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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1 mo on HNSarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake
1 mo on HNUSS Forrestal C-130 Hercules Carrier Landing Trials
1 mo on HNCan A Metal Bowling Ball Survive Inside a Nuclear Explosion?
1 mo on HNWhy France is Actually Preparing for War With Russia
1 mo on HNTom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go
1 mo on HNAAA THE F-35 IS A LEMON PIERRE SPREY (RUNAWAY FIGHTER) FIFTH ESTATE EXTENDED INTERVW
1 mo on HNAustralian Sub defeats US Navy in exercise
1 mo on HNTom Lehrer - Who's Next - with intro
1 mo on HNAdmiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks Morse Code Warning as P.O.W.
1 mo on HNObesity is a National Security Issue: Lieutenant General Mark Hertling at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012
1 mo on HNHow to Win an Interstellar War
0 mo on HNDoctor Strangelove - Doomsday Machine
0 mo on HNWhat Happens When Ammo Burns? Sporting Ammunition and the Fire Fighter | SAAMI.org
0 mo on HNCollateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq
0 mo on HNRussian missile fails and 'boomerangs back at Russian troops'
0 mo on HNEisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.
0 mo on HNFat Man and Little Boy (6/9) Movie CLIP - I'm Dead (1989) HD
0 mo on HNAfghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy (Full Documentary)
0 mo on HNThe Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds
0 mo on HNHow lies destroy armies - Lies, coverups, and Russian failures in Ukraine
0 mo on HNPentagon confirms existence of $22m UFO program, releases incident videos
0 mo on HNDonald Trump attacks George W. Bush on 9/11, Iraq
0 mo on HNGulf of Tonkin: McNamara admits It didn't happen.
0 mo on HNWikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007)
0 mo on HNNuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998"
0 mo on HNFormer CIA Operative Explains How Spies Use Disguises | WIRED
0 mo on HNMilitary Recruitment and Hollywood
0 mo on HNKraut Space Magic: the H&K G11
0 mo on HN1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA
0 mo on HNEKV/KV/KW/KKV/LEAP (Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles) Hover Test - Compilation Video (SM-3, GBI, etc.)
0 mo on HNSchaliegas: USSR Gas Well Blow Out = Nuclear Bomb Puts Out Fire
0 mo on HNAuto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot—Declassified USAF Footage
0 mo on HNSprint Missile
0 mo on HNRussia releases secret footage of 1961 Tsar Bomba hydrogen blast | REUTERS
0 mo on HNPhalanx CIWS Close-in Weapon System In Action - US Navy's Deadly Autocannon
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