Luftwaffe Fw 190 Sturmbock attacking USAAF B-24 Liberators at point blank range in 1944

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The Sherman was actually smaller than most people think

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Lewis machine guns of the 7th Heavy Battery Royal Australian Artillery in action during the Great Emu War in 1932

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British Aerospace Nimrod AEW3 Airborne Early Warning Aircraft

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Obligatory fingering of a Panzerfaust perforation on a French Sherman knocked out during the liberation of Alsace in November 1944

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Mascot taken on board a 113 Squadron Bristol Blenheim Mk. IV before a raid on Mataban on February 24th 1942

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Hertz horn naval mine fuze containing a glass vial full of acid [1600x960]

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Loading and firing the 5 guns on WWII Vintage USS O'Brien (DD-725) on shore bombardment duty of the Vietnamese coast in December 1966

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T-34/76 blown up for propaganda purposes

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The Goodyear Inflatoplane prototype in the late 1950s

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Lateral hit to M4A2 Sherman PIGMEJ that killed the entire crew on November 21st 1944 South of Faenza in Italy

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Shockwave from a supersonic General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark flying low over the desert

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Insane rocket and strafing runs by Coastal Command Mosquitoes on Axis shipping on the Nordic coast

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Shot down V-1 missile detonates on impact with the English Channel in 1944

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Patrol Air Cushion Vehicles in action during the Vietnam War

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MiG-17 takes a Sidewinder up the tailpipe over Vietnam

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Blowing a bridge over the Imjin river during the retreat of UN forces in Korea

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de Havilland Sea Vampire makes a wheels-up landing on a flexible deck installed on HMS Warrior in late 1948

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The need for ejection seats demonstrated by a Spitfire bailout ground test

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Avro Canada CF-100 Canuck unleashes a full barrage of Mighty Mouse folding-fin aerial rockets from its wingtip pods [1750x1300]

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Churchill tank knocked out during the Battle of the Reichswald in Goch in February 1945

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Japanese trainee tank drivers practice with goggles that simulate looking through a slit in armor plate

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Early model Soviet Il-2 Shturmovik taking cannon fire at close range from a Luftwaffe Bf 109 in mid 1941

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Test truck briefly airborne after being launched from the deck of a Royal Navy aircraft carrier during catapult trials

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Short Stirlings practice formation flying at very low level

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Tupolev TB-1 dropping an aviabus experimental alternative to parachutes in 1932

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18th century German Pneumatic Rifle with a spherical brass reservoir for compressed air [2000x1620]

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Phalanx CIWS shreds a Ryan Firebee drone target

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German flak chasing a Douglas A-20 Havoc torpedo bomber supplied to the USSR under Lend-Lease in October 1943

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Rheinmetall/Elbit Systems 155mm L52 wheeled self-propelled howitzer live fire demonstration

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Army Ranger Combat Training School recruits learning to fire their M1903 Springfields from the hip at Fort Shafter circa 1943

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US troops pelted with roman candles during jungle warfare training on Oahu

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F-104 Starfighter has its jet blast redirected upwards for noise abatement purposes during engine trials [2000x2800]

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F-4G Wild Weasel loaded for bear over China Lake in 1981 [1880x2500]

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Iraqi T-55 that fell victim to the French 6e Brigade Legere Blindee pictured shortly after the end of Desert Storm on March 2nd 1991

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Northrop F-89D Scorpion emptying its load of 104 Mighty Mouse 2.75 rockets from its wingtip pods

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USS Tennessee providing direct fire support with her 14 inch main battery as Marine LVTs head towards Okinawa on April 1st 1945

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B-17 Flying Fortresses dropping GB-1 Glide Bombs during their first and only combat use by the 8th Air Force on May 28th 1944

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A-34 (T-34 pre-production model) recognizable by its one-piece hull front with turret blown off in 1941

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B-17 Flying Fortress bomb release camera captures flak bursts and a fellow bomber trailing smoke from a damaged port wing during a raid over Ploesti on July 15th 1944

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Panavia Tornado GR1 ground attack mission profiles using conventional and retarded bombs

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Heavily damaged destroyer HMS Glowworm seen from German Heavy Cruiser Admiral Hipper minutes before she rammed the latter and sank on April 8th 1940 [2500x1760]

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Hellfire missile trials with the Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior in 1988

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Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear B intercepted by USAF F-106 Delta Darts over the Atlantic on February 20th 1968

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AMX-13 light tank destroyed by a 2K25 Krasnopol laser guided artillery shell

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A-10 Thunderbolt II rains down 30mm shells on a Patton tank target

