TIER ONE, TIER TWO AND TIER THREE SPECIAL FORCES
Secret Weapons
MQ 25 Remote Refueler Drone
\ Not every remotely piloted drone fires on enemies. Some just tote fuel. This MQ 25 is not pretty, but it goes about 400 miles …
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The Fairburn-Sykes Fighting System.
The Fairburn- Sykes Fighting Knife is pointed dagger also called a poignard, and it has a Fencing foil grip developed by Bill Fairburn and …
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“Open The Podbay Doors HAL….AI Shoots Down USAF Pilot In Trials”
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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The Heinkel 111 Zwilling. As If Dr. Seuss Created A German Aircraft.
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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The DFS 193
The DFS 193 was designed to be a two-seat tailless airplane, with a high wing monoplane that allowed the pilot to see unnocluded. Therefore this …
The E555 – “Long Range/High Speed Flying Wing Aircraft”
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 GM-15 (Gummimaske) 1916. Germany’s First WWI Gas Mask.
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 The Father Of The SLAM Missile.
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.
Surface to air missile development began in 1942 in earnest in Germany and saw numerous simultaneous engineering teams attempting to make a workable surface …
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The Ruhrstahl Ru 344 X-4 World’s First Wire Guided Air-to-Air Missile.
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 …
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Fritz X, Basically The Germans Created The World’s First Cruise Missile.
Fritz X was an anti ship glide bomb, or essentially a gravity bomb that can be flown manipulating radio command control surfaces. Essentially the …
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SR-71A Photos Remind Us That This Was Essentially A Space Plane.
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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The Titanic Back And Forth Struggle To Take North Africa.
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 Versuchs Schnellboot Experimental Semi Submersible Torpedo Boat.
The VS-5 was one of many experimental fast torpedo boats. Many of them were hydrofoils and others were designed …
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The Men Who Stare At Goats
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.
