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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...
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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...
Three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, on December 10, 1941 the battleship era truly ended. All eight of the U.S. Navy’s battleships...
M1 Carbine: a 5 Minute Explainer – World War 2 was a fascinating time for weapon development. We saw the birth of the general-purpose...
How Japan’s Battleship Yamato Became a Pop Culture Sensation: Many American kids today (and probably too many adults) are more likely to know more...
The second of the United States Navy’s Iowa-class battleships, USS New Jersey (BB-62) was often referred to fondly by her crew as “Big J,”...
When the United States Army Air Forces adopted the North American P-51 Mustang, the cost per plane was a seemingly affordable $50,000 – about...
Is America vulnerable to another Battle of the Bulge today? It was 77 years ago when the U.S. nearly suffered its greatest military disaster....
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,...
Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, is rightly viewed as a lesson in surprise, unpreparedness, and poor decision-making, despite a...