At Star Carr, in Yorkshire, a wooden paddle was discovered and the time of making it was estimated at 7500 BC. It has probably been used to launch canoes of the kind found in Pesse, Netherlands, built around the year 6300 before our era.

Such canoes made of tree trunks and carved with timeless tools can be large: one found in Brigg (Lincolnshire) is sixteen meters long and its deck has a cross-beam two meters long.

Egypt and Mesopotamia-built boats

The ancient Egyptians and the inhabitants of Mesopotamia built their boats from the trestle plant, and served them to sail the canals and rivers.

It is not, however, known when the first ships capable of sailing the sea were built. Vessels with sails have been used since about 3000 BC, so those, or boats with wooden caravans (and since the year 2000 BC, perhaps with a keel), had to be very important for trading nations in the eastern Mediterranean.

Pushing a boat with a wooden stick or a short paddle was undoubtedly the forerunner of a long owl, but these methods of transport were not satisfied, as the legendary Babylonian hero Gilgamesh discovered when he tried to cross over the ocean.

The legend says that on the river of death the sailor told him to make the wooden stick sixteen feet long, but even 120 such sticks connected to each other did not reach the bottom of river so that Gilgamesh split and lifted his hands instead of a mast and used wear as sailcloth.

Curragh or coracle

The other two types of boats, which did not use the idea of paddles, are very old, but have survived to this day: this is the Irish “curragh” or “coracle” – a box of wicked wicker covered with leather, then coated with tar; and more simpler boat of infested animal burial, depicted in the old reliefs, where it is used by the clever Assyrian soldiers to cross over the river and transfer their property.

Animal skins are used in the Middle East for the same purpose even today – as does a boat that has been operating on the Nile for five thousand years.

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First warships

Two types of ships capable of sailing on the sea appeared at the time of old Greeks: a large, solid and bulky merchant ship and a much lighter warship that had, since the sixth century BC, had a long beak to pierce enemy ships on the bow.

On these ships were sailors who, as soon as two ships were connected, fought on them as in a land battle. The tactics in the Mediterranean over two thousand years have not changed much.

The Battle of Lepanto in 1571 saw the naval forces of Spain, the Venetians and the papal states joined to defeat the Ottomans – it was the last decisive clash of rowing ships.

Long before Lepanto, the Vikings had fast warships. However, a newly developed ship with more masts and more decks, a heavily armed galleon, helped to bring the former supremacy of Mediterranean peoples to northwestern Europe, Spain and Portugal.

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In the first few hours of the attack was total chaos. Some American planes took off to attack the enemy in the air… But anti-aircraft defense fired at everything that was in the air, so they shot down five US planes. Also, misfired US shells were falling on the nearby villages, killing more than 50 civilians.

No more survivors from the USS Arizona

Joe Langdell was the last surviving member of the crew of the USS Arizona. He has died at the age of 100, in February 2015. Langdell survived the attack at Pearl Harbor, along with 334 other Arizona crewmen, while 1,177 died in the attack.

Half killed were on USS Arizona

At the USS Arizona were killed half of all those killed in the attacked at Pearl Harbor. Life has lost a total of about 2,400 people (at Arizona 1,177). It was damaged or destroyed 20 American ships and more than 300 airplanes. Most airplanes were destroyed on the ground, so they did not even had a chance to confront the enemy in the air.

The attack lasted only 2 hours

The attack was fast, well-planned and stunning. Americans were completely surprised. The Japanese attacked in two waves and with the two types of bombs. Japanese code name of attack was ‘Zero Hour’, and lasted only two hours.

Brothers, fathers and sons

It is little known that at attack on Pearl Harbor were killed more than 30 sets of brothers, also a large number of fathers and sons. Until then, the practice was that the brothers serve together, but later just because of this are separated brothers and family in the US military. Also on Arizona served twins, Delbert and John Anderson. Delbert was killed, and John never found his body.

