Bullets And Missiles

Fort Drum  This is Fort Drum, a concrete battleship built in 1909 named after Brigadier General Richard C. Drum. Originally this was an islet called El Fraile until the Board Of Fortifications chaired by William H. Taft recommended that all key harbors of territories acquired after the Spanish-American War be fortified, which led to the construction of Fort Drum for the defense of Manila and Subic Bay. In 1909, El Fraile Island was first leveled for a massive steel reinforced concrete fortress resembling that of a battleship to be erected. Fort Drum was 350 ft long, 144 ft wide with a top deck of 40 ft high above water at low tide. Over head protection was a 20 foot thick steel reinforced concrete deck with its exterior walls ranging approximately from 25 to 36 ft making it impregnable by enemy naval assault. The first proposal was to equip it with two twin twelve inch (305 mm) guns on top of the fortress but the US War Department decided to change it with fourteen inch (3...

Boeing B-52H s  The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is an American long-range strategic bomber. Also known as BUFF or big ugly fat fellow to its own crew, it has been the face of the US might and superiority since it first entered service in 1955. It has a wingspan of 185 feet and a length of 160 feet 10.9 inches, powered by eight jet engines mounted under its wings in four twin pods. Maximum speed is at 595 miles per hour or 957 kilometers per hour. With its built and might it can carry 70,000 pounds of load and dispose of it within combat range of 8,800 miles without refueling. Originally, it was built with a conscious effort to carry the atomic bomb to its rival then known as USSR. Within the span of ten years from 1952, a total of 744 B-52s were created in eight versions classified from A to H. B-52A is the test version, B-52B is the long range nuclear bomber that entered the US Strategic Air Command, B-52s C to F are versions with larger fuel capacity with in-flight...