XFV-1 tailsitter prototype with Lockheed chief test pilot Herman "Fish" Salmon in the cockpit making its first unofficial flight on December 22nd 1953 in the form of a brief hop while fitted with a temporary undercarriage

High speed footage of a 30cm Wurfkörper 42 Spreng spin-stabilized rocket launched directly from its wooden packing crate

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Dornier Do 23 German interwar medium bombers in flight in the mid 1930s. The type would be relegated to training duties after being replaced by the Dornier Do 17 in 1936 and was also employed as an airborne minesweeper during WWII.

Note the "WL" hull number corresponding to the torpedo in the first part of the sequence while the torpedo shown being recovered is differed. Wolf was sunk on January 8th 1941 after striking a mine, ironically while returning from a minelaying mission off Dover

Launch and recovery of an inert 500mm G7e practice torpedo from Type 24 torpedo boat "Wolf" during pre-war maneuvers. Instead of explosives, the nose of the torpedo held air bottles that filled the chamber with air when the nose propeller stopped turning to aid recovery.

Soviet BAT crosses a bridge laid by an MTU-12

A-4 Skyhawk armed with three Mark 4 Mod 0 20mm HIPEG recoil-operated twin-barrel revolver cannon pods during a firing demonstration at China Lake in 1963. The combined rate of fire was around 200 rounds per second.

The tank was eventually pushed to the side of the road and what ultimately became of it appears to be lost to history

There is no apparent evidence of penetrating hits by armor piercing shells although it's possible that the port running gear was damaged by a high explosive shell

Knocked out on a busy road this tank attracted a lot of attention from those passing by

German troops pose with a KV-2 tank of the Soviet 8th Mechanized Corps with an inscription on the turret claiming it knocked out by 88mm Flak guns of Flak-Regiment General Göring during the Battle of Dubno on June 29th 1941

Panzer II fording a stream and a knocked out Soviet T-37A amphibious light tank knocked out in Finland in 1941

German Friedrichshafen FF.33 floatplanes stop and seize the Brazilian steamer SS Rio Pardo circa December 1916

A distinct "ma chi me lo ha fatto fare?" look on the faces of Italian tank drivers on maneuvers with their US-made M24 Chaffee light tanks circa 1950

Italian-made Fiat G.91 fighter in Luftwaffe service in the early 1960s

Austrian-made Steyr ADGZ heavy armored car "Sudetenland" in SS Heimwehr Danzig service during the fight for the Polish Post Office in Danzig on September 1st 1939, firing some of the first shots of the Second World War

Mitsubishi Ki-15 J-BAAI "Kamikaze" crewed by Masaaki Iinuma and Kenji Tsukagoshi arrives at Berlin-Tempelhof on April 16th 1937 shortly after a record-breaking flight from Tokyo to London sponsored by The Asahi Shimbun newspaper

Luftwaffe Bf 109 pumping 7.92mm bullets into a Soviet Ilyushin DB-3F until the bomber disappears into cloud cover over the Eastern Front in 1941 #guncamera

T-34/85 rapid rail dismount

Not the best place to take cover when the 2cm Flak 38 is firing (the spent casings weighed almost 200 grams each)