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The Weapons Cache Case (Finnish: Asekätkentä, Swedish: Vapengömmoaffären) was a Finnish military plan to continue battle after the ceasefire in 1944, if needed. It concerned a secret and officially unsanctioned military operation following the end of combat on the Soviet–Finnish theater of WWII known as the Continuation War, where a large amount of Finnish Army weapons and equipment was ...
Alpo Kullervo Marttinen (4 November 1908 – 20 December 1975) [1] was a Finnish and American colonel. [2] During World War II he served in the Finnish Army.Following the war he immigrated to the United States and served as an officer in the United States Army, retiring as a colonel.
Blowpipe missile systems were still being found in weapon caches as recently as May 2012 in Afghanistan. [15] The Canadian military took Blowpipe from storage to provide protection for their naval contribution to the 1991 Gulf War, although age had degraded the weapons, and nine out of 27 missiles tested misfired. [16]
A Virginia man allegedly had a cache of weapons, a "go box" and used a photo of President Joe Biden for target practice, according to court documents filed by federal prosecutors this week. Brad ...
Molniya (Russian: молния, lit. 'lightning') was an explosive device used to booby trap certain buried or otherwise concealed containers used by the KGB to cache items, such as shortwave radio receivers, cryptographic materials, and allegedly even suitcase nuclear devices.
A nearly two-year FBI investigation of a Virginia man led to what the agency calls its largest-ever seizure by number of finished explosive devices.
Kyle Arena, 35, of Totowa, NJ, is facing multiple firearms and weapons charges stemming from a home raid Tuesday that yielded rifles, handguns, dozens of knives, ninja stars, brass knuckles, 129 ...
Urho Sakari Lehtovaara (27 October 1917 – 15 January 1949) was one of the top scoring Finnish Air Force aces. He was awarded the Mannerheim Cross on 9 July 1944.. In 1949, Lehtovaara killed himself while being interrogated for his suspected involvement in the Weapons Cache Case, a right-wing conspiracy after the ceasefire to stash weapons across the country and form a stay-behind guerrilla ...