Here is something truly enormous, worthy of Japanese crazed super-scale imagination – vast caverns and otherworldly columns (looking like some kind of a…

Over in America, there are decaying underground spaces on a huge scale, as well. This Cincinnati Transit site documents all the structures and stations of…

Lighthouse design is all about visibility. These small towers act as beacons for ships at night, alerting captains to various landforms and aiding…

Strangest Tanks in History, Part 2: First World War Utmost Intimidation: The Power to Terrify – First World War Tanks In the first part of…

[embedded content] "QUANTUM SHOT" #769 Link - article by Avi Abrams From Early Tank Ideas to Enormous Pre-WW1 Steam Tanks Cataloguing the machines…

The incredible story of Holt Caterpillar. The steam tractors of the 1890s and early 1900s were extremely heavy, sometimes weighing 1,000 pounds (450 kg)…

The trenches of World War I were a vicious place, but it was the No Man’s Land between opposing trenches that became killing…

To counter the German blitzkrieg, the U.S. Army needed to not only destroy individual tanks, it needed to destroy the Wehrmacht’s ability to…

Airborne forces face a problem whenever they have to jump behind enemy lines — whether it’s to seize an enemy airfield or to…

The A-10 Thunderbolt II, popularly known as the Warthog, was originally designed as a “tank-killer”. In fact, the entire aircraft was essentially built around a…

When you think about tanks, images of the German Tiger, the American M1 Abrams or the Russian T-72 come to mind. But tanks…

As tank warfare evolved and became a key strategy during the interwar period, the German Wehrmacht envisioned a new kind of blitzkrieg –…