I heard on the radio that the current 56th General Election of the United Kingdom will elect the 57th Parliament. Assuming this is correct, surely the first election would elect the first parliamen…
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The battering ram will easily knock down the wooden palisade surrounding the bailey but you are not going to be able to push it up the steep slope of the m
Learning Outcome: To discover the best way to attack motte and bailey, stone keep and concentric castles. To discover the defensive features of motte and b
By the end of this lesson: You will know what different castles looked like You will know what defensive features different castles had You will have some
To place a castle under siege is usually a last resort and is used to starve the occupants of the castle into surrender. You need to surround the castle wi
Digging a tunnel underground in order to light a fire under the castle walls was used if it was impossible to approach the castle without being attacked. T
You could use a catapult to fire stones at the castle but these early catapults were not very accurate and it would be difficult to hit the walls of the bu
Image courtesy of http://www.castlewales.com The Concentric castle was developed in the 12th and 13th Centuries and offered the best protection against att
The first aircraft carrier is arguably the HMS Ark Royal in World War I, but the first dedicated flat deck was the HMS Argus in 1918.
Russian aircraft carriers represented the fading threat of Russia at the end of the Cold War. In 1967 it launched Moskva and Leningrad two years later
If all other methods have failed then this may be your only option. To place a castle under siege is usually a last resort and is used to starve the occupa
In the century of conventional carriers, several aircraft arresting system designs were tried tested. Only one became universal: the transverse pendant
The position of landing signal officer (LSO) dates back to the dawn of naval aviation in the 1920s. By World War II, specialty LSO schools sprung up.
Operation Praying Mantis was a 1988 attack U.S. in Iranian territorial waters for Iran mining the Persian Gulf and damaging an American warship.
The USS Forrestal was America's first angled-deck carrier, commissioned in 1955 and named for the original secretary of defense.
An angled deck solved many flight problems of supersonic jet flight in the aircraft carrier age, particularly high-performance aircraft on a straight deck
Operation Desert Storm was a U.S.-led coalition designed to forcibly ejecting Iraq from Kuwait. Iraq sought to secure a greater share of Mideast petroleum
Naval aviation-launching aircraft from sea vessels as opposed to land-based aviation-is a cornerstone of American global military power.
The Carrier Based Aerial Refueling System is a program by the U.S. Navy to provide carrier-based drones as tanker aircraft. Estimated completion is 2020.
Aerial refueling is the process of transferring fuel from one military aircraft to another during flight, allowing the receiver to remain airborne longer
Military jets were among the most important technological developments in the immediate wake of World War Two, particularly putting them on carriers