The Dutch Uzi: Service Variants of the Army, Navy & Air Force, 1957–1997

2021 ◽  
Vol VII (1) ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Mathieu Willemsen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Small Arms ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Israel Defense Forces

The well-known Israeli Uzi sub-machine gun saw service with the Dutch Armed Forces between 1957 and 1997. Other than the Israel Defense Forces, the Netherlands were the first nation to adopt this weapon for their conventional military forces—and also the first to use the Uzi in combat. The Dutch Navy, Air Force, and Army all adopted the Israeli sub-machine gun, although each service selected a slightly different configuration, including variants with different stocks and modes of fire. This article presents a brief history of the Uzi in Dutch service, tracing the primary variants in service with all three branches of the armed forces and examining how this variety highlights a recurring small arms acquisition trend within the Dutch military.

scholarly journals Experimental Exercises as an Element of Joint Combat Training of the Air Forces and Railway Troops in the Prewar Period and During the Great Patriotic War (1931-1945)

2021 ◽  
pp. 32-39
Author(s):  
D.S. Lapay ◽  
S.S. Lantukhov
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Test Field ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
Combat Training ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Prewar Period ◽  
Equipment Testing

This article deals with the organization of experimental exercises of the Air Force and Railway Troops in the conditions of increasing military threat during the prewar period and the years of Great Patriotic War combat operations. The relevance of the study is due to the lack of scientific research on the history of interaction and joint combat training of aviation and special technical branches units. In the course of this research, the role and place of experimental exercises in the system of joint combat training of the Air Force and Railway Troops were defined, and the main areas of weapons and military equipment testing were analyzed. A conclusion was made about the fundamental role of the Gorokhovets Aviation and Railway Troops test field in the study of joint combat use and in the development of new models of air weapons and recovering equipment for Railway Troops. The effectiveness of using of the experience of such experimental exercises is positively assessed. Conclusions are formulated and scientific-theoretical recommendations are offered to improve joint combat training of Aviation and Railway Troops units at the present development level of the Russian Armed Forces.

The Objective of Air Warfare

2019 ◽  
pp. 46-86
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Surface Forces ◽  
Air Power ◽  
Military Forces ◽  
The Will ◽  
Principles Of War

In this chapter three lectures are presented. Muir Fairchild, in “Air Power and Air Warfare,” emphasizes the need for an air force in being at the outset of war. In “Principles of War,” Donald Wilson argues that instead of seeking out immutable principles, the study of war should focus on linking the desired ends to the available means. The true objective of war is not the defeat of the enemy’s armed forces in battle but the overall defeat of the enemy nation such that it sues for peace on favorable terms. Air power is best suited for achieving this objective through massed offensive action. Haywood Hansell, in “The Aim in War,” reasons that war is the means for a nation to achieve its objectives by overcoming the will of the enemy nation’s population. The airplane, unlike surface forces, can directly strike the nation’s will without having to first defeat the enemy’s military forces.

scholarly journals Documents on the History of Maintenance in the Russian Air Force Fleet of 1910–17 in the Fonds of the Russian State Military History Archive

2020 ◽  
pp. 1156-1167
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Averchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Military History ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Technical Condition ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Russian State ◽  
Military Aviation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Russian Military

The article describes the part of the Russian State Military History Archive (RGVIA) fonds, which contains documents related to the maintenance of aircrafts, engines, aircraft weapons, apparatus, radio stations, and photographic equipment of the Russian Air Force Fleet (VVF) in 1910-17; they testify of the emergence of the maintenance department. As the forming department had no management bodies, its documents deposited in the RGVIA do not form a compact fond, they are found in a large array of fonds, some of which have no relation to aviation. In the modern scholarship on the history of Russian military aviation, there is a lack of the RGVIA reference materials on location of documents on the history of maintenance of the Russian Air Force Fleet. The article is to provide researchers with a detailed tool for searching documents on the history of maintenance in the archival fonds. The author relies on his knowledge of historical development of the Russian Air Force Fleet, his long-term research experience in the RGVIA, and on reference publications on the archive fonds. Having analyzed the RGVIA fonds, he shows what kind of documents on the history of the VVF maintenance can be found there. Features of various fonds and volume of documents on the history of maintenance in them are being described. It has been identified in which fonds the guidelines and instructions for the aircrafts maintenance are stored, as well as reports on technical condition of aircrafts, armament, and equipment in the squadrons, materials on aircraft radio equipment usage, reports on inspection of technical condition of aircrafts in the units, documents on accidents and disasters. The article reviews fonds of various organizations engaged in operation and repair of the aviation equipment, of management bodies of the armed forces, of integrated combined arms force, and of military aviation. The analysis will help the historians of the Russian Air Force to navigate numerous RGVIA fonds and to speed up their search of documents.

scholarly journals The Educational Models in Air Force Personnel Training Process

2019 ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Polishchuk ◽  
Stanislav Ďurčo ◽  
Branko Mikula ◽  
Róbert Rozenberg ◽  
Peter Kaľavský ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Personnel Training ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Educational Models ◽  
Educational Processes ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The University ◽  
Military Pilots