One of the consequences the attack is ecological disaster

After the attack, several boats were sunk, and one of them is the battleship USS Arizona. At the time of sinking it contained 1.2 million gallons of oil. Half of oil have flowed into the first few days of the attack which caused a huge ecological disaster, and today oil in a small amount flows out of the wreck. It is assumed to be more than 500,000 liters of oil inside the wreck. Black spot caused by this disaster is called “black tears”.

Jeannette Rankin, the only against the war

America entered the war the next day. President Roosevelt asked Congress to vote on entry into WWII, and this was approved with just one dissenting vote – by the first woman elected to Congress, Jeannette Rankin. In the war has killed more than 400,000 Americans, and total of over 60 million people, which was about 3% of the world population in 1940 (est. 2.3 billion).

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The Romans outwitted their opponents using expert battle tactics and perfectly engineered weapons and armour. Soldiers were divided into legions that served different territories and swore an oath of loyalty to the centurions.

One of the main reasons why the Romans consistently beat their enemies (and what links them to today’s military) is the fact that the army was a professional conscripted force.

A full-time operation, a soldier was one of the highest-paid and most-respected occupations in the empire.

Sea and land

On the high seas of the Mediterranean, the Romans enjoyed even more dominance than on land. Using triremes and galleys propelled by teams of over 100 men, ships attacked either by ramming the opposition or boarding their ships.

Owing a lot of their strategies to reverse-engineering methods learnt from the Greeks and Carthaginians, maritime superiority was essential for victory in the Punic Wars and Egypt campaigns.

The senior arm of the Roman navy was known as the Classis Misenensis and except for internal civil wars, achieved total marine dominance for Rome after the Punic Wars.

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Roman military facts

Organisation – 180 legionnaires were in a century. Together, six centuries made a cohort of 480 men. A legion had ten cohorts and the entire army contained 30 legions, a total of around 150,000 soldiers.

Training – lasted four months and consisted of marching, formation and weapons training. Recruits also learned to swim, ride a horse and use a bow and a sling.

Pay – A legionnaire would earn a basic 225 denarii for a year’s service. Out of this wage packet were deductions for equipment, food and even a regiment savings bank.

Sacrementum – Each soldier would swear a ‘sacrementum’ when they began their service, pledging their allegiance to the emperor and vow never to abandon comrades or desert a battle.

Equipment – Armour was light but sturdy. The helmets and armour could repel projectiles while the military-issue tunic was comfortable enough to wear on long marches.

Fast – Soldiers had to be able to march 32km (20mi) in five hours while carrying around 20.5kg (45lb) of equipment.

Cavalry – Roman cavalry riders supported the legionnaires by attacking an army’s flanks. They could also chase down any enemies that tried to escape.

Legionnaires– The legion was the main unit of the army and applicants were required to be Roman citizens between the ages of 17 and 45.

Formation – Legionnaires would form a defensive front using their rectangle scutum shields, which was a progression on the Greek phalanx formation.

Auxiliaries – Auxiliaries (non-citizen soldiers) formed the rest of the Empire’s militia and could only be granted citizenship after 25 years’ service.

Discipline and tortoise – The strict Roman ranks were extremely effective against the barbarian hordes, who had no effective response to the Testudo (tortoise) formation.

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Thus, Wernher von Braun, creator of the infamous V-2 rockets that caused terror in London, soon became known as the ‘Father of Rocket Science’, the creator of rockets, which in 1958 launched the first American artificial satellite, Explorer I. This happened only a year after the first satellite in space – Soviet Sputnik 1.

United States and Soviet Union at the time of the first studies of the Universe are deep in the Cold War that tends to focus on espionage and developing military technology.

Since the America has already demonstrated its nuclear force at the end of World War II (Hiroshima and Nagasaki), the order was for the Soviets to show their nuclear achievements.

Strongest Nuclear Bomb

In 1961 the Soviets made RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, known as Tsar Bomba or Ivan the Great – the most powerful explosive device that people have ever made – 1,400 times stronger than two nuclear bombs (together) dropped on Japan in World War II.

