The Cold War ended more than three decades ago, but many of the weapons built for it never left U.S. service. Designed for a ...

Across decades of warfare, only a handful of weapons earned the kind of trust that keeps them in service long after their ...

Facing evolving threats, the U.S. military introduced the XM7 rifle and XM250 machine gun under the Next Generation Squad ...

Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...

Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: While everyone oohs and aahs over nuclear weapons, submarines and stealth fighters, modern wars usually involve infantries on the ground—and they need guns. Yet there ...

In April, the Army unveiled a new model of its mainstay armored vehicle: the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), which both transports infantry and supports them in combat using a rapid-firing ...

A Russian strategist has argued that infantry weapons such as mortars and machine guns are obsolete. He said he believed drones would replace them, making infantry units smaller and lighter. Light ...

KNDS, a European defense contractor, has unveiled a new tank with a bewildering number of guns. EMBT ADT 140 mounts not one, but three guns—each optimized to handle a different kind of threat. The ...

When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they are exposed to a blast wave that sends blood surging from the body to the brain. This “tsunami in the body” is one way a blast can injure ...

The crossing of the Rhine River by Allied forces in March 1945 served as a pivotal moment in World War II, marking the beginning of the final push into Nazi Germany. The 89th Infantry Division, known ...