March 1945: Modern Warfare over the River Rhine. When German troops failed to destroy the Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen in March 1945, the Luftwaffe was tasked with bombing it. Those were the...
Read moreBRP Sierra Madre This vessel started life in 1944 as an American landing ship. In 1967, she was transferred to the Philippines and renamed Sierra Madre. In 1999, the Filipino navy ran...
Read moreSo, you think you're tough?! American Civil War Veteran Jacob Miller was shot in the forehead in 1863 at Brock Field, Chickamauga and left for dead. He lived with an open bullet...
Read more27th of August 1943: Rise of the PGM (Precision Guided Munition)! On that day, for the first time in history, a ship was sunk by a guided AshM (anti-ship missile)... Sloop of...
Read moreFN Herstal Bullet-Thru® Telgren rifle grenade Arms manufacturers have toyed with the idea of launching grenades with a rifle for quite a while. There have been several models and attemps over the...
Read moreStuG life. The idea originated from Manstein in 1935, the development of the vehicle started in 1936 and the first StuG were deployed in 1940. The idea was for a self propelled...
Read moreROC Yat Sen, Republic of China Navy. The "Light Cruiser" that was more light than cruiser. Launched in 1931 by the Jiangnan Dock and Engineering Works in Shanghai, the Yat Sen was...
Read moreXM808 Twister armoured vehicle: We want one. Between 3 and four prototypes had been built by Lockheed by 1970 including a mobility test-bed and an amphibious version. It never made it to...
Read more*Time to refurbish the Maginot Line! The Maginot Line has often been described as a waste of money and resources. Everybody knows the Maginot Line failed... Or did it ?! The Maginot...
Read moreROC Ning Hai and Ping Hai.... Republic of China Navy. Not many people outside of China are aware of this, but Nationalist China did operated a small naval force prior to the...
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