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P-38 Lightning, the Best Plane of the Second World War? – In 1937, the U.S. Army Air Corps called for proposals for an interceptor capable...
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P-38 Lightning, the Best Plane of the Second World War? – In 1937, the U.S. Army Air Corps called for proposals for an interceptor capable...
Jagdtiger, Why It Failed: To some minds, bigger is always better—but size can create is many new problems as it solves. Midway through World War II, Nazi...
Kugelpanzer: The Strange Nazi Tank (a 3 Minute Explainer) – The Star Wars prequel movies featured various monowheel robots and vehicles amongst its various fantastical elements. After all, who in real life would...
SR-72: The US Military’s Plan for a Mach 5 Bomber? Hypersonic weapons—those capable of flying over five times the speed of sound—are the hot new buzzword...
M2 Carbine: A 7 Minute History – Germany is generally credited with developing the first assault rifle with the MP-43, which entered service with select...
When columns of Russian armored vehicles poured into Ukraine in August 2014, they were organized into eight Battalion Tactical Groups (BTGs), ad-hoc formations built...
Putin’s Endgame in Ukraine: Bluff, Bombard or Invade?: Tensions between Moscow and Kyiv are at an eight-year high in the closing days of 2021...
PPsH-41 Submachine Gun: A History – The PPsH-41 submachine gun undoubtedly reigns as an icon of the Soviet war machine in World War II,...
F-111, The Story of One Tough Aircraft: The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark was a low-altitude strike plane born out of a shotgun wedding between competing Air...
Study World War II, the Key to Understanding the F-22 and F-35s True Value: In Len Deighton’s book Fighter, he describes the tactics used by the...