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Roncey lies some ten kilometres south-east of Coutances in the area overrun by the American VII Corps offensive west of 5t La on July 25. The town was captured five days later – littered with wrecked German armour. This is the Panzerjager 38(t) Ausf M (5dKfz 138) armed with the 7.5cm PaK 40 and most […]

General Dynamics took their experience and fire-control from the popular and widely-deployed Phalanx CIWS and matched it with 35mm cannon. Both Ford and GD submitted models for testing and Ford was ultimately selected as the winner. In the initial competition for the lucrative $4.5 billion contract, two firms emerged as front runners, General Dynamics (XM246) […]