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1 day ago · Indian workers check new fuel tanks at the Hindustan Aircraft Factory in Bangalore, 1944. Military production during World War II was the production or mobilization of arms, ammunition, personnel and financing by the belligerents of the war, from the occupation of Austria in early 1938 to the surrender and occupation of Japan in late 1945.
2 days ago · The war resulted in the destruction of approximately 70,000 Soviet cities, towns and villages [181] - 6 million houses, 98,000 farms, 32,000 factories, 82,000 schools, 43,000 libraries, 6,000 hospitals and thousands of kilometers of roads and railway track.
3 days ago · Hamas built an underground war machine to ensure its own survival. Vowing self-sufficiency, Hamas turned a maze of tunnels in Gaza into weapons factories and well-stocked fortifications. A year ...
1 day ago · Originally set up by the military police of the Empire of Japan, Unit 731 was taken over and commanded until the end of the war by General Shirō Ishii, a combat medic officer. The facility itself was built in 1935 as a replacement for the Zhongma Fortress, a prison and experimentation camp.
1 day ago · Wars are won in laboratories and factories as much as on the battlefield. To increase innovation, Ukraine has minimized the bureaucracy which remains endemic to NATO militaries. Private companies in Ukraine receive quick approvals and contracts, allowing the country to innovate, produce, and deploy weapons rapidly.
5 days ago · World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China).
2 days ago · Oct. 7, 2024. Iran and Israel avoided direct confrontation for years, fighting a shadow war of secret sabotage and assassinations. But the two countries are now moving closer to open conflict ...
