The Tsar Bomba: The most powerful nuclear weapon ever created. The USSR was keen to show off its nuclear capabilities and went on to detonate the biggest bomb ever created: The Tsar...
Read moreOctober 1940: Rise of the Wolfpack! On the 5th of October 1940, a 35 ships convoy called SC-7 assembled off the coast of Canada and set off for the UK alongside 6...
Read moreLouis Blériot across the Channel: 25th July 1909. 111 years ago, Louis Blériot's plane successfully crossed the English Channel! On the 25th of July 1909, Louis Blériot, a French engineer, businessman and...
Read moreStuka in 1941: The age of Close Air Support. The Stuka was tested in very small numbers in Spain before being successfully used during the German Blitzkrieg in Poland, the Low Countries...
Read moreOne of the most sorely fought battles of the Second World War, was the fight for Kohima.
Read moreSR-71 and MiG-31: Close encounter. On the 6th of October 1986, Ed Yeilding was flying his SR-71 over the Barents Sea, off the coast of Murmansk. While he was flying in international...
Read moreCaptain Lucas was a French Badass. Jean Jacques Étienne Lucas joined the French Navy in 1778. He was 14. From 1779 onward, he served onboard L'Hermione as a Quartermaster’s Mate. L'Hermione is...
Read more1886: The Torpedo Shell Crisis. 1886 saw the dawn of modern artillery and dusk of brick and mortar era fortifications. From the early 1870s to the mid-1880s, many innovations transformed artillery systems:...
Read moreBattle of the Atlantic Cold War edition. In the event of the Cold War suddenly heating up, the aim for the Soviets would have been to reach the shores of Western Europe...
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