The idea for the Tsar bomb was built into the head of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, the then president of the USSR, which was primarily wanted to show America that the Soviets have a powerful nuclear weapon. The idea was presented to its main weapons designer, Andrei Sakharov, and at the same time he said he wanted to “show the imperialists what we [Russia] can do ‘. It is not clear when exactly was created the idea for the bomb of 100 megatons, and who first made the proposal, but what we know is that Khrushchev task was simple: to make a bomb that would ‘break the record’.

Sakharov was soon assembled a team of five experts that are for a record time succeeded to design and build bomb capable of completely destroying any global metropolis. The amazing fact is that them for this project was necessary only 14-16 weeks.

Tsar Bomba was originally conceived as a 100 megaton bomb, but this power halved in half due to obvious reasons. Even the 50 megaton nuclear was simply too massive to hit any target (eg in the US), and was so strong that the survival rate for pilots and crew on the plane is estimated at 50%, and that while flying 10 km above the ground – 45 km from the bomb explosion.

Soviet aim was to break the world record and demonstrate its power to the world, and the Tsar bomb has met all its expectations. Halved to “only” 50 megatons, was 3,000 times more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb. But that’s not the only record that was achieved. In addition, it was by far the strongest, it was the purest nuclear bomb – 97% of the potential consequences (of radiation) was successfully removed.

The day when the Tsar bomb exploded

30 October 1961, the Soviets were finally ready to show the world what it’s like an explosion of 50 megatons. However, in the final stage there are new problems. Even the Tupolev Tu-95, one of the biggest (then) bombers in the world, could not handle this 27-ton and more than 8 meters long bomb. Instead of spending time on making new aircraft, engineers have modified existing in a simple way – remove the part of the floor and in its place built a bomb.

When all the preparations were completed, the plane was ready for take-off and releasing the largest explosive devices the world has ever seen.

The bomb was dropped from a height of 10,500 feet, and there was also a parachute that slowed the drop and gave the crew in an aircraft enough time to get away from the explosion. At 1:32 local time Tsar bomb was dropped on the archipelago of Novaya Zemlya (islands in the Arctic Ocean north of mainland Russia). The detonation was so powerful that earthquake felt in Finland (900 km away) where they are at on some houses even windows shattered, and the shock wave was so powerful that it orbited Earth three times. Fireball was the 8 km wide, and the cloud created after the explosion was a high 65 km.

The explosion wiped out all the face of the earth within 35 km, and even the buildings in the abandoned village 55 km away were completely razed to the ground. Photographers who later reached the zero point, describe what it was: “No sign of prominence in the field …. Everything in this area is swept, washed, melted and blown away.”

Shortly after the explosion, when the others saw that the Soviets may in a few months to make a bomb that can turn the whole city into a piece of smooth glass, 87 states had asked the Soviet Union to spare the world of further “Tsar bombs” because of the danger to the health of millions of people.

Horrified with the power of the bomb, Sakharov, one of the main architects of the bomb, soon is himself became a staunch opponent of nuclear weapons. You can read also How do Nuclear Bunkers Work!

Facts about strongest nuclear bomb:

• 3,000 times stronger than Hiroshima bomb
• designed and constructed for couple months
• shock wave was so powerful that it orbited Earth three times
• survival rate for crew that drop bomb is 50%

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Unfortunately, modern movies are quite distorted the true picture of them, and convince us that the gladiatorial games were an orgy of blood and inevitable death.

But history tells a different story: they were carefully planned events in which is invested a lot of money and effort. Too much to make the life of a gladiator been lost.

5. Gladiators are in most cases survived the battle, even when losses

Everyone is asking do gladiators fight to the death? There is no doubt that the gladiators put their lives on the line by entering the amphitheater, but it is this moment of danger was the most important part of the game. According to Professor Fritz Krinzinger of the Austrian Archaeological Institute, gladiators were like today’s Formula 1 driver.

