A missile usually needs a target before it leaves the launcher. The IAI Harop Drone turns that sequence on its head: it can fly into an area, search for a target, and remain there until an operator ...

A drone that costs a fraction of the target it threatens can create a surprisingly complicated problem. That simple economic equation helps explain why the best kamikaze drones have become such a ...

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 weapon designed when propeller aircraft and armored vehicles dominated the battlefield is now appearing in a fight increasingly shaped by cheap drones. The KPV Heavy Machine Gun seems like an ...

What happens when U.S. special operations forces ask for a rifle family that can handle different calibers while sharing as much commonality as possible? The answer became the FN SCAR. Developed by ...

Power doesn’t always announce itself with parades and flyovers. Sometimes it hums quietly in the background, embedded in ports, politics, proxy groups, and production lines. That’s where the Islamic ...

Picture this. The airfield is quiet in that uneasy, before-the-storm way. Then engines begin to cough, whine, and finally roar to life, one after another, in a long, deliberate line. Fighter jets nose ...

You don’t hear a Kilo-class submarine coming. That’s the point. Long before underwater drones and hypersonic headlines grabbed attention, naval crews whispered about a diesel-electric boat so quiet it ...

Imagine a ghost in the hangar, a jet that technically doesn’t “exist” yet, but is already expected to rewrite the rules of aerial warfare. It’s potentially the most expensive “maybe” in military ...

If you’ve ever watched a clip of a railgun test, you probably felt that same mix of wait… that can’t be real and okay, that’s actually kind of incredible. The idea of flinging a chunk of metal at ...

Tensions around Venezuela are heating up again. In early November 2025, the U.S. redeployed F-35 fighters to a Cold War–era base in Puerto Rico and sent a carrier strike group into the Caribbean. This ...