Category: Weapons and Technology
The Return of the USS Cairo – How a Lost Civil War Ironclad Was Brought Back to Life
“The Cairo suffered catastrophic damage when a controlled underwater mine was detonated from shore. For the next 102 years, the ship would rest on the river bottom, largely forgotten.” By Steve Alderman THE IRONCLAD USS…
Lightning Strikes – 11 Electrifying Facts About Lockheed’s Legendary P-38
“The P-38 made its greatest contributions in the war with Japan. Its tremendous range proved particularly effective in the open expanses of the Pacific.” IT WAS APRIL 14, 1943. U.S. intelligence had just cracked a…
Eureka Moments – Seven Innovations From WW1 That Changed Our Daily Lives
“Few appreciate the sheer volume of non-military breakthroughs that emerged between 1914 and 1918.” By Doran Cart & Jonathan Casey HOW MANY INNOVATIONS came directly out of World War One? Tanks, flame throwers and sonar…
Impregnable – 14 Brilliant Defensive Features of Medieval Castles
“Great efforts were made by builders to ensure that their castles could withstand an enemy onslaught.” By Dr. Dan Spencer IN THEIR DAY, Medieval castles represented the state-of-art in military engineering. Erected by kings and…
First Armour — Five Early Tanks That Changed the Course of World War One
“Ponderously slow, clumsy and mechanically unreliable, a handful of these top secret armoured “land ships” still succeeded in rolling over the German barbed wire and fortifications.” THE TOWNS OF Flers and Courcelette may not figure…
Machine Gun — How Hiram Maxim’s Deadly Invention Changed History
“Hilaire Belloc summed things up best in 1898’s The Modern Traveller when he wrote: ‘Whatever happens, we have got, the Maxim gun, and they have not.’” By Sam Bocetta HIRAM MAXIM WAS a prolific American…
