Alofs repeater mechanism for single shot shotguns developed in the 1920s11mo ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Commander George C Duncan is pulled out alive from the cockpit of his Grumman F9f Panther after crashing during an attempted landing on USS Midway on July 23rd 19513yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Track ripper-upper used by retreating troops to deny use of railway lines to the enemy4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/specializedtools
Maiden flight of the Atlas D testing program ends in failure on April 14th 19593yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Turret that landed gun-first after being blown off the hull of an M-84 tank during the Battle of Vukovar in 19911yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/nevertellmetheodds
Women Ordnance Workers with 90mm ammunition at Aberdeen during the Second World War1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/AbsoluteUnits
soft recoil prototype howitzer test where the barrel is accelerated forward prior to firing1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Atlas-Centaur 5 lift-off followed by booster engine shutdown less than two seconds later on March 2nd 19654yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Winchester Model 12 pump action shotgun cutaway model showing the operating cycle1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
F-4J Phantom fresh off the production line crashes on its first test flight due to jammed controls on March 20th 1968 at St. Louis Missouri3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Railroad plow employed by retreating troops to render the lines unusable by enemy forces2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
A seed sowing device known as the Seed Fiddle due to the manner in which it was operated3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/specializedtools
Catapult malfunction during the launch of a VF-151 F-4B Phantom from USS Coral Sea in 19703yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Restored centrally-controlled gun turret on a WWII B-29 Superfortress bomber1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Peat in Yorkshire being mechanically harvested for compost in 19711yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Squirrel monkey Goliath perishes when the Atlas E rocket carrying him malfunctions and crashes on November 10 19614yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Curtiss SBC-3 Helldiver misses the wire while landing on USS Saratoga on March 19th 19383yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Testing of single and twin mounted 3/50 caliber Mark 22 semi-automatic anti-aircraft guns in 19511yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Atlas missile 4A loses power 26 seconds into its maiden flight on June 11th 19574yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Douglas DC-7 FAA crash test at Deer Valley on April 24th 19642yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
NA B-25 Mitchell bomber crash landing around the time of the Allied invasion of Sicily in the Summer of 19432yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
British trials in 1942 showing how even a low wall can prevent a tank getting off a beach2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Grumman F6F Hellcat narrowly avoids hitting the cameraman during an unsuccessful carrier landing attempt in 19444yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Rocket acceleration proves too much for a Messerschmitt Me 163 Komet test airframe, early 1940s4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Failed launch of a Northrop JB-10 pulse-jet powered flying wing on June 28th 19454yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
French Sherman gunner's notes for 75mm M61 APC shell effectiveness against German tanks1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Quadrumple 305mm anti-submarine mortar fitted to a French Commandant Riviere-class frigate1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
M18 Hellcat crew gets creative to get a few more degrees of depression for their 76mm gun near Baguio in the Philippines in April 19453yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Bedford RL Bobbin laying down a canvas mat to avoid wheeled vehicles being bogged down on soft sand during an amphibious landing4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/specializedtools
Stuck engine valve on Atlas missile 45F causes it to tip over and explode on October 4th 19634yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Lieutenant J.P. Whitney damages the tailhook while attempting to land his Grumman F2F-1 on USS Ranger on May 6th 19362yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Three brawny U.S. women workers shoulder 90 milimeter shells of a type they experiment with every day at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground - 1940s1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
USAF F-100D Super Sabre undergoing Zero-Length Launch trials in 19592yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
1940 illustration of an improvised urban tank trap [2570x1800]3mo ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/ThingsCutInHalfPorn
Loading and firing of the Elbit ATHOS mechanically assisted 155mm howitzer3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Ensign Randolph Mitchell Holder survives missing the flight deck of USS Enterprise while attempting to land his Douglas TBD Devastator on June 3rd 19403yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Human chain keeping 88mm guns fed during a Soviet armored thrust in early 19424yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Italian aviator Francesco de Pinedo perishes when his heavily overloaded Bellanca J-3-500 failed to take off during a flight distance record attempt on September 2nd 19332yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Japanese ammunition ship blown up by a strafing US Navy aircraft in the Summer of 19444yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/shockwaveporn
