World War 2 became a catalyst for weapons that had been unimaginable only a few years before, but one of them would shake infantrymen to their very core. It was the multiple rocket launcher, a ...

which was so heavily armored that only its rear end could be penetrated by the 75mm main gun rounds of the American M4 Sherman. Meanwhile, the excessive expense and the maintenance-unfriendliness ...

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The committee was haunted by the knowledge that by 1939, the American twin-engine Douglas DC-3 was carrying ... fuselage was placed in a giant water tank, and its sealed interior filled with ...