https://www.armedconflicts.com/index.php Military history website en (c) Copyright 2026 by www.armedconflicts.com forum@valka.cz forum@valka.cz Fri, 06 Nov 26 00:33:01 +0100 CET Fri, 06 Nov 26 00:33:01 +0100 CET armedconflicts.com RSS 1 https://www.armedconflicts.com/images/logo_armed_conflicts_com1.png https://www.armedconflicts.com Military history website https://www.armedconflicts.com/18235- In October, the cyber and kinetic domains of the conflict became even more tightly intertwined, as both sides began launching drone strikes against enemy data centers. Ukraine, however, is significantly better prepared for such developments, having systematically migrated its critical data to foreign clouds since the outbreak of the war, whereas Russia has taken the exact opposite approach. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18235- Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18235- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18196- The story of a revolver whose production was delayed by nearly a year due to a small government order and Remington’s own hesitation. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18196- Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18196- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18224- By the autumn of 1576, Philip II owed his army in the Netherlands more than Spain’s entire annual revenue. Soldiers outlawed by their own government withdrew into the citadel overlooking the richest city of the Low Countries. Below its walls, thousands of Walloon, German and civic defenders were gathering.  https://www.armedconflicts.com/18224- Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18224- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18061-Rudel-and-the-Others-View-from-the-Other-Side-5 The final installment compares reports of Soviet armor, air, and anti-aircraft units with Hans-Ulrich Rudel's memoirs covering combat operations in Ukraine, Hungary, and on the Oder bridgehead from 1944 to 1945. A detailed analysis of the 69th Army's combat journals at Lebus reveals actual armored vehicle losses on the day of Rudel's severe wounding and provides a comprehensive comparison of Luftwaffe anti-tank aces. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18061-Rudel-and-the-Others-View-from-the-Other-Side-5 Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18061-Rudel-and-the-Others-View-from-the-Other-Side-5 https://www.armedconflicts.com/12508-Jan-Josef-Vaclav-Radecky-from-Radce From reforms of the Austrian general staff, through the Battle of Leipzig, to his role as viceroy of the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. https://www.armedconflicts.com/12508-Jan-Josef-Vaclav-Radecky-from-Radce Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/12508-Jan-Josef-Vaclav-Radecky-from-Radce https://www.armedconflicts.com/18204- For seven years running, one family holds the Roman consulship – and when Rome itself proves unable to guard its dangerous northern frontier, it makes the senate an offer the republic has never heard before. The Fabii decide to fight the war against Veii as their private affair – with their own army, at their own expense, outside Rome's command. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18204- Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18204- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18200- From flight training in Vienna and testing seaplanes in France, through Italian captivity, to the bridge of the first ocean-going ship of the Czechoslovak Republic. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18200- Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18200- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18197- The History of One of the Oldest Regiments of the Imperial Army—the Prince of Saxe-Hildburghausen’s 8th Infantry Regiment https://www.armedconflicts.com/18197- Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18197- https://www.armedconflicts.com/10456-1956-Sinai-War The Israelis adopted the plan for the Sinai Campaign in early October 1956; its main objective was to put an end to terrorist raids on Israel from Egyptian territory and to force Egypt to lift its blockade of the port of Eilat. However, following a secret agreement with Britain and France on October 25, the plans were modified so that the Israelis, in coordination with them, could get as close as possible to the Suez Canal... https://www.armedconflicts.com/10456-1956-Sinai-War Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/10456-1956-Sinai-War https://www.armedconflicts.com/18078-How-much-does-the-Russian-Federation-pay-soldiers-in-the-war-with-Ukraine Federal bonuses, regional supplements, and monthly salaries offered by the Russian military, compared against ordinary wages, pensions, and food prices in Russia in 2026. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18078-How-much-does-the-Russian-Federation-pay-soldiers-in-the-war-with-Ukraine Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18078-How-much-does-the-Russian-Federation-pay-soldiers-in-the-war-with-Ukraine https://www.armedconflicts.com/18060-Rudel-and-the-Others-View-from-the-Other-Side-4 The fourth installment confronts Hans-Ulrich Rudel's memoirs with Soviet tank corps reports from the battles near Kirovohrad, Iași, the Dniester bridgeheads, and the Baltics during 1944. A detailed analysis of combat logbooks reveals high armor losses caused by Ju 87 G cannon-armed Stukas. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18060-Rudel-and-the-Others-View-from-the-Other-Side-4 Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18060-Rudel-and-the-Others-View-from-the-Other-Side-4 https://www.armedconflicts.com/18231- Why You Must Visit the Canadian National Aviation Museum (CFB Trenton) and See the Halifax NA337 https://www.armedconflicts.com/18231- Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18231- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18202- For conquering the Volscian city of Corioli he won a name he carried to his death, and seventeen years of soldiering earned him a reputation as a man nothing could break. His relationship with his own city, in the end, proved more complicated than that reputation suggests. