The Shoe Mine.
The Schü-mine 42 (Shoe-mine), or Schützenmine 42, was a German manufactured anti-personnel mine used during World War II. It was a wooden box with a …
Weaponry
Rubber Bullets, As It Turns Out, Are Not Much Better Than Bullets
From Wikipedia: Such “kinetic impact munitions” are meant to cause pain but not serious injury. They are expected to produce contusions, abrasions, and hematomas. However, they …
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Lazy Dogs
A Lazy Dog was also called a Red Dot Bomb or a Yellow Dog Bomb is a thumb sized unguided piece of lead kinetic projectile typically about 2 …
Now the Chinese made their first aircraft carrier the same way they built they first mobile phone: They stole one and replicated it from the ground up.
In a story a secret cabal of Chinese military officers put a Chinese basketball star up to buying Varyag from a Ukrainian shipyard under the …
The Yom Kippur War Was A Proxy War For Missile Manufacturers.
Of course, the conflict in the Mideast is rooted in differences that are more than recent policy proposals. Their differences go back 1000 years. Oddly, …
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The Brown Bess
From “The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1)” by Rick Atkinson “Looting began even before …
The Ubiquitous 60mm Mortar.
The 60mm mortar , the Type 61, a Chinese knock off, was the go to weapon of the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong. …
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The Monroe Bomb
The Monroe Bomb was a propaganda leaflet distribution device dropped from Allied heavy bombers. Named after it inventor: Capt. James Monroe during World War II. …
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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“When Barbarossa begins, the world will hold its breath,” Adolph Hitler.
The world did hold its breath, and with the largest, best equipped, best trained, most motivated army in the world, it seemed like it might …
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The Junkers 287
If you can forgive the horrible music, the imagery of this advanced aircraft design is hard to beat. The Junkers Ju 287 amazing …
The A-10 Warthog Destroyed 14 Tank Battalions And 83 Artillery Batteries In Just One War.
The A-10 is exceptionally tough, designed to withstand armor piercing and or high explosive shells from small arms to 23 AP and explosive projectiles up …
Russia’s 5th Generation Fighter: The Sukhoi 57
So as warfare continues to produce new lethal technologies beyond legacy weaponry, the old format is also still quite alive. In the past year we …
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The Boulton Paul P 111
The Boulton Paul P 111 was created to be a small jet powered combat aircraft. It had a Rolls Royce Nene engine and a Martin …
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The Model 48 Charger
From Wikipwedia: General characteristics Crew: 2 Capacity: 6 paratroops in utility/cargo bay[8] Length: 34 ft 10 in (10.62 m) Wingspan: 30 ft 1.25 in (9.1758 m) Height: 13 ft 7 in (4.14 m) Wing …
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Armstrong Whitworth A.W.52
Armstrong Whitworth ‘s laminar-flow flying wing development was featured 4 engines and a massive 120 foot wingspan. They began with a 1/3 scale AW-52G glider. …
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New Art For The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender
The Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender was a US 1940s Uprototype fighter. It competed with the Vultee XP-54 . It was the a request from the US …
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What Aircraft Is This?
This rendering is obviously a British heavy bomber, circa WWII. It has six engines, a wide wing fixed back and a canards under the cockpit. …
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