America has made many great airplanes, but this wasn't one of them. Toward the war's end, many of them went straight from the ...

The Atoms for Peace Airship was a bold vision of American soft power—an enormous nuclear-powered dirigible that would act as a mobile exhibition of peaceful atomic technology. Proposed in the ...

At 12.49am the Zeppelin steered away and went on to drop a single bomb in Mapperley. The explosion damaged a house and smashed window panes in the street. The aircraft then followed a course back over ...

and there are also giant zeppelins to take control of as well. These airships can drop huge payloads on the battlefield. You’ll notice a lot more than just WW1 machinery though. That’s because ...

It was all the work of the L14 Zeppelin, an airship of the Imperial Germany Navy commanded by Kapitanleutnant Alois Bocker – one of their most experienced captains. The war was raging and Reinhard ...

Far more advanced than the Zeppelins of the past, today's blimps are lighter, more efficient, and free of the rigid internal framework that once defined the classic airships. Unlike Zeppelins ...

Command the first tanks to have ever gone into combat and dogfight in the skies with aircraft, or immerse yourself by piloting a Zeppelin airship, capable of bombing enemy targets. An event like ...

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