Christian D. Orr

The French cooked up quite an impressive aircraft with the Dassault's Mirage Family of jet-powered fighter planes. Throughout its history, it has been used by multiple countries in several wars, battle-testing its performance.

The infamous submarine USS Grayback was the scourge of the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) back in its day. However, she met an untimely fate during the war, and her wreckage was only found less than a decade ago.

Of all the great geniuses of aircraft design—especially military aircraft design—there’s none that quite compares to Clarence “Kelly” Johnson, the mastermind behind Lockheed’s legendary Skunk Works division.

"HMAS Brisbane, a Hobart class destroyer, has successfully fired a Tomahawk missile during a test and evaluation activity conducted off the west coast of the United States … In line with the priorities set out in the 2024 National Defence Strategy," the Albanese Government has said.

A new five-year lease for the museum was recently signed. The venue is open on weekends and staffed entirely of volunteer docents. I highly recommend the tour.

Over a million of these single-shot pistols were produced during a mere two-month span from June 1942 to August 1942, and their crude design notwithstanding, it’s believed that they accounted for more Axis casualties than all of the M1911-A1 pistols in the hands of Allied troops.

Was the .38 Long Colt truly the abysmal failure that conventional wisdom makes it out to be? Or is there a sufficient degree of exaggeration or misconception to challenge this long-standing ballistic paradigm?

The Kalashnikov rifle was not the weapon that gave birth to the 7.62x39mm round; it was the SKS carbine. While not a household name like the AK, the SKS carbine is a very well-known firearm in its own right.

The “Soaring Dragon” is manufactured by Chengdu, the same state-owned enterprise that makes the J-20 Weilong fifth-generation stealth fighter. Reportedly twenty WZ-7s have been built thus far.