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18202- Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18202- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18207- After decades of “little war” along the Military Frontier, 1596 brought a clash Central Europe had not seen since Mohács. Sultan Mehmed III personally led his army into Hungary, and a combined Habsburg-Transylvanian force marched out to meet him. Among the marshes of the Csincse stream, far more than the fate of a single campaign was at stake. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18207- Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18207- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18206- Seventy years ago, a student demonstration at the Bem statue turned into an armed uprising in the course of a single night. Students, workers and soldiers who refused to fire on their own people stood up to Soviet tanks in the streets of Budapest. Their resistance did not come out of nowhere – its roots reached back to Trianon, the Don and the years of Rákosi’s terror. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18206- Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18206- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18208- After breaking through the German defenses on the Hron River on March 25, 1945, Soviet troops advanced westward as quickly as possible, with the aim of preventing the Germans from establishing an organized defense along the Žitava, Nitra, and Váh. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18208- Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18208- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18179- The battles for Mariupol and Taganrog are among the lesser-known episodes of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler's eastern campaign in the autumn of 1941. Drawing on period reports and the recollections of those who were there, the article reconstructs the weeks of fighting for these two key Sea of Azov ports. The Waffen-SS faced not only stubborn Red Army resistance but also mud, frost, and their own command mistakes. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18179- Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18179- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18226- A key part of Russian propaganda is the systematic sowing of fear. However, it is a game in which the one who succumbs to fear loses—not the one who stands up to it. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18226- Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18226- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18059-Rudel-and-the-Others-View-from-the-Other-Side-3 The third part of this series takes us into the critical summer battles of 1943 at Kursk and Kharkiv, confronting German aerial successes with specific figures from the reports of the Soviet 86th Tank Brigade and other formations. An analysis of combat diaries reveals how much the actual reality of Red Army losses differed from personal memoirs and wartime propaganda on both sides. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18059-Rudel-and-the-Others-View-from-the-Other-Side-3 Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18059-Rudel-and-the-Others-View-from-the-Other-Side-3 https://www.armedconflicts.com/18201- Three times he led the young republic and twice celebrated a triumph; his name still marks the treaty that settled Rome's relationship with the Latins for generations. Yet his story does not read as one of success – it opens a long history of Roman distrust toward men who grow too popular with the poor. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18201- Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18201- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18171- Igor Vyacheslavovich Chetverikov was among the leading Soviet designers of seaplanes, his career shaped above all by his work alongside D. P. Grigorovich and the French specialist Paul-Aimé Richard. Through the 1930s and 1940s he designed a series of aircraft, from the carrier-based OSGA-101 to the Arctic reconnaissance ARK-3 and the MDR-6 bomber. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18171- Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18171- https://www.armedconflicts.com/10399-Execution-in-Nuremberg-in-the-diaries-of-Albert-Speer How did Armaments Minister Speer describe the tense days leading up to the execution of the Nazi war criminals and the moment of the execution itself? What was going through his mind? https://www.armedconflicts.com/10399-Execution-in-Nuremberg-in-the-diaries-of-Albert-Speer Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/10399-Execution-in-Nuremberg-in-the-diaries-of-Albert-Speer https://www.armedconflicts.com/18225- September brought cyberattacks on digital infrastructure, innovative hacking methods, and actions taken against Russian disinformation actors in Europe. https://www.armedconflicts.com/18225- Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18225- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18213- Pre-sales for the historical novel “Brothers in the Legion,” about Czechoslovak legionnaires on the Italian front during World War I, will begin on October 19, 2026. (advertisement) https://www.armedconflicts.com/18213- Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18213- https://www.armedconflicts.com/18177- All day long, the Anglo-Saxon shield wall withstood wave after wave of Norman cavalry without once breaking. At the foot of Senlac Hill stood two entirely different military traditions and two commanders, neither of whom could claim victory in advance. What had to happen for a seemingly even contest to finally tip one way? https://www.armedconflicts.com/18177- Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:01 CET https://www.armedconflicts.com/18177-