It was terrifying to be in that machine. Not because of enemy fire, but because of what it did itself. 43 heavy chains…
In 1946, the Soviet Union adopted a vehicle that was supposed to eliminate death on the battlefield. Engineers created a steel monster whose…
The Luftwafa engineers who created this bullet did not plan to kill people. In their drawings, it was just an optical instrument, a…
This weapon looks as if its creator had gone mad or lost the battle with the laws of physics. The barrel is bent…
In World War II, Germany’s most widely used anti-tank weapon was not the Tiger, the Panther, or the famous 88 mm anti-aircraft gun.…
There is an old soldiers myth that the Geneva Convention prohibits firing at infantry with large caliber anti-aircraft guns. Allegedly, this is inhumane.…
We are accustomed to thinking of the American army in World War II as an endless conveyor belt. The richest economy on the…
The harshest nicknames in the Red Army were not given to the enemy, but to their own equipment. bald Ferdinand, and cruise mass…
By 1944, the German engineering school had achieved a miracle. They had created a tank destroyer that was free of flaws. It was…
The German war machine was renowned for turning the chaos of war into an orderly system of standards and instructions. However, there was…