Jake Holman Jr.'s Articles Tagged 'tank' (6)

Flamethrowers are gruesome, horrific weapons. All weapons can be deadly, but rare is the infernal device that achieves horror by its appearance on the battlefield. One such flamethrower was the Lanciafiamme modello 35, the Italian fire weapon of World War II.

Every nation of the Second World War fielded…

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Breaching charges are increasingly used by military forces on battlefields around the world. A series of pre-shaped explosives, arranged in a way to blow a hole through or completely demolish a wall or vertical obstruction, breaching charges once exclusive to special operations forces are employed by infantry and…

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As Germany collapsed upon itself in the closing months of World War II, Allied units raced forward, each nation jockeying the first to cross the Rhine. To do this with rapidity, it sometimes meant that forces were ahead of their support, both logistically and martially. Bad weather grounding close air…

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Today, anti-material rifles run the gamut from .338 Lapua up to 20mm shoulder fired weapons. Whether they are bolt action or semi-automatic, man portable weapons that take out soft skinned vehicles, equipment and personnel are being produced in every major arms manufacturing nation.

 

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With the number of Soviet citizens, the human wall needed to defend and repel invaders of the Motherland was seemingly inexhaustible.Yet armament designers knew bodies weren't going to last forever.



And so, in technology they began investigating solutions to multiply the amount of firepower they could field. While the Germans looked at smaller tracked remotely operated vehicle, the Soviets simply converted existing tank systems to go to war with.



The Teletank was a… Continue

When needing to clear a minefield or demolish an obstacle, the Wehrmacht developed a number of remotely controlled class of machines known as Sonderkraftfahrzeug or Special-Purpose Vehicle to do those important, yet dangerous jobs.



The most well known member of this class was the Sd.Kfz 302, the Goliath tracked mine. But while the Goliath was the smallest of the remotely controlled weapons deployed by the Wermacht, it was not the only device to roll across the European… Continue