Introduction

Weapons Races is a military television documentary series examining the development of various new military technologies and how their evolution impacted tactics and strategies used in warfare since the High Middle Ages, but focused mainly on film since World War I.

Outline

When strategic bombing was conceived, men began to look at ways of detecting it – or at evading this detection.

Take a look at developments in this technology, considering the most extraordinary ways of spotting military and civil machines.

From the first radar controlled air defence system devised to guide Spitfires against the Luftwaffe to the creation of the F117A Nighthawk stealth fighter; a race has ensued to develop technologies to detect aircraft & counter measures to evade detection.

Weapons Races Series

You can find a full index of Weapons Races here.

Production & Filming Details

• Production: History Channel.
• Distributor(s): History Channel (US) and UKTV (UK).
• Release Date: 2006.
• Running Time: 50 minutes (per episode).
• Country: US.
• Language: English.