Category: Weapons and Technology
P-47 Thunderbolt – 11 Fast Facts About Republic’s Rugged Fighter Plane
“More than 15,600 Thunderbolts were manufactured between 1941 and 1945 and they served in every theatre of the war.” WITH ITS SLEEK LINES, nimble handling and lightning-fast speed, the North American P-51 quickly became a…
Instant Arsenal – Six Bizarre Impromptu Weapons of Britain’s WW2 Home Guard
“Although Germany would eventually abandon all plans of landing troops on British soil, the Home Guard (and its oddball arsenal) continued to hold the line until the very end of the war.” AS THE RAF and the…
April Fools – Eight Classic Deceptions From Military History
“’All warfare is based on deception,’ wrote Sun Tzu in his seminal work The Art of War and he was right.” NORTH KOREA MADE HEADLINES in April of 2013 when it was discovered that a photograph…
Tank Clash – The German Panther vs. the Soviet T-34-85
By Ben Hollingum, GermanWarMachine.com WHEN THE PANTHER TANK first appeared on the battlefields of the Eastern Front, the Soviets did not have an effective weapon to counter it. They had a new medium tank in development (the…
Guns in the Sky – 12 Warplanes That Were Armed With Artillery
“Consider these ‘flying cannons’ (listed in order of ascending firepower)” AERIAL WARFARE was still in its infancy when aviation innovators devised history’s first ‘gunship’. In 1915, mechanics with the French air corps began outfitting the Voisin III with 37…
Ferocious Beast — Six Little-Known Facts About the Tiger Tank
“Everything about it was over-engineered (to an almost absurd degree)… but in the hands of an expert commander a lone Tiger could knock out dozens of enemy machines in a single engagement.” By Ben Hollingum, GermanWarMachine.com THE PANZERKAMPFWAGEN VI…