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Shell from a StuG impacts in the distance during Operation Barbarossa in 1941

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to deliver mail by rocket plane

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Ammunition loader for the A-10 Thunderbolt II 30mm cannon

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Dastardly Hun being an absolute rotter by booby trapping a truck with an anti-tank mine

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Stuka pilot's perspective of a dive-bombing run on a railway marshaling yard in Inowrocław Poland on September 4th 1939

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Less than successful test drop of the Highball anti-ship bouncing bomb in 1943

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Kenneth Daniel Williams and his Murder Inc flight jacket

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Experimental Soviet ZiS-41 tank destroyer with a 57mm high velocity anti-tank gun on a ZiS-22M half-track chassis

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M18 Hellcat-T-54/55 hybrid from the Balkan wars in the 1990s

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French troops trained in anti-tank warfare in Tunis using a captured German Pak 40 anti-tank gun to target a Fiat-Ansaldo Autoblindo 41 armored car in April 1945

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Driver of a Holt 75 Artillery Tractor shows off for the camera in 1918

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A-1H Skyraiders loaded for bear taking off from USS Midway for strikes over Vietnam in May 1965

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Lewise machine gun on a sidecar manned (womaned?) by members of the New York City Police Reserves in August 1918

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V-1 buzz bomb warhead detonated by an attacking Allied fighter

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F-51 Mustangs dropping napalm during the Korean War

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M4 Sherman Marie sans main gun sunk in the sand on a Saipan beach in 1945

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Boeing YC-14 prototype shows off its STOL capabilities from an unprepared field

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Driver Ralph Wilson of A Company 714th Tank Battalion showing two welded plugs in the upper front plate of a Sherman tank after it was knocked out and returned to service

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Bell 209 HueyCobra demonstrator firing minigun and rockets in 1966

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Boeing YB-52 Stratofortress second prototype in flight [2400x1670]

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USMC M4A2 Sherman Charlie knocked out by a Japanese 75mm anti-aircraft gun on Tarawa on November 20th 1943

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Ward LaFrance M1A1 Wrecker and M26 armored tractor towing a knocked out Elefant tank destroyer near Rome in June 1944

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Charles Ferguson Jr. flung to his death from a glider under tow during an attempt to cross the Golden Gate bridge on December 8th 1929

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Air to air view of the fourth of only six Dornier Do 26 flying boats built

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Kenneth Daniel Williams and his Murder Inc flight jacket

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23 year old Loyce Edward Deen, Aviation Machinist Mate (Gunner) 2nd Class is buried at sea in his damaged Grumman TBF Avenger from the deck of USS Essex on November 5th 1944

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Mid-air collision during the Washington National Air Races in Frederick MDon September 5th 1966

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Canadair CL-84 Dynavert tilt wing tested with a General Electric SUU 11A/A 7.62mm Minigun pod

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Tank in the desert targeted by the Flying Can Opener Hawker Hurricane IID armed with a 40mm Vickers S gun under each wing

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North Korean T-34/85 knocked out in Seoul

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Syrian Sukhoi Su-7s engaged with Shafrir missiles over the Golan Heights on September 10 1972

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AIM-7F Sparrow missile destroys a QF-80 target drone with a direct hit

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USAF Boeing B-52H Stratofortress in formation with an RAF Avro Vulcan near Edwards AFB in California in 1961 [4000x2500]

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Burned out Sherman in Italy as the correct use of the Jerry Can's dual handle is demonstrated by three Jerries in the foreground in June 1944

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Wingman's view of an F-15 missile launch during the 1992 William Tell live fire competition

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1st Air Cavalry UH-1 inserts a six man squad in South Vietnam October 1967

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F4U Corsair loses a rocket after a heavy landing on USS Cape Gloucester, much to everyone's lack of concern

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Grumman F4F Wildcat flies into the island of USS Wasp (CV-7) in the early 1940s

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USS Wisconsin shelling Songjin in North Korea in March 1952 and receiving a single 152mm hit from shore batteries in return

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F-8 Crusader shoots down a Ryan Firebee target drone during a display at Point Mugu in June 1963

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Early British tank bogged down in soft ground demonstrates the use of the unditching beam to get unstuck

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Sherman tank in British service neutered by a glancing blow to the barrel in late October 1942

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Italian troops use a bangalore torpedo to cut a hole in the wire at El Alamein in 1942

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BL755 Cluster Bomb dropped from a Blackburn Buccaneer filmed in slow motion from a hovering helicopter

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Mauser MK 30 mm Model F cannon test fired on an F-4 Phantom fuselage during trials

