An anti-Communist civilian fighter runs with an AK during a street-fight in Bucharest, Romania. 1989. (lemmy.world)
Soldier holding an M3A1 fitted with an infrared illuminator from an M2 scope and wearing experimental night vision goggles. Fort Belvoir, Virginia, November 1946 (lemmy.world)
Source.
The first pig to fly. 1909. (lemmy.world)
Article and more pig pictures.
New Zealand soldiers pose with a captured German anti-tank rifle. 1918. (lemmy.world)
M60A1 RISE tank with mineplow being operated during Desert Storm in 1991. (lemmy.world)
Boxing Match At Yankee Stadium. 1923. (lemmy.world)
Praying Mantis, a WW2 prototype machinegun carrier with an articulated, elevating chassis. (lemmy.world)
This was a privately made design that was proposed to the British military in WW2....
Marine in Vietnam holding M14 with 30 round magazine. (lemmy.world)
Full description: I saw an AK-47 while in Vietnam and it had a 30 round magazine. So I cut the top and bottom off of a couple of M-14 Magazines and welded them together and made a “40” Round magazine for my M-14. It really didn’t work very well when test firing it, several of the last rounds would not chamber with only two...
WW1 French Rifleman Behind Mobile Armored Shield (lemmy.world)
A 5MB Hard Drive, 1956 (sh.itjust.works)
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A man takes up residence in a hollow tree after losing his house during the Turkish War of Independence, 1923 (lemmy.world)
Armored rail train car from the US Civil War. (lemmy.world)
A drawing made during the war of another armored train car:...
A boy in front of the Loews 125th Street movie theater, 1976. (lemmy.world)
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Aerial view of a beached U-Boat in the UK, WW1, 1919
Confederate submarine discovered by the US government in 1878. (lemmy.world)
Known as the “Bayou St. John submarine”, this vessel was discovered when the Bayou St. John, in New Orleans was dredged by the US Government in 1878. For years, the vessel was thought to be the Confederate submarine Pioneer, but research in the 20th century showed it was of a different design. There is no surviving...
Parisians use chairs to navigate during a flood of the Seine, 1924
Czechoslovakians celebrating the fall of the Soviet-backed regime after the Velvet Revolution, December 31, 1989
Traditional 'Chinampa' lake gardens and canals, Mexico, 1912 (media.kbin.social)
Female IRA partisan with an AR-18, 1973
Bust of Stalin defaced during the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia - placard reading "Nothing lasts forever", 1989
British milkman making the rounds during the Blitz, WW2, 1940 (media.kbin.social)
British tanks overcoming trenches in the Battle of Cambrai, WW1, 1917
An M22 Locust light tank and a T28 Super heavy tank (lemmy.world)
The M22 Locust was a 7.4 ton light tank. It held a turret mounted 37mm cannon and a coaxial M1919A6 machinegun. It was developed by the US at the request of the British military, and used by the British near the end of WW2....
