Mark V** – A Longer Tank For Wider Trenches – WW1 Innovations (Watch)
When the Germans realized what a threat tanks could be, they made their trenches wider to trap them; one answer to this was to build…
The End Of A Proud Warship: Gut Wrenching Footage Of The HMS Barham Exploding In 1941 (Watch)
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…
Firing The Hugely Powerful German MG42 Machine Gun (Watch)
This video looks at the MG-42, a World War II German machine gun. It is being fired as part of a demonstration at Dellwood Park, Lockwood,…
Firing The Biggest Gun Of WWII, The 80cm Railway Gun ‘Schwerer Gustav’ (Watch)
Schwerer Gustav – This was the name given to a German 80 cm railway gun, a huge piece of artillery designed to be shot from…
The German WW2 Sturmgewehr Assault Rifle (Watch)
After several years of rejecting the idea of a new automatic or semi-automatic weapon, Hitler asked his top commanders on the Eastern Front what they…
Tank Chats: The British Mark V Tank (Watch)
The Allies were the first to build tanks, and so the Germans had to come up with methods to stop them. At first, they widened…
Light Tank Mark II A – Two-Man Light Tank of the Early Thirties
The first British light tank, the Mark I, evolved from the Carden-Loyd Carrier. The Mark II was produced in larger numbers and issued for service.…
WWII – Rare Footage of German Heavy Panzerkampfwagen Tiger Tank
The Tiger Tank was without a doubt the most feared tank by the Allied forces during the Second World War. The thing that made this…
Five Facts – The Most Widely Used Gun in the World – The AK-47
What do you know about the most widely used gun in the world? In a tale of historic irony, the Russian soldier who invented the…
Awesome – Firing the 88mm FLAK Gun (Watch)
One of the most famous weapons used by the Germans in World War II was the Flugabwehrkanoneor – Flak for short. The word means ‘aircraft…
The Awesome WW2 Churchill – The British Heavy Infantry Tank (Watch)
The Tank, Infantry, Mk IV (A22) Churchill was the primary heavy infantry tank of the British Army during the first years of the Second World…
China Adds A Gigantic New Warship To Its Navy
China’s newest warship in appearance and details sounds formidable. The first type 005 destroyer – displacing 14,000 tons – is expected to slide down the…