Smart Bombs: Military, Defense and National Security
The present-day German Air Force aka the Luftwaffe, though well-trained and highly capable, doesn’t have the numbers or notoriety that its predecessors of the...
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The present-day German Air Force aka the Luftwaffe, though well-trained and highly capable, doesn’t have the numbers or notoriety that its predecessors of the...
As was the case with dive bombers, the heyday of torpedo bombers did not outlast the Second World War. More effective anti-aircraft defenses rendered...
The heyday of the dive bomber was relatively short, spanning roughly the years from 1938 to 1945. Precision-guided munitions and improved anti-aircraft defenses rendered...
Any war has its share of strange moments, ranging from hilarious to stranger than fiction. The Second World War, the largest conflict in human...
With better air cover, Musashi would have been a serious threat – and certainly one of the most powerful battleships ever constructed.
The Second World War unsurprisingly saw the employment of many a famous machine gun, carrying forward the deadly legacy that the weapon type first...
Masterminded by small arms designer Heinrich Volmer (1885-1961), the MG (Maschinengewehr) 34 was initially designed in 1934 – hence the digital portion of the...
Meet the Nakajima Kikka, Japan’s Jet Fighter: On August 6, 1945, the United States Army Air Force B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” dropped a five-ton atomic bomb over...
Meet Russia’s Yak-3 fighter from World War II: During the Second World War, the Yaks proved to be the most important fighter in the Soviet...
Along with the well-known Messerschmitt Bf 109, the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 became the backbone of the Luftwaffe's Jagdwaffe (fighter force) during the Second World War.