Weaponry
Max Gadney |
Published: July 14, 2009 at 5:45 pm
The main offensive weapon of German ground-based air defense was the 88, a powerful medium-caliber gun. It quickly developed a reputation as a formidable opponent of Allied aircraft.
Max Gadney |
Published: April 21, 2009 at 5:00 pm
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Jim Motavalli |
Published: February 27, 2009 at 6:12 pm
During World War I, luxury carmaker Rolls-Royce built more than 100 armored Silver Ghosts for service on the battlefields of Europe and the Middle East. The car served in the Irish Civil War and through World War II.
Benny Morris |
Published: February 17, 2009 at 11:15 am
Israeli's Civil War, 1947-1948: Palestine’s Jews responded to the Arabs’ first attempt to wipe them out with a fierce, all-out war.
Jack H. McCall, Jr. |
Published: September 03, 2008 at 5:51 pm
For 85 years, railroad guns were regarded as the ultimate weapon, large enough to do substantial damage but movable to wherever railroad tracks could go. Unparalleled bunker busters, they also terrorized civilians by firing on cities from afar.
Dennis Showalter |
Published: October 16, 2007 at 3:58 pm
On a single day of the Franco-Prussian War, the armies of Helmuth von Moltke and François Achille Bazaine nearly annihilated each other in an epic slaughter at Gravelotte/Saint-Privat that would not be matched until World War I.
Mark K. Ragan |
Published: October 04, 2007 at 2:24 pm
Edgar C. Singer and his Secret Service Corps pioneered underwater mine and submarine research for the Confederacy from tiny La Vaca, Texas.
Gerard A. Patterson |
Published: September 05, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Confederate battlefield victories depended in part on supplies of Northern weapons, particularly early in the war. William J. Hardee and Paul J. Semmes were sent North to procure those guns.
Roger Crowley |
Published: July 30, 2007 at 10:22 am
History's first great artillery barrage, in 1453, allowed Mehmed to capture Constantinople when all previous Ottoman attempts had failed. Ironically, his cannon were created by a Hungarian named Orban who had once been employed to defend the city.
Published: September 05, 2006 at 12:35 pm
The phalanx dominated Greek warfare for three centuries, but fell before combined-arms forces. By Brian Todd Carey
Scott Farrell |
Published: September 05, 2006 at 11:18 am
The trebuchet was the first war engine to employ the principles of gravity and leverage to hurl a projectile. Not until modern times did the cannon eclipse it.
Published: September 01, 2006 at 10:04 am
The soul of the samurai lies in his beautiful, deadly and honored sword.By John F. Murphy, Jr.
Published: September 01, 2006 at 10:01 am
Diabolical in its simplicity, the ancient, durable caltrop remains an effective defensive weapon today.By Robert W. Reid
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:18 pm
The first use of lethal poison gas, on April 22, 1915, had a stunning effect on its Allied victims, but the Germans failed to follow up, and their method of delivery proved to be seriously flawed.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
The Krummer Lauf allowed German infantry and motorized artillery units to actually fire around corners.
Published: June 12, 2006 at 8:15 pm
In the opening months of World War II, U.S. submarines were plagued by faulty ordnance.
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