Named to honour the 11th year of Emperor Taisho’s reign in 1922, the Type 11 was Imperial Japan’s first light machine-gun. It…
Dial ‘M’ for Muddle… Two of the three M-class submarines that the Royal Navy launched between 1916 and 1919 were lost with…
It might sound a bit like a Sci-fi fantasy, but during the early 1930s the United States Navy actually operated two airships…
The Dreyse Needle Gun Daniel Sager examines this weapon’s limitations Introduced by the Prussian Army in the mid-19th century, the Dreyse…
When the German navy captured a British Welman midget submarine in November 1943, Commander Hans Bartels set about improving its crude design…
Whispering Death A heavy fighter derived from a light bomber, the Bristol Beaufighter entered service in the summer of 1940 and by…
Designed by the Germans, copied by the British and thrown out of aeroplanes over occupied Europe, the Royal Enfield Flying Flea was…
The English language changed drastically during the swinging Sixties. ‘Cool’ suddenly meant fashionable or aloof, to ‘dig’ something was to enjoy it,…
Just over 75 years ago, the world’s loudest ever aircraft took to the skies for its first test-flight. When the US Navy…
As the Luftwaffe’s air superiority began to wane in 1943, various schemes were put in place to try and stop the Allies…