Norway's Secret Military Sites

Norway has released an interactive map of all the military locations where it is forbidden to operate a drone and some security experts are not happy. All the markers on the Innmelding av Sensorflygning map indicates an area where it is illegal to take aerial photographs or video using a camera or any other type of sensors.

The map shows many of Norway's most secret military installations,

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Who's Winning the Global Arms Race?

Two weeks ago Maps Mania looked at a number of mapped visualizations of the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, a record of all major arms deals around the world since 1950. However, if you really want to know who is winning the global arms race and is therefore the greatest peddler of death in the world, you need the Arms Race Visualization.

The Arms Race Visualization allows you to select any two

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The World's Biggest Exporters of Arms

The SIPRI Arms Transfers Database is a record of all major arms deals around the world since 1950. The database can be used to determine which countries are the biggest exporters of weapons and which countries are the biggest buyers of arms. It can also reveal where individual countries buy their arms and where countries sell their weapons around the world.

With data on the world's arm trade

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Germany's Plans to Invade Britain

Germany's invasion map of Newcastle - Library of Congress

The German plan for invading Britain in World War II was code-named Operation Sea Lion. Although both Germany and Britain believed that an invasion was unlikely to succeed it didn't stop both sides from planning for a German invasion of Britain. In Germany the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (Nazi German Supreme Command of the Armed Forces)

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