Category: Military
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Hawker Sea Hawk in Dutch Service
Hawker Sea Hawk in Dutch Service In the early 1950s, the Royal Netherlands Navy sought to modernize its fleet air arm. Having acquired the aircraft carrier HNLMS Karel Doorman (the former British HMS Venerable), 22 Sea Hawk Mk.50 aircraft, were purchased for her air wing. The Sea Hawk Mk.50 was essentially equivalent to the British… Read more
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Stridsvagn m/42
Stridsvagn m/42 Swedish Medium Tank The Stridsvagn m/42 (abbreviated Strv m/42) was the principal medium tank of Sweden during the later years of the Second World War and into the early Cold War. Development and Design The Strv m/42 was developed by the Swedish company AB Landsverk as a response to the limitations of earlier… Read more
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USS Alabama BB-8 Battleship
USS Alabama BB-8 Battleship The USS Alabama (BB-8) was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1900 as part of the Illinois class. Built during a period of rapid naval expansion, she represented America’s growing ambition to become a major sea power at the turn of the twentieth century. Armed with four… Read more