Weapons & Weapon Systems
Weapons, munitions, integrated systems, design, production, and operational use.
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Arsenal: Weapons of War
Fifty-two episodes on weapons, vehicles, aircraft, ships, sensors, support systems, doctrine, logistics, and battlefield use.
Arsenal: Weapons of War
Fifty-two episodes on weapons, platforms, military systems, doctrine, logistics, and battlefield use.
Weapons of War
Weapons, vehicles, aircraft, ships, sensors, and support systems examined through design, doctrine, operators, sustainment, combat use, and legacy.
1960 U-2 incident
A story of secret overflights, Cold War nerves, and the moment a “untouchable” spy plane finally fell from the sky.
A-6 Intruder
A story of all-weather strike power and low-level courage told through the aircrews who flew deep into defended skies.
AC-130 Gunship
A story of persistent firepower and improvisation, told through the aircrews who circled in the dark and the convoys trying to slip past them.
Aegis Combat System
A story of layered air defense and digital command told through the sailors and crises that made Aegis indispensable.
AH-1 Cobra
A story of speed, firepower, and improvisation told through the pilots, gunners, and grunts who depended on the first dedicated United States attack helicopter.
AH-64 Apache
A story of night-hunting firepower and battlefield reach told through the crews who flew it into the dark.
Albert Ernest Schwab
The valley offered almost no cover. Shallow folds of earth and shattered shrubs were all that shielded the Marines of 1st Battalion, 5th Marines as they tried to push forward on Okinawa Shima on May 7, 1945. Ahead of them, on a high ridge at the valley’s mouth, a Japanese machine gun hammered the slopes, stitching bullets across every patch of ground where a helmet or sleeve dared to move. The air vibrated with the c
Ambush near LZ Albany
In Vietnam’s Central Highlands, the fighting around the Ia Drang Valley marked one of the first large-scale clashes between American airmobile forces and North Vietnamese regulars.
Anton L. Krotiak
The air over Balete Pass crackled with small-arms fire and the flat explosions of grenades. On the steep slope of Hill B, a narrow finger of ground jutting out above the zigzag road that threaded the Caraballo Mountains, five exhausted American infantrymen hugged the earth around a captured Japanese trench. It was 8 May 1945, deep in the Battle of Luzon, and Private First Class Anton L.
“Arsenal of Democracy” fireside chat
As war raged in Europe and Asia, President Franklin Roosevelt took to the radio on December 29th, 1940, to explain why events overseas mattered deeply to American security.
Arthur O. Beyer
The January sky over eastern Belgium is the color of steel, low clouds pressing down on snow-covered fields. An American armored task force eases forward along a narrow road when the world ahead of it suddenly erupts. Antitank rounds smash into the frozen earth, machine guns rake the ditches, and rifle fire lashes out from a ridgeline roughly two hundred yards in front of the column. Inside one of the lead tank destr
Atlanta-class Anti-Aircraft Cruisers
A story of layered air defense and brutal night fighting told through the cruiser crews who tried to hold back enemy air and surface attacks.
Audie Murphy’s stand near Holtzwihr, France
On a cold day near the village of Holtzwihr in eastern France, a young Texas-born lieutenant named Audie Murphy faced a German attack with his infantry company badly outnumbered. After calling in artillery and ordering most of his men to fall back to prepared positions, Murphy remained forward, climbing onto a burning tank destroyer that could still bring its heavy machine gun to bear.
B-1B Lancer
A story of long-range reach and rapid adaptation, told through the crews who turned a Cold War bomber into a precision workhorse.