This soldier, on the way to hospital after being bandaged at Field Dressing Station, shows the helmet which saved his life. A British…
GUN – MORTAR, 36 INCH – 1855-1857 Large Mortar of composite construction. Also known as Mallet’s Mortar. Large mortar of composite construction. Place:London/Britain/Europe…
HARP in action. This is what I saw on my visit.The HARP project has been the source of much political intrigue and speculation…
This six-tonne siege gun is what cutting edge military technology once looked like. Mons Meg could fire a 150kg gunstone for up to…
Little David was the nickname of an American 36-inch (910 mm) caliber mortar designed to breach the Siegfried Line and then used for test-firing aerial bombs during World War II. With the same…
I want to talk about stories famous Tsar Cannon, which is now located in the Kremlin of the city of Moscow. This gun…
The cold war pushed the Soviet defense industry to the development of unique types of weapons, which even after 50 years can excite…
These enormous Soviet self-propelled guns seem more like pea shooters when compared with some of history’s largest artillery pieces. “Iraq’s ‘super gun’, while…
6 photos Photo: Ilyushin/Russian Federal Archives When a Soviet-state-owned aerospace manufacturer is demanded by the Communist Party to build an aircraft, it gets…
The Consolidated B-24 Liberator, along with its sleeker brother the B-17, was the workhorse heavy bomber of the United States Army Air Forces.…