Alternative History

Continuing the story about the Soviet “X” heavy cruisers, I’d like to present an alternative scenario in which the 240-mm main-caliber guns were, in fact, put ...

Long before German engineers turned their talents to the extravagant and highly “optimistic” designs of World War II heavy tanks, they were already working on ...

  Editor's Foreword: Built of wood to conserve aluminum—which, it was feared, would be in short supply during the war—the Curtiss C-76 Caravan ...

The history of Soviet tank development ended at perhaps its most interesting moment. By the late 1980s, the USSR simultaneously possessed several powerful ...

The idea of an aircraft powered by a nuclear reactor did not spring from fantasy, but from a very specific problem of the mid-20th century. During the Cold ...

Yesterday, we posted an article on our website about the K-92 alternative tank, developed by the Design Bureau of the Army Engineering Committee. This post ...

In the postwar world, when the contours of a new global balance of power were just beginning to take shape, the Soviet Union made a decision that would forever ...

“Until Rome, we were pilgrims. When we left it, we were crusaders. Yet the greatest revelation for me was not the Holy See, but the city itself—a city that had ...

The history of Polish tank development on the eve of World War II leaves a rather peculiar impression. On the one hand, Poland was by no means a country ...

The History of the T29 Heavy Tank, an American heavy tank that never went into mass production   The American heavy tank development program ...