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WATCH: Top 10 Dumbest Weapons Ever Created

Dumbest Weapons

As if bombs and guns weren’t already reliable ways to kill, the inventors of these top 10 dumbest weapons have found imaginative new ways to…

Dornier Do 335 Pfeil (Arrow) – fastest piston engine fighter of WW2

Dornier Do 335

During the Second World War, the Dornier company was building a radically different airplane, the Do 335 Pfeil (“Arrow”). Having a unique “push-pull” layout and…

WWII Corsair Fighter Screams In At Low Level

What was the role of the Corsair in World War 2? You are about to find out by watching this informative video. The Corsair was…

WWII Commercial: Shave Like a Man

In 2013, a shaving brand that was born in 1919 joined the parade of products trying to define what it means to be a real man…

Firing the 80 cm Railway Gun ‘Schwerer Gustav’

Schwerer Gustav – This was the name given to a German 80 cm railway gun, a huge piece of artillery designed to be shot from…

Firing The MG-34 and MG-42 Machine Guns

Joris Nieuwint

These two machine guns, the MG-34 and MG-42, were the primary arms given to the German infantry and their vehicles throughout World War 2. In…

Old Guy Metal Detecting Finds Buried WW2 Willys Jeep

A short film about every boys dream! Imagine going metal detecting on a beach and suddenly you hear loud beeps coming from your detector. You…

Veteran flies Spitfire for first time since WWII

Spitfire

In 2013, at the age of 91 and 69 years after his last time in a Spitfire, Jimmy Taylor went to Goodwood Aerodrome in West Sussex to fly…

WATCH: Two WW2 Russian Yak 3 fighters at Wanaka

Yak 3 fighters

The Soviet Yak fighter (Yakovlev Yak-3) was a Soviet dog-fighter that was used in World War 2. This was a robust craft, and its maintenance…

Shooting the German MP40 submachine gun

German MP40 submachine gun

The MP40 submachine gun was made to use with the 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge. This submachine gun was developed in Germany by the Nazis and the…

Top 10 Movie Snipers

A sniper is a skilled marksman whose job is to shoot someone from afar without hitting anyone (or anything) else. But it’s not just about…

The Russian AK-47 versus the American M16

The AK-47 and the M16 were two important rifles of the period following the Second World War. The AK-47, often known as the Kalashnikov after…