An 80-year-old machine gun probably shouldn’t have much to say about modern warfare. Yet the DShK Heavy Machine Gun keeps turning up where you’d least expect it; on armored vehicles, improvised ...

A bomber does not need to be the fastest aircraft in the sky, or carry the biggest payload, to be the most powerful. In modern warfare, the real measure is harder to see: can the aircraft reach a ...

The Stryker Armored Vehicle is getting better just as the U.S. Army is becoming less certain about where it belongs. That is the paradox. The Army has spent years improving the Stryker Armored Vehicle ...

The newest aircraft in the Air Force’s special operations fleet started out spraying pesticide on farmland, not dropping precision munitions on insurgents. The OA-1K Skyraider II is a single-engine ...

More than six decades after entering service, the M113 APC is still moving soldiers across battlefields. That alone is remarkable. Designed during the Cold War, the M113 APC predates drones, digital ...

Europe’s plan to build its own advanced attack helicopter sounded simple in the 1980s: combine French and German engineering, share the costs, and create a capable alternative to American and Soviet ...

In recent years, and especially amid the latest escalations in Gaza, global outrage has intensified over what many international observers, human rights groups, and governments have described as ...

The Chengdu J-36 is rumored to be China’s most advanced sixth-generation fighter jet, designed to compete with the United States’ Next Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program. As military aviation ...

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was once seen as a glimpse of the Navy’s future. It’s a smaller, faster vessel that could operate close to shorelines and handle a mix of missions with ease. It was ...

There’s something strangely poetic about a missile designed to chase radio waves. The AGM-88 HARM (High-Speed Anti-Radiation Missile) isn’t just another piece of military hardware, it’s a weapon that ...

Imagine an aircraft so advanced that it redefines aerial combat, soaring high above the clouds faster than the speed of sound, invisible to enemy radar, and packed with cutting-edge technology. That ...