Category: Weapons and Technology
Flying Under the Radar – The Hidden History of Stealth Warplanes
WHILE CHINA’S NEW SPACE-AGED J-31 stealth fighter is designed to be virtually invisible, Beijing’s trumpeting of the new aircraft has been anything but inconspicuous. After unveiling the low-observable supersonic jet at the country’s national airshow…
M4 Furious – 11 Essential Facts About the Sherman Tank
“Widely acclaimed as one of the main contributors to the Allied victory, the M4 Sherman is perhaps the most recognizable American fighting vehicle of the entire Second World War.” THE GRITTY WAR DRAMA FURY conquered the box…
Winged Warriors – The Glider Troopers of WW2
“Tens of thousands of gliders would be used in the war and ‘airlanding’ regiments would see action in no fewer than eight major operations.” ON SEPT. 13, 1943, HIGH ATOP ITALY’S Apennine Mountains, one of the most…
Tomahawk – A Brief History of the BGM-109
“Following its combat debut in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the ship or sub-launched BGM-109 has been used in every major U.S. air campaign ever since.” WHILE OFTEN CONSIDERED on the ‘cutting-edge’ of America’s arsenal, the…
Gooney Birds – 12 Experimental Aircraft That Were Too Weird for Use in WW2
“A number of these experimental aircraft featured designs so innovative and outlandish they call out for recognition even now, more than 70 years later.” MORE AIRPLANES rolled off assembly lines during World War Two than in any…
Yellow Fever, Greek Fire and Poison Gas — Secret Weapons of the U.S. Civil War
By Jeffrey B. Roth The American Civil War was a conflict that sat astride two phases in military history: It began with generals on both sides employing timeworn Napoleonic-era strategies and ended with horrific trench…
