Tiger Day Autumn and its sister event, Tiger Day Spring, are dedicated to Tiger 131, a German Tiger I tank that was captured ...

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The USSR's Duga Radar system was designed to serve as an early warning system against Intercontinental ballistic missiles. It was dubbed the "Woodpecker." ...

Mark Barnes shares exclusive images of the Australian Armour & Artillery Museum’s Panther Ausf A. The meticulous restoration carried out by Axis Track Services is underlined by the fascinating images ...

Project Stargate sounds like something out of this world – and it kind of is. No, it doesn’t refer to wormholes or the exploration of other planets, but, instead, a Central Intelligence Agency ...

The Swiss pikemen were one of the most effective combat forces in medieval Europe. Their speed over defense strategy frequently brought about success.

A napalm strike erupts in a fireball near U.S. troops on patrol in South Vietnam, 1966 during the Vietnam War.

However, over the years, controversy has lingered over another group of camps. Many still claim that these camps were another war crime, this time committed by the Americans, under the command of ...

Keeping that in mind, think about this: in the 14 th and early 15 th century, before the widespread use of gunpowder, the armies of one man were responsible for the deaths of perhaps 17 million people ...

One of the first major discoveries in the era of the firearm was the invention of gunpowder itself. Another major shift came with the invention of the flintlock mechanism, which essentially ...

The leading scholar on the project, Nick Marriner from the French University of Aix-Marseille, said in an interview with LiveScience that at the time of Alexander the Great, building a bridge out to ...

Gas masks quickly became a necessity on the front during WWI, and, as could be expected, certain soldiers had some fun with them.