This study deals with the project research titled “The Educational models for Air Force Personnel training process”, ordered by the Air Force of the Slovak Armed Forces. The research is focused on analyses and evaluation of theoretical and practical part of military pilots training at the Faculty of Aeronautics in the past and comparing with existing educational processes. The research unveils the strengths and weaknesses of the educational programmes through the history of the faculty since established as the University of Air Force at Kosice till its present status.

scholarly journals Two Days of the “Six Day War”

2019 ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
Vladimir Shubin
Keyword(s):  
Air Force ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Staff ◽  
United Arab Republic ◽  
History Of ◽  
Six Day War ◽  
The Military ◽  
Gamal Abdel Nasser

The article is based on the information of the author, who as officer of the 10th Main Directorate of the Soviet General Staff spent two days in Egypt during the Six Day War between Israel and the Arab states. It briefly analyzes the history of Moscow’s relations with Cairo after the 1952 revolution, particularly in the military field, and notes that the Soviet military leadership overestimated the combat capability of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Republic, as the Arab Republic of Egypt was then called. Although by June 1967 the situation in the Middle East was rather tense, the war was not expected by Moscow on the day Israel attacked Egypt, and its quick success, especially the defeat of the Egyptian Air Force, was a shock to Cairo and Moscow. The article describes the situation in Cairo on June 9 and 10, the Egyptians’ reaction to the resignation of President Gamal Abdel Nasser; speaks of the negative attitude of the “Arab street” to the Russians, which arose in those days, primarily because of the false information of the Egyptian authorities, who argued that unlike the USSR, the United States and Great Britain took part in the war by bombing objects in Egypt.

Haemostatic Parameters and Lifestyle Factors in Elderly Men in Italy and The Netherlands

1996 ◽  
Vol 76 (03) ◽  
pp. 411-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fransje C H Bijnen ◽  
Edith J M Feskens ◽  
Simona Giampaoli ◽  
Alessandro Menotti ◽  
Flaminio Fidanza ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Antithrombin Iii ◽  
Lifestyle Factors ◽  
Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time ◽  
Factor Vii ◽  
Fat Intake ◽  
Factor X ◽  
Elderly Men ◽  
History Of

SummaryThe association between plasma fibrinogen, factor VII, factor X, activated partial thromboplastin time, antithrombin III and the lifestyle factors cigarette smoking, alcohol use, fat intake and physical activity was assessed in 802 men aged 70-90 years in Zutphen (The Netherlands), Montegiorgio and Crevalcore (Italy).Smoking was positively associated with fibrinogen, also after adjustment for other lifestyle factors, age, use of anticoagulants and aspirin like drugs, body mass index, and history of myocardial infarction. Alcohol use was associated with increased levels of factor X and decreased levels of antithrombin III. Fat intake was positively associated with antithrombin III. Between cohorts, considerable differences were observed in levels of haemostatic parameters and the lifestyle factors. Compared to the mediterranean cohorts the Zutphen cohort showed the highest levels of fibrinogen and factor VII. Differences in lifestyle factors could, however, not explain differences between cohorts in levels of any of the haemostatic parameters, despite the observed associations between lifestyle factors and haemostatic parameters.

Award documents of the CheKa functionary E. G. Evdokimov as a source on the history of All-Ukrainian Extraordinary Commission and Red Terror in Crimea in 1920–1921

2018 ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Andrei Ganin
Keyword(s):  
Armed Forces ◽  
History Of ◽  
Commander In Chief

The article analyzes the award documents of the head of the Special Department of all-Ukrainian CheKa E. G. Evdokimov as a source on the history of Red Terror in Crimea in 1920–1921 and in relation to the activities of Ukrainian CheKa officers. To date, these materials are the only known departmental evidence of the scale of the Crimean executions. In addition, of interest is the perception of these events by the commander-in-chief of all armed forces of Ukraine and Crimea M.V. Frunze, who left two resolutions on the documents.

Maximum Security

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1-2020) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Margo Okazawa-Rey ◽  
Gwyn Kirk
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Air Force ◽  
International Security ◽  
Armed Forces ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Correctional Facilities ◽  
Latina Women ◽  
Physical Force ◽  
Maximum Security ◽  
Class Youth

Okazawa-Rey and Kirk argue that the term maximum security, used in the context of the prison system, is an oxymoron. Jails, prisons, and other ‘correctional’ facilities provide no real security for communities, guards and other prison officials, or inmates. Imprisoning two million people, building more prisons, identifying poor and working-class youth of colour as ‘gang members,’ and criminalizing poor Black and Latina women does not increase security. Rather, the idea of security must be redefined in sharp contrast to everyday notions of personal security that are based on the protection of material possessions by locks and physical force, as well as prevailing definitions of national and international security based on a militarization that includes the police, border patrols, and armed forces such as the Navy, Army, Marines, and Air Force. To achieve genuine security, we must address the major sources of insecurity: economic, social, and political inequalities among and within nations and communities. The continual objectification of ‘others’ is a central mechanism underlying systems of oppression—and insecurity—based on class, race, gender, nation, and other significant lines of difference.

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