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The Revival of the Roman Empire in the 17th Century. The Mediterranean Under Spanish Rule
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The turning point in this world came in 1453, when, during the siege of Constantinople, a small Spanish detachment under the command of Rodrigo Manrique de ...

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Yuri Pasholok. The Kettenkrad's Explosive Derivative
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A Story About the German Remote-Controlled Engineering Vehicle "Mittlerer Ladungsträger" (Sd.Kfz.304) Springer World War I spurred a major leap forward ...

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Another American casualty of the Soviet Union’s collapse: the M1 Abrams “Thumper” with a 140-mm gun and an automatic loading system
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Not long ago, I published an article discussing projects that were scrapped in the U.S. because the Soviet Union had collapsed and halted its development ...

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What if the "Whites" had won the Russian Civil War? How would that have changed the world and the course of World War II?
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A necessary preface. Dear colleagues, this alternative is not mine, but that of our Western colleague Blackhills, so I don’t fully grasp all the ...

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Osprey's older brother that never took flight. Bell–Boeing Quad Tiltrotor (QTR) / V-44. United States
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Although work on tiltrotors is underway in many places, the Bell V-22 Osprey remains the world’s only production aircraft of its kind. However, at the ...

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Willy Messerschmitt's high-altitude fighter. Messerschmitt Me.155. Germany
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I've added a few illustrations to this archived post from April 2020. The Me.155 was originally planned as a carrier-based fighter for the aircraft ...

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"Enson"-class missile-carrying battleships
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Dear colleagues, as I promised—here’s the first AI-related post of the new year) Contents: The Suez Crisis of 1956 proved to be an extremely unpleasant ...

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The Munich Shuffle, or What If the Signing of the Munich Agreement Is Postponed? Part 38. The Taranto Attack (Operation “Justice”)
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Other parts of the series It's practically RI all over again. However, there are differences: the timing—in RI, the attack took place in November 1940, while ...

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An Arkhangelsk Fairy Tale
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They “figured it out” the Russian way. Among the three of them. So that, as it should be, “330 for each!” Two bottles of vodka, frost-whitened by the cold, ...

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The Latécoère 521, a giant six-engine flying boat designed for transatlantic flights. France
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Editor’s Foreword: In 1935, this was the largest flying boat in the world. This aircraft, with its remarkable design, could have come straight from the pages ...

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