MILITARYHISTORYCOLLECTION.COM EXPANDS RANGE WITH FALKLANDS WAR COLLECTION Militaryhistorycollection.com the world’s first bespoke military history programming web-shop has expanded it’s already impressive range of titles with a new collection of Falklands War DVD’s.
The Website produced in association with Digital Marketing Agency, Pancentric has made the range of titles available to mark the anniversary of the 20 years that have passed since British and Argentine servicemen went to war in the South Atlantic.
This twentieth anniversary commemorative programme is a powerful record of a war that cost more than a thousand lives. It features remarkable archive footage of the fight for the Falkland Islands, atmospheric battle reconstructions and 3D animated graphics that provide a unique perspective on famous battles such as Goose Green, Tumbledown Mountain and Wireless Ridge.
‘The Falklands War’ also features detailed memories and recollections of both British and Argentine servicemen who were invloved in the conflict more than 20 years ago.
September
2007.
Alba are pleased to announce details of
their exciting releases available
September 2006 which include:
MILITARIA: SECRET AIRCRAFT OF THE SUPERPOWERS.
This award winning 4 part series,
currently breaking viewing records on the Discovery Channel,
will be available as individual volumes on September
4th.
SECRET SUPERPOWER AIRCRAFT - FIGHTERS.
This is the untold story of the cold war
race to build the perfect fighter plane. We begin with the Soviet
rollout of its MiG 25 fighter, a direct response to the inability
of earlier MiGs to catch British reconnaissance aircraft taking
photos of Soviet airbases. Stalin vows to never let the West
have the upperhand. US military planners develop the F-103,
a plane with Mach 4 speeds, as the replacement for its F-86
Sabre jets in the air war over Korea. Two solutions to using
fighters as a line of defense for long range bombers are presented:
the bizzare pairing of two F-82 Mustangs attached at the wingtip
for long flights and a parasitic fighter carried in the belly
of the mothership bomber.
We then recall one of the Superpower's most remarkable fighters,
the Canadian-built Avro Arrow. An all-titanium body capable
of Mach 2 speeds, it is suddenly cancelled in the middle of
its production in 1959. We answer the question as to why it
was scrapped so suddenly, was it US political pressure or the
influence of KGB spies. We then revisit the Soviet deployment
of the MiG 25, an aircraft with strange similarities to the
Avro Arrow. We meet Korean War veteran pilot and Air Force legend
John Boyd and revisit his "Top Gun" style of outmaneuvering
enemy fighters in air-to-air combat.
During the Vietnam War Boyd is called back to retrain the military
on his combat techniques and a new generation of fighter designs,
the F-15 and later the F-16, emerges. We end with a look at
the forthcoming F-22, the first totally new fighter design in
20 years,
and its Russian counterpart, the MiG 31.
SECRET SUPERPOWER AIRCRAFT - BOMBERS.
This is the untold story of the cold war
race to build the perfect long range bomber. Using computer
graphics and rare archive footage we show the US and Soviet
race to construct a nuclear-powered bomber that can fly for
years at a time. Our story opens with one of many Soviet Cold
War era hoaxes, the airshow flyover of a massive squadron of
"Bison" bombers, which, in reality was only 18 planes
flying in tight circles. We then meet a forgotten Soviet aerospace
hero, an Italian by birth, who designed the world's first supersonic
flying boat.
The US, meanwhile, in pursuit of a long range bomber with extended
flight capability, turns to nuclear power, converting a special
Convair B-36, which we show in flight. Then we revisit one of
Britain's finest aircraft designs, the long range TSR2 bomber,
the engines of which were eventually incorporated into the Concorde.
We end with the most successful and capable long range bomber
of the Cold War, the B-2 Stealth.
SECRET SUPERPOWER AIRCRAFT - THE QUEST FOR VERTICAL TAKE-OFF.
This is the untold story of the cold war
race for Vertical Take-off and lift Aircraft and the amazing
projects developed by both the Russians, Europeans & the
US. The two Superpowers harbored a common fear: vulnerability
of runways in the event of a surprise enemy attack. So both
turned to Vertical Takeoff and Lift aircraft-VTOLs.
We revisit the cutting edge designs of WWII German VTOL experiments
including the Heinkel Skylark and the Triebflugel. We learn
that in the early years following WWII, the European powers
recruited German VTOL designers led by the legendary Willi Messerschmidt.
US aircraft designers, meanwhile, devised two "Pogo"
design aircraft, one from Convair and another from Lockheed.
Britain's entry, the highly innovative P.1127, evolves into
the Harrier Jet, the VTOL workhorse of the US Marines. Our story
concludes with a look at the post-9/11 world and the need to
conduct warfare in remote battlefields without the benefit of
runways. The solution: the multi-mission capable F-35 Joint
Strike Force fighter with its set of heavy lift fans.
SECRET SUPERPOWER AIRCRAFT - SPYPLANES.
This is the untold story of the cold war
race for the ultimate spyplane. Using computer animation and
rare archive footage our programme opens with the story of "Wild
Cherry", the Lockheed Skunkworks project to use Neptune
aircraft flying at 150 MPH and a unique "Skyhook"
to retrieve spies dropped inside the Soviet Union and China.
Next we recount the story of a British Canberra equipped with
super long range cameras that get photos of a missile testing
site deep inside the Soviet Union. In the battle of the next
generation of high altitude spyplanes, the U-2 wins out over
Bell's X-16.
Meanwhile the Soviets use high speed aircraft to photograph
installations in Japan and commercial aircraft straying into
unauthorized airspace over Europe to gather NATO intelligence.
A Soviet attempt to design its own U-2, the Mandrake, encounters
lift problems at high altitude and is abandoned. When a Soviet
missile shoots down a U-2, the race is on between Convair and
Lockheed to build a higher flying replacement. The Soviets,
having collected every scrap of the downed U-2, reverse engineer
their own version of the plane, which shoots down overflying
spy balloons. Lockheed's high-flying, radar-absorbing plastic
composites SR-71 Blackbird is selected to replace the U-2. A
drone version of the SR-71, the D-21, makes several high flying
runs over China and the Soviet Union. When all its missions
end in failure, the D-21 is cancelled. We end with a reminder
of the SR-71's extraordinary accomplishments and note that despite
its much celebrated "retirement", the plane flies
secret missions even today.
NO
SURRENDER
Kamikaze
attacks by Japanese pilots are familiar to almost anyone
with even a passing knowledge of World War 2...
