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XP-79: An Idea that Should Have Stayed on the Drawing Board? – In the waning days of World War II, the world of military...
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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...
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...