Newspaper magnate Lord Beaverbrook was appointed Minister of Aircraft Production by Churchill in May 1940. At the time, German forces were advancing rapidly through France towards…
During the reign of King Gustav II Adolf (1611-1632) Sweden rose to become the dominant military power in Northern Europe on land.…
Named after its designers, Lavochkin, Gorbunov. and Gudkov, the LaGG-3 fighter was one of the most modern aircraft available to Soviet pilots…
David Tattersfield assesses a failed attack on a crucial German salient during the Battle of the Somme.…
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…
Eric Bryan examines one of the most fearsome machines of WWII. Germany’s advanced WWII war machinery included intercontinental ballistic missiles (the V-2),…
Dial ‘M’ for Muddle… Two of the three M-class submarines that the Royal Navy launched between 1916 and 1919 were lost with…
It takes more to occupy a country than just military efficiency, argues journalist, author, and former correspondent for The Independent, Justin Huggler. Ten…
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…