In September 1943, the Italian battleship Roma was steaming toward Malta to surrender to the Allies when a pair of German Dornier Do 217 bombers appeared overhead. The planes released two Fritz X ...
Vietnam was a war where technology clashed with terrain, and the weapons carried into the jungle typically determined the outcome of an entire fight American units relied on rifles, helicopters, tanks ...
Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. This can be brought about by sudden, rapid advances in contemporary technologies ...