The legendary origins of the submarine stretch back to 332 BC with a tale about Alexander the Great being lowered into the…
From ancient times, the value of a samurai was assessed in terms of his prowess at kyuba no michi, the way of…
The Katana (sword) of the samurai warrior is one of the best-known edged weapons in world military history. It is also probably…
The latest nuclear submarines to roll off of the BAE Systems Barrow shipyards are the first two of the new nuclear-powered…
The real breakthrough with Submarine warfare, and the birth of the modern submarine, came courtesy of John Phillip Holland, near the end…
Simple weapons can prove astonishingly effective. The Flemish goedendag was a long wooden club, reinforced with iron rings binding and strengthening it.…
Over 6ft in length, the longbow was capable of killing a man at over 200 yards. The best bows were made of…
Known officially as the Infantry Tank Mark II, and less formally as the Matilda Senior or Matilda 2, this 27-ton tank wreaked…
The scourge of Stalingrad and perhaps the most exceptionally efficient sniper rifle of WWII, this deadly weapon was mass-produced in the Soviet…
Obsolete it may have been, but the Fairey Swordfish remained in front-line service throughout the Second World War, distinguishing itself as the…