Football in a Combat Zone: WWII’s “Spaghetti Bowl”

By Americans love football. In fact, they love the gridiron game so much, they’re even ready to play (and watch) football in a…

F-86 Sabre – America’s MiG Killer

By It was the most famed combat aircraft of its day, if not of the whole period in the early stages of the…

T-14 Armata Tank — The Russian Threat That Never Was?

By Media reports circulated last March that the Russian Army’s best tank formation, the 1st Guards Tank Army, would be equipped with a…

Gunfight Over England: Guns of the Battle of Britain

By The German bombers of 1940 had been designed as a support aircraft — ready to attack key targets in the enemy’s rear…

The Story of the Legendary General George S. Patton

By I met the man in my medical clinic. He was skinny and old. He looked like everybody’s grandfather. His right forearm was…

Douglas B-18 Bolo Bomber: The Plane that Bested the Flying Fortress

By At the outset of World War II, the United States was largely unprepared for the conflict to come. Many of the planes…

B-57 Canberra: The Most Impressive Attack Plane You’ve Never Heard Of..

By I struggle to understand the weird relationship between Red China and Taiwan. If the nations of the world were actually a family,…

Renault FT: Origin of the Modern Tank

By The French-made Renault FT light tank wasn’t the first armored vehicle to see service in the First World War, and it wasn’t…

Anzani 20-Cylinder Aircraft Engine

Alessandro Ambrogio Anzani was born in Gorla, near Milan, Italy on 5 December 1877. As a young child, Anzani was exposed to the…

Allison X-4520 24-Cylinder Aircraft Engine

When the United States entered World War I, the Allison Experimental Company (Allison), founded by James Allison, set out to construct equipment for…

T28 Super-Heavy Tank

T28 Super-Heavy Tank Spoiler warning! This Wiki contains detailed information regarding the Girls und Panzer universe. Proceed with Caution! T28/95 Super Heavy Tank…

The Covenanter was Britain’s worst tank

The British Covenanter tank looks way ahead of its time like someone took a prototype Abrams and photographed it with an old camera.…