In 1909 the U.S. Army Signal Corps bought the world's first military airplane from Wilbur and Orville Wright…
The Enigma machine was an electromechanical cipher device used by Germany to send secret messages before and during…
The AH64 Apache is the U.S. Army's primary attack helicopter. It entered service in 1986 and was first…
The Bell UH1 Iroquois, known to everyone as the Huey, was the signature helicopter of the Vietnam War.
The McDonnell F4 Phantom II first flew in 1958 and became one of the most widely used American…
The Lockheed SR71 Blackbird was a reconnaissance aircraft that flew faster than three times the speed of sound…
The Boeing B52 Stratofortress is a long range bomber that entered U.S. Air Force service in 1955. It…
The Douglas C47 Skytrain was the military version of the DC3 airliner. It carried troops, cargo, and wounded…
The Supermarine Spitfire was a British fighter plane designed by R. J. Mitchell. Its elliptical wings gave it…
The North American P51 Mustang was one of the best known fighter planes of World War II. Its…
The Boeing B17 Flying Fortress was a heavy bomber used by the U.S. Army Air Forces in World…
USS Nautilus was the world's first nuclear powered submarine, commissioned in 1954. Nuclear power let it stay submerged…
USS Missouri was one of the last battleships built by the United States. On September 2, 1945, Japan…
USS Constitution was launched in Boston in 1797 and is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat in the…
The Higgins boat, officially the Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel or LCVP, carried troops and vehicles from ships to…
The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, better known as the Humvee, entered U.S. military service in the mid…
The M1 Abrams has been the main battle tank of the U.S. Army since the early 1980s. It…
The British Mark I was the first tank used in combat, rolling into battle on September 15, 1916,…
The M4 Sherman was the most widely used American tank of World War II. Roughly 50,000 were built,…
The Willys MB was the quarter ton four wheel drive vehicle that became famous as the jeep in…