Every time they performed, they are exposed to serious danger, but are, like today (extreme) athletes were ready to risk life for their sport.

Modern science and archeology today provide us with a more detailed insight into the life of a gladiator. So we now know that these famous prisoners have a fairly good medical care. Their wounds and fractures were treated, and even during the recovery have been subjected to physical therapy. Historical documents indicate that some gladiators had their own private doctors and masseurs, and their diet is carefully monitored.

The analysis of 100 gladiator fights from the 1st century, it was found that only 19 of 200 gladiators lost their lives in the arena. They were simply too precious to die.

4. Gladiators had their sponsors

Like today’s sports, gladiator combats was ruled financial interest. Laniste, entrepreneurs who buy, sell and recruit new glaijatore were the most important factor of this bloody sport. They rented gladiators for the fight, but before that they had been taken in the gladiatorial school, trained, well fed … Lanistae are in the their gladiators invested a lot of resources.

Lanistae (lanista) were so powerful that they are generally the ones who decided about life of a gladiator, not a public or organizer. Since the money invested in their fighters, their interest was not to kill them, or too injured carry out from the amphitheater. Lanista had every right to ask the judge (yes, every fight had a judge) to spare the soldier or to declare the fight unresolved, to prevent causing further injury.

If gladiator fights lasted too long, tired fighters had the right to surrender, and this would done in such a way as would cast a sword and shield to the ground and then raised his hand with outstretched index finger. If the fight was good and fair, the audience cried out “misso” (mercy), but if the audience was not satisfied, they screaming “lugula” (slaughter him). In such moments, the organizer of the fight would have the last word – to satisfy the desire of bloodthirsty audience and to pay Lanista massive damages for the death of his fighter. As today, money is deciding outcomes.

3. Gladiators were well rewarded for their efforts

No one in Rome did not want to see the famous gladiator loses life in the arena, not even Julius Caesar who has even issued an order that during the gladiatorial shows, organized for his daughter Julia “Gladiators who do not cause delight of the audience should be preserved and saved” . The historian Suetonius wrote that even the bloodthirsty Nero did not want to watch the gladiators die, so he ordered that no gladiator is killed during performances in the Campus Martius.

All this talk about the status of gladiators in the Roman Empire, and that they were famous and wealthy athletes confirmed in the fact that the winners were also very well rewarded after the fight. After the fight, the winner is allowed to climb to the lodge where dignitaries were seated, and there would have received the award – a palm branch and a bag with money that was supposed to keep, despite the fact that he was a slave. For outstanding performances, gladiators were able to get the laurel wreath, which was the equivalent of a gold medal. Some ‘free people’ became gladiators precisely because of these awards.

Since most gladiators came from lower castes – were slaves, criminals or captured soldiers, this award gave them a chance to acquire great wealth – and most importantly, freedom. Every free a gladiator get a plate where it was engraved his name, and his sponsor would receive significant compensation for the lost fighter.

2. Gladiators had their fans

A mixture of muscular body and courage always is well passed at a female audience. Art names of gladiators, like Narcissus or Eros, were talked about how organizers want to attract the attention of the female part of the audience, and record of one gladiator, celadus, tells how the girls loved him.

In the 2nd century AD satirist Juvenal mocked the one nobleman whose wife ran off with gladiator: “on his face were slightly deformation: the scar from a helmet, a huge bump on the nose. But what women like is sword. “

1. Gladiatorial games were carefully planned

Today we know that all the gladiatorial games were far above the ordinary orgies of blood and inevitable death. These duels were carefully planned and took place under the watchful eye of the judges. Gladiators were soldiers who were regularly trained and skills of thrusting, dodging and parrying which provoked enthusiasm among the crowd were nothing more than a well-trained moves. Historians this fight compare with today’s boxing matches – except that instead of gloves, fighters have swords.

