Belgian civil guard with their characteristic dog carts. It is actually called 'Garde civique'. It was a Belgian militia that was founded by the young independant Belgium in october 1830. This civil guard was organised in every town. Their mission was 'To keep the obedience of the laws, the public order and to serve peace.'

Standard service in the civil guard was to go on patrols for the security of people, the protection of property and to maintain public order. The civil guard also played a small role in WWI.
Sadly enough it was abolished in 1920.

During the short but fierce Franco-Prussian war, Prussia mobilised its army and attacked France, which was ruled by Napoleon III back then. Bismarck's idea was to immobilize France and Austria before he could start to unite Germany, which consisted of many small townships. Bismarck thought that this war was of great importance for one united Germany.
These French fellows probably really had a hard time defending their homeland.

    Prussian artillery, the enemies of the French above. As you can see, war was still dignified with fancy uniforms and proud posing. All of these things went lost in the First World War with the cruel chemical weapons that were used there.

                            Soviet troops airdropped

                              The experimental soldier in the 60's. During the 50's and 60's the Cold War was really at  its peak which of course asked for renewed weaponry and fighting tactics. This picture depicts the expectations of the development in warfare and other technological renewal.
As communism became a greater threat, the possible conflict could escalate.
Every country needs defence.

    On the 7th of may 1945, short after the end of WWII in Holland, there was a massacre on the 'Dam' square in Amsterdam. German soldiers suddenly opened fire on the celebrating crowd. There were 22 dead and 120 injured. After the war a monument was placed for the casualties.

    Captured Stg44 with night vision being tested by a Commonwealth soldier. The Sturmgewehr was quite a renewal in weapon technology by using a new caliber. Before the Stg was introduced in the Wehrmacht, it had submachine guns and bolt action rifles. These weapons where not proven to be so effective for the combat situations in WWII. The Stg was not a reliable weapon but it was easy to handle and helped to slow down the allied victory.

August von Mackensen was an important German military commaner during period of the German Empire and WWI. He was in 1901 the general of the Leibhusaren which had the characterising skull on their headwear. Von Mackensen gained more fame after the battles in Tannenberg and the Mazurian lakes. After these victories, others from the high command always relied on him for a big strategic breakthrough.
He also introduced a new tactic called the 'Mackensen-falanx'.

     Russian troops in Chechnya

   Vietnam special forces.

                   Soviet sniper in Afghanistan

                              Belgian civil guard

Belgian civil guard with a Comblain rifle.

Vehicles

 Soviet Bartini Beriev VVA-14

 WW2 airfield photo during the night.

Me-262

Douglas SBD Dauntless dropping bombs

German Tiger tanks near Kursk

 WWI German tanks

Unknown Soviet vehicle

Desert Rats in Northern Africa WWII

Crashed Focke Wulf

French tank WWI

Soviet T34 with bedspring armor.

Extremely low flying US airplanes

Vietnam troops

Pacific theatre WWII

Sturmtiger WWII

Crashed Stuka

US hover jeep 70's

Airplane sound detection

Heinkel 162 'Salamander'

Business as usual for the milkman

A V1 buzz bomb falling down (location unknown)

Stalin's organs

The Tiger  is one of the most successful tanks in WW2 that were manufactured by Germany. The American M4 Sherman and the Soviet T-34 had the impossible task to destroy this piece of hard steel.
The Tiger hull is extremely dense. with the consequence that its weight was about 57 tonnes.
The true force of this tank was with its cannon. The 88mm KwK 36 L/56 cannon.

In the initial stages of WW2, Hitler knew he had to conquer the seas in order to succeed to victory. One of the main missions was to cut off supply lines of countries so they could not receive as much war materials.
During WW2, the total submarines exceeded the number of 800. These devious submarines were the ruler of the seas during the war. The submarines were 'stored' in bunkers. Fritz Todt gave the order for these buildings to protect them from air raids from the RAF.

This is the Payen PA-22, which was a French experiment in aviation. The main inventor was Nicolas Roland Payen. Of course you notice the weird wing design, consisting of delta wings. The cockpit had a weird place in the plane too in comparison to other planes in that time.
The aircraft fell into German hands after France had surrendered and they kept the plane for intensive experimenting. Most of these planes were destroyed by bombings.

Underground German airplane factory (assembling He 162's)

This type of aircraft was built in the last months of WW2. It was designed and built in a rapid time and its body consisted mostly from wood. Even if all those factors seem negative, it was the fastest jet fighter in his time.
Linked with the Volkssturm, the official name was the 'Volksjäger'. Other names were 'Salamander' and 'Spatz'.

The short design period was really characterizing for this airplane. The first He-162 crashed 4 days after the initial flight, killing the pilot. Sadly enough fuel shortage made this plane never operational in combat.

Soviet Ilyushin Il-2

It was a very successful ground-attack airplane. During WW2 the production of these aircraft exceeded 36000. During early testing it seemed that the plane was too heavy caused by the armor that was applied to the body. During fighting-operations it was noticable vulnerable to attacks from behind. That's why there had been decided to implement a rear gunner into the cockpit.