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During the closing days of World War II, the German Army produced a combination of 5 mg of Cocaine, 3 mg of Methamphetamine and 5 mg of Oxycodone in a compound they named D-IX; [21] the compound was reportedly tested on prisoners at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and found out an individual who had consumed the compound could march 90 ...
The MOAB is the most powerful conventional bomb ever used in combat as measured by the weight of its explosive material. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] The explosive yield is comparable to that of the smallest tactical nuclear weapons , such as the Cold War -era American M-388 projectile fired by the portable Davy Crockett recoilless gun.
The "war on terror" that began with the September 11 attacks has been claimed by some to be World War III [106] or sometimes World War IV [100] [107] (assuming the Cold War was World War III). Others have disparaged such claims as "distorting American history". While there is general agreement amongst historians regarding the definitions and ...
After World War II, significant budget cuts and rapid demobilization had impaired the Army's ability to store and maintain equipment. [1] While machine guns and towed artillery were available in quantity, self-propelled equipment, new tanks, and antiaircraft artillery was generally unavailable and in poor condition.
Referencing a Washington Post article, Dimon continued, "World War III has already begun. You already have battles on the ground being coordinated in multiple countries."
3.3 Mt Inactive 1975 No Silo 1,500 m 41 DF-4A China Factory 211 (Capital Astronautics Co.) 7,000 km 82,000 kg 3x 1 Mt Inactive 1975 Yes Silo 1,500 m 42 DF-31: China Academy of Rocket Motors Technology (ARMT) 8,000 km 42,000 kg 1 Mt Active 1999 (Reported) No Road-mobile TEL 150m 43 DF-31A: China Academy of Rocket Motors Technology (ARMT) 12,000 km
Operation Corkscrew was the code name for the Allied invasion of the Italian island of Pantelleria (between Sicily and Tunisia) on 11 June 1943, prior to the Allied invasion of Sicily, during the Second World War. [3]
A US Marine Corps M88A2 Hercules in 2014, lifting an M1 Abrams engine with its crane.. An armoured recovery vehicle (ARV) is typically a powerful tank or armoured personnel carrier (APC) chassis modified for use during combat for military vehicle recovery (towing) or repair of battle-damaged, stuck, and/or inoperable armoured fighting vehicles, such as tanks and armoured personnel carriers.