Gladiatorial games were all-day event. The day always began with performances involving animals that are most reminiscent of a staged hunt. After that, during the lunch break, performed to a public execution of criminals sentenced to death that could have been killed in various ways: crucifixion, throwing to the lions … After the brutal executions in which the audience really enjoyed, came to break with some comedy act, or even dance act.

Finally in the afternoon in the arena began to appear gladiators, wearing ornate armor and shields, accompanied by the sounds of drums and fanfares. All information about gladiators were announced to the audience, and in particular were highlighted their previous victories and awards they have received. Gladiators were first warming up with wood or blunt weapon, showing the audience their skills. Pre-trained moves (like today’s wrestling matches) have provoked the excitement and applause.

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The whole story is escalated when the ninjas arrived on the big screen, where they appear as a superior invisible warriors who had no trouble moving underground, run on water … and fly.

Well, today we know that the modern view of ninjas mainly based on a romanticized version of the drama. Simply to say that all the ninjas were extremely capable fighters and assassins would be as say that all of today’s intelligence agents and spies capable as James Bond.

Unlike samurai, ninjas nobody loved or respected (except jonins, masters and supreme commanders). The ninjas were doing jobs that nobody else wanted to do. Killing people ambushed was considered dishonorable in Japan and ninjas are often treated as a necessary evil.

Who was the first ninja warrior?

Like any ancient skills, and one that are ninjas adopted is full of myths and legends. But careful monitoring history, historians have concluded that the original source of the skills and philosophy that were later adopted by ninjas in Japan comes from India where it all began 6000 years ago. Philosophy and skills are slowly traveled from India to China, then to Korea and finally, in the 6th century came to Japan.

According to the official history of Japan, the first ninjas was a man named Otomono Sahiti, a spy who worked for Prince Shotoku (574-622), but the term first became formal and 1162, when they met Daisuke Togakure, samurai who lost their possessions, and then gave up the Samurai bushido code and title and Kain Doshi, a Chinese warrior-monk.

Daisuke and Cain are merged their knowledge and experience under one name – Ninjutsu, which has become a set of different skills including martial arts, strategy and tactics of guerrilla warfare, espionage, information gathering, coping and survival in nature, cloaking and stealth, camouflage, avoiding enemy infiltration, overcoming natural and man-made obstacles, fight with their bare hands, different weapons ….

Ninjutsu is soon to become the exact opposite of bushido, the code of the samurai. While the samurai were primarily valued loyalty and honor, ninjas code has valued the only accomplishment of the mission – at any cost.

What do ninjas do?

The main task for a ninja was not to kill the enemy, but to be part of a network of eyes and ears on the ground, to spy and to successfully transfer the information to the other ninjas …

There is no doubt that they were the assassins, however, most of their time they spent doing a day’s work, on the farm or market, dressed like any other man in their environment. Always avoided any physical confrontation that could reveal their skills.

Just like today’s intelligence agents, some ninjas were more than able to kill the enemy, but their primary task was to merge with the surroundings and gather information. Ninjas had no formal martial arts school. In fact, in the history there is no evidence that the ninjas possess martial skills, and those who did, they learned them from their fathers or older brothers.

Do ninjas wear black costumes?

In modern movies and comic books, ninjas are shown in a black suit, with masks on their faces through which can be seen only their eyes. This costume has nothing to do with real ninja, and it comes from the kabuki theater, one of the traditional Japanese form of entertainment that was created in the early 17th century.

It was in these theaters generated numerous myths about ninja who romanticized through fun, something like exaggerating the capabilities of today’s secret agents through the characters of James Bond or Jason Bourne. During the show, ninjas (actors) were wearing black uniforms and masks because they looked so dramatic, and uniforms worn simply borrowed from decorators (if you regularly go to the theater certainly noticed them).