Hydraulic rammer loading a 16-inch/50-caliber Mark 7 gun on USS Missouri3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
November 12 1977 – Mexico – A National Railroad passenger train collides with a gasoline truck at a grade crossing south of Ciudad Juarez, killing 37 people4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
M8 Light Armored Car almost takes out a cameraman while bouncing around an offroad course3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
The loader in a USMC M48A3 does a bit of housekeeping as the coaxial machinegun engages PAVN/VC positions in Hue in February 19683yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Retractable twin 20mm cannon turrets on the Convair B-36 Peacemaker4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Douglas AD-4 Skyraider of VA-115 loses its engine on landing on USS Philippine Sea after being damaged by flak during a mission over Korea on December 1st 19502yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
P-47 Thunderbolt fighter landing on an icy runway slams into an earlier model razorback P-47 in 19454yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
French Sauterelle Trench Grenade Crossbow in action during the First World War3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Pilot Ensign Sharp severs the undercarriage of his Grumman F3F biplane after missing the wire while landing on USS Enterprise on June 27th 19402yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
When threatened, the adult S-Tank will raise and lower itself repeatedly in order to warn off any potential aggressors...2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
NASA Low Cost Jet Engine Project cutaway from 1978 [3500x3090]1mo ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/ThingsCutInHalfPorn
Japanese propaganda reel documents a bombing raid by G4M1 Betty bombers on Darwin in February 19423yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Hydrogen filled observation balloon goes down in flames during the First World War5yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
1944 drag race in India between a captured Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go light tank and a US M5 Stuart4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Incendiary bombing of Kobe by 530 USAAF B-29 Superfortresses on June 5th 19453yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Challenger decoy deployed in the Gulf War to confuse Iraqi observers3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Direct blowback mechanism on the MP 18 - the first submachinegun ever to be employed in combat6yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Fred Keys performs in-flight engine maintenance on Curtiss Robin OLE MISS during a record breaking 27 day endurance flight in 19352yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/aviation
Soviet tank raked with cannon fire from a Luftwaffe fighter in 19443yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
BMPT Terminator AFV firing its two 30 mm 2A42 autocannon at a bus2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Henschel Hs 129 pilot nails the auxiliary fuel tank on a Soviet Churchill on the move3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
The 1896 Howell torpedo powered by a flywheel spun up by a steam turbine4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Japanese grenade goes off close to a Marine flamethrower in the Pacific jungle4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Curtiss SB2C Helldiver dive bomber misses the arresting cable with its tail hook but finds it with its undercarriage during a 1944 carrier landing4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
M26 Pershing tanks of the 89th Heavy Tank Battalion providing indirect fire support in Korea in August 19503yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Highball anti-ship bouncing bomb test drop goes off course in 19433yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
Release and impact of two Mark 82 500 lb Snake-Eye retarded bombs from a 389th FS F-4 Phantom in Quang Tri Province on February 10th 19682yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
16 inch shells being fed to the guns of HMS Rodney in 19444yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Professor Oakes of Waukesha, Wisconsin demonstrates a device to ventilate an office powered by chewing stenographers in 19473yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Bomb bay camera on a B-25 Mitchell catches a fellow aircraft with guns blazing during a raid on Tarakan Island in April 19452yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism of the Canon de 75 modele 18971yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Petty Officer JD Bridges survives being sucked into the intake of an A-6 Intruder during deck operations aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt on February 20th 19913yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/watchpeoplesurvive
Twin arm launcher for the Sea Dart surface to air missile loaded from below deck on a Royal Navy vessel3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Wingman's perspective of a napalm tank dropped by a VA-196 A-1J Skyraider attacking Vietcong positions North of Saigon on July 2nd 19653yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
US Navy aircraft from USS Yorktown strafes a Japanese vessel in Manila while in a near vertical dive in November 19443yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
The first ever production hovercraft Saunders-Roe SR.N5 with the British Interservice Hovercraft Trials Unit at RNAS Lee-on-Solent in the 1960s1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
