The Bayonet Has Been A Part Of Warfare For Over 400 Years – Here Are 8 Essential Stages In Its History
The bayonet, capable of turning a gun into a stabbing weapon, has been a feature of warfare since the 17th century. It has gone through…
Fast Facts – History of the Hand Grenade – An Essential Infantry Weapon In Modern Warfare
Hand grenades play an important part in modern war as lightweight and hard-hitting infantry weapons. But their development hasn’t been a steady one, and for…
Massively Super-Sized Siege Guns From World War One And Two
In the 19th century, transport limitations restricted the size of artillery. If a piece of equipment could not be pulled by horses, then it could…
The Fokker Scourge: Imperial Germany’s Secret Weapon in the First World War
When World War 1 Broke out in 1914, most nations were ill-equipped for a sustained aerial war. The Treaty of Madrid, in 1911, outlined aircraft…
The Submachine Gun – An Infantry Weapon Which Changed The Face Of Warfare
From the First World War to the Second World War, the submachine gun played an important part in infantry fighting. A small machine gun firing…
Why the World’s Greatest Naval Power Opposed the Use of Steam Ships
From the start of the 19th century, the race was on to create steam-powered navies. This would eventually take the world’s fleets from wooden sailing…
Airborne Aircraft Carriers of the early 1950s by Hans Wiesman
During WWII, the flight range of the USAF long-distance bombers made huge leaps forward with every new model that came out, mainly due to the…
The Myths Of The Montana Class Battleships
War History Online presents this Guest Article by Chris Knupp. Artist’s impression of the Montana class Battleship Myth #1: The Montana class Ignored the Panama Canal…
The 1905 Mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin
In the abortive revolution of 1905, the Russian Black Sea Fleet was a powder keg of discontent. In the war with Japan, the Russian navy had…
Kaiten – Japanese Suicide Torpedo Of WWII
It’s the infamous and destructive wars throughout each century of history that are responsible for so many of today’s technological advancements. Of course, along the…
A Massive Operation – Raising A U-Boat To Recover Her Precious Cargo
In 1958, a German submarine was hoisted from the depths of the Kattegat Bay between the North and Baltic Seas off the coast of Sweden.…
Wilhelm Frankl and Fritz Beckhardt: Top German Jewish Fighter Aces of WW1
Wilhelm Frankl Standoff Neuberg, home to the 74th Tactical Fighter Squadron, sits just south of the Danube River, nestled deep within a woodland. Since 1973, the base…