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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – Type 11 light machine-gun

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…

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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – M-CLASS SUBMARINE

Dial ‘M’ for Muddle… Two of the three M-class submarines that the Royal Navy launched between 1916 and 1919 were lost with…

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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – Flying Aircraft Carriers

It might sound a bit like a Sci-fi fantasy, but during the early 1930s the United States Navy actually operated two airships…

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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD -The Dreyse Needle Gun

The Dreyse Needle Gun   Daniel Sager examines this weapon’s limitations Introduced by the Prussian Army in the mid-19th century, the Dreyse…

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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – The Biber Submarine

When the German navy captured a British Welman midget submarine in November 1943, Commander Hans Bartels set about improving its crude design…

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Back to the Drawing Board – The Beaufighter

Whispering Death A heavy fighter derived from a light bomber, the Bristol Beaufighter entered service in the summer of 1940 and by…

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Back to the Drawing Board – The Royal Enfield Flying Flea

Designed by the Germans, copied by the British and thrown out of aeroplanes over occupied Europe, the Royal Enfield Flying Flea was…

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Back to the Drawing Board – The SM-62 ‘Snark’

The English language changed drastically during the swinging Sixties. ‘Cool’ suddenly meant fashionable or aloof, to ‘dig’ something was to enjoy it,…

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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – The Republic XF-84H ‘Thunderscreech’

Just over 75 years ago, the world’s loudest ever aircraft took to the skies for its first test-flight. When the US Navy…

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BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – The Bachem Natter

As the Luftwaffe’s air superiority began to wane in 1943, various schemes were put in place to try and stop the Allies…

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