The German army was known for designing large super weapons. While many failed, many of the engineers behind these devices ...
World War II saw a race for innovation, and Germany fielded some of the strangest weapons in an attempt to stop Allied armor.
Often failures can be attributed to a few determining factors. Not every good idea that leaves the drawing board is going to be practical on the battlefield. You can even see this with the earliest ...
The M1 Garand established semi-automatic rifles as the infantry standard and shaped modern assault doctrine. The StG 44 created the blueprint for modern assault rifles with its intermediate-caliber ...
The weapons that defined World War II essentially dictated the flow of warfare over the next century. While the Second World War was fought with technologies we’d deem antiquated today, it was a ...