Category Archives: Video
Blohm & Voss BV 238 – Hitler’s Escape Plan ?
Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of the Blohm & Voss Company was its celebrated BV 238 flying transport floatplane, which stood out among war machinery of its time due to its sheer size. The BV 238 was the largest aircraft ever built by the Axis powers during World War II and also the heaviest up to 1944. Continue reading
Drone Light Show Fail in Shanghai
On the night of the Dragon Boat Festival on June 14, nearly a thousand UAVs flew over the Huangpu River on the North Bund of Shanghai but the show ended in disaster. Continue reading
B-32 Dominator – The Last Air Battle
Consolidated’s bomber, the B-32 Dominator, was the final heavy strategic bomber to enter the U.S. Army Air Forces’ service. Continue reading
Hoverboarding in Times Square
This video of a man in a helmet hoverboarding down Times Square appeared recently on social media. Continue reading
Tupolev Tu-22 – the ‘Supersonic Booze Carrier’
The history of military aviation knows multiple examples of aircrafts that appeared to be a complete failure. But nothing can beat the story of the first Soviet supersonic bomber – the Tupolev Tu-22. Continue reading
Directed Energy Weapon Destroys Swarms of Enemy Drones
The U.S. Air Force released a video animation of the directed energy weapon designed at Kirtland Air Force Base. The Tactical High-power Operational Responder, or THOR, was built to protect military bases from enemy drone attacks. Continue reading
Soviet 8-Engine Colossus – Tupolev ANT-20 Maxim Gorky
In the years following World War 1, the nations involved in the conflict began developing more powerful aircraft to support ground operations troops. Military tacticians knew that aviation would play a vital role in the following war and experimented with dozens of different aircraft configurations and combat roles. Continue reading