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Back to the Drawing Board/Modern

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

July 15, 2013
1 min read

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/Modern

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – M-CLASS SUBMARINE

June 18, 2013
2 mins read

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

May 15, 2013
2 mins read

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

April 12, 2013
2 mins read

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

March 15, 2013
2 mins read
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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

February 19, 2013
2 mins read

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

January 11, 2013
2 mins read

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’

December 13, 2012
1 min read

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/Modern

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

November 12, 2012
1 min read

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

October 12, 2012
2 mins read

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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