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Tour D-Day Normandy’s Surreal Destruction In These Rare Colour Photos
Yesterday marked the 69th anniversary of D-day, the largest amphibious invasion in history and the beginning of the end for the Axis Powers. After 160,000 US, British and Canadian troops stormed the beaches of Normandy and secured a foothold for the Allies, war photographer Frank Scherschel surveyed the French town’s nearly complete destruction.
Monster Machines: This New Tank-Bulldozer Hybrid Is Freakin’ Amazing
It’s the realisation of every seven-year-old boy’s dream — a bulldozer on a tank chassis with a machine gun. Known as the Terrier, this ditch-digging combat engineer vehicle is as adaptable as its canine namesake.
Monster Machines: The Most Terrifying Cherry Blossom To Ever Take Flight
By 1945, Allied forces were knocking on Japan’s front door. As the Empire’s military grew increasingly desperate, it began to focus on eliminating the Allies’ willingness to fight — by intentionally crashing manned aircraft in kamikaze attacks. And for pilots aboard one breed of these notorious flying coffin, the MXY-7 Navy Suicide Attacker Ohka, death wasn’t the last resort, it was the only one.
The Congo’s Unending War Captured In Vivid Infrared Colour
Irish war photographer Richard Mosse has traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo three times in the past three years — he’s made it his mission, he says, to document a war so deep-seeded and tragic that it challenges “the limits of description”. To describe the indescribable, Mosse has developed a unique methodology: he shoots using Kodak Aerochrome, a rare infrared film originally developed by the military to spot camouflage from above.
Monster Machines: This Is The Drone Shot Down By Somali Insurgents
The Twitter feed for Islamic extremist group al-Shabaab lit up on May 27, publishing photos of aircraft wreckage and extolling the virtues of the group’s fighters, who, after several hours of shooting, brought down an unmanned drone near the town of Buulo Mareer. The Pentagon’s confirmation that it did lose the UAS, however, raises more questions than it answers. Why was the drone there in the first place?
How The Navy Of The Future Will Find And Destroy Underwater Mines
You don’t joke about mining important maritime trade routes — Iran did and nearly started WWIII. And while America’s fleet of MH-53E Sea Dragons and Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships are still quite effective, they’re getting really, really old. Both platforms entered service in the mid-1980s and are quickly nearing their retirement dates. Here’s what the US Navy has in store for its future countermining operations.
Monster Machines: The US Navy’s Largest Chopper Is An Aerial Mine Hunter
Submerged mines were once the scourge of sea warfare, silently lurking in bays and channels to blow a hole in your hull. That’s why the US military has developed a trident countermeasure, hunting for the underwater bombs from below the waves, along the surface and from the air, using the biggest bird in the US Navy’s arsenal, the MH-53E Sea Dragon.
Monster Machines: How The US Army Fit A Suitcase-Sized Battery Charger Into A Shoebox
Nothing’s worse than a dead battery — except maybe if you run out of juice while on patrol in the backwoods of Afghanistan. But, until now, US forces have had to lug around a huge and heavy charger. Not anymore. Army research has just shrunk a mobile charging station small enough for any soldier to carry on assignment.
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