Название: Consolidated Vultee XB-46
Автор: Steve Ginter
Издательство: Ginter Books
Серия: Air Force Legends 221
ISBN: 0996825849
Год издания: 2016
Язык: English
Cтраниц: 68
Формат: PDF
Размер: 191,1 MB

The Consolidated Vultee (Convair) XB-46 was a four-jet medium bomber built to a 1944 USAAF requirement. It was the largest of the four different bombers built to this requirement. The other three were the North American XB-45, the Boeing XB-47 and the Martin XB-48. The winner of the competition was the XB-45, but Boeing was allowed to continue development of their offering with swept wings.

Название: Great American Guns and Frontier Fighters
Автор: Will Bryant
Издательство: Grosset & Dunlap
Год: 1961
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 178
Размер: 30,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

An unusual history of firearms in America for the gun collector's library. Chapters include: the Kentucky Rifle, the Shut-eye Hunter 1778, the plains rifle, Mojave massacre 1827, the cap & ball Colt, John Cremony's ride 1850, the buffalo gun, the Freeze-out Bunch 1862, the repeating rifle, Smoke Wagon Medicine 1868, the broken medicine of Roman Nose 1868, the buffalo wallow 1874, the Peacemaker Colt, the fastest gun 1900.

Название: The Essential Aircraft Guide: Vintage Warbirds to Modern Airliners
Автор: Robert Jackson
Издательство: Silverdale Books
Год: 2005
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 226
Размер: 146,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

To enthusiastic aircraft spotters, each airborne machine has a unique profile and presence in the sky. Here is a handy spotting guide suitable for beginners, but with plenty of fascinating facts and drawings for the more experienced. Each aircraft entry includes the development history, a full-color photograph, and a three-view drawing illustrating key recognition features that will enable the reader to spot the subtle differences between similar aircraft types. More than 200 currently flying aircraft are featured—from warplanes to airliners to executive jets.

Название: Roman Cavalry Equipment
Издательство: Tempus
Год: 2003
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 146
Размер: 114 Mb
Язык: English

Roman Cavalry Equipment

Название: Osprey New Vanguard 216 - Super-Heavy Tanks of World War II
Автор: Kenneth W Estes
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 48
Размер: 2,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This title explores the conception and design of a range of enormous and powerful tanks that came to be designated as 'super-heavy'. The fascinating super-heavy tanks of World War II were heirs to the siege machine tradition - a means of breaking the deadlock of ground combat. As a class of fighting vehicle, they began with the World War I concept of the search for a "breakthrough" tank, designed to cross enemy lines.

Название: The British Way of War: Julian Corbett and the Battle for a National Strategy
Автор: Andrew Lambert
Издательство: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300250738
Год: 2021
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 544
Размер: 4,7 МБ
Язык: Английский

Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a lawyer, civilian, and Liberal, Julian Corbett (1854–1922) brought a new level of logic, advocacy, and intellectual precision to the development of strategy.
Corbett skillfully integrated classical strategic theory, British history, and emerging trends in technology, geopolitics, and conflict to prepare the British state for war.

Название: The Sultan's Fleet: Seafarers of the Ottoman Empire
Автор: Christine Isom-Verhaaren
Издательство: I.B. Tauris/Bloomsbury Publishing
Год: 2022
Страниц: 295
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.1 MB

While the Ottoman Empire is most often recognized today as a land power, for four centuries the seas of the Eastern Mediterranean were dominated by the Ottoman Navy. Yet to date, little is known about the seafarers who made up the sultans' fleet, the men whose naval mastery ensured that an empire from North Africa to Black Sea expanded and was protected, allowing global trading networks to flourish in the face of piracy and the Sublime Porte's wars with the Italian city states and continental European powers. In this book, Christine Isom-Verhaaren provides a history of the major events and engagements of the navy, from its origins as the fleets of Anatolian Turkish beyliks to major turning points such as the Battle of Lepanto. Rich in detail drawn from a variety of sources, the book provides a comprehensive account of the Ottoman Navy, the forgotten contingent in the empire's period of supremacy from the 14th century to the 18th century.

Название: Osprey New Vanguard 207 - Medium Mark A Whippet
Автор: David Fletcher
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 50
Размер: 2,8 МБ
Язык: Английский

This title looks at the Medium Mark A Whippet, one of the most successful British tanks of World War I and, when placed alongside existing titles covering the Mark I, Mark IV and Mark V, completes the New Vanguard series' coverage of the major British tanks of the war.

Название: Osprey New Vanguard 209 - French Tanks of World War II (1): Infantry and Battle Tanks
Автор: Steven J. Zaloga
Издательство: Osprey Publishing
Год: 2014
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 50
Размер: 3,5 МБ
Язык: Английский

The first of two volumes covering the French armor of World War II, this title looks at the infantry and battle tanks that faced the onslaught of the German Blitzkrieg in 1940. Many of the French tanks were intended as replacements for the World War I-era Renault FT, and various modernization efforts throughout the inter-war years had given rise to a number of new infantry tanks, including the Renault R35 and R40, FCM 36, and the Hotchkiss H35 and H39.

Название: Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers: The Passive Defence of the Western World During the Cold War
Автор: N.J. McCamley
Издательство: Pen & Sword
Год: 2006
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 308
Размер: 175,3 МБ
Язык: Английский

Secret Cold War Nuclear Bunkers tells the previously undisclosed story of the secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of radar stations that spanned the North American continent and the North Atlantic from the Aleutian Islands through Canada to the North Yorkshire Moors, all centred upon an enormous secret control centre buried hundreds of feet below Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado.