WEAPONS & WEAPON SYSTEMS

A story of undersea reach and relentless pursuit, told through the crews who spent months in the dark hunting other submarines they hoped never to be seen by.

A story of mobile firepower and thin armor told through the crews who fought from its open turret and the enemies who tried to stop it.

A story of mobility under armor, told through the engineers and armored brigades that depended on a bridge to keep the advance moving.

A story of long-range firepower and survivability told through the crews who rode this tracked gun into modern armored battles.

A story of speed, improvisation, and thin armor told through the crews and battles that defined it.

A story of firepower and adaptation told through the crews who took the Pershing from the ruins of Germany to the hills of Korea.

A story of adaptation, reliability, and hard lessons in steel, told through the crews who fought from its turret.

A story of mobility, firepower, and adaptation told through a light tank and the crews who drove it into the heart of the Cold War’s proxy wars.

A story of airborne firepower and fragile protection told through the crews and battles that defined it.

A story of survivability, firepower, and adaptation told through the Marine crews and desert battles that defined it.

A story of nuclear firepower and uneasy deterrence told through the crews, observers, and test shots that defined the United States’ only nuclear gun.

A story of hard-learned recovery, brute-force engineering, and keeping broken armor in the fight when everything else says it should be left behind.

One year later, on September 28th, 1781, a combined American and French army moved out from around Williamsburg and advanced toward British positions at Yorktown, Virginia.

The Mark IV tank was not fast, refined, or comfortable, but it was the machine that helped make Cambrai one of the defining armored battles of the First World War.

In Europe, the fortified city of Metz had long been viewed as a tough nut to crack, with layers of forts dating back to earlier German rule.

As the First World War neared its close, American forces in France were still locked in brutal combat.

On September 26th, 1918, the American Expeditionary Forces launched the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, the largest United States campaign of the First World War and one of the biggest in the nation’s military history.

Mikasa served as Admiral Togo flagship in the Russo-Japanese War, survived battle and a magazine explosion, and became the only preserved pre-dreadnought battleship.

A single-ship Japanese pre-dreadnought built in Britain for the Six-Six Fleet program and designed around the balanced heavy and secondary batteries of the late pre-dreadnought era.

A story of survivability and instant readiness told through the crews who sat on alert and the crises they hoped would never come.

A radical low-freeboard ironclad built around a steam-powered rotating turret. The single ship gave its name to an entire family of later coastal and riverine warships.

A story of firepower, adaptation, and endurance told through the gun crews, lookouts, and engineers who carried these older battleships into the heart of the Pacific War.

The New York class introduced the 14-inch gun to American battleships and carried two ships from the dreadnought race through both world wars.

A story of survivability and silent reach told through the crews who vanish beneath the waves and the adversaries they deter.