Innovations of War: The Evolution of Tactical Military Weapons
This documentary series takes a look at the constantly evolving ways in which wars are fought, focusing on the technological advances in warfare weaponry beginning with the Industrial Revolution and through the modern-day.
Rails & Rams
The Civil War is renowned for the introduction and employment of many new weapons, including rifled artillery, machine guns, and submarines. To this list should also be added railroads.
Hot Air & Hot Lead
Nothing could have been more fortuitous than the timing of the Civil War's coming. At least so far as the makers of weapons were concerned. For the men who had to use and suffer by those arms.
Rams & Rivers
Although fleet or squadron operations continued a historic role, the daring of the individual still possessed the potential to destroy a Goliath. Stealth, deception, and hoax were employed alongside conventional military confrontation.
Steel Sharks
On the night of September 6th, 1776, a small group of men on the shore of New York Harbor silently lowered a most peculiar-looking craft named the American Turtle into the water. It carried an underwater bomb.
Full Auto
The machine gun was to be a major killer, but, at first, did not revolutionize the battlefield. Indeed, early use of the machine gun was limited.
This is My Rifle
The longbow was the machine gun of the Middle Ages. Accurate, deadly, possessing a long-range and rapid rate of fire. By the 16th century, firearms replaced bows as their potential was grasped.
Vertical Flight
The beginning of the 20th century saw the pioneers of vertical flight resolving many of the problems that kept their crafts from getting off the ground.
The New Navy
Imagine you're a third-world dictator with delusions of grandeur. You've spent a good deal of your nation's gross national product on state-of-the-art weaponry.
