Category: Weapons and Technology
Nordic Buffalos — How An Obsolete U.S. Navy Fighter Found a New Lease on Life in Finland’s War with the Soviets
“Despite their superiority in numbers and their losses, the Soviet’s never gained air superiority. That belonged to the Finns.” By Marc Liebman BY THE END of the Russo-Finnish War in March 1940, military planners in…
The Martin B-26 – 10 Facts About America’s Forgotten Medium Bomber
“B-26s were at their best when used in medium-level attacks… [it] flew some of its most important missions in that role.” By Marc Liebman THE NORTH AMERICAN B-25 Mitchell is perhaps one of the most…
The Great Zeppelin Raid – How a Devastating 1916 Airship Attack Forced Britain to Rethink its Defences
“A historian has dubbed the night, ‘one of the biggest fiascos in British air defence history.’ The population of the Midlands now realized just how defenceless they were in the face of aerial attack, leading…
From Longbows to Spitfires – Nine Weapons that Made Britain Great
“Part of the country’s edge in its history of conflicts has been superior technology by land, sea, and air.” By Douglas Brown THE UNITED KINGDOM has seen its share of armed conflicts. In fact, few…
Airships of the Civil War— The Bizarre Story of the Union Army’s Experimental Balloon Corps
“The balloons of the Civil War were a brief but truly forward-looking glimpse of what the future would bring.” By Charles M. Evans IT HAS OFTEN been said that the American Civil War was one…
Seven New War Machines the U.S. Planned to Unleash On Japan in 1946
“The arsenal included larger tanks, more powerful artillery, faster fighter planes and new bombers.” AMERICA’S ANTICIPATED INVASION of Japan ultimately proved unnecessary – the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki made sure of that. Yet all throughout…