In reality, during the day, ninjas wore everyday clothes like everyone around him (as any reasonable spy), and during night missions clothes are dark blue. Black color would revealing Ninja like silhouette, while the dark blue far better fit in nightlight. During the potentially hazardous mission, ninjas are often worn under clothing chain mail, type of armor consisting of small metal rings linked together. It is believed that it was this armor is responsible for the legend that says that ninjas were demons who could not be killed.

Ninjas maintain family tradition

Like the samurai, ninja were born into the profession, the families who have maintained the tradition that has been passed from generation to generation. The ninja was trained from childhood, as was common with samurai family.

In addition to martial arts, ninjas children from an early age are taught survival techniques and reconnaissance, learn all about poisons and explosives – and most importantly – their training demanded a certain degree of knowledge related to interest that will be addressed in the future, which will cover up their true profession.

Today no one knows for sure whether there has ever been an organized army consisting of ninjas. They have always been trained as individuals in their family, and they rarely act as a group.

What was the mission of ninja?

As we wrote above, the primary task of ninjas was to collect information about the enemy, but from time to time, they were required to put their other skills into practice, such as the assassination from ambush, brutal murder, sabotage …

In these situations, ninjas have been well prepared and equipped. One of the main tools were a rope that was attached hook, which allowed ninja to climb the wall or roof. There were also other equipments for the opening doors or windows, like a chisel, hammer, drill, hand hook … Knives and small saws (hamagari) are also used for drilling holes in walls, a portable device for listening is used for eavesdropping conversations and detect sounds.

What weapons did ninjas use?

As for the weapons, they used all – from small knives to katana whose peaks are often put a combination of red pepper, dust and iron dust to when drawing the sword from its sheath disable enemy (dust in the eyes) before they kill the enemy.

A number of different types of darts, spikes, knives and ninja star, known collectively as shuriken, were an important part of the arsenal, but at that time not only ninjas used. Shuriken, despite popular belief, are generally not used to kill at a distance, but to fight with fists (ninjas would fists hidden spike), or to throw on the floor, so that the enemy stepped on them.

They were very skilled with poisons, but also with gunpowder, which are used to create smokescreen, or even for making bombs. Some of the bombs were designed to release toxic gases, while others were filled with pieces of iron or ceramic shrapnel. In addition, the ninjas were carrying a handful of different weapons, adjusted agricultural tools, landmines, sword cane, boxers and bows and arrows.

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09. JAS 39 Gripen
JAS-39 Gripen is designed as a typical multi-role fighter aircraft, as its acronym in Swedish JAS actually means: Jakt (Hunter), Attack (attack on ground targets) and spaning (scouting), which is designed to meet the specific needs of Sweden army.
To this day, each new generation of fighter aircraft came into being on the basis of combat experience of the previous generation participation in local wars. Gripen is formed without such base and can not be justified in terms of combat, but still in the exercises showed excellent.

08. F-16 Fighting Falcon
The famous American fighter aircraft F-16 flights since 1974, so they have “tenure” of about 40 years.
The United States today are no longer ordering new F-16 aircraft, but they are still produced for foreign clients (approximately 25 countries in the world). The same aircraft were manufactured in Europe, Turkey and South Korea. It is interesting that F-16 is a lightweight fighter that uses the same jet engine as well as heavier F-15 Eagle. But the F-16 has only one such engine and a pilot, and the F-15 has the same two engines and two crew members.

07. F-15E Strike Eagle
The first conflict of F-15A Eagle with rival fighters took place on June 27, 1979 over Lebanon. In the air fight between the Israeli and Syrian fighters was destroyed one F-15A and one Kfir versus five MiG-21.
It has been developed from the hunter for air superiority – F15 Eagle. The first fight of the Strike Eagles was in Desert Storm, where they proved its ability to deep strikes against Iraqi targets of high importance

06. Dassault Rafale
Dassault Rafale is a French twin-engined multi-role fighter aircraft. Conceptually, this plane is based on the aerodynamic scheme of delta wings. Rafal is recognizable by the sloping (reclining) seat of pilot at an angle of 29 degrees. Sloping seat allows the pilot to work in half-lying position. In a half-lying position pilot can more easily tolerate “g” force during the fighting.

