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The USS Barb had one of the most impressive records of a United States Navy submarine, sinking some of the most tonnage, carrying out the first...
Under the Shah, Imperial Iran was well on the way to having one of the most powerful militaries in the world (click here for Wikipedia source). By...
True, but the question is how long it would delay it by. Many military and scientific personnel important to the program would have been killed in...
One barrel of petroleum has 5,729,000 Btu of energy, compared to 19,882,000 Btu for a short ton of coal source, so 3.74 barrels of petroleum would...
The earliest proposals for building offshore thermal power stations emerged in the 1950s and 1960s and called for using barges or ships equipped...
Oh course, but that doesn't mean Italian carrier based aviation would be irrelevant. Its Littorio class battleships were some of the most powerful...
It's only possible to project air power within a few hundred miles of an air base or aircraft carrier. Italy can cover extensive areas with land...
I found some more interesting information here. It turns out that two Re d'Italia class ironclads were under construction for the Italian Navy...
Italy was the only great power that failed to develop carrier based aviation during the interwar period, although it seems it could have developed...
That was the cover story, so if the Egyptians weren't looking for ironclads people must have thought it was a plausible thing at the time.
The Confederacy also ordered two Laird Rams from Laird & Sons the United Kingdom in 1862 using the same cover story about an Egyptian naval...
That assumes they would be used in a direct battle with the United States Navy. They could prove far more useful opening a hole in the blockade...
Imperial Iran actually was considering the purchase of some Invincible class aircraft carriers from the United Kingdom, as well as a fleet of Sea...
This is where the Imperial Iranian nuclear program really stood prior to the 1979 Revolution (that's what the history tag means, but I should have...
The United States had many surplus oceangoing ironclads, including the Onondaga (ironically enough, it was sold to France in 1867) and possibly...
After a massive Republican wave in the 1946 Senate and House elections, the Republicans were heavily favored going into the 1948 elections for...
In 1863 Confederate agents met with French Emperor Napoleon III and gained his permission for two ironclads to be secretly built in France for...
Here's a photograph of the Meunier rifle from Forgotten Weapons. There's a whole gallery of images of it here. [IMG] Here's a photograph of the...
France began work developing a semi-automatic service rifle shortly after the adoption of the Lebel Model 1886 and the 8 mm Lebel cartridge. It...
Here's a much more narrow victory with Ford-Baker in 1976 (link). I won a narrow victory in the Electoral College while losing the popular vote by...