Автор: A. J. R. Cormack
Издательство: Profile Publications Ltd
Год издания: 1972
Количество страниц: 22
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Originally formed in 1853 as the Swiss Railway Carriage Company it was renamed in 1863 the Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft or Swiss Industrial Company.
Автор: Gordon D. Conway, A. J. R. Cormack
Издательство: Profile Publications Ltd
Год издания: 1972
Количество страниц: 42
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This Profile Special traces the development of small arms ammunition of the armies of some of the Great Powers - United Kingdom, United States, Germany, Russia, France, Italy and Japan from the late 19th century.
Автор: Dan Hagedorn, Leif Hellstrom
Издательство: Midland Publishing
Год издания: 1994
isbn: 1857800133
Количество страниц: 201
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
After WWII, massive amounts of surplus US Military aircraft were exported to allies all around the world. The B-26 Invader is one of those planes that found a new lease on life after US Military use. Largely exported to countries in Latin America including Colombia, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Honduras, the B-26 Invader saw extensive use by the French in Indochina and Algeria and by Portugal in Africa. Other nations reciving the bomber are Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, South Vietnam, Turkey, and other countries. There are also sections about the B-26 in use in covert missions by the CIA in Africa, Cuba and Southeast Asia. The book is divided by chapter according to country or CIA operation. The book is filled with excellent pictures, some rare and the combat histories of the aircraft use.
Автор: William H. Cracknell
Издательство: Profile Publications Ltd
Год издания: 1971
Количество страниц: 27
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
DD 570, Fletcher Class destroyer, of Admiral Arleigh (31-knot) Burke's famous Squadron. This fighting destroyer saw operational service from World War II until the Vietnam War.
Автор: Jurgen Rohwer
Издательство: Profile Publications Ltd
Год издания: 1971
Количество страниц: 26
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
This is the history of U-107 in words and pictures, one of the most successful U-Boats in Hitler's navy. Illustrated with numerous photos, 2 pages of maps, colour centerfold.
Автор: Kapitan zur See Gerhard Bidlingmaier, (Ret\'d)
Издательство: Profile Publications Ltd
Год издания: 1971
Количество страниц: 27
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
Pocket Battleship, the first class of all-welded diesel-powered capital ships, specifically designed as commerce raiders. The Battle of the River Plate sealed her fate.
Автор: A. J. R. Cormack
Издательство: Profile Publications Ltd
Год издания: 1972
Количество страниц: 22
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
At the end of the Second World War the Germans were frantically searching for weapons which could overcome the lack of strategic materials and manufacturing facilities. It is out of these difficulties that some of the best and most advanced weapon development was carried out. After the war most of the design staffs of the German armament industries dispersed throughout Europe; some ended up in Spain, amongst whom was a former member of the Mauser Werke firm - Herr Volgrimmler. In Spain basic design concepts developed during the war were turned into drawings and then into production weapons at the Centro de Estudios Technicos de Materiales Especiales - an short CETME. This is a Government-run establishment to foster design and development work. These designs for a service rifle were later developed by Heckler & Koch. Thus from a very troubled childhood came a weapon type that was to equip a number of armed forces in a variety of guises.
Автор: A. J. R. Cormack
Издательство: Profile Publications Ltd
Год издания: 1972
Количество страниц: 22
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
As far back as 1592 gunsmiths from the Thuringia Forest in Germany formed a guild. A centre was established at Zelia and its twin town Mehlis. ln 1886, three centuries later, Carl Walther at the age of 26 came to Zelia to open a gunshop. From this gunshop came the Walther Company, world famous for its precise workmanship and fine craftsmanship and especially renowned for its pistols.
Автор: A. J. R. Cormack
Издательство: Profile Publications Ltd
Год издания: 1972
Количество страниц: 22
Язык: english
Формат: PDF (scan)
If any firm has exhibited the continued development of a weapon type it is the firm of Erma. They have developed the MP (Machinen-Pistole) series of submachine guns for over 40 years and as a result the weapon range displays the advances in material and in technique of manufacture which have taken place. Erma, ERfurt MAchinen = ERMA, was founded in 1924 by Berthold Geiupel, who had been the Director of the main arsenal at Erfurt which had been disbanded alter World War I in 1919. Although the first submachine guns had been demonstrated in prototype form during the first World War, it was not until 1927 that an efficient weapon was developed. Once again, as with many weapons of this era, the early submachine gun developments were put to their initial tests during the Spanish Civil War.
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