Alternative History

The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact is one of those historical agreements remembered primarily because it was ultimately broken. On August 23, 1939, the Soviet Union ...

The Soviet Object 279 went down in history as perhaps the strangest tank ever to actually exist in metal. Four tracks, a 130 mm gun, extraordinarily heavy ...

When people talk about the “arsenal plane” concept today, they usually imagine a large aircraft operating at a relatively safe distance from the enemy while ...

We are accustomed to perceiving England as an almost eternal constant. Kings and dynasties changed, revolutions occurred, the British Empire was created and ...

All parts of the article An article from the magazine *Flugzeug Classic* (July 2004 issue) that I think will be of interest to readers and colleagues. ...

During assaults on well-fortified defensive lines, such as the Mannerheim Line or the fortified positions around Berlin and within the city itself, ...

In the mid-20th century, following the first successful tests of Soviet nuclear weapons in 1949 and 1951, as well as the development of the compact but ...

Yesterday I published an article that offered a look at Russian aircraft from the 1940s and 1950s of the 21st century—and perhaps even the second half of the ...

The History of the Swedish AKV 151 Experimental Self-Propelled Artillery System Swedish self-propelled artillery first appeared during the interwar ...

I'm continuing the discussion on a more capable Russian Navy on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War.   If we look at the keel-laying dates (or, ...