Poland has received permission from Ukrainian authorities to carry out exhumation work in the former village of Zboiska, now a district of Lviv, where around 300 Polish soldiers were killed or wounded ...

Artillery has been a part of warfare since antiquity, when armies hurled giant boulders or arrows at fortifications with catapults and ballistae. Technology advanced as time passed, and siege ...

The key to Russian operations against Ukraine has been overwhelming artillery fire. For Western armies, the value of artillery seemed to diminish against the glamour of smart bombs. Russian ...

The first airmen from the Air Disarmament Wing, responsible for the disposal of Luftwaffe weapons and equipment, arrived on 18 May 1945 to take over the airfield from the FDP. The following day, the ...

A sign with the Air Component Command (ACC) insignia stands in front of the Bundeswehr's Air Component Command (ACC) alternate command post and training building in the Von Seydlitz barracks ...

Germany’s military air force, the Luftwaffe, will operate from a base ... giant Rheinmetall will use British steel to manufacture artillery gun barrels in a new UK factory.

The German Luftwaffe will operate from a base in the ... Russia is waging war against Ukraine, it is increasing its weapons production immensely and has repeatedly launched hybrid attacks on ...

A lack of orthodox aircraft saw the Luftwaffe fall short in its challenge for WWII air superiority At the start of the Battle of Britain in July 1940, Germany’s Luftwaffe had 1,100 Messerschmitt 109 ...

Chancellor of Germany Olaf Scholz (left) and German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius (centre) attended the ceremony marking the IOC of the Luftwaffe's IRIS-T SLM system at Todendorf on 4 September.

≫ The Luftwaffe’s front-line role has been intensified ... to hurl the maximum weight from the air at Red troops, artillery and tanks. ≫ German planes used to be called the ground army ...

Artillery is central to the Russian way of war. Some have described Russian ground forces as mainly an artillery army which happens to have a lot of tanks. “Put simply, Russia uses artillery as ...