Medieval Era
(500 - 1500 AD)
(500 - 1500 AD)
Early Modern Era
(1500 - 1800 AD)
(1500 - 1800 AD)
Industrial Era
(1800 - 1914 AD)
(1800 - 1914 AD)
World War Era
(1914 - 1945 AD)
(1914 - 1945 AD)
Cold War Era
(1945 - 1991 AD)
(1945 - 1991 AD)
Modern Era
(1991 - Present AD)
(1991 - Present AD)
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This early form of armor, consisting of small metal rings linked together, was worn from the early Middle Ages onward...
What is Chainmail Armor?
100
This weapon, attached to the muzzle of a musket, allowed infantry to engage in close-quarters combat with their rifles...
What is the Bayonet?
100
This WWI German flamethrower weapon designed in 1901 terrorized Allied trenches during WW1...
What is the Flammenwerfer?
100
This American heavy machine gun, designed by John Browning in 1918, is still in service today with the US Army...
What is the M2 Browning (.50 Cal HMG)?
100
This Soviet Rifle would become the most produced rifle ever made...
What is the AK-47?
100
These autonomous aircraft revolutionized modern warfare and are being used extensivly in modern conflicts...
What are UAVs/Drones?
200
This weapon, associated with English archers, famously helped win the Battle of Agincourt...
What is the Longbow?
200
This smoothbore firearm, using a flint striking steel to spark ignition, replaced the matchlock in the 17th century...
What is the flintlock musket?
200
This Russian rifle, adopted in 1891, would later serve through both World Wars and into the Modern Day...
What is the Mosin-Nagant?
200
This fast-firing German machine gun of WWII earned the nickname “Hitler’s Buzzsaw"...
What is the MG-42?
200
This attack aircraft was the first to be implemented with stealth technology and was famous for being shot down over Serbia...
What is the F-117 Nighthawk?
200
Several nations across the globe claim to have these types of missiles that can maintain speeds over Mach Five while staying maneuverable...
What are Hypersonic Missiles?
300
This medieval cannon shot, packed with nails or stones, functioned as early anti-personnel ammunition...
What is Grapeshot?
300
This type of fort, usually composed of Bastions, Ravelins, and Cavaliers became popularized during the gunpowder era...
What is a Star Fort?
300
This American-made gun, invented in 1884, became the world’s first true automatic machine gun...
What is the Maxim Gun?
300
This Soviet heavy artillery piece, nicknamed “Stalin’s Organ,” was actually a multiple rocket launcher...
What is the Katyusha Rocket Launcher?
300
The sound barrier was broken during this Top Secret airplane mission involving Chuck Yeager in the desert out in California in 1947.
What is the X-1?
300
This attack utilizes a brief surge of energy that disrupts communications, computers, and even enitre electrical grids...
What is an EMP?
400
This massive cannon employed by the Ottomans is most famous for being used at the Siege of Constatinople and for being one of the largest cannons in history...
What is Urban's Gun/Basilica cannon?
400
This infantry fighting force was renowned for their dicsipline and shock tactics. These infantry fought under the Swedish Empire during the 1700s...
What are the Carolean Infantry?
400
This revolutionary warship, launched in 1906, rendered all previous battleships obsolete...
What is HMS Dreadnought?
400
This French WWI light tank revolutionized armored design with its fully rotating turret...
What is the Renault FT-17?
400
This Soviet tank, first designed in the late 1940s, would become the most produced tank on the planet, with nearly 100,000 tanks of this class being made...
What is the T-54/55?
400
This American military aircraft was made to include the properties of a Helicopter and a Long Range aircraft by having VTOL capabilities and a range of 1,000 miles...
What is the V-22 Osprey?
500
This primitive firearm, operated with a lit match, appeared in the late 15th century...
What is an Arquebus / Matchlock gun?
500
These Spanish Infantry forces were among the greatest units that roamed the planet, dominating the European battlefields for most of the 1500s...
What is the Spanish Tercio?
500
This type of helmet most famously used by the German military has a big a spike on it...
What is the Pickelhaube?
500
This WWI German fighter plane is famous for being flown by The Red Baron, the most successful fighter ace of WW1...
What is the Fokker Dr.I triplane?
500
This Nuclear-Powered Submarine, the first of its kind, was the first to complete a submerged transit of the North Pole...
What is the USS Nautilus?
500
This rifle is replacing the M16 as the US Army Standard Issue Rifle...
What is the XM7/M7 Rifle?
1000
This variant of the crossbow was wound by a crank to increase the power of the shot immensely...
What is an Arbalest?
1000
This weapon was the first successful iron-cased rocket deployed for military use...
What is the Mysorean Rockets?
1000
This torpedo was the first to be Self-Propelled and popularized the torpedo while spreading it around Europe...
What is the Whitehead Torpedo?
1000
This German wonder weapon was codenamed the "High Pressure Pump" and was also known as the "Busy Lizzie"...
What is the V-3 Cannon?
1000
This project aimed to build a nuclear bomb so large that it would yield 10 Gigatons of TNT, or in other words, 200 Tsar Bombas at once. This project got official funding from the American Gov. before being cancelled...
What is Project Sundial?
1000
This U.S. Navy laser weapons system, deployed on the Arleigh Burke Class destroyers and developed by Lockheed Martin, can destroy drones and blind sensors using focused beams of light...
What is the HELIOS System?