WASHINGTON: In a 5 to 0 sweep, an AI ‘pilot’ developed by Heron Systems beat one of the Air Force’s top F-16 fighter pilots in …
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Well we all know that WWII provided budgets and motivation for innovation. The fascinating thing is that when you are an armchair military historian, every …
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One of the criticisms leveled at the Nazi war planners is that with world domination in their mission statements, they still did not have a …
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The Germans made the GM-15 gas mask in large numbers in 1916, as it was the prototype design of a gas mask system that …
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The HS 293 was one of the new weapons begun in 1939 by Henschel and a pioneering technology that we actually saw come to …
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The Rheintochter, The World’s First Surface To Air Missile. Read More »
The Ruhrstahl Ru 344 X-4 was the world’s first wire guided air-to-air missile. It was also the prototype to the Malkara, developed by …
The Ruhrstahl Ru 344 X-4 World’s First Wire Guided Air-to-Air Missile. Read More »
Fritz X was an anti ship glide bomb, or essentially a gravity bomb that can be flown manipulating radio command control surfaces. Essentially the …
Fritz X, Basically The Germans Created The World’s First Cruise Missile. Read More »
The SR-71 A was the Strategic Reconnaissance Aircraft was built by aerospace engineer Clarence Kelley at the infamous Skunkworks. The plane was a reaction to …
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Field Marshall Erwin Rommel The Desert War began in June 1940 with France on the verge of defeat. Mussolini decided he …
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The VS-5 was one of many experimental fast torpedo boats. Many of them were hydrofoils and others were designed …
The VS-5 Versuchs Schnellboot Experimental Semi Submersible Torpedo Boat. Read More »
The Pentagon spent millions in the seventies on a corps of psychics who could tell us secrets or suss out threats just using their minds. The StarGate project was created when US officials found out that Russians were successfully finding secrets and classified installations using clairvoyants.
Jasper Maskelyne was born in Britain in 1902 and became a celebrated stage magician during the 1930s and 1940s. When war broke out, he stopped …
The Magician That Pulled The Wool Over The Eyes Of Afrika Korp. Read More »
Not only is it Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Boxer”, it is the Elevator Music version.
Brazil will buy 36 Dassault Rafale strike fighters, giving France the first export order for its aircraft after years of trying. The deal cements a …
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Maligned by the French for its underpowered engines, the Israelis bought 31 Vautours and respected its range and versatility as a strike aircraft. Built …
The Plane That Helped Build Israel. Read More »
An F-84 Thunderjet pilot in the Korean War, Powers was tapped by the CIA to fly reconnaissance missions in a high altitude spyplane. The …
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