Summary: Imperial Japan's Yamato-class battleships, constructed before World War II as the heaviest battleships ever built, ...

In a rich collection of images, all organized into chapters highlighting different types of aircraft, armament and ordnance, ...

Both the Il-20M and the Il-38M are Ilyushin aircraft of Soviet design. The former is known by the NATO reporting name Coot-A ...

Germany purchased the rest of the islands, but lost them to Japan during WWI. Despite this ... Less than four hours later, ...

GUAM -- American carrier-based planes have destroyed or damaged 49 Japanese ships in almost continuous attacks on the Ryukyus Islands it was announced today as Radio Tokyo reported that a huge ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Midway: Sink the Japanese Aircraft Carriers This is a Battle of Midway simulation game. You need to fly a dive bomber, dodge Japanese anti-aircraft fire ...

In the three years following the Battle of Midway, the Japanese built six aircraft carriers. The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment ...

Combat aviation improved throughout and after WWI, and in the decades of peacetime ... which endured from June 3-6, 1942, U.S. aircraft sank four Japanese aircraft carriers and a heavy cruiser.

Japan scrambled its air force jets nearly 700 times in the past 12 months in response to suspected airspace violations by mostly Russian and Chinese military aircraft, its Defense Ministry said ...

Damien Parer shot footage that won Australia’s first Academy Award, but few visit the site of the bloody battle where he was ...