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In the shadows of World War I, long before drones and cruise missiles became modern staples of warfare, Germany was already experimenting with remote-controlled aerial weapons. One such innovation was the Siemens Torpedo Glider — a device that could be considered a primitive...
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As the First World War dragged into the mud and barbed wire of 1915, the British military found itself searching for a solution to the deadlock of trench warfare. Among the earliest contenders to break this stalemate was a small,...
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From the Frontlines – Independence, Fiction, and Firepower Happy Fourth of July to all readers in the U.S. and to freedom-lovers everywhere. While the Trench series dives deep into the chaos and sacrifice of World War I, it also highlights the resilience...
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Long before tanks rumbled across the battlefields of Europe, one design quietly emerged from the Austro-Hungarian Empire — a machine that could have rewritten the mechanics of warfare before the First World War had even begun. That machine was the...
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Among the more unusual armored vehicle ideas of the First World War, the Göbel Landpanzerkreuzer stands out as one of the most ambitious — and arguably strangest. Designed by Otto Göbel, this German concept envisioned a massive, walking land cruiser,...
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