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Combat Machines is a documentary TV series that premiered on September 16, 2018. It has 1 season and 8 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 1 Episode 8 "The Arms Race", aired on November 4, 2018.
A documentary series on the machines of war, in particular the machines of the 20th century. Covers such diverse topics as tanks, bombs, espionage equipment, nuclear weapons and aircraft.
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8 episodes · 1 season
2018 · 8 episodes · Last episode: 8 years ago
The Cold War. East and West developed weapons that could destroy the world. Examine the origins of the Arms Race and the first use of nuclear weapons that ended World War II, featuring, amongst others, the Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile and the Corona spy satellite.
The Vietnam War. The Americans used their abundance of jet fighters, helicopters, and river patrol boats to try and stop the continuous stream of supplies and North Vietnamese fighters coming down the trail.
Examine machines on the ground that would have fought in a nuclear war, featuring, amongst others, the 1961 tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin when Soviet T-54 tanks faced off with American M-48 Patton tanks.
In any war, information is key. Examine the machines used to capture, transmit, and analyze vital combat information, featuring SOE agents and their equipment, spies stealing Royal Navy blueprints, and a daring submarine mission.
In WWI, the Corps of Royal Engineers invented the Geophone, a device to detect enemy tunnelers. In WWII, they drove converted tanks that created bridges and cleared minefields, and made mobile robots that defused bombs.
n WWII, tanks, ships, and aircraft were well known, but there was also a whole fleet of lesser known vehicles such as the Jeep, the amphibious DUKW and a legendary American GI and his Harley motorbike.
The North African desert campaign of World War II gave rise to the Desert Rats. Machines in this campaign were the Matilda II tank, Rolls Royce armored car, the Panzer III, 88mm anti-tank gun and the American M3 Grant tank.
WWI was the first truly mechanized war. All sides began with strategies from the Napoleonic Wars, resulting in troops being unprepared for the destructive new technologies such as Maxim machine gun and fast-firing artillery.
Combat Machines has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on November 4, 2018.
The most recent episode of Combat Machines, Season 1 Episode 8 "The Arms Race", aired on November 4, 2018.
Combat Machines has 1 season with 8 episodes in total.
Combat Machines first aired on September 16, 2018.
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