Vulture's Wargaming Blog

Frustration is crappy weather like this over the weekend when I'm wanting to get a door-skin off the truck to sort out some rot on it :(...

It was top-secret in 1959 and remains almost completely unknown to this day - the first Soviet nuclear missile base outside the USSR. But it...

Northrop Grumman has unveiled its proposal for the U.S. Special Forces' next combat car, the Medium Assault Vehicle – Light (MAV-L.) One...

A restored World War II troop landing ship ran aground in a western Kentucky lake but was not damaged and has returned to its Indiana ho...

REUE is the story of 2 American soldiers lost in enemy territory after an ambush. After taking one of the enemy hostage they soon realize th...

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This is a brilliant little video produced by the NEW ZEALAND NATIONAL FILM UNIT for Ordnance (Automotive) Reclamation Section SOUTH PACIFIC ...

Link to Time web site.

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For many years now I have used the Web Shots web site to store and share my photographs. At the last count I had 3,379 photos and 65 video...

As the secretary for my local branch of the Military Vehicle Trust (MVT) one of my duties is to write up a report on the activities of our ...

There is quite a good article on the Battlefront web site about the  Panzerschreck  that is worth reading.   Link

A British team building a car capable of driving beyond 1,000mph has tested the vehicle's rocket engine.  Link to the BBC.

Footage taken from the co-drivers seat of "Heavy Hitter" a WW2 U.S. Army M36 Tank Destroyer during the Public battle at the Victor...

Magna Carta - Latin for Great Charter - was agreed at Runnymede in 1215 and sealed by King John after powerful barons had rebelled and captu...

The mottled green and brown of army fatigues are a great leveller. Line up three rows of soldiers dressed identically, and it's impossib...

I know it's nothing to do with military or wargaming stuff, but I thought I post today about the fabulous pictures that the Royal Observ...

Yesterday the DH Mosquito at Ardmore had her Rolls-Royce Merlin  engines fired up for the first time.

Great excitement here at the Vulture household ! Borderlands 2 arrived in the post and younger Vulture is flapping up and down with exci...

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Aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is being sold for £3m for scrap metal by the Ministry of Defence to help tackle a multi-billion pound defence...

This is a good little video all about The War And Peace show.   Link - "For the past 30 years the War and Peace show in Kent, England...

Enthusiasts of the PC version of Company of Heroes game should download this huge 1.4 Gig map pack which contains over 207 working maps. Li...

Yesterday the family and drove across to Cosby in Leicestershire to go 'The Victory Show' . This is an event that is almost exclu...

If you have a moment, please sign up this petition: Link - The European Commission is proposing to outlaw the use of any modifications an...

Dear Technical Support, 18 months ago, I upgraded to Girlfriend 1.0 from Drinking Mates 4.2, which I had used for years without any trouble...

On the Battlefront web site they have quite an interesting article about the Netherlands at war which is worth a read. Link -

A deadly weapon and an economic cornerstone, the impact of a bullet spreads far and wide. In this documentary BBC Defence Correspondent Caro...

An oldish game now, but still a good one, Battlefield 2 has still plenty of life in it by way of entertainment here in the Vulture househol...

I've started a Photo Blog to record the GMC CCKWs I've photographed over the year. Link . -

Thought I'd provide a link and some publicity for a web site of an school friend of mine.  The aim of Baxter Photography is to provide ...

Every French schoolchild has learned about Alesia. It was the battle in which Julius Caesar beat the Gauls under Vercingetorix, thus bringi...

In July 2006 I attended the Royal International Air Tattoo (RIAT) at RAF Fairford and got to see one of my favourite aircraft the V-22 Osp...

Hey guys I've had a few games of a Play By E-Mail game called Dark Age II over the last couple of years. ( Link to a previous post ab...

The design of the Royal Navy's latest warship has been revealed by the UK Ministry of Defence. The announcement on the Type 26 Global C...

This last weekend saw the family and I go to a local 1940 show at Ramsey . I've been before ( Link  and Link ) but this year was differ...

The Classic Military Vehicle (CMV) magazine is a long running monthly UK publication dedicated to the coverage of all historic military veh...

Visited the Ramsey 1940 weekend (more about that on a subsequent posting) but whilst there Alex and I almost purchased a M1A1HA in 20mm sca...

Here are the top nine comments made by NBC sports commentators during the 2012 Summer Olympics that they would like to take back: 1. Weigh...

This is quite an entertaining little game I stumbled across tonight, slightly Aliens'ish....  Certainly worth a look :)   Link   (P.S. T...

67 years ago this month, Richard Sullivan’s father shot this great video along Kalakaua Avenue in Waikiki, Honolulu, capturing spontaneous c...

TIME looks at a number of Syria's most famous medieval fortresses, some of which are nearly a millennium old. Read more: Link - -

There were 130,000 lives lost on the World War I battlefields of Gallipoli . Among them was Harry Biles, a writer and grandfather, who recor...

Scientists search for the explosive source of a disaster that wiped out almost a third of Londoners in 1258. Link -

This looks good :) The previous three seasons have been epic, this looks like it will continue in the same vein. -    -

“It is an enduring paradox and essential human tragedy that so much selfless devotion to a cause, so much creative intellectual energy, and ...