Military Topics

This is the main index page for an expanding series of articles on military aviation. The articles will cover many aspects of military and para-military aviation, from operational and organisational developments to new technologies and historical episodes.

• F4F WILDCAT FIGHTERS IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
• A Russian was behind the stealth revolution
• Peacemaker’s Global Mission
• Broken Arrows: The B-36 Log
• German Airships at the outbreak of War 1914
• Operacion Soberania
• Germany’s U-boats air defense systems
• Patriot’s Heart: The MPQ-53 Radar
• The ‘Ejercito Del Aire’
• The Forgotten ‘London’
• Gloster Rocket
• The Red Air Force: 1974 to 1985
• The L33 Raid: A game changer
• The very first raid on England: LZ38 Bomb Run
• The Supermarine Sea Otter
• NASA’s F-15s
• Air power in Venezuela’s 1992 coup attempt
• Air Defense of the Giuk Gap: F-15 Eagle Territory
• The Super Stirling
• The Martin-Baker MB designs
• Operation Merkur: The Invasion of Crete,
  the Air Component
• Air Defense
• An Overlook of the Air Defense
  of Great Britain: 1946-1985
• “Building an army in the air, regiments and brigades of winged cavalry on gas driven flying horses”,
  The America Air Entry into the Great War
• The End of Germany’s Air Effort
  on the Western Front
• The Front Machine Gun War: Spring of 1915 Through Summer 1916
• Caribbean Intervention: The United States Air Effort over Haiti
• South Korean’s Stealth Fighter Takes Shape
• The Luftflotten Before D-Day 1944
• The Allies AAA Guns of the Great War
• Why France Fell to the Nazis: The Air Component Before the War
• RADAR: The German Side of the Story
• The Italian Front: The Air Battle
• Soviet Composite Bomber Projects: The Early Tsybin Concepts
• The Next Generation Bomber:
  A Brief Look at the B-2’s Program Early Life
• The Unproven Flight
• The New French Nuclear Posture
• Bernard A. Schriever: The Forgotten General
• The First One: General Benjamin Delahauf Foulois
• Israeli Incursion into Lebanon
• The Nazi’s Inter Continental Ballistic Missile
• Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System
• Air Effort over Gallipoli: A Brief Look at the Air Campaign over the Dardanelles
• The End of the Luftwaffe
• Soviet Early Maritime Patrol Aircraft:
  The Beriev Bureau’s Role
• The Forgotten Visionary
• The Graceful EC-121 Early Warning Star
• Latest Russian Air Force Bomber
  Developments
• The Current State of the
  Cuban Armed Forces
• Could the Red Air Force do Tactical?
  The Germans certainly did not believe it
• The Area Rule: Richard Whitcomb Concept
• The Bombing of the Sir Galahad
• The Aircraft goes to Sea!
• The Ural bomber Concept: Wever’s Dream
• Tagboard
• Newsflash: Italy Bombs the Turks!
• Early Development of the United States
  Defensive Missile System
• A Brief Look at China’s
  Current Military Capabilities
• Japan’s World War II Tailless Aircraft
• Angels on Heaven:
  A Brief Look at the U.S. Navy’s
  Blue Angels Air Demonstration Team