These Five Bombers Have Enough Firepower to Wipe Out Whole Nations
It takes a lot of work and money to make a good bomber. Here are some countries that pulled it off.
Here s What You Need to Remember: Most of the early Cold War bombers were expensive failures, eventually to be superseded by ICBMs and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
Bombers are the essence of strategic airpower. While fighters have often been important to air forces, it was the promise of the heavy bomber that won and kept independence for the United States Air Force and the Royal Air Force. At different points in time, air forces in the United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, and Italy have treated bomber design and construction as a virtually all-consuming obsession, setting fighter and attack aviation aside.
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The USSR won the Second World War for us. Too bad they also helped start it The Soviet Union armed, fed and encouraged an expansionist Nazi Germany only to ultimately become its worst victim
Author of the article: Tristin Hopper
Publishing date: May 08, 2021 • 4 hours ago • 7 minute read • From left to right: Nazi German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, German Under State Secretary Friedrich Gaus, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and his Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov. Photo taken after the signing of the 1939 Treaty of Non-aggression between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Photo by AFP/Getty Images
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There are actually several armored showdowns that rightfully rank as being among the greatest tank battles
Here s What You Need to Remember: Instead of breaking the Soviets, the Germans were the ones who broke and by the end of July were in full retreat – and casualties on both sides were massive. Upwards of 1,200 German tanks and assault guns were destroyed, while the Soviets lost more than 6,000 armored vehicles.
Certainly, anyone who has ever played the video game
World of Tanks likely has debated what is the best tank, and the fact remains that there will likely never be a consensus as opinion plays a factor. When it comes to what was the greatest tank battle in history, it comes down to the numbers as well as the type of tanks involved, but also how the tanks were employed.
Stalin s Soviet Union was in pact of friendship with Hitler s Germany in 1941
One day Germany suddenly launched an invasion of the Soviet Union
The German codename for the 20th century clash was Bar-barossa
Hitler expected communist untermenschen to scatter before his Aryan Nazis
Out of courage and patriotism, Soviet troops resisted to the death
Russian winter blew in and Germans, still in summer clothes, were forced to flee