10 most difficult military riddles

AWBPM - "the father of all bombs "- the colloquial term for the Russian so-called "Aerodynamic vacuum bomb with increased power". It is a fuel and air bomb, which according to Russian data has four times more destructive power than the largest so far conventional bomb, the American GBU-43 / B MOAB, commonly referred to as the "mother of all bombs".

The introduction of brown powder, which burned less rapidly than black powder, allowed to use longer barrels, which resulted in greater accuracy. Slower-burning powder decreases firing stresses, allowing guns to last longer and to be manufactured to tighter tolerances.

Baron Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel (1878-1928) was a Russian officer in the Imperial Russian Army and later commanding general of the anti-Bolshevik White Army in Southern Russia in the later stages of the Russian Civil War. After his side lost the civil war in 1920, he left Russia and became one of the most prominent exiled White émigrés.Wrangel is immortalized by the nickname of "Black Baron" in the marching song The Red Army .

The Borchardt C-93 semi-automatic pistol was designed by Hugo Borchardt in 1893 based upon the Maxim toggle-bolt design.. With about 1,100 manufactured by Loewe and nearly 2,000 more produced by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken, the Borchardt C-93 was the first mass-produced semi-automatic pistol.

The Janissaries were elite infantry units that formed the Ottoman Sultan's household troops, bodyguards and the first modern standing army in Europe. The corps was most likely established during the reign of Murad I (1362–89).The corps was abolished by Sultan Mahmud II in 1826 in the Auspicious Incident in which 6,000 or more were executed.

The Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb, known by Western nations as Tsar Bomba was the most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. Tested on 30 October 1961 as an experimental verification of calculation principles and multi-stage thermonuclear weapon designs, it also remains the most powerful explosive ever detonated.

Blendkörper 1H (English name dazzling body) in short BK-1H is a smoke grenade made in Germany. The grenade consisted of titanium tetrachloride and a glass casing which protected the contents. The grenade works like a normal smoke grenade only that there is no clip pin so the grenade was enough to throw at once. After throwing and throwing the grenade on hard surfaces it crashed and released titanium tetrachloride which started to turn into a white cloud. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator

Most American aircraft carriers are powered by two reactors. The only exception was the early-constructed USS Enterprise, having an eight-reactor propulsion design, with each A2W reactor taking the place of one of the conventional boilers in earlier constructions. Enterprise was meant to be the first of a class of six, but construction costs ballooned and the remaining vessels were never laid down. The design was replaced by two-reactor Nimitz class.

The 6-inch heavy mortar "Little David" was developed in 1944-1945 and was designed to test the ballistic properties of aerial bombs. Bombs fired from this mortar were tested more thoroughly than bombs dropped from airplanes, with a significant reduction in the cost of these tasks.

On 30 April 1863 a small infantry patrol of French Foreign Legion, numbering 62 soldiers and three officers was attacked and besieged by a force that may have eventually reached 3,000 Mexican infantry and cavalry. They made a defensive stand at the nearby Hacienda Camarón, with a plan to occupy Mexican forces to prevent attacks against the nearby French supply convoy. Only two legionnaires survived, but they stopped Mexicans for the whole day and reached their goal.