Technically, all soldiers armed with muskets were musketeers. But the ones who wore the designation as a badge of honor were the personal household guards of French King Louis XIII (1/8) #svagaiature@LandsknechtPike
The musketeers of Louis XIII were soldiers who served as a combination of secret service and special forces. Their main duty was to protect the king and his family in a time of frequent plots and conspiracies (2/8)
The Musketeers fought in battle both on foot and on horseback making them an extremely fast and manoeuvrable elite unit on the battlefield, perfect for every situation even the most unexpected battle development (3/8)
Shortly after the Musketeers were established in 1622, a second company was founded to report to Cardinal Richelieu as his personal bodyguard (4/8)
In 1664, the two companies were reorganized: one company took the name "Grey Musketeers" (mousquetaires gris) from the color of their matched horses, while the second were called "Black Musketeers" (mousquetaires noirs), mounted on black horses (5/8)
The standard equipment of a Musketeer of the Guard consisted in a Rapier and Main Gauche, a sword-and-dagger combination, designed to stab and thrust; a Wheellock Pistol, a smoothbore, single shot handgun and a Flintlock Musket, a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore gun (6/8)
Under their signature hat and cape French Musketeers wore a steel cuirass which effectively protected their torso, leaving the other parts of the body unprotected but gaining in mobility and speed compared to a plate armor (7/8)
In 1776, the Musketeers were disbanded by Louis XVI for budgetary reasons. Reformed in 1789, they were disbanded again shortly after the French Revolution. They were reformed on 6 July 1814 and definitively disbanded on 1 January 1816 (8/8)
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But that wasn’t the first time the U.S. resorted to psychological warfare and scare tactics. During the Korean War the American discovered how 1950 was the year of the Tiger in the Chinese calendar (2/6)
For these reasons American tank crews were ordered tiger faces and claws on their tanks in an effort to spread panic between the enemy lines, hoping that those superstitious among the Chinese in the Korean lines would run rather than shoot a tiger (3/6)
The project began when the USA put an embargo on Turkey for UAV, due the fear of them being used to taget PKK groups inside and outside of the nation. Bayrack started developing a drone on the request of turkish government, and in 2014 the TB-12 made its maiden flight. (2/5)
A year later the weapon system had been already tested.
Many problems, regarding its components arose with time: the engine used, made in Austria, was only certified for civilian use; while parts of its imaging system and bomb rack was suspended... (3/5)
The only surviving model was captured by the Red Army in Manchuria in 1945 while in service with the Japan Army. How it arrived there from Germany is still a mystery (2/5)
The "tank" was used as a light reconnaissance vehicle with a one man crew. The armour was incredibly light, only five millimetres thick (3/5)
Development began in 1941, german used french radial engines in order to not put more stress on their industry. They also reinforced the wings and installed a steadier undercarriage comprised of four small wheel at the front and six larger wheels on the side of the fuselage.(2/5)
At the beginig were used only 4 engines, later upgraded to six, in version -D.
The Me-323 wings were made out of plywood and fabric, while the fuselage consisted in a metal tube construction with wooden spar. The floor had heavy breacinf to support the cargo. (3/5)
By the late 1950s, Soviet commanders realised that the T-55's 100 mm gun was incapable of penetrating the frontal armour of newer Western tanks, such as the Centurion and M48 Patton, with standard armour-piercing shells (2/13)
It was decided to up-gun the T-55 with a 115 mm smoothbore cannon, capable of firing APFSDS rounds. Experimental trials showed that the T-55 was inherently unsuited to mount the larger new cannon, and work therefore began on a new tank. (3/13)
- That Time Caesar was Kidnapped by Pirates (Mediterranean Sea, 75 BCE) 🧵-
In 75 BCE a band of Cilician pirates in the Aegean Sea captured a 25-year-old Roman nobleman named Julius Caesar, who had been on his way to study oratory in Rhodes. (1/8) #svagaiature#SPQR#History
From the start, Caesar refused to behave like a captive. When the pirates told him that they had set his ransom at 20 talents, he laughed at them for not knowing who it was they had captured and suggested that 50 talents would be a more appropriate amount. (2/8)
Caesar wasn’t the usual captive, he treated the pirates as if they were his subordinates. In few time he became the de facto leader of the ship. He even sent his entourage out to gather the money and settled in for a period of captivity. (3/8)