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The Cruiser Submarine: A Great Idea in Theory Only – Submarines showed early in their existence that they could have an outsize impact in major...
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The Cruiser Submarine: A Great Idea in Theory Only – Submarines showed early in their existence that they could have an outsize impact in major...
Warship design is a political process as much as an engineering challenge. Never was that more true than during the interwar decades, the heyday...
The Legend of Fort Drum: Ten hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor, over 100,000 Japanese soldiers invaded the Philippines. Within days, Japanese soldiers...
XP-79: An Idea that Should Have Stayed on the Drawing Board? – In the waning days of World War II, the world of military...
Battleship Yamato Was One Massive Warship (But Was Still Obsolete Ever Before She Set Sail): At least 23 designs were prepared between 1934, when plans...
Operation Crossroads: A 5 Minute History – While burrowing through the vast Manhattan Project archives historian Alex Wellerstein turned up evidence that Bikini wasn’t the first Pacific...
Those 85 days saw some of the worst fighting of the war. It was an inch by inch, foot by foot, yard by yard...
Was the Russian T-34 Tank The Best Tank of World War II? – The Allied victory over Nazi Germany was won on the back of...
Russia’s SVT Rifle, Explained: The United States was the first major power to adopt a semi-automatic service rifle during World War II, the M1 Garand....
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...