syria &
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How a proposed South African naval base almost led to war between Nigeria and Equitorial Guinea. Nigeria’s military might was at its peak in the 80s and 90s. In 1991
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Three days ago we dealt with a hypothetical missile attack against NASRDA from the sea. In a hypothetical scenario today, with the Nigerian Navy no more having anti-ship missile capability,
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Eighty years ago, on the 28th of May the allies launched their offensive on Narvik in #Norway1940. For the Norwegians, this was the long awaited first real victory against the
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Rao Tula RamAn Emperor of Rewari, HaryanaA Veteran Warrior against British Colonial Forces#Thread 1/23follow @Digangana9 Rao Tula Ram (9 Dec 1825 - 23 Sep 1863) in the well known Rao
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Rana Sanga one of the great Ranas of Mewar, who lost one eye, injured in one leg, lost an arm, yet put up one of the most intense resistance ever
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#MemorialDay2020 Loyd Lafayette Ake. Killed by Nazi machine gun fire crossing the Moselle river during the battle of Nancy, France. 14 Sept 1944. Godspeed uncle. After blazing across France in
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#OTD 1940. During the night, 5th and 4th Divisions break contact from German IV Corps and withdraw through 50th and 3rd Division at Poperinghe. 5th Division takes up a new
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Although stealing a pen from an individual is an abomination, I do lift a pen from every place I stay. These tend to go into one of my implement boxes
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By Oct 5, 1944, the 506 PIR were positioned along the south of the River Rhine for a distance of about 6 miles on an area known as The Island.
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Not sure how I missed this, but the Kaplan MT medium tank from FNSS/PT Pindad has qualified for mass production, which has now begun. @JonHawkes275 wrote about this class of
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Thread geolocating the launches and analyzing the effectiveness of the 1st iteration of Ansar al-Tawhid's #Burkan rocketFor background on the #Burkan start herehttps://twitter.com/MMissiles2/status/1301959171219353600?s=20 The 1st #Burk
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Interesting - it seems umbrella window-smasher arrived on scene at 5:28 from Target/Wendys, walking in just as the tear gas started flowing, hung for ~10 min while a Maserati hung
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Today I went looking for a bit of nature to immerse myself in. This is my favorite time of year and it's a sunny day, with temps just about perfect
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History time.What role did (((they))) have in the Ottoman occupation of the Balkans? : Let's start at the beginning - they had a key role in the conquering of Constantinople.
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ThreadEd Snow was 17 when he jumped into Normandy on D-DAY. He was in the 101st Airborne F Company. Here's a pic of him in his warpaint and mohawk gearing
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