#weapons-technology

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• Aviation's Leap in WWI: How Airplanes Evolved During the War

  From flimsy reconnaissance kites to synchronized-gun fighters, bombers, and the first aircraft carrier — four years that built modern military aviation.

• Celebrating the Legacy of the UH-1 Huey

  From Bell Model 204 to the modern UH-1Y — the most recognized helicopter in the world and the doctrine of air mobility it carried into Ia Drang and beyond.

• Wild Weasels in Vietnam: Suppressing Enemy Air Defenses

  How the U.S. Air Force and Navy invented modern SEAD doctrine in the deadliest skies of the Cold War — the aircraft, the missiles, the cat-and-mouse against Soviet SAMs.

• Operation Commando Lava: The U.S. Attempt to Sabotage with Soap

  In 1967 the Pentagon decided that if monsoon mud slowed the enemy, the answer was to make more mud — by dropping nineteen-and-a-half tons of detergent on the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

• The USS Indianapolis: A Final Mission and Naval Tragedy

  After delivering the atomic bomb to Tinian, the heavy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed and sank in 12 minutes — leading to the deadliest sea disaster in U.S. Navy history and a decades-long fight to clear her captain's name.