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Apr 4, 2023

The first offensive use of hot air balloons in combat came in 1849

The Italian city of Venice was a military powerhouse for more than a thousand years before Napoleon came calling in 1797. Like many things touched by Napoleon, it never really…

BYTeam Mighty

Apr 4, 2023

BYBethaney Phillips

Dec 15, 2022

What happened to these missing nuclear weapons?

Losing a weapon is never a good thing, but when that weapon is military, the stakes are even higher. Yet that’s exactly the case for many missing nuclear weapons that…

BYBethaney Phillips

Dec 15, 2022

BYIan D'Costa

Nov 14, 2022

This is how American pilots used drop tanks as bombs during WWII

If you pay attention, you might sometimes see long, cigar-shaped pods firmly attached to the undersides of classic fighter and attack aircraft, sometimes with unit markings on them. Known as “drop tanks,” these simple devices extend the rang…

BYIan D'Costa

Nov 14, 2022

BYTeam Mighty

Oct 4, 2022

5 new weapons Ukraine is using against Russia that could change the tide of the war

One of the unintended consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been the insane development of cheap but effective weapons that have been decimating Russia’s invasion force. The Ukrainian battlefields…

BYTeam Mighty

Oct 4, 2022

BYTeam Mighty

Mar 21, 2023

Today in military history: Germans launch last V-2s

On March 27, 1945, Germans launched their remaining V-2 missiles in a last-ditch attack against the Allies. German scientists had been developing a long-range missile since the 1930s. At that…

BYTeam Mighty

Mar 21, 2023

BYBethaney Phillips

Mar 19, 2023

Bats carried bombs during this WWII plot

In yet one more way where the government did something wild during World War II, we discuss the option of “bat bombs,” where bats quite literally had bombs strapped to…

BYBethaney Phillips

Mar 19, 2023

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Aug 16, 2022

This bomb is heavier than the MOAB

The GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Burst (also known as the Mother of All Bombs) that took out a lot of members of ISIS’s Afghanistan franchise, is considered the largest conventional …

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Aug 16, 2022

BYJames Elphick

Dec 21, 2022

That time Uncle Sam brought the Vietnamese bombs for Christmas

By 1972, American efforts in Vietnam were being drawn down. In Paris, North Vietnamese negotiators were unwilling to settle for peace as they felt victory was within their grasp. President Nixon had other ideas. The Air Force was going to…

BYJames Elphick

Dec 21, 2022

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Oct 25, 2022

Watch what happens when aircraft are almost hit by their own bombs

It happens so often, it is almost routine. An aircraft is trying to take out a ground target, and moves in to drop its bombs. The bombs then leave the plane, head down to the ground, and blow the target into smithereens. That’s how it’s supposed t…

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Oct 25, 2022

BYJessica Evans

Apr 6, 2021

A rare look beyond the gates at Ellsworth AFB

Ellsworth Air Force Base just northeast of Rapid City, South Dakota includes a section called the Munitions Storage Area. You’re probably picturing your average weapons depot, right? Turns out, the…

BYJessica Evans

Apr 6, 2021

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Jun 17, 2020

This is how early World War II cluster bombs worked

The Joint Direct Attack Munition gets a lot of attention for its ability to strike within 30 feet of a target, no matter what the weather is like. But with all that attention, other bombs get short shrift it seems. Take, for instance, the…

BYHarold C. Hutchison

Jun 17, 2020

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The first offensive use of hot air balloons in combat came in 1849

What happened to these missing nuclear weapons?

This is how American pilots used drop tanks as bombs during WWII

5 new weapons Ukraine is using against Russia that could change the tide of the war

Today in military history: Germans launch last V-2s

Bats carried bombs during this WWII plot

This bomb is heavier than the MOAB

That time Uncle Sam brought the Vietnamese bombs for Christmas

Watch what happens when aircraft are almost hit by their own bombs

A rare look beyond the gates at Ellsworth AFB

This is how early World War II cluster bombs worked

Drones are dropping bombs on US troops in Syria, and it’s not clear who’s doing it

Here’s what the US B-52 bombers flying around Europe have been up to

What it was really like to live through the Cold War in America

Here’s what could happen if India and Pakistan have a nuclear war

Writing funny stuff on ammo is over 2000 years old

US troops found rockets and bombs on island ISIS was using ‘like a hotel’

This film shows every nuclear blast in history as deadly martial arts moves

Marine Corps F-35s hit hard with back-to-back bombings in the Pacific

Marine F-35B drops 1,000-pound bombs in the Pacific

F-15 fighter jets are patrolling the Persian Gulf with cluster bombs

Here’s how US soldiers trained to fire a nuclear round

US B-52 bombers upgraded to carry even more bombs

US Navy releases classified details on failed anti-torpedo weapon

China’s powerful new weapons could be sending a message