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- Ch'ŏnma-ho—22 October, 2006 (... that the Ch'ŏnma-ho is a little known, indigenously produced North Korean tank; information on which has proven to be elusive even to the U.S. government?)
- Electrothermal-chemical technology—7 November, 2006 (...that electrothermal-chemical technology can now almost double the muzzle energy of a tank gun?)
- Verdeja—2 June, 2008 (... that the relatively unknown Verdeja (pictured) was an indigenous Spanish tank program to replace the T-26 and Panzer I?)
- Leopard 2E—21 June, 2008 (... that the Spanish Leopard 2E is the most expensive Leopard 2 tank built to date?)
- AMX-30E—18 August, 2008 (... that the Spanish AMX-30E (pictured) underwent an extensive modernization program between 1989 and 1993, dramatically improving the tank's mobility, firepower and accuracy?)
- Third Battle of Kharkov—15 October, 2008 (... that the 1943 German Donbas Operations led to the destruction of 52 Soviet divisions, and the recapture of the cities of Kharkov and Belgorod from the Red Army?)
- Battle of Khafji—17 October, 2008 (... that the Iraqi Army launched an offensive into Saudi Arabia on 29 January 1991, leading to the Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the Gulf War (U.S. Marine artillery pictured)?)
- Tanks in the Spanish Army—9 November, 2008 (... that Nationalist commanders offered 500 pesetas for each T-26 Spanish Army tank captured from the Popular Front during the Spanish Civil War? )
- Rheinmetall 120 mm gun—13 November, 2008 (... that Rheinmetall's 120mm gun L/55 tank gun can attain muzzle velocities of up to 1,750 meters per second (5,700 ft/s) with new kinetic energy penetrators?)
- AMX-30—13 November, 2008 (... that production of the French AMX-30 and its variants amounted to a total of 3,571 units?)
- Operation Winter Storm—7 January, 2009 (... that Operation Winter Storm was an attempt by German Army Group Don to relieve the trapped Sixth Army in Stalingrad, during the Second World War?)
- Operation Uranus—10 January, 2009 (... that Operation Uranus led to the encirclement of the German Sixth Army and portions of the Fourth Panzer Army, as well as surviving remnants of two Romanian armies, totaling over 200,000 soldiers?)
- Wehrmacht forces for the Ardennes Offensive—16 January, 2009 (... that many soldiers in the Wehrmacht forces deployed for the Ardennes Offensive could not speak German? )
- List of tanks in the Spanish Civil War—21 January, 2009 (... that out of 281 T-26 tanks supplied to the Popular Front, the Nationalists were able to capture 178 during the war, putting at least 50 into service against their former users?)
- Battle of Aachen—22 January, 2009 (... that the 450 aircraft that conducted the opening aerial bombardment during the Battle of Aachen failed to hit a single German pillbox?)
- Richard Cantillon—3 October, 2010 (...... that Richard Cantillon's treatise, Essai, was considered by economist William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy"?)
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