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A Third Panzer II Luchs Has Been Found on the Baltic Spit: Why Germany Built Only About a Hundred of Its Best Reconnaissance Tanks
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An event that looks almost unbelievable from the standpoint of armored warfare history has taken place on the Baltic Spit in Russia’s Kaliningrad Region. ...

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The Sea Drone Is No Longer a Torpedo: Why the New Magura MV11 Carries 18 Interceptors
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The first generation of modern naval drones was conceptually very simple. Take a small high-speed boat, add satellite communications, cameras, navigation ...

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Gripen Finally Gets Its Long-Range Spear: Why Sweden Needed Taurus After 20 Years
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For more than two decades, this combination has existed in Saab promotional materials: the compact JAS 39 Gripen carrying two massive Taurus KEPD 350 cruise ...

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Heirs of the Type XXI: What the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain Really Inherited from German Submarines
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In May 1945, Germany’s submarine war ended in complete defeat. The Allies controlled the Atlantic, German shipyards were being devastated by air raids, and the ...

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Sweden Developed an Engine for a Long-Range Weapon in Less Than a Year. But the Technological Breakthrough Is Not the Engine
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In August 2026, GKN Aerospace unveiled something rather interesting in Sweden: a full-scale mock-up of a new unmanned aerial vehicle together with a compact ...

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Italy Built One of the Most Advanced Tanks of World War I. Why Did the Fiat 2000 Lose to the Tiny Renault FT?
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In 1916, Italy found itself in a rather strange position. The country had already been at war with Austria-Hungary for more than a year, British tanks were ...

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Germany’s Cobra 600 Takes Flight: Why an IRIS-T Missile Needs Its Own Jet-Powered Drone
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In August 2026, a rather unusual first flight took place over the Baltic Sea. A small jet-powered uncrewed aircraft took off, flew just over 20 kilometers, and ...

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The U.S. Unveils the AIM-424 Malice: Why Does a Fighter Need a Nearly 700-Kilogram Air-to-Air Missile?
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The U.S. inventory of air-to-air weapons is becoming increasingly crowded. The AIM-120 AMRAAM remains the primary medium- and long-range air-to-air missile. ...

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Saab Unveils the A3 Uncrewed Fighter: Why Gripen’s New “Wingman” Is Nothing Like the Ghost Bat
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Just a few years ago, the term “loyal wingman” painted a fairly straightforward picture of the future of combat aviation. A crewed fighter would fly at the ...

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India Could Revive the Il-214: Why a Failed Project Has Suddenly Become Very Interesting for Russia Again
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Sometimes an aircraft project is abandoned because nobody needs the aircraft anymore. With the Il-214, almost the opposite happened. The transport aircraft ...

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