Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/News/January 2015/Articles


 * AI Mk. IV radar (Maury Markowitz) : The AI Mk. IV was, according to nominator Maury Markowitz, "the world's first air-to-air radar system. Its development took almost five years and is a story full of false starts, lucky breaks and bureaucratic infighting."
 * Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette (Wehwalt) : Better known simply as Lafayette, a vital figure in the histories of two nations, France and the United States. This article achieved GA and A-Class status in 2008 but failed a subsequent FAC. This year Wehwalt gave the article a going-over and it was successfully re-reviewed at ACR before finally achieving FA status.
 * Smyth Report (Hawkeye7) : For something a little different in Hawkeye's continuing series of articles relating to the Manhattan Project, this concerns not a scientist, a weapon, or a facility, but the first official administrative history written on the development of the atomic bomb.


 * No. 90 (Composite) Wing RAAF (Ian Rose & Nick-D) : This featured topic (involving articles developed by The Bugle's editors) comprises No. 90 Wing RAAF, which commanded the Royal Australian Air Force units deployed to Malaya in the early 1950s, and its two constituent flying units: No. 1 Squadron and No. 38 Squadron. The articles on No. 90 Wing and on No. 38 Squadron reached GA and FA status respectively in 2013 (with No. 90 Wing subsequently passing an A-class review in 2014), and the No. 1 Squadron article was promoted to FA status in 2014.


 * HMS Illustrious (87) (Sturmvogel 66) : The latest in Sturmvogel's series on British aircraft carriers covers the career of a vessel which was commissioned early in World War II, and saw very extensive combat around the world during that conflict. She participated in operations in the Arctic and Mediterranean Seas, Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean, and was heavily damaged on two occasions. Following the war she soldiered on until 1955 as a training and test carrier and occasional troopship.


 * William of Wrotham (Ealdgyth) : William of Wrotham was a medieval English naval administrator and clergyman who commanded various English fleets during the early 1200s, and played a key role in developing a naval dockyard at Portsmouth (which remains a key base of the Royal Navy).


 * Siege of Hüningen (1796–97) (Auntieruth55) : Another of Auntieruth55's detailed articles on battles of the French Revolutionary Wars, this article covers an engagement fought between French and Austrian forces near the modern town of Huningue in France between November 1796 and February the next year. The seige followed on from the Battle of Schliengen, which Auntieruth55 has recently developed to FA status, and ended in a victory for the Austrian forces.


 * Fuji-class battleship (Sturmvogel 66) : The two Fuji class warships were the first of many battleships to be operated by the Imperial Japanese Navy. Built in the UK, they entered service in 1897 and saw combat during the Russo-Japanese War. The second of the class, Yashima was sunk during this conflict, but Fuji survived and was used in training roles during World Wars I and II.


 * Ennis Whitehead (Hawkeye7) : Hawkeye7 continued his series of articles of senior Allied officers in the Southwest Pacific Area with this biography of a United States Army Air Forces general who served in key roles from 1942 and eventually commanded the Fifth Air Force. His son and a grandson also reached the rank of general in the United States Air Force.