Japanese Battleship Yamashiro moored off Yokosuka, Japan, 27 Jan 1935. [3106 x 1965]5yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WarshipPorn
A chador clad militia woman, armed with a uzi submachine gun, controls a demonstration against Iraq. The poster reads Yesterday's friends, Today's enemies. Taken by Abbas Attar in Tehran, Iran, June 1979. [1280 × 866]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Doc and Fifi, the world’s only airworthy B-29s, flying in formation together6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/Warthunder
The Eiffel Tower under construction in 1888. Photo by Louis-Emille Durandelle. [1200 x 1487]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
T31 Demolition Tank - armed with a 105 mm howitzer and two 7.2-inch rockets, it was intended to destroy beach obstacles in amphibious landings. It was developed too late to take part in D-day and only one or two prototypes were produced.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/TankPorn
Winston Churchill shakes hands with 16 year old George Smith at Portsmouth dockyard on 31 January 1941. Smith claimed to be the youngest worker on the premises.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/wwiipics
Winston Churchill shakes hands with 16 year old George Smith at Portsmouth dockyard on 31 January 1941. Smith claimed to be the youngest worker on the premises. [800 x 791]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Heinkel He 119: A high-speed research plane designed by Siegfried and Walter Gunter to use evaporative cooling.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
For planes with no armor, it will now say There is no armor protection on this vehicle6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/Warthunder
A crowd at Grand Central Terminal watches the launch of Mercury-Atlas 6 on February 20, 1962. [1024 x 796]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Boeing YC-14: An STOL tactical airlifter intended to replace the C-130 Hercules. It was cancelled because strategic airlifters were seen as more important, leading to its competitor, the McDonnell Douglas YC-15 being redeveloped into the C-17 Globemaster III.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
The Kawasaki Ki-64 undergoing gear retraction tests in a hangar in Gifu. The Ki-64 was a one-off prototype desgined by Takeo Doi to have a tandem engine layout and evaporative cooling. Although very fast, the evaporative cooling system was inadequate for ground running, takeoff, and climb.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
The atomic bomb mushroom cloud over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. Picture taken by Hiromichi Matsuda from Koyagi-jima, 5 miles from the center of Nagasaki. It is believed to be the earliest photograph taken from the ground of the bombing. [1600 x 1239]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Sud-Est Grognard: A single seat prototype ground attack aircraft nicknamed the Hunchback6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Stits SA-2A Sky Baby: built to contend the title for smallest plane in the world6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Northrop HL-10: An experimental lifting body used by NASA to study safely maneuvering and landing a low lift-over-drag vehicle designed for reentry from space6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
BAC TSR-2: A Cold War era bomber that was intended for both low-altitude tactical strikes as well as high-altitude reconnaissance missions, all done at very high speeds. All of the new technology it had to incorporate meant rising costs that caused its development to be suddenly scrapped in 1965.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Coanda-1910: a sesquiplane powered by a ducted fan/not actually a jet engine6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
LTV XC-142: An experimental tiltwing designed to investigate the operational suitability of V/STOL transports6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Curtiss-Wright XP-55 Ascender: an unconventional pusher design in the canard configuration, with swept wings and two vertical tails6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
A rare photograph showing the mushroom cloud from the Hiroshima atomic bombing. The picture is believed to have been taken about 2 to 5 minutes after the bombing on August 6, 1945, from Kaitaichi, part of present-day Kaita, six miles east of Hiroshima's center. [1200 x 1600]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Fleetwings Sea Bird: An amphibious aircraft that sold very poorly due to a high price of $25,000 in 1936.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
EWR VJ 101: a VTOL tiltjet intended to replace West Germany’s F-104G Starfighters6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Chyeranovskii BICh-7: a tail-less sport/touring aircraft designed and built in the USSR in 1929.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Curtiss XF14C-2: A carrier-based high altitude fighter whose development was cancelled due to the lack of need for such a plane by 1944.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Two United States soldiers run past the remains of two German soldiers toward a bunker. Photographed circa 1917-1918, published 1922. [1834 × 1781]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
A Canadian soldier inspecting a captured Japanese Type 96 machine gun, Kiska, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, 16 Aug 1943.5yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/wwiipics
McDonnell Douglas F-15 STOL/MTD: an F-15 Eagle modified to have thrust vectoring nozzles, canard foreplanes and reversible engine thrust.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
Thought you guys would appreciate this: the Kawanishi KX-03, a 460 ton flying boat designed in 1943, and twice as big as the Spruce Goose and the AN-225.6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/acecombat
Possible PSA: you can use multiple squads to force the Matchmaker into everybody vs everybody games now6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/Warthunder
11 plane kills + 10 boat & ship kill game in the Cowell. There is no longer any dispute that it is the benchmark of 4.3 DDs.5yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/Warthunder
Caproni Ca.60 - a nine wing flying boat that crashed on its second test flight6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/WeirdWings
The sole Kawasaki Ki-64 as discovered by American forces at Gifu Air Field in 1945. The engines had been removed, and the aircraft was in a rather poor state, its development having been cancelled in mid-1944. The canopy frame is sitting on the wing. [1200 × 838]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Daimler-Benz demonstrates the first generation anti-lock braking system (ABS) to the public on the test track in Unterturkheim on December 12, 1970. Technological limitations meant it would be another 8 years until there would be a reliably functioning ABS for production cars. [3600 x 2689]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Former Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh steps off a plane in late August 1953. After being overthrown in a joint UK-US sponsored coup d'etat, he was imprisoned for 3 years and put under house arrest until his death in 1967. [980 × 552]6yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
[Cadillac Fleetwood Stretch Limousine and 1993 Ford Crown Victoria LX] in Beijing, China7yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/spotted
Ashraf Rabiei, a leader of People's Mojahedin, handles a G3 battle rifle at a shooting range near Tehran, April 19796yr ⋅ holyhesh ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
