Military Technologies

When a heavy bomber B-29 was distancing itself from the Japanese city of Hiroshima, on which the crew just dropped the first atomic bomb in history, the second pilot of the "flying fortress" - Robert A. Lewis, seeing the exodus of almost 80,000 people underneath them, screamed: "My God, what have we done?" The American did not know that in…

As we know from history lessons (or, what's better, from one of our articles :), the first months of Operation Barbarossa, i.e. the Third Reich's invasion of…

The word "raptor" means "predator" from English. It is hard to better describe the F-22, the US' fifth generation fighter, whose destructive capabilities cannot…

On 14 September 1954, one of the most tragic military exercises in history took place. During the manoeuvres with the cryptonym "Snezhok", the Soviet Union…

Eight kilometers from Kętrzyn (Poland), hidden in the Mazurian forests, lays one of the most interesting military buildings in Europe. We are talking here about…

When the Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-129 sank in the Pacific Ocean in 1968, the Americans decided to first photograph and then extract the wreck. This…

Description of one of the best and most remarkable tanks equipped by modern armed forces - Israeli Merkava. Interesting facts, photos, multimedia.

WWII forced automakers from production of consumer vehicles to military vehicles and munitions to the tune of $29 million worth of goods from 1942-1945.

Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Ausf. B "Königstiger", known as Tiger II, was the largest, heaviest and probably most powerful tank used in the battle during World War…

The American AH-64 attack helicopter was (in accordance with the tradition of the US Army) gifted a nickname for one of the indigenous Indian tribes of North…