There have only been 230 years of peace

It has been calculated that in the last 3,500 years, there have only been 230 years of peace throughout the civilized world.

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Biological warfare in year 1346: using black death against enemies

The Mongols were laying siege to the city of Caffa when they began to succumb to the black death.  In the ultimate act of spite, the Mongols catapulted diseased corpses into the city, infecting the inhabitants and precipitating the spread of the plague to Europe.

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Best sniper-shooter of all time

Finn Simo Häyhä, is the best sniper-shooter of all time, whom the Russians called "white death", because during the Finnish-Soviet war he killed 505 Red Army man, he lived almost 97 years.

Fact is "when a civilian kills a one man it is murderer and criminal, but when a soldier kills 500 people he is a national hero".

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Rock you like a Hurricane

In 1888, Chancellor Otto von Bismarck decided to establish a naval base in the Pacific, and sent warships to occupy the Samoan Islands, without regards to American interests there. Before long, the property of American citizens was being destroyed by German naval fire, and sailors went to far to go ashore and tear apart an American flag. President Grover Cleavland repsonded by sending American warships to protect his countrymen. A great naval battle was about to commence, when a hurricane blew in, scattering ships and sinking others. Both American and German sailors found themselves being rescued from the sea by their enemies. After the storm, the German ships returned home, and Samoa became an American protectorate. Were it not for the hurricane, war would almost certainly have broken out between Germany and the US.

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The Real Cold War

Most Americans have no idea that the United States and Russia did openly engage each other in war. In 1918, about 11,000 American soldiers and Marines were sent to Russia to support what remained of the Czarist Russian army, where (in future irony) they joined Japanese troops fighting in support of the Czarist forces. In September of 1918, 7000 Marines landed in Vladivostok, and shortly thereafter, 4000 soldiers arrived in the far north of Russia, where British troops were already fighting the Bolshevik army. It was not until 1920 that Woodrow Wilson decided that he could not stop the Bolshevik takeover and quitely withdrew all American forces from Russia. American involvment in the Russian Revolution was well remembered in Russia, especially during the Cold War, even though it has been nearly forgotten in the United States. The number of American dead has still not been officially released to the American public.

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The best sniper shooter ever

Vasily Zaitsev Russian peasant from the Siberian steppes is the best sniper shooter ever, his famous battle with the German Major Erwin König, was adapted in several popular films, although in the German documents were never found evidence of the existence of Major König.

Late in the summer of 1942 he reported voluntarily to the service on the front lines on which he was put into the 1047th Defense Regiment of the 284th Defense Division. This was put into the 62nd army in Stalingrad. During the Battle of Stalingrad after the Soviet assigned him a sharpshooter Zeitsev killed about 225 German soldiers between November 10th and December 17th, 1942. After his own assignment until January 1943 twenty-seven more were to be added.

Soviet war reporters report that Zeitsev killed forty Germans with precise shots in the first ten days after the landing of his union on the western banks of the Volga. Moreover he led a sharpshooter school in the ruins of the Lazur chemical factory in which he trained 28 soldiers, who themselves supposedly killed 3000 German soldiers.

To the famous Noble-Shooter (name of a sharpshooter of the Red Army with more than 40 fatal hits) belonged "Zikan" with 224 dead German soldiers and officers, Nikolai Ilin (185 [dead]), Under-officer Studentov (170), Sergeant Passar (103), Viktor Medvedev, Anatolij Tschekow (17 dead Germans in just 2 days), Tanja Tschekowa (40), the Ukrainian man Kucherenko (19) and a Usbek with unknown name, who shot 5 Germans dead in 3 days.

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Most powerful bomb ever detonation

Most powerful bomb ever detonation is Russian Tsar (emperor) nuclear bomb.   .Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb was originally designed to have a yield of about 100 megatons of TNT (420 PJ); however, the bomb yield was reduced to 50 Megatons — one quarter of the estimated yield of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa — in order to reduce nuclear fallout. Only one bomb of this type was ever built and it was tested on October 30, 1961, in the Novaya Zemlya archipelago.

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Biggest battle ever

The biggest battle that ever, was the Battle of Kursk in World War II, between the Soviet Union and Germany. This battle was the turning point in World War II and marked the fall of Germany in the east. Aalso this is the biggest tank and airplane battle ever.

Battlefield was as big as half of England. The Soviets employed about one million women to dig more than a thousand kilometers of channels, to prevent the German blitzkrieg attack, so their tanks could stuck in these channels and thus were disabled for battle.

On one side of the mighty German Sixth Army, which numbered: 435,000 men, 3155 tanks, 9,966 guns and mortars, 2110 aircraft. On the other side powerful Soviet Army which numbered: 1.2 million men, 3275 tanks, 25.013 guns and mortars, 2792 aircraft.

This was also one of the most bloody battles in history. The Germans lost 170,000 men, 720 tanks, 681 aircraft. While the Soviets had suffered far greater losses, they lost 863,000 men, 6.064 tanks and assault guns, 1.626-4.209 Aircraft, 5.244 guns.

This is the biggest battle that ever happened, I hope that something like this will never happen again. All people who participated in this battle are heroes, all of them participated in a mythical battle that will retail for centuries, and we can only assume how they felt in the real hell on earth.

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Best rifle ever

Kalashnikov AK47 is the best rifle ever produced. AK 47 (AK-automatic rifle Kalasnjikov, 47-designed 1947) is designs by Russian solider Mihajel Kalashnikov 1947.This is the best selling and most used rifle in history, it has produced over one hundred million worldwide. Because of its simplicity became favorite weapon of terrorists and pirates around the world. This rifle is so popular because it is simple to use, easy to maintain and above all, this is the most reliable rifle ever produced. During the war in Vietnam, U.S. Marines were conducted testing, how quickly can learn their soldiers to use this rifle.It took three hours to teach soldiers to use AK 47, M16 for three days.On their reliability enough the fact that American soldiers during Vietnam often used taken rifles, because they are more reliable then M16.

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Samurai silk shield (Horo)

Horo were stiffened cloaks and silk worn by Messengers (tsukai) and bodyguards (yojimbo) on the Battlefields of feudal Japan. Their primary purpose was to improve the visibility of the wearer on the battlefield, but they also served as arrow-catchers. A few years ago historians have tested this shield, from ten arrows, only three have passed through the shield, but none managed to inflict serious damage. They were so happy with the results that they decided to tested on humans. Now the results were even better, no arrows of fifteen managed to pass through the shield, and not to mention fatal injuries.

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Allies friendly fire

The first German serviceman killed in World War II was killed by the Japanese (China, 1937), the first American serviceman killed was killed by the Russians (Finland 1940), the highest-ranking American killed was Lt. Gen. Lesley McNair, killed by the U.S. Army Air Corps – so much for allies.

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Middle ages military technologu

The main innovation in terms of military technology in the early middle ages was the stirrup. From 100 to 500, there was a seemingly never-ending wave of nomad Horsemen armed with swords, spears, and bows coming out of the Central Asian steppe. The Archers would fire volley after volley into the foot troops. Then, when the Defenders seemed suitably weakened, mounted lancers would charge in. With the aid of the stirrup, the shock effect of these horse lancers was nearly irresistible. Germanic and other European Tribes adopted these Oriental techniques, and out of this came not only the destruction of the Western Roman Empire, but also the development of a mounted, armored "man-at-arms." This included the legendary "knight in shining armor," but most of these men were simply well-trained and experienced swords for hire.

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