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The Portuguese Colonial War (Portuguese: Guerra Colonial), also referred to as the Portuguese Overseas War or Overseas War (Portuguese: Guerra do Ultramar) for short, was a military conflict staged during the Decolonisation of Africa that pitted the guerrilla forces of the African nationalist Liberation movements of the Guinea-Bissau, Angola ...
The war increased the Somali government's emphasis on national security and military concerns in the years following. [125] In the view of former Somali prime minister Abdirazak Haji Hussein , despite success on by the SNA on the front line , dwindling reserves of military supplies and equipment had become a dire issue by late March 1964.
At the end of World War I given to the Varna Port Authority, then transferred to the Sea Police Service. Modernized in 1924. In the 30s transferred to Danube as a hydrographic survey ship, then back to Varna again as a hydrographic and training vessel during World War II. During the war it was armed with two small calibre guns and a machine gun.
Sweden had a total of 35 destroyer-class vessels throughout the Cold War, most of them World War II models. As time went on, Sweden begun to put less effort in keeping large surface combatants and instead increasingly relied on patrol boats, fast attack craft, coastal artillery and air superiority. However this approach (especially the ...
Data from De Havilland Aircraft since 1909 General characteristics Crew: 2 Length: 23 ft 11 in (7.29 m) Wingspan: 30 ft 0 in (9.14 m) Height: 8 ft 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 in (2.680 m) Wing area: 243 sq ft (22.6 m 2) Empty weight: 920 lb (417 kg) Max takeoff weight: 1,650 lb (748 kg) Powerplant: 1 × de Havilland Gipsy I 4-cylinder air-cooled in-line piston engine, 100 hp (75 kW) Propellers: 2-bladed fixed ...
8 Fokker D.VII – the best fighter used by Bulgaria in World War I. Delivery took place in September 1918 and they saw no action. 7 were scrapped in accordance with the peace treaty. The 8th flew as a two-seater after the war. 2 Albatros C.I. These were ordered by the Ottoman Empire before Bulgaria entered the war.
The Nieuport 17 C.1 (or Nieuport XVII C.1 in contemporary sources) is a French sesquiplane fighter designed and manufactured by the Nieuport company during World War I.An improvement over the Nieuport 11, it was a little larger than earlier Nieuports and better adapted to the more powerful engine than the interim Nieuport 16.
This is a list of firearm cartridges which have bullets in the 11 millimetres (0.43 in) to 11.99 millimetres (0.472 in) caliber range.. Length refers to the cartridge case length