For over forty years the M1 tank has been a world class fighting vehicle. But what you might not know is that the M1 should not have been built!
If you’ve been watching my YouTube channel or reading this website for a while, you’ll know I have done a couple of articles on the Westland Whirlwind, an interesting aircraft that, though it provided good service as a ground pounder, never met its potential as a...
I wrote an article recently on the Paribatra bomber, Thailand’s first indigenously designed and built aircraft. This rather obscure aircraft was a little tricky to research as there is not a lot out there on it, certainly in English. But there is a veritable...
It will soon be one year since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the world is still bickering about exactly what to do about it. That is all very depressing, but at least the world IS talking about Ukraine. Whereas Burma, also known as Myanmar, is now approaching two years...
During the Second World War, fighter designs generally came in two primary variants. You had your skinny boys, that used liquid-cooled inline engines. Then you had your chunks, that used big, beefy air-cooled radials. And amongst the latter, the P-47...
A few years back I wrote an article for The National Interest where I discussed how the previous years of conflict in Afghanistan and Iraq had demonstrated the need for a cheap, lightweight guided infantry weapon capable of being used in a multitude of roles. Western...
