7 Deadliest Weapons in History: Media
From rocks to rockets.
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Figure 13: A Maxim machine gun, belt-fed and water-cooled, operated by German infantrymen,...
Imperial War Museum
German infantrymen operating a machine gun during World War I.
Imperial War Museum
The explosion from the first thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb), code-named Mike,...
U.S. Air Force photograph
Medieval armoured cavalry at the Battle of Hastings (1066), protected by chain-mail...
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
The crew of a Byzantine dromon, a type of light galley, spraying an enemy ship with...
© Fine Art Images/Heritage Images—Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Viet Cong soldier standing with an AK-47, February 1973.
SSGT Herman Kokojan/Department of Defense Media (DD-ST-99-04298)
The former USS Nautilus, launched in 1954, being towed to Groton, Connecticut,...
PHC John Kristoffersen/U.S. Department of Defense