Warfare & Defence

Beginning on June 6, the Allies were able to establish their first airfields in Normandy. Here we will discover the fifty airfields that played an ...

The Mirage 2000N program was launched in 1978 to accomplish intercept missions and medium-range air to surface nuclear attacks in order to eventual...

In a combat career that spanned the entirety of the Second World War, the Spitfire earned a reputation as the iconic fighter that friend and foe al...

The DVD explores how the US managed to keep stealth technology secret for more than a decade. Night Stalkers were designed and built in total secre...

Detailing the Lancasters history from 194245, this study brings everything together to tell a concise history of the worlds most famous aircraft of...

Throughout much of the Second World War the Nazis military technology was far more advanced than anything the Allies could produce. Part of the Ger...

On 6 June 1944 Commando Kieffer 177 soldiers disembarked, but they were not the only French soldiers involved in Operation Overlord. French sailors...

Naval Aviation special markings and 'nose art' is a field that has been largely ignored, primarily due to the lack of coverage in mainstream aviati...

Catch a rare glimpse into the training of the nations defence personnel, as pilot turned flying instructor Mike Brooke shares with us some of his a...

Flying boats have been a familiar sight in the Solent since the dawn of aviation. Two of Britain's major manufactures, Saunders-Roe and Supermarine...

Scale plans in 1/72, 1/48 and 1/32 scale.All Zero versions.A6M2 model 21A6M3 model 22 and model 23A6M5 model 52 and model 52cA6M7 model 62

This new edition of Airships over Ulster is a tantalising piece of hidden history brought to life by aviation historian Guy Warner. He expertly wea...

On 5 March 1936 Spitfire-prototype K5054 took to the air on its first flight. Eighty years later that same design has come to symbolise the whole h...

For 100 years, the world's oldest independent air force, the RAF, forged a distinguished record in military air operations from the First World War...

At the beginning of 1916, as the world entered the second full year of global conflict, the cities, towns and villages of Britain continued to lay ...

In this compelling memoir, Erich Sommer recalls his life in pre-war Germany and the adventures he had flying for the Luftwaffe during the Second Wo...

Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five of the succeeding six years of hos...

Air Commodore John Langer's career has been eventful to say the least. During the Second World War he flew gliders in India in preparation for airb...

Famously dubbed 'Bandit Country' by a UK government minister in 1975, South Armagh was considered the most dangerous part of Northern Ireland for t...

When the B-52 Stratofortress entered operational service with the US Air Force in 1955, work was already underway on defining its successor. The B-...