05. F/A-18EF Super Hornet
Since the F-18 Hornet reached its peak in the modernization, the next step in the development of the aircraft had to allow him to remain competitive in wartime even after 2020. The main difference between the Hornets C / D and Super Hornet is in size. Engineers have increased Hornet fuselage, and thereby increased the amount of of internal fuel and aircraft weight.
The Super Hornet has 25% larger wing, 35% more powerful engines and can carry 33% more of internal fuel.
Engineers have designed the Super Hornet so that in wartime there is at least 10 times more likely to survive than its predecessor. Although the surface is larger, vulnerable surface is 25% lower than the Hornet.

04. Sukhoi Su-35
Russian Su-35 by many characteristics is better than American fighter of fourth generation F-16. Su-35 is a major threat to any western fighter, and it is estimated that the competition can only be the American equivalent F-22. It is an improved version of the Su-35 and is considered as fighter of fourth ++ generation.
It is capable for supersonic cruise, without the use of forced combustion. It is estimated that has one of the most powerful radar station in the world, and should be a bridge between the planes of the fourth and fifth generation.

03. Eurofighter Typhoon
Eurofighter Typhoon is considered one of the most advanced fighter in the world and is often compared with the F-22 Raptor and the Dassault Rafale. Like the F-22, Typhoon has impressive capabilities in air-to-air combat and also in the fight beyond the visual range, and in a close fight. It can carry the majority of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons in the NATO arsenal, and almost all smart weapons currently available.

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02. Sukhoi PAK FA
The goal of PAK FA program is replacing the Su-27 and MiG-29 from the service of the Russian Air Force. The first flight of Sukhoi PAK FA, for a period of 45 minutes has been successfully implemented on 29 January 2010. It belongs to the fifth generation fighters. Of fire weapons is installed 30 mm gun, with a total of 300-450 grenade. Air to air missiles are built in two identical internal tanks, placed one after the other. The aerodynamic configuration of PAK FA is a bit conservative compared to the F-22 Raptor, but without a doubt, the plane was carried out a series of measures to reduce its visibility

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01. F-22 Raptor
F-22 Raptor is in development for nearly twenty years, and currently is the most advanced fighter in the world. Able to fly at extremely high altitudes and speeds, carries the AIM-120 AMRAAM but can destroy enemy fighters to fifty kilometers away. It has the latest stealth technology that makes it reduced visible on radar. If still being discovered in close combat, Raptor relies on exceptional mobility to avoid enemy fire. Several countries want to buy it, but the US Congress has put a ban on the sale, which demonstrates how truly is technologically advanced.

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Despite frequent competition in the field of technology in air warfare and the appearance of the first true competitor of the fifth-generation Raptor still holds a high position as the only operational fifth generation fighter aircraft.

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In addition to the standard branch of the ground forces, air force and navy, the Egyptian air defense has been designated as an independent branch that has particularly great importance. The reason for this are likely experience in the Arab-Israeli wars, and the influence of the Soviet Union who had five branches, including the territorial air defense. With a large operating band, Egypt has one million reservists.

Armed Forces
Army has a very a strong role in the entire social and political life in Egypt since the time of Nasser. Today, the great social and political role considerably strengthened after the dramatic events during the Arab Spring in late January 2011. Land force is the largest branch of the armed forces of Egypt and technically very sophisticated, focused primarily on the development of a strong armed forces.
Most effort has been invested in equipping the armed forces, therefore the Egyptian military industry bought the license and today produces M1 Abrams tank, which is ( with 1,130 “copies”) the most numerous tank in the Egyptian arms. But besides Abrams army has more than 1,100 American M60 Patton tanks and more than 1,500 Soviet T-55 and T-62, which are mostly withdrawn in the reserve.

