Bullets And Missiles

Apache Guardians taking off.  The AH-64 Apache is, in its simplest form, one of the best four-blade, twin-turboshaft attack helicopter the United States military have in their arsenal. This helicopter, which has been attacking enemy targets and providing CAS (close air support) with the US Army since April of 1986 is here to stay and give wrath with the enemy especially with its improvements and upgrades.  The latest and perhaps the best version of the Apache is the AH-64E or called as the Apache Guardian. And just like the previous versions, both the crew can control the helicopter with the pilot sitting behind and above the co-pilot/gunner. What sets the Apache Guardian apart from the old Apache is her strong engines, two General Electric T700 turboshaft engines with high-mounted exhausts on either side of the fuselag rated at 2,000 shp (1,500 kW). To keep up with its stronger engines the attack helicopter was given a new transmission. A new composite blades was als...

Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onada Meet Hiroo Onada, an Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer carrying the rank of second lieutenant who never laid down his arms after World War II ended and was a hold out in the small island of Lubang in the Philippines for 29 years.  Onoda was born on 19 March 1922 in Kamekawa Village, Kaisō District, Wakayama Prefecture in Japan to a family of samurai warriors. By the age of 18, he was enlisted in the Imperial Japanese Army Infantry and trained as an intelligence officer in the commando class Futamata of the Nakano School. He was deployed to Lubang Island on 26 December 1944 and joined his unit until the Americans and Filipino forces overwhelmed and captured the island. All but Onada and three other Japanese soldiers were either killed or surrendered to the Allied forces. His order to the other three soldiers, hide in the hills.  He and his team, Private Yuichi Akatsu, Corporal Shōichi Shimada and Private First Class Kinshich...