Key: On this table, figures originally given in various local coinages have all been converted to livres tournais, worth about £4 sterling; s, shilling, of which there were 12 to the pound; d, penny, ...

The new Columbia class SSBNs will be about the same length of the 15,500 ton Ohios but about 5 percent larger in diameter and displace 18,500 tons on the surface. The Ohios were based on 1980s ...

March 3, 2025: Taiwan is upgrading their Ching Tien 2,000 kilometer range supersonic missile to upgrade it into a hypersonic missile also called Ching Tien. Taiwan began producing this hypersonic ...

The 071s are Landing Ship Dock or LPD type vessels and were the largest ships in the Chinese Navy until the first aircraft carrier entered service in 2013. But while Chinese aircraft carriers are ...

A major limitation to the expansion of drone operations was the need for trained drone operators. These operators need dozens of hours of training before they are able to start operating these drones, ...

U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 11th Airborne ...

Russia seized Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014. Ever since then Ukraine has been struggling to get it back. In 2014 Ukrainian military officials admitted that there was no way for Ukraine to take ...

Lying more than 482 kilometers (300 miles) from the sea, Afghanistan is a barren, mostly mountainous country of about 647,500 square kilometers (250,000 square miles). It is bordered by Turkmenistan, ...

February 26, 2025: On New Year’s day the UN authorized a new peacekeeping force of 11,900 troops. In February the U.S. carried out airstrikes against Islamic terrorists in Puntland, which is in ...

Somalia is located in the northeastern section of Africa known as the Horn of Africa. It occupies a land area of approximately 637,600 square kilometers (185,655 square nautical miles), which is ...

Estimates of the number of men engaged at Gettysburg vary widely. Figures for the strength of the Army of Northern Virginia range from a low of about 65,000 men of all arms to a high of about 75,000, ...

A U.S. Marine Corps Expeditionary Modular Autonomous Vehicle is driven during emerging technology training as part of ...