Machinery & Gear | War History

Big Ivan: The World’s Biggest Bomb Ever Detonated – Tsar Bomba

Heziel Pitogo

The Soviet-made Big Ivan, more commonly known as the Tsar Bomba, holds the record for the biggest bomb in history and here’s why. Big Ivan…

The Record-Setting SR-71 Blackbird

On July 28, 1976, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird set the absolute airspeed record with a blistering speed of 3,529.6 kilometers per hour (2,193.2 mph), which is about…

Up Close And Personal With The Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun

Waqas Ali

The quest for automatic weaponry has been around since the invention of the gun itself, and war engineers have always tried their best to design…

These US Sailors Are Firing the Monstrously Powerful Twin .50 Machine Guns

Joris Nieuwint

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…

The Brightly Painted Heavy Bombers Of WWII in 20 Stunning Pictures!

Assembly ships were retired bombers that were still flyable. They were painted in unique paint schemes so large groups of bombers could find them in…

Top Facts About The Sherman Tank: An American Workhorse

Strength in numbers. This is exactly what the M-4 Sherman tank was good at in its heyday. World War II saw the rise of the…

The Deadly Defiant, A Game-Changing British Warplane in WW2

The 1930s were an age of aeronautical experimentation. All around the world air forces were trying new and fascinating designs, searching for the perfect combination…

The Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun (Full Auto)

Joris Nieuwint

Black and white gangster movies from the 1930’s were, and still are, hugely popular. The weapon of choice in these movies is almost always the…

The High-Tech, High-Speed F-22 Raptor – An Epic Modern Fighter Plane

Raptor? Have the U.S. armed forces trained dinosaurs to fight? No, the Raptor is a fighter, and a raptor is also a bird of prey,…

Firing The Powerful German PAK-40 Anti-Tank Gun!

Joris Nieuwint

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…

MATILDA DIARIES Part 6 – Follow The Renovation Of This Historic Second World War Tank

Following on from the news regarding the Matilda II renovation, a new series of videos are being produced for The Tank Museum YouTube channel that will…

Welcome to America’s Massive Military Machinery Graveyard

Situated between the mountains on the border of Nevada and California, is a 36,000-acre area of land where the American military dispatches its equipment and…