The 'spy’ (or, more correctly, reconnaissance) aircraft must survive enemy fighters and anti-aircraft weapons, often relying on little more than speed, altitude or guile. Here are ten spy planes of ...
The P-80 did serve in the Second World War, albeit briefly. Two pre-production USAAF YP-80A Shooting Stars saw service in ...
Ordinary Belgians helped liberate their country from the Germans in both world wars. Now their extraordinary courage has been revealed in a new account ...
On his story-of-the-year album The Boy Who Played the Harp, the gifted Londoner puts an eye on the human casualties of fame ...
In a written parliamentary response in the progress of Project Astraea, UK defence minister Luke Pollard stated that funding ...
Russia is reinforcing its presence at a base in the Arctic Circle, including nuclear weapons pointed towards the United ...
This video tells the true story of the Heavy Water Sabotage mission during World War II, carried out to stop[...] ...
In every major battle of World War II, one machine worked in silence while others took the glory. It didn’t[...] ...
Beckett told Al Jazeera that “most fatally of all, the difficulty was that when he went to meetings in the Middle East, nobody knew which Tony Blair they were seeing—whether it was Tony Blair the ...
The value of UK arms sales to Israel reached a record high in June despite rules restricting the export of weapons that could be used in the occupied Palestinian territories. Figures from the Israeli ...
An undersea submersible has revealed crabs, worms, and fish living on World War II explosives in the Baltic Sea. These munitions were thought to be too toxic for marine life. At a former weapons dump ...