History, Politics And Current Affairs

Had the USSR 'Rolled West', demolishing BAOR etc, seems doubtful they would have respected Sweden's neutrality, or treaties with Finland... Such matters would certainly have been completely superseeded by Soviet operational considerations. The strength of the SwAF (some 700 planes) would possibly h...

Had the USSR 'Rolled West', demolishing BAOR etc, seems doubtful they would have respected Sweden's neutrality, or treaties with Finland... Such matters would certainly have been completely superseeded by Soviet operational considerations. The strength of the SwAF (some 700 planes) would possibly h...

For the record: * the sinking of HMS Glorious and her two escorting destroyers took place in full daylight * the destroyers may be said to have gone into occasional knife-fighting range with their 4.7 in guns and torpedoes, but Glorious did whatever she could to escape. Which wasn't much as she only...

This was the beginning of a family of 120 mm autocannons that saw naval and both fixed and mobile coastal artillery applications, apart from the singel AA version. Users were Sweden (naval and both coastal artillery types), Finland (naval), Holland (naval), Colombia (naval), Indonesia (naval) and No...

Closest English for 'stridsvagn' now would be 'strifewagon' or 'strifewain'. My perhaps flawed understanding of the meaning of "strife" is a fairly low-level conflict, not necessarily involving physical violence with weapons. You can have strife within an extended family. "Combat&quo...

Glass making isn't simple. It would be interesting to find out how they got the idea. Perhaps by chance. The necessary high temperatures could be reached in force-draft ovens used for metal (iron) manufacture. They may have noted that pure sand will form a more or less clear substance when heated t...

That is not a Swedish Carl Gustav 8,4 cm recoilless rifle.

The original has no flange on the forward end but sports a large funnel-shaped one at the rear end, which is opened for loading using two prominent handles.

But the idea shown is innovative!

My family is almost all English as well. Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, London and (via a 130 year excursion on one side) Warwickshire. Given the direct line ancestry of the surname Lepley (Le Pley) there's Huguenot in there as well and a bit of Iris...

My family is almost all English as well. Hampshire, Cambridgeshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, London and (via a 130 year excursion on one side) Warwickshire. Given the direct line ancestry of the surname Lepley (Le Pley) there's Huguenot in there as well and a bit of Iris...

4394MarcusAurelius.jpg Over the last week or so I have been researching my family tree. Myhistory.com I decided to see how far back I could take it. Got to well into the Muddle Ages… and kept on going. Well. Imagine my surprise when I reached the end of the line… ... To be clear, this is the brothe...

In happier times, August 2011, I visited the MAKS airshow at Monino outside Moscow. In those days, US warplanes partook both on the ground and in the air (F-15, F-16, B-52, KC-10). It was a photographer's dream, two results of which I'd like to share with you. The photo of the F-15 was pure luck ...

Just to point out of how big a deal this could be from an economic standpoint, there’s assessments that the resource could be worth more than the entirety of the Norwegian oil and gas assets, in total from the start of drilling and what’s presently left there. Given the massive economic impact thos...

Good news indeed from most aspects. However, what with the involved and time-consuming process to get a permit to establish a new mine this will not ease the dependence on communist China when demand for the Rare Earth Metals takes off. And it's not only the mine but also the ore refining process th...

The VL Humu. The project started in 1942 (when Brewster was heading down the drain...) and the aircraft - they built one only; the major design modifications wer a wooden wing and a M-63 engine (as the plan was to power them with motors salvaged from downed Russian planes!) - flew in 1944. It turne...

I stumbled on a link to the new site about a week ago and am happy to be able to rejoin! Spent two weeks in October touring CW battlefields in Virgina and Maryland/Pennsylvania. Harper's Ferry was quaint! Also put in some hours at Udvar-Hazy before flying home. Never thought that I would get to see ...

This subject was thoroughly investigated by ballistics and forensic experts in Sweden a decade ago, including trial firings at various speeds etc at fake heads (of plastics). The conclusion reached was the same as the one described: An iron ball from a canister round fired from the Overberg fortific...