Machinery & Gear | War History

Bullet Points: Nimitz-Class Carriers – The World’s Biggest Warships (Watch)

US Nimitz Class – at over 1000 feet, the Nimitz Class aircraft carriers are the world’s biggest warships. Costing around US$4.5 billion each, they are…

10 Biggest Nuclear Explosions In Military History

Jinny McCormick

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…

Tiger Tank 131 Hand Cranking Engine Start Up (Watch)

The Tiger was a formidable machine. It saw action in Russia, Tunisia, Sicily, Italy, and northwest Europe (although production was limited to just 1,354 tanks)…

Tank Profile – The British Cromwell Tank – Speedy, Reliable, And Powerful

Perhaps the most balanced British tank that came out of the Second World War, the Cromwell, named after the English Civil War leader Oliver Cromwell,…

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…

11 Dakotas Taking Off – For Fans Of The C-47, This Must Be One Of The Best Moments In War Movie History (Watch)

A Bridge Too Far is one of those movies which everyone should see, and this is the most epic scene of the movie. Watching the…

This P-51 Mustang Restoration Wasn’t Complete Without Operational .50cal Machine Guns (Watch)

Check out this video of the restored P-51 Mustang Twilight Tear – testing the fully operational .50 caliber machine guns! The aircraft is owned by Ron…

It Was Called The Little Caterpillar, And It Had Partly Wooden Tracks – It’s The WW1 Hornsby Tractor (Watch)

In 1904 David Roberts, Managing director of the firm Richard Hornsby & Sons of Grantham, patented a new form of crawler track which was applied…

Pilot’s-Eye View Of The Awesome WW2 B-17 “Aluminum Overcast” During Takeoff (Watch)

This video footage allows you to experience first-hand the takeoff of Aluminum Overcast, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress as it departs from Arlington Municipal Airport.…

Amazing – The P-38 Lightning, A Classic WW2 Fighter, Takes To The Sky Once Again (Watch)

Up in the sky, it’s a man, It’s a plane, it’s a man in a plane, it’s Flash Fahey! Come along inside and outside the cockpit…

Dodge Challenger SRT 392 Car Has Military-Themed WWII Plane Shark Teeth

You probably think that with the sudden increase of the so-called liquid car wrap industry, the vinyl car wrap section of the market has lost…

Fast Facts – Tanks: World Of Tanks Presents A Quick History Of A Game-Changing Military Machine (Watch)

From the battlefields of the First World War to military combat around the world today, the tank has become an instantly recognizable symbol of warfare…