by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Apr 2, 2022 | History Article
The General Belgrano started life as the USS Phoenix , a Brooklyn class light cruiser and named for the capital of Arizona. She was ordered on February 13 1929 with the contract being awarded to the New York Ship building company of Camden New Jersey on August...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Mar 24, 2022 | History Article
Logistics is the key to victory in war, if you can cut your enemy supply lines and maintain your own you can effectively reduce or eliminate the enemies ability to continue hostilities.Since before biblical times waring peoples, tribes and nations have laid siege to...
by Matthew Wright | Mar 12, 2022 | History Article
One of the many mythologies surrounding the battlecruiser HMS New Zealand – the gift that the New Zealand government made to Britain in April 1909 – is that she was unaffordable. According to legend, New Zealand was too small to afford her, had no money and the ship...
by ChrisKnupp | Mar 12, 2022 | History Article
In the first of a new series of posts, we will begin to examine various carrier aircraft and see how they compare to other aircraft. And what better way to start the series off than to examine two of the most famous American fighter aircraft of the Second World War....
by ChrisKnupp | Mar 1, 2022 | History Article
After the success of the posts examining which battleships had the best anti-surface firepower and anti-aircraft firepower, I wanted to change things up! In this post, we will examine the guns of light cruisers, determining what was the best light cruiser gun of the...
by Blair Shaw EMLog MInsTA CMILT MSOE | Feb 20, 2022 | History Article
K410 Smolensk at speed Kursk and the Oscar class On August 12 2000 one of Russia’s most largest and most formidable submarines suffers a catastrophic double explosion sinking the submarine and taking the lives of 118 souls. The Story of Kursk today...
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