USS New Jersey fires a full broadside during her first tour of duty on the Korean coast in November 19513yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
King Tigers on the move near the Dutch-Belgian border in mid 1944 having just missed Tiger Thursday3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
M48 turns a corner and takes a direct hit to the glacis during the Tet Offensive in early 19683yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Scratch-built double action miniature CO2 pistol firing 3mm steel balls10mo ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Drum magazine indexing mechanism on the Lewis machine gun2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
USMC Sniper fires his M1903A4 rifle near a bridge across the Han River during the Second Battle of Seoul in September 19502yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
15 cm Panzerwerfer 42 auf Selbstfahrlafette Sd.Kfz.4/1 battery in action during 19443yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
WWII-era M3A1 submachine gun still in service as a personal defense weapon for US M60A3 tank crews in 1985 [1670x2500]11mo ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/MilitaryPorn
Japanese kamikaze crashes in the wake of USS Yorktown (CV-10)2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Table-clearing robot designed and built by the Engineering Department of Queen Mary College in 19693yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Messerschmitt Me 163 V1 first prototype rocket interceptor shows off its impressive climb rate during an early test3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/aviation
Ground test of a bunker-buster warhead going through reinforced concrete before detonating2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/shockwaveporn
British Army Land Rover crossing a steel cable bridge in the early 1960s4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
Tiger I keeping its barrel warm on the Eastern Front in early 19443yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Constantinesco-Colley synchronization gear that provides a hydraulic link between the rotation of a propeller and the firing of a machine gun3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
TWA Super Constellation makes a wheels-up landing at Olathe Kansas on January 17th 19592yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/aviation
Gunfire from an 8th Air Force fighter detonates the warhead of a V-1 flying bomb4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/shockwaveporn
A pair of A-4 Skyhawks of VA-94 flying from USS Enterprise drop cluster munitions on a target marked by smoke in South Vietnam on December 5th 19653yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
Troops of the New Zealand Division with a captured German Mauser 1918 T-Gewehr anti-tank rifle in August 19181yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/AbsoluteUnits
Mechanism in the bomb bay of a de Havilland Mosquito to spin up and release the experimental Highball bouncing bomb3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
Mechanically locked pneumatic cartridge for a flare gun1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bomber sectioned into its major sub-assemblies2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
Fire-engine ladder fitted to a DUKW amphibious vehicle to provide fire support during a cliff assault2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/EngineeringPorn
LTV A-7 Corsair II dropping Mark 82 Snake Eye retarded bombs in 1980 [2500x1680]1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/WarplanePorn
Japanese vessel off Mindanao detonates under the guns of a US Navy aircraft in early 19453yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
North American F-100D Super Sabre scores a direct hit on a bridge with a Mk 82 Snake Eye retarded 500 pound bomb during the Vietnam War2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
A pair of Panzer 38(t)s loaded into a Messerschmitt Me 321 Gigant cargo glider3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
AIM-7 Sparrow missile catches up with an NVAF MiG-17 over Vietnam4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
3-inch anti-aircraft gun battery remotely controlled by a T-1 Ordnance Computer in 19289mo ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/mechanical_gifs
Door gunner on a UH-1 keeps the target covered with an M60 fired from the shoulder4yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/MilitaryGfys
USS Cleveland (LCS-31) collides with a tugboat during side launch on April 15th 2023 in Marinette, Wisconsin1yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CatastrophicFailure
F-51 Mustang attacking Communist positions during the Korean War with rockets and gunfire2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
US personnel recover Panther 252 formerly of the 113th Panzer Brigade in Serres Lorraine in October 19442yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Rheinmetall StrikeShield hard-kill Active Protection System defeats RPG2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Interwar Italian tanks put through their paces during a 1936 demonstration2yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/TankPorn
Gunner on a Canadian Ordnance QF 17-pounder gets tired of adjusting his helmet after every shot near Ortona, Italy in late November 19443yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage
An obligingly stationary SU-85 SPG blown up by a Goliath demolition vehicle3yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/DestroyedTanks
M18 Hellcat crew gets creative to get a few more degrees of depression for their 76mm gun near Baguio in the Philippines in April 19453yr ⋅ jacksmachiningreveng ⋅ r/CombatFootage