Egyptian Air Force
The Egyptian Air Force is composed of more than 30 000 people, more than 1,100 aircraft and 245 helicopters, making it respectable structure within the armed forces. The best fighter aircraft in the EAF is an American fighter F-16 Fighting Falcon with 220 aircraft in service. Most of them is a modification of Block 40/42. EAF also owns 110 Soviet MiG-21 and its Chinese variants Chengdu J-7, which are still in service on secondary tasks.
In addition, Egypt has with France entered into an agreement on the purchase of 24 multi-role fighter aircraft Dassault Rafale, of which there are six already delivered. They should replace the French Mirage aircraft and Mirage V. 2000.
With Russia has signed a contract to buy 50 combat helicopters Ka-52, which would be equipped with the latest laser targeting system OES-52, and they could use Russian anti-tank missiles Vihr and Ataka. Delivery should be from 2016 to 2018.
They also plan to purchase 45 units of the most modern Russian multi-purpose fighter jet MiG-35, for which Egypt will pay about two billion dollars, and the first delivery will be in 2016.

Egyptian navy
The Egyptian navy is the largest naval power in the Middle East and Africa, with 32,000 officers, non-commissioned officers and sailors (of which around 14,000 reservists) and the currently 245 ships of various models and purposes. The majority the Navy was formed in the 60s with great help of the Soviet Union and the at the end of the 70s made a big turnaround and began to purchase equipment of the Western origin.

The main ships of the fleet are the two Mistral class helicopter carriers that Egypt bought from France. The total price paid for both ships about 950 million which includes the training of crews, and for them to have were ordered Russian helicopters Ka-52K. But striking strength of the fleet consists of 11 frigates, among which is certainly the most advanced class frigates FREMM Aquitane of French production. For now, the Egyptian navy has one ship of that class.

The powerful military force
When you give a general assessment, it can be concluded that the Egyptian armed forces is one strong military force (11th in the world). However, the composition of the armed forces are still largely conducted on the basis of compulsory military service and the obligation to serve in the reserve corps, while the professional part significantly smaller. Although this is a large armed forces, according to some analyzes required extensive structural reforms that are supposed to turn into a much smaller, but much more operational and efficient army, better suited to current trends.

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ThrustSSC vehicle is a jet-powered. It has two turbojets intended for combat aircraft. These engines produced by Rolls-Royce for the British version of the fighter F-4 Phantom II. Jet engines together provide approximately 110,000 horsepower.

ThrustSSC vehicle reached a speed of up to 1,227.986 kilometers per hour and so set current world record.

The vehicle is operated by the British Royal Air Force pilot (RAF) Andy Green, who has the rank of warrant officer, “Wing Commander.”

ThrustSSC was actually a British project, led by the Scottish entrepreneur Richard Noble. He previously developed jet vehicles Thrust1 and Thrust2.

Check more on http://www.thrustssc.com/thrustssc.html

Mention that the Thrust2 held the world speed record from 1983 to 1997 year. Today, the British developed even faster car – Bloodhound SSC – which should reach a speed of up to 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 kilometers per hour).

Bloodhound SSC will be powered by a jet engine from the Eurofighter fighter jet, rocket engine and one extra V8 Formula 1 engine.

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The explosion was carried out at a distance of 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface (but the height of 100 kilometers is considered the boundary of the universe). In comparison, at the height of about 400 kilometers today is also International Space Station (ISS).

U.S. bomb detonated on the day it launched the missiles Thor and exploded about 1,400 miles west of Hawaii.

It is interesting that the explosion was so strong that it went out, and about 300 light street lights in Hawaii, and turn on the many burglar alarms.

The reason for this is the electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that produce such an explosion and which are sensitive to electrical appliances.

There are theories that such a cosmic explosion using EMP could cause the cancellation of a large part of the electrical and electronic equipment on Earth. Otherwise, given the U.S. space nuclear test had a name Starfish Prime. Also caused a cancellation of many satellites orbiting the Earth.

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