Category: Military
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Turkish Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Turgut Reis
Turkish Pre-Dreadnought Battleship Turgut Reis The Turkish pre-dreadnought battleship Turgut Reis was originally built for the Imperial German Navy as SMS Weissenburg, one of the Brandenburg-class battleships. Weissenburg was launched in 1891 and commissioned into the German Navy in 1894. She, along with her three sisters (Brandenburg, Wörth, and Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm), was notable for… Read more
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Bisnovat 5 Russian Supersonic Research Aircraft
Bisnovat 5 Russian Supersonic Research Aircraft The Bisnovat 5 was a Soviet experimental research aircraft developed in the late 1940s to explore the challenges of supersonic flight. It was one of the earliest attempts in the USSR to design and build an aeroplane capable of exceeding the speed of sound, paralleling Western efforts such as… Read more
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British Heavy Cruiser HMS Raleigh
British Heavy Cruiser HMS Raleigh HMS Raleigh was a Hawkins-class heavy cruiser (along with her sister ships HMS Hawkins, Effingham, Frobisher and Vindictive), ordered in 1915 under the First World War emergency programme and built at Devonport Dockyard. She was laid down in 1916, launched on 28 September 1919, and commissioned in 1921. Named after the Elizabethan explorer… Read more