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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.

1 mo on HN

Sarah C. M. Paine — Why dictators keep making the same fatal mistake

Dwarkesh Patel
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
1 mo on HN

USS Forrestal C-130 Hercules Carrier Landing Trials

jaglavaksoldier
1 HN recommend · 2016–2023
1 mo on HN

Can A Metal Bowling Ball Survive Inside a Nuclear Explosion?

Scott Manley
1 HN recommend · 2020–2026
1 mo on HN

Why France is Actually Preparing for War With Russia

RealLifeLore
1 HN recommend · 2024–2025
1 mo on HN

Tom Lehrer - We Will All Go Together When We Go

The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
1 HN recommend · 2017–2022
1 mo on HN

AAA THE F-35 IS A LEMON PIERRE SPREY (RUNAWAY FIGHTER) FIFTH ESTATE EXTENDED INTERVW

BELAIR2000
1 HN recommend · 2014–2015
1 mo on HN

Australian Sub defeats US Navy in exercise

Liberalism4Australia
1 HN recommend · 2014–2016
1 mo on HN

Tom Lehrer - Who's Next - with intro

The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel
1 HN recommend · 2016–2024
1 mo on HN

Admiral Jeremiah Denton Blinks Morse Code Warning as P.O.W.

Audie Murphy American Legend
1 HN recommend · 2018–2023
1 mo on HN

Obesity is a National Security Issue: Lieutenant General Mark Hertling at TEDxMidAtlantic 2012

TEDx Talks
1 HN recommend · 2021–2026
1 mo on HN

How to Win an Interstellar War

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
1 HN recommend · 2023–2025
0 mo on HN

Doctor Strangelove - Doomsday Machine

liberalartist6
0 HN recommender · 2020–2023
0 mo on HN

What Happens When Ammo Burns? Sporting Ammunition and the Fire Fighter | SAAMI.org

NSSF—The Firearm Industry Trade Association
0 HN recommender · 2014–2020
0 mo on HN

Collateral Murder - Wikileaks - Iraq

sunshinepress
0 HN recommender · 2010–2021
0 mo on HN

Russian missile fails and 'boomerangs back at Russian troops'

The Sun
0 HN recommender · 2022–2022
0 mo on HN

Eisenhower warns us of the military industrial complex.

RobUniv
0 HN recommender · 2013–2017
0 mo on HN

Fat Man and Little Boy (6/9) Movie CLIP - I'm Dead (1989) HD

Movieclips
0 HN recommender · 2017–2023
0 mo on HN

Afghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy (Full Documentary)

Empire Files
0 HN recommender · 2020–2026
0 mo on HN

The Computer Designed To Die In Microseconds

Scott Manley
0 HN recommender · 2023–2025
0 mo on HN

How lies destroy armies - Lies, coverups, and Russian failures in Ukraine

Perun
0 HN recommender · 2022–2025
0 mo on HN

Pentagon confirms existence of $22m UFO program, releases incident videos

Global News
0 HN recommender · 2019–2019
0 mo on HN

Donald Trump attacks George W. Bush on 9/11, Iraq

CBS News
0 HN recommender · 2025–2026
0 mo on HN

Gulf of Tonkin: McNamara admits It didn't happen.

compelled2283
0 HN recommender · 2019–2023
0 mo on HN

WikiLeaks: Collateral Murder (Iraq, 2007)

People Over Politics
0 HN recommender · 2019–2024
0 mo on HN

Nuclear Detonation Timeline "1945-1998"

Don't Blink
0 HN recommender · 2011–2019
0 mo on HN

Former CIA Operative Explains How Spies Use Disguises | WIRED

WIRED
0 HN recommender · 2018–2020
0 mo on HN

Military Recruitment and Hollywood

Pop Culture Detective
0 HN recommender · 2017–2020
0 mo on HN

Kraut Space Magic: the H&K G11

Forgotten Weapons
0 HN recommender · 2019–2019
0 mo on HN

1.8 gigapixel ARGUS-IS. World's highest resolution video surveillance platform by DARPA

FreakyVidsDaily
0 HN recommender · 2013–2022
0 mo on HN

EKV/KV/KW/KKV/LEAP (Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles) Hover Test - Compilation Video (SM-3, GBI, etc.)

CR0wm p
0 HN recommender · 2022–2024
0 mo on HN

Schaliegas: USSR Gas Well Blow Out = Nuclear Bomb Puts Out Fire

Stop Schaliegas
0 HN recommender · 2020–2021
0 mo on HN

Auto-GCAS Saves Unconscious F-16 Pilot—Declassified USAF Footage

AviationWeek
0 HN recommender · 2017–2021
0 mo on HN

Sprint Missile

Steve Packard
0 HN recommender · 2010–2026
0 mo on HN

Russia releases secret footage of 1961 Tsar Bomba hydrogen blast | REUTERS

Reuters
0 HN recommender · 2021–2026
0 mo on HN

Phalanx CIWS Close-in Weapon System In Action - US Navy's Deadly Autocannon

AiirSource Military
0 HN recommender · 2021–2023
0 mo on HN

Rheinmetall Air Defence: Ahead - Highly effective, programmable ammunition

Rheinmetall – Der integrierte Technologiekonzern
0 HN recommender · 2021–2025