La locandina ufficiale di The Remnants è pronta.
L’immagine scelta è stata presa durante una piovosa trasferta sul fiume Kading, nel Laos centrale. Qui si utilizza una speciale versione delle “long tail boat”, diffuse in tutto il sud est asiatico e caratterizzate da una sorta di timone a motore montato nella parte posteriore dell’imbarcazione. Lo scafo è costituito dai serbatoi di benzina che venivano sganciati dai cacciabombardieri in missione una volta esaurito il carburante.
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Author: Flaminio
Obama lifts the weapons’ embargo to Vietnam after 50 years
Obama lifts the weapons’ embargo to Vietnam: this is the is the sign of a complete normalization of relations after 50 years. Continue reading Obama lifts the weapons’ embargo to Vietnam after 50 years
Syria’s volunteer sappers
Art of surviving
Italia: in discussione una legge per contrastare la produzione di mine e bombe a grappolo
Cluster bombs monitor: Russia
The Russian Federation has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
Russia has rarely commented on why it has not joined the ban convention. In its last statement related to the matter in November 2011, Russia argued that cluster munitions play “a very substantive role” and “cannot be abandoned yet” due to their “defensive role.” Continue reading Cluster bombs monitor: Russia
Cluster bombs monitor: U.S.A.
The United States of America (US) has not acceded to the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
The US used cluster munitions in Cambodia, Lao PDR, and Vietnam (1960s and 1970s); Grenada and Lebanon (1983); Libya (1986); Iran (1988); Iraq, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia (1991); Bosnia and Herzegovina (1995); Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo (1999); Afghanistan (2001 and 2002); and Iraq (2003). Continue reading Cluster bombs monitor: U.S.A.
Cluster bombs monitor: Italy
The Republic of Italy signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions on 3 December 2008, ratified on 21 September 2011, and the convention entered into force for the country on 1 March 2012. Continue reading Cluster bombs monitor: Italy
CLUSTER BOMBS #3: SPIDER MINE
The Wide Area Antipersonnel Mine (WAAPM) BLU-42, is an air-delivered antipersonnel mine, an adaptation of the ‘guava’ bomblet; it is a spherical metallic object with external flanges and a fuze similar to that of the ‘guava’. Continue reading CLUSTER BOMBS #3: SPIDER MINE
CLUSTER BOMBS #2: GUAVA
North Vietnamese called “Guava” (another tropical fruit, similar to an apple) a model of cluster bomb much more lethal than the “Pineapple: the BLU 26. Continue reading CLUSTER BOMBS #2: GUAVA
CLUSTER BOMBS #1: PINEAPPLE
THE PINEAPPLE
The BLU 3 is a cylindrical high explosive bomblet with 255 steel balls embedded in an aluminium case. Continue reading CLUSTER BOMBS #1: PINEAPPLE
MADE IN ITALY #2: THE AERIAL BOMBING
The first aerial bombing in History.
1st november 1911(Italo-Turkish War): Giulio Gavotti flew his early model Etrich Taube monoplane against Ottoman military in Libya Continue reading MADE IN ITALY #2: THE AERIAL BOMBING