This is WAR

29/07/2023

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Our latest YouTube Short. "How Effective Were Chemical Weapons in WWI?"

The use of chemical weapons in WWI has through time become an iconic aspect But how effective were these gases compared to other weapons? A quick look at th...

29/07/2023

The mighty Bismarck and its Achilles Heel, the rather flimsy steering that was easily damaged by a torpedo from a biplane, causing the death loop that allowed it to be cornered and sunk.
This, much like the Achilles story itself, is a powerful metaphor for perceived invulnerability and what lies beneath.

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Our latest YouTube Short for THIS IS WAR....

The 2nd Rangers scale Pointe du Hoc on D-Day.

Force 'A' of 2nd Ranger Battalion storms the cliffs of Pointe du Hoc on D-Day, June 6, 1944. How the Americans scaled a 35 meter cliff under fire during the ...

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Low level pe*******on. There are 24 jet engines and 100 tons of ordinance in this picture.

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Our latest YouTube Short for THIS IS WAR. This one on the Oregon Lookout Raids in 1942. Not about balloon bombs, but rather the only Axis airstrikes against the contiguous United States in WWII. Both committed by the same pilot, and what followed...

The Japanese Lookout Raids against Oregon in WWII.Subjects include: WWII, Imperial Japan, Oregon, fire bombings, aerial attack, Brookings Oregon, I-25, "Glen...

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16" HC Mk 13 shells for the Mk 7 guns on USS New Jersey, 1953. The yellow coding indicates they are charged with Explosive D (Composition D, or Dunnite), an ammonium picrate compound, rather than TNT or Amatol. These shells weighed 1,900 lbs each.

In a 9-gun broadside, the Iowa Class could toss 18 tons of steel and high explosive at 2,615 fps muzzle velocity to a maximum combat range of 26.64 miles - at a rate of two vollies a minute - with pinpoint accuracy. Maximum test range was 29 miles, but with some loss of accuracy.

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Captain Kris Kristofferson, 8th Infantry Division, helicopter pilot, undergoing Ranger training at Ft. Rucker, early 1960s. A strong multi-generational military family background here. His father was a USAF Maj. General. His grandfather an officer in the Swiss Army.

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USS West Virginia (BB-48). December 7, 1941. A very high res pic. She was refloated and later fought at Leyte Gulf and Iwo Jima. Tap for full pic.

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Evasion and countermeasures.

Attack helicopters are much nimbler than they appear...

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A German soldier returns to find his home and family no longer exist. 1945.

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British women train to defend Britain. 1941.

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Nice shot of a restored Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a biplane showing its .303 cal Lewis gun mounted on a Foster Mount to fire over the prop. The pilot could pull it down using the curved slide rack to clear jams and change mags. Before the Foster mount they actually stood up with the stick between their knees, in combat, to perform that task.

The S.E.5a also had a .303 Vickers geared fire through the prop timed with a Constantinesco interrupter gear assembly.
The tube through the wind glass is for targeting.

Top speed was 138 mph with a range of 300 miles and an altitude max of 17,000 feet. Where it would be very, very cold.