Machinery & Gear | War History

Nazi Gold Train Update: Digging Could Begin This Month!

Editors note: These are the Gold Train updates up to March 2016 In December 2015, the press conference denounced the claims of a Nazi Gold…

Inside the Chieftain’s Hatch: M56 Scorpion Part 1 – By World Of Tanks

Part 1 of the two-part tour of the M56 Self-Propelled Anti-Tank gun. The M56 SPG was intended to support airborne units as a light tank…

Pacific Plane Wrecks, Amazing pictures of Abandoned WWII planes

The Pacific Islands are still littered with plane wrecks from the fighting there. Planes that crash landed on remote locations or sunken in the lagoons…

Top 5 Best Assault Rifles

An assault rifle has to meet a certain set of criteria. It must be select-fire and use an intermediate cartridge. In this video we explain…

Two Jet Fighters Sent Up to Shoot Down a WWII Warbird in 1956 – Blasted 208 Rockets at it, it Survived

In August 1956, a drone went rogue over Southern California, threatening cities, including Los Angeles. In its aftermath, over 1,000 acres were destroyed, forests and…

Top 10 Most Bizarre Tanks Ever Built

Tanks are designed for front-line combat. These strong armored fighting vehicles are a pivotal part of any land forces in warfare. Tanks can be used…

Strange! Object 279 The Soviet Heavy Tank Designed To Survive A Nuclear Explosion

It was at the Cold War Era’s height in 1959 when the Soviet Union constructed Object 279, which was an experimental heavy tank that could…

Heavy Tank Destroyer Ferdinand Facts & Images

When Ferdinand Porsche offered his designs for the Tiger II tank in 1939, it was deemed too unconventional. It was also considered too demanding to…

Mosquito: The Best Warbird of WWII – in Color

Undoubtedly the best aircraft of its time. Many will, of course, argue the point, and that’s understandable, we all have our favourites, but the De Havilland…

WWII Hurricane XII for sale, Please bring $495,000!

Image: Platinum Fighters The Hurricane was the RAF’s first monoplane fighter, going into service before its famous partner in RAF service, the Spitfire. The Hurricane…

Saddam’s Secret Super Gun – Project Babylon

Project Babylon was an Iraqi code name for the construction of a supergun, commissioned by Sadam Hussein in 1988. The engineer in charge of the…

Watch: HMS Barham Explodes and Sinks (1941)

Constructed for the Royal Navy around 1910, the Queen Elizabeth battleship HMS Barham was often used as the flagship in battle. Having participated in World…