Ranged weapons guarantee a warrior's best chance of survival. International experts survey history's most important ranged weapons, from the Roman spear and the English longbow, right up to the futuristic railgun.
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Paranoid and isolated, Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha establishes his bunkerization project, which would result in the construction of more than 170,000 bunkers, including the top secret HQ in Tirana, and a bunker city known as The Capital of War.
Fritz Todt was Hitler's leading engineer and his Minister of Armaments. He was the man the Führer tasked with the most demanding engineering projects.
In Porsche, Hitler found a talented designer capable of leading Germany to new heights on the racetrack, while also helping rally the support of the masses at home.
1942 and Hitler has the totally barking idea of using educated dogs to do a soldier's job. The Nazi leader wants to create fearsome canines to help him win the Second World War.
Near the Czech border, a secret German site, "The Giant," tests The Bell, powered by Serum 525, turning all who touch it into rotting living zombies.
With the fall of France, only Britain stood between Hitler and complete victory in Europe. But German High Command knew that it first had to have mastery of the skies.
The world had largely ignored the growing threat of Nazism during the late 1930s and now the appeasement of Hitler was about to have terrible consequences.
It is the 25th of August, 1942. A Short Sunderland Flying Boat slams into Eagle Rock, a remote hillside in the far north of Scotland, killing fourteen people on board. Miraculously, there is one survivor.
A C-47 transport plane, with a crew of four, is ferrying 24 trainee P-47 fighter pilots from the Bruning Army Air Field in Nebraska to the South Dakotan Pierre Army Air Field for advanced training.
Fritz Todt was Hitler's leading engineer and his Minister of Armaments. He was the man the Führer tasked with the most demanding engineering projects.
In Porsche, Hitler found a talented designer capable of leading Germany to new heights on the racetrack, while also helping rally the support of the masses at home.
The Hawker Hurricane was the first RAF aircraft to fly over 300mph. Over half of every enemy aeroplane destroyed in the Battle of Britain was by a Hurricane, not a Spitfire.
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Regarded as one of the most important aircraft of the Cold War. It was a major part of the United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, and was also used by many other countries.
In Stealth we examine the methods ships have used to evade detection. With the advent of radar in WW2, ships that wanted to remain undetected had to find ways to hide.
The industrial revolution changed it all when it came to cannons as they evolved from wholly inaccurate and immobile to deadly killing machines.
While the single shot rifle remained a mainstay until WWI, machine guns had been in development since the final days of the American Civil War.
Small arms production hit a boom in the early 1800s with the emergence of the modern cartridge an invention that led to the lethal package.
The conflict in the Pacific provided history with some of the worst reminders of the true meaning of war. Even today the images captured on islands such as Iwo Jima and Okinawa have the power to shock a world by the horrors of more recent events.
By early 1945, the end was in sight. After months of hard fighting the Allies were advancing towards the Rhine and to the east the Russians were closing in on Berlin as part of Operation Bagration.
Discover the true story of a German Luftwaffe pilot in World War II who risked his own life to save the crew of an American B-17 bomber.
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