TANKFEST 2025 is only a few days away, and the most anticipated guest at this year’s event has arrived at the Tank Museum.

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Left: US bombers dropping bombs on North Vietnam during Operation Rolling Thunder. Right: The French Naval Air Force drops napalm over Viet Minh guerrilla positions during an ambush (December 1953).

Page from the Primary Chronicle, which depicts Oleg the Wise’s campaign against Constantinople.(Photo Credit: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) The early years of Igor I of Kiev’s reign are ...

The 1957 historical epic The Bridge on the River Kwai has long been regarded as one of the greatest war films ever made. Based on the horrific true story of the Burma Railway, the movie sheds light on ...

The US Army has begun fielding its replacement for the 1990s-era M4 Carbine, marking a major step in the evolution of infantry weaponry. Developed under the Next Generation Squad Weapon (NGSW) Program ...

M18 recoilless rifle. (Photo Credit: Alf van Beem / Wikimedia Commons CC0 1.0) As the US Army’s Artillery Section worked on a 105 mm recoilless cannon based upon captured German 10.5 cm Leichtgeschütz ...

The source was the Duga radar, a critical part of the Soviet Union’s early warning system to detect incoming missiles. The antenna of the Duga radar was huge; 700 meters long and 150 meters high.

Crew loading torpedoes onto the ORP Sokół, 1943.(Photo Credit: Jerzy Pertek / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain) The Terrible Twins were two of 49 British U-class submarines and, as such, shared the ...

Miles Teller as Lt. Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw in Top Gun: Maverick, 2022.(Photo Credit: andrewz / MovieStillsDB) The Navy is hoping to take advantage of the movie’s hype and success, with recruiters ...

Julia Child’s first major project came when the OSS began to research shark repellent. In 1942, shark attacks were not common at all. In fact, only 20 shark attacks had taken place in less than three ...

The Vietnam War was arguably the most controversial conflict of the 20th century. One of the most contentious aspects of the war was the Phoenix Program, a US counterinsurgency effort that aimed to ...