Military history & warfare Videos Recommended on Hacker News (121)
Military history & warfare is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 121 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2008 and 2026 — 234 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
Military topics: World War II, Gulf War, air power, navies, submarines, weapons systems, nuclear weapons and testing, tactics, intelligence agencies, defense technology, aviation in war.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on Mechanical Computer (All Parts) - Basic Mechanisms In Fire Control Computers: “It illustrates the problems and solutions near perfectly, and I've watched it way too many times.” — an HN commenter, 2018.
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3 mo on HNNo, The Tank Is Not Dead.
2 mo on HNARROWS vs ARMOUR - Medieval Myth Busting
2 mo on HNAlways/Never: The Quest for Safety, Control, and Survivability - Part 1
2 mo on HNSoyuz Launch Escape Tower System
2 mo on HNNord Stream sabotage and hybrid war on Europe
2 mo on HNHow Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine
2 mo on HNThe US Military’s Massive Global Transportation System
2 mo on HNWhy Japan had NO Chance in WW2
2 mo on HNHow I Boarded a US NAVY NUCLEAR SUBMARINE in the Arctic (ICEX 2020) - Smarter Every Day 237
2 mo on HNThis 1970s tank simulator drives through a tiny world
2 mo on HNSlaughterbots
2 mo on HN🏆Award Winning🏆 CGI 3D Animated Short Film: "LAST DAY OF WAR" by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
2 mo on HNChina's Invasion Barges, Leading Indicator Of Plans For Taiwan
2 mo on HNA Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto
2 mo on HNDefeating Microwave Weapons! - Part 1
2 mo on HNEisenhower Farewell Address (Best Quality) - 'Military Industrial Complex' WARNING
2 mo on HNMinuteman III attacks Kwajalein
2 mo on HNHow Do Night Vision Goggles Work?
2 mo on HNBen Marking's Fake BBC Nuclear Attack Broadcast (Full Resolution, Uncut, Unedited)
2 mo on HNThe Pentagon Wars - 1998 Full Movie
2 mo on HN30c3 - Trevor Paglen - Six Landscapes - 131228 2300
1 mo on HNThat scene from War Games
1 mo on HNA CGI 3D Short Film: "Dead Hand: FortressFortress/Крепость" - by Dima Fedotov | TheCGBros
1 mo on HNNavy pilots recall “unsettling” 2004 UAP sighting
1 mo on HNMcNamara meets with Castro (Fog of War)
1 mo on HNAK47 (AKM): Mud Test
1 mo on HNThe Gun Markets of Pakistan with Suroosh Alvi
1 mo on HNDuck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle
1 mo on HNPutin's new Russian MHD weapons explained (1st part)
1 mo on HNMissile defense multiple kill vehicle hover test
1 mo on HNMICRO DRONES KILLER ARMS ROBOTS - AUTONOMOUS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE - WARNING !!
1 mo on HN1/6 F-35 JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER IS A LEMON
1 mo on HNCIA Officer Frank Snepp Discusses Planting Stories in Vietnam
1 mo on HNHow to Surface a Submarine in the Arctic Ocean - Smarter Every Day 260
1 mo on HNYes Prime Minister, Discussing Trident
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