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US Navy Seal Mark V Special Operations Craft loaded on board a 349th Air Mobility Wing C-5 Galaxy at Travis Air Force Base in October 1999 [2500x1640]

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Deutschland-class heavy cruisers underway [1500x1050]

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Wildcat misses the wire on an escort carrier in late 1944

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The capsized hull of German battleship Tirpitz pictured in August 1945 [1600x1060]

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Manufacture of the De Havilland Mosquito bomber in 1943

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F-105 Thunderchief strays into the line of fire of a fellow aircraft targeting a MiG over Vietnam

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Patria Nemo Container turreted 120mm mortar system in a 20 foot envelope

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Testing the AH-64 Apache's drive and rotor systems for resilience to 12.7mm and 23mm hits

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1940s slow motion footage showing shells from a 17 pounder anti-tank gun perforating 5 inch thick armor plate

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The view from an LVT-4 making its way towards Iwo Jima as naval vessels including a Cleveland-class light cruiser are on shore bombardment duty on February 19th 1945

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USS LSM-216 scarred by a Japanese air attack off the shores of Iwo Jima of February 19th 1945

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Oil drums used as targets for training with canon de 25 mm SA mle 1934 anti-tank guns on a range in Tunisia in 1945

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Testing the steam catapult on USS Shangri-La in 1955

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Once the Corsairs are secured there's time for a snowball fight on USS Philippine Sea off the coast of Korea in 1950

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Fleet Air Arm F4U Corsair dumped from an Implacable-class aircraft carrier after a drop tank caught fire on landing in the Pacific theater in mid 1945

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SPIKE SR missile HEAT warhead defeats spaced armor plate

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REME personnel recover a Sherman tank

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P-51 Mustang escorts flying from Iwo Jima viewed from the cabin of a B-29 Superfortress during a raid on Japanese installations in July 1945 [2500x2500]

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NATO troops on exercise in 1951 take cover behind a T23 gun turret from a wrecked Sherman preserved as a monument in Bastogne

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7.62mm Minigun turret on the Bell 209 demonstrator tested in 1971

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B-17 Flying Fortress plummets to earth in a flat spin after its tail was shot off by flak

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360th Fighter Squadron pilot 2nd Lt. J. H. Williams chases a Bf 109 off the tail of a fellow P-47 pilot and shoots it down with an impressive deflection burst on August 4th in 1944

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WW2 era sound suppressor for the Mauser Karabiner 98k [1300x698]

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Mercury-Atlas 3 disintegrates 43 seconds into its test flight on April 25th 1961at Cape Canaveral

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USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) underway without her bow after losing it to Typhoon Viper in June 1945

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AMX-30 factory turret test rig in 1967

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QB-17 Flying Fortress target drone breaks up after being struck by an inert AIM-9 Sidewinder during early trials in February 1954

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Second World War cartoon showing how to bail out of the P-38 Lightning

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37mm cannon armed Junkers Ju87 Gs score direct hits on a Soviet motorized column in the Winter of 1944

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AGM-65 Maverick missile launch and impact during A-10 Warhog trials

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Manufacture of deep sea diving suits in Germany in 1946

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F-4 Phantom with three 20mm M61 Vulcan gun pods blazing

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T-55 and M47 tank targets hit with cannon fire from an AV-8 Harrier's 25mm GAU-12/U Equalizer during weapon trials

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British Sherman and a 12th SS Panzer Division Panther smouldering in Fontenay-le-Pesnel in Normandy on June 26th 1944

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Armor Piercing Fins Stabilized Discarding Sabot round doing what it says on the tin captured by a Flight Follower Camera

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The friendliest submarine in the Bundesmarine [1800x2030]

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US Navy SEALs Scorpion Fast Attack Vehicle with one M2 and two M60 machine guns and a pair of M136 AT4 rocket launchers on the roof

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30mm GAU-8/A installation on the first Fairchild YA-10 prototype in 1974

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Ultimate Training Munition expanding dual-primer cartridge system [728X412]

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Cromwell tank of the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry with its turret popped off in the Odon Valley on July 20th 1944

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Norwegian collier SS Storstad with a damaged bow after she accidentally rammed and sank the liner RMS Empress of Ireland near the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River with the loss of over a thousand lives on May 29th 1914

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Sd.Kfz. 231 8-wheeler armored car with a submarine kill claim

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Remington 870 Police Magnum with top-folding Law Enforcement Only stock [OC]

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M48 Patton tank used as a target for a ground launched Hellfire missile from an LRSAV turret

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Fist-shaped cascabel on the Portuguese-made 16th century Si Jagur cannon preserved in Jakarta [4000x2650]

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