Masters of Armored Warfare – 6 Historic German Tanks
Though initially slow to adopt tanks, the Germans eventually became masters of armored warfare, with some of the most effective vehicles of the Second World…
Great Trans-Atlantic Air Race and the Hawker Siddeley Harrier
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Dean Smith Following the allied victory at the end of the First World War, the British newspaper…
49 days Adrift – USS Kearsarge Saved Soviet Sailors
On March 7, 1960, the American aircraft carrier Kearsarge saved Soviet soldiers who had drifted in the ocean for 49 days without food or water.…
Anti-Tank Missile Vehicles – 22 Facts About the Soviet 2P Series
During the 1950s, Soviet weapons engineers designed a new anti-tank missile, the AT-1 Snapper. This was a guided missile that used a wire link to…
Mach Loop – Guide to Low Altitude Flying Up Close and Personal
War History Online proudly presents this Guest Piece from Frank Pleszak If like me, you are excited by and want to see low flying fast jets…
Early Drones – Radio Controlled Tanks of the USSR
In 1915, the French designers came up with a self-propelled engineering charge with remote control bearing the name “Torpille Terrestre“. It had a caterpillar mechanism…
Declassified: Cold War Technology Documents
One of the biggest challenges in intelligence gathering is simply getting close enough to the target to acquire any meaningful data. One of the means…
M24 Chaffee “Panther Pup” in Photos
The M24 Chaffee Light Tank, officially known as Light Tank, M24, was named after the U.S. Army General Adna R. Chaffee, Jr., who helped introduce…
50 Years of French Tanks
Renault FT-17 Light Tank Designed in 1916 and first sent into action in 1917, the FT-17 was France’s second ever serving tank. A narrow armored…
Holocaust Survivor Becomes Communist Prosecutor then British Citizen
In a sheltered, shady corner of Wolvercote Cemetery in the leafy, affluent suburb of rural Oxford are the graves of Helena Wolinska-Brus and her husband…
Battle of the Minds – German Scientists Recruited to the Soviets after WWII
Early in 1945, it became apparent that WWII was drawing to a close and, in hindsight, both the USSR and the USA were already preparing…
“Stealth” Destroyer Plagued With Setbacks
Some costly mistakes made in the design of the U.S. Navy’s Michael Monsoor destroyer, part of the Zumwalt class, have forced the ship back to…