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The German motorcycle of BMW concern - R-12 - had been produced from 1935 to 1942. During that period more than 36000 BMW R-12 had been manufactured both military and civilian variants. The sports variant of R-12 reached a speed record of 279.5...

The mass production of DShKs started in 1940-1941. Within the WWII these machine guns on various mounts were used to attack enemy's soft targets, machine-gun nests and anti-tank artillery. DShK was also used as an anti-aircraft weapon and was f...

During the years of the Afghanistan war the Soviet Army widely used small maneuverable groups to combat enemy convoys and caravans. The units were deployed in helicopters to the place of action. Usually these groups included not only riflemen, ...

Having invaded the Soviet Union on June, 22nd, 1941, the Germans reached the boundaries for attacking Moscow in September. One of the fiercest battles of World War II took place in the western surroundings of Moscow from September 41 to April 4...

On 20 May 1941 German paratropers landed on the island of Crete occupied by British troops. It was the start of the Operation Mercury, one of the most famous landing operations during World War II. In order to capture airfields and artillery ba...

The R-12 became after 1938 the standard heavy motorcycle of the German Wehrmacht in its Solo configuration. The main use was for communication, liaison, reconnaissance and the Military Police. Its sturdy construction allowed a successful use un...

A sapper or combat engineer is a combatant soldier who performs a wide variety of combat engineering duties, typically including, but not limited to, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, demolitions, field defences, general construct...

German sappers were jacks-of-all-trades. They cleared enemy barriers, and overcame natural obstacles. During the assault of enemy fortified positions, pioneers cleared a path through wire entanglements and minefields. Sappers often had to set o...

The box includes 2 sprues. The kit is cleanly molded in green plastic. The plastic model kit includes 4 figures and 2 antitank rifles. Instrustion is laid out like most other Zvezda kits. 

The infantry consisted of Libyan-Phoenicians, people, moulded as a result of Libyan land colonization by Phoenicians, was the basis of Carthaginian army. Libyan-Phoenician infantry was armed after the Hellenistic pattern. The heavy infantry wor...

The armies of Alexander first encountered elephants when they engaged the army of Emperor Por of India. The fighting towers were first put into use by Pyrrhus, the King Epirus. Since then, elephants with fighting towers were adopted by almost a...

This set depicts the Russian Lifeguard Cossacks during the French invasion of Russian in 1812 and the subsequent foreign campaigns of the Russian Army. The Lifeguard Cossacks were remarkable for their attack against French cuirassiers at Leipzi...

The Macedonian sarissofors (sarissa=5.5 meter spear) phalanx was developed by King Philippe of Macedonia (the father of Alexander the Great) into a weapon feared throughout the ancient world. Only the Legionaires of the mighty Roman Army were a...

The core of the Russian cavalry in the 13th and 14th centuries consisted of the princedom brigades, which were divided into "senior" brigades made up of boyars and the prince's confidents, and the "junior" ones filled with simple soldiers. The set...

Hussars of the Polish Kingdom were unique in Europe. They were known for the wings with long feathers worn on their backs or attached to the saddles of their horses, which during a charge uttered a sound of vibrating feathers that frightened en...

Eighteen-pound “unicorns” (smoothbore artillery pieces) and 12-pound cannons were widely used in Russia during the War of 1812. In the Battle of Borodino, these guns were stationed on the well known Rayevsky battery site and infl ic...

In the Roman Empire, the auxiliary infantry that had consisted of disjointed detachments each fi ghting according to its own tactics was formed into a single force and organized according to the principle of cohorts. The set consists of 45 warr...

In the French army, the infantry served an auxiliary function - its main role consisted of providing support for the vast knight cavalry. The majority of the infantry consisted of mercenaries, with Genoese crossbowmen playing a main role. The s...

In the Russian army of the 19th century, the hussar regiments filled one third of the active cavalry and took part in all of the major battles and military campaigns of 1812-1814. The hussars were armed with sabers, spades, pistols, carabines, ...

After entering the Great Northern War, Russia began to quickly accumulate its cannon arsenal. In 1706, the distinguished artilleryman V. D. Korchmin proposed setting up three-pound cannons and two six-pound mortar guns on a single gun carriage,...

In 13th and 14th century Russia, the active core of forces and the backbone of the prince's support came from the militia and princedom brigades, which protected cities and staged marches.

Cataphracts - entirely covered with plate metal armour - came into the world during last centuries B.C. Armed with long spear, formed in tight lines that riders were able to break through line of heavy infantry and make them to run away. During...

These dragoons successfully fought both in mounted and foot order. The number of Dragoon regiments reached 33. Their most famous action happened in the battle of Lesnaya village when the first corps of Russias armed forces named Corps Volant co...

When Napoleon entered Warsaw victoriously he had an escort of Polish noblemen. He ordered in 1807 to form a regiment of Polish Light Cavalry ,called Uhlans, which besides the normal armament of cavalrymen were armed with long spears. The Polish...

The Golden Horde was a Mongol and later Turkicized khanate that formed the north-western sector of the Mongol Empire. Contemporarily, the khaganate was known as the Kipchak Khanate or as the "state (ulus) of Jochi".

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The Prussian army of Frederick II was supposed to be the best in Europe. The Prussian cavalry was the elite of the Prussian army, and "Black Husars" were the elite of Prussian cavalry. Hussar regiments were created by Frederick II fol...

In the era of fire-arms the infantry was called “Queen of Battle”. Such name is most suitable for the Russian infantry. Large in number and steady in fighting, this infantry allowed the Russian army to repulse attacks of German troo...