Afrika (Russian - Африка) was a sail- and steam-powered second-class cruiser of the Imperial Russian Navy. She was 2775 tonnes, 83 m long, 11.06 m in the...

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"light cruisers", "heavy cruisers" and "training cruisers". Later "missile cruisers", "anti-submarine cruisers", "aircraft-carrying cruisers", "heavy...

Asia (Russian: А́зия) was a cruiser of the Imperial Russian Navy. The ship was originally the Philadelphia-built iron merchant steamship Columbus completed...

Imperial Russian Navy in 1876. In 1878–80 he served aboard the cruiser Asia with the Russian Pacific Fleet, transferring to the cruiser Afrika from 1880...

The Wagner Group (Russian: Группа Вагнера, romanized: Gruppa Vagnera), officially known as PMC Wagner (ЧВК «Вагнер»), is a Russian state-funded private...

relationship with the Imperial Russian Navy dating back to the late 1870s when his firm built the auxiliary cruisers Afrika, Asia, Europa and Zabiiaka. Cramp...

The German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran (HSK-8) was a Kriegsmarine (German navy) merchant raider of World War II. Originally the merchant vessel Steiermark...

warrant officer. Assigned to the cruiser Afrika on April 16, 1880, he circumnavigated the globe, returning to Russia in 1883. One of his shipmates on...

ships in the Imperial Russian Navy including the ironclad Kniaz Pozharsky, and in 1878 received his first command: the cruiser Afrika, which he commanded...

relations between Australia and Russia (Russian: Российско-австралийские отношения) date back to 1807, when the Russian warship Neva arrived in Sydney...

awarded the Order of Saint Stanislaus Third Class and served on the cruiser Afrika. In 1883, Abaza made a cruise aboard the clipper Sobol, visiting the...

offensive against the Axis forces. In a 13-day battle the Axis Panzerarmee Afrika was crushed and forced to retreat from Egypt and Libya to the borders of...

World War II. Originally conceived during design studies for a light fleet cruiser, the Tribals evolved into fast, powerful destroyers, with greater emphasis...

9 March 1964), popularly known as the Lion of Africa (German: Löwe von Afrika), was a general in the Imperial German Army and the commander of its forces...

Valentine beginning in late 1941. The split between the infantry tank and cruisers had its origins in the First World War division between the first British...

he commanded various vessels, including the cruiser Afrika from 1883 to 1885. He commanded the cruiser Vladimir Monomakh in 1889. Dubasov accompanied...

rapid evolution of the Cruiser tank such as the Mk IV (A13 Mk II) a British cruiser tank derived from the original A13. The A13 Cruiser was developed into...

March 1893. He was in command of the Russian monitor Admiral Spiridov, from 6 December 1895 and on, cruisers Afrika, from 6 December 1898 and on, Yaroslav...

to match the lower weight of a cruiser tank, allowing the suspension and transmission parts of the A10 heavy cruiser to be used, with the greater armour...

North Africa with Erwin Rommel's renowned Afrika Korps from early 1941. Most of the Panzer IIIs with the Afrika Korps were equipped with the (short-barrelled)...

Japanese bomb Singapore as their troops approach the city. 21: Rommel's Afrika Korps begins a surprise counter-offensive at El Agheila; his troops, with...

superheavy tanks) or doctrinal purpose (breakthrough-, cavalry-, infantry-, cruiser-, or reconnaissance tanks). Some are larger and more thickly armoured and...

and Russia may not have been able to ultimately defeat German forces in the East. Germany and Italy used submarines, merchant raiders, battle cruisers, and...

the Afrika Korps start to arrive in Tripoli, Tripolitania. British forces enter Italian Somaliland. 14 February Rommel arrives in Tripoli. Afrika Korps...

sent a small German force to Tripoli under Directive 22 (11 January). The Afrika Korps (Generalleutnant Erwin Rommel) was formally under Italian command...

Safina-E-Hujjaj TS Pretoria (1936) and TS Windhuk (1936), Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie passenger cargo liners MV Wilhelm Gustloff (1937), a Kraft durch Freude...

Cross for 46 aerial victories. In 1943 Bartels moved to Jagdgeschwader 27 "Afrika" (JG 27—27th Fighter Wing) to serve in the Mediterranean and Balkans theatres...

U-boats operated against the British fleet: on 5 September 1914, the light cruiser HMS Pathfinder was sunk by SM U-21, the first ship to have been sunk by...

against the Axis forces of Italy aided by Germany, which sent the Deutsches Afrika Korps and substantial Luftwaffe detachments to the Mediterranean in late...