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The Kriegswaffenkontrollgesetz has a list of goods it considers to be weapons: [10] Nuclear weapons and parts of these; Biological weapons, and specifically a long list of Biological agents, like many kinds of viruses, and toxins. Chemical weapons, with a long list of substances; Missiles, including e.g. Anti-tank guided missiles; Military ...
Germany: Military truck — "hümS" [312] "commercially available vehicle modified for military use" Mercedes AXOR. 18.290, 4×4 Germany: Military truck: 1700 [313] / 846 [314] In service since 2007. [313] Standard swap body (developed by the company Sonntag Fahrzeugbau) Mercedes Unimog 5000. 2t hümS gl Germany: Military truck: 650 "hümS" [315]
The Heinkel He 111, one of the technologically advanced aircraft that were designed and produced illegally in the 1930s as part of the clandestine German rearmament. German rearmament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, which required German ...
According to military historian Sheldon Goldberg, the process of disbanding the armed forces did not prove an obstacle since "most [remaining soldiers] simply dropped their weapons, raised their arms, and surrendered". [5] Another aspect of demilitarisation was to be the destruction of all German fortifications and war industry.
During the First World War, the world, particularly Europe, underwent a vast development in arms.During the course of the war, technology surrounding weaponry development and new types of arms emerged: specifically, a focus on not only land equipment and personal but also the navy and the air force, [2] which Borg described as having "considerable weight and influence".
The primary Luftwaffe day fighter unit dedicated to serve in the area of Norway, Jagdgeschwader 5 (5th Fighter Wing), was the unit that used more of the surviving Second World War German fighter aircraft than any other in the forces of the Axis powers during the Second World War.
As a first step to bring the military back up to scratch after decades of attrition following the Cold War, Germany last year set up a 100 billion-euro special fund to purchase modern weapons and ...
Hundreds of thousands of Germans had deserted from the Wehrmacht, many defected to the Allies or the anti-Fascist resistance forces, [1] and after 1943, the Soviet Union made attempts to launch a guerrilla warfare in Germany with such defectors and allowed the members of the National Committee for a Free Germany which consisted mostly of the ...