Category: Weapons and Technology
Big Shots – Amusettes, Jingals and Other Super-Sized Firearms
“Pioneered as far back as the late Middle Ages, amusettes, wall guns and rampart guns eventually found their way into the arsenals of most 18th Century European armies.” LARGER THAN A musket, but not large enough to…
Operation Türkenkreuz – Remembering the Kaiser’s 1917 ‘Blitz’ on Great Britain
“The raid was just the beginning of a major bombing campaign against southern England and the British capital.“ ON THE MORNING OF May 25, 1917 few residents of the English town of Folkestone in Kent expected that they’d be…
HMS St. Lawrence – The Mightiest Ship To Never Sail the Seas
“The lumbering warship’s sole purpose was to assert the Crown’s naval supremacy on a 300 kilometre long strip of freshwater.” THE COLOSSAL St. Lawrence was one of the largest fighting vessels of the Napoleonic era. Laid down in April…
Wunderwaffe – How The Nazi’s Planned A Futuristic ‘Super War’
“Most of these proposed war machines never left the drawing board, but they still manage to fascinate, even 70 years later.” BY 1944, THE future of Adolf Hitler’s promised “Thousand-year Reich” seemed in doubt. With…
Meet “Fi Fi” – The Last Surviving B-29 Bomber
Between 1943 and 1946, the Boeing company manufactured 3,970 B-29 heavy bombers. Today only one is still flying. Her name is “Fi Fi”. This weekend, residents of Reading, Pennsylvania will get a chance to see…
The Jets of WW2 – The War Ended Before These Experimental Warplanes Could See Action
“During the conflict’s final months, American, German, British and other air forces were already preparing to unleash whole fleets of cutting-edge jet propelled fighters and bombers against their enemies.” HAD THE Second World War continued…
