Newly Released Graphic WWII Footage Of Flamethrower Use Shows The Brutal Reality Of The War
Evidence of just how brutal World War II could be is still coming to light 70 years after it ended. Video footage of the Australian…
What A Blast – Firing The Amazingly Powerful WW2 German PAK-40 Anti-Tank Gun
The 75 millimeter Pak 40 anti-tank gun was a German anti-tank gun developed during WWII from 1939-1941. PAK is the abbreviation for “Panzerabwehrkanone.” Initially, the…
Firing The Popular Thompson Submachine Gun – Full Auto (Watch)
Black and white gangster movies from the 1930s were, and still are, hugely popular. The weapon of choice in these movies is almost always the…
USS Firebolt – Live Ammo Drill – Firing The Monstrously Powerful Twin .50 Machine Guns (Watch)
Watch these US sailors at sea onboard the USS Firebolt, as they undertake live ammo drills. They’re firing extremely powerful .50 caliber machine guns; the…
Anakonda 16 – Mind-Blowing Photos And Video Of Modern Military In Action – NATO Joint Exercise In Poland – Part 1
This year the Polish Army led a multinational joint exercise of NATO in Eastern Europe – Anakonda 16. 24 countries, 31,000 soldiers, over 100 aircraft, 12…
Leonardo’s War Machines – The Italian Genius May Have Deliberately Sabotaged His Own Designs
Born in the Tuscan town of Vinci on the 15th of April, 1452, Leonardo Da Vinci is perhaps best known as the painter of the…
Powerful Pieces of Kit – Testing Out German WW2 Machine Guns On The Firing Range (Watch)
These two machine guns, the MG-34 and the MG-42, were the primary arms given to the German infantry and their vehicles throughout World War 2.…
Five Grenade Fails – Always Be Careful With These Things (Watch)
Grenades are, it goes without saying, lethal weapons so if you are ever in a position of using one then be sure you know what…
10 Biggest Nuclear Explosions In Military History
Most of us have seen footage or photographs of the explosions at Nagasaki and Hiroshima: the mushroom cloud, the radius, the devastation. Those, however, were…
Five Facts: A Feature Of Battlefields For Hundreds Of Years To The Present Day – Mortars (Watch)
For hundreds of years, some form or another of mortar weapons have been used in warfare, but it was many, many years before Sir Wilfred…
10 Deadliest Snipers Of World War II
Highly trained and deadly, snipers are and have been an important aspect of warfare. The term, however, first came into use in British India in…
Top 5 Battle Rifles In The World (Watch)
A Battle Rifle is the name used for a select-fire rifle that fires a full caliber cartridge. They were important weapons during World War II…