A single FAB-3000 bomb weighs about as much as a large car, yet its real danger lies in what happens when that mass hits the ground. Russia’s three-ton aerial bomb can carry well over a tonne of ...

The US Navy X-47B drone proved unmanned carrier aviation was possible. Discover why the groundbreaking stealth UCAV never ...

The GBU-31 JDAM looks almost boring. It has no dramatic rocket motor. No exotic seeker sits in its nose. At its core, it is a large gravity bomb fitted with a guidance kit. That simple idea changed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Picture two fighter jets streaking across the sky. One is big, loud, and built to dominate the airspace around it. The other is lean, nimble, and can switch from dogfighting to dropping precision ...

Blink, and it’s already gone. That’s the unsettling idea behind the Fattah-2, a hypersonic missile that Iran claims can streak through the atmosphere at speeds faster than 15 times the speed of sound.

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 ...

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 ...

When people talk about the M240 machine gun, there’s usually this quiet understanding that it’s one of those weapons that just works. It’s not flashy. Instead, it leans into reliability and raw ...

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 ...

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser might not be the flashiest ship in the Navy, but it has quietly been the brain and backbone of American sea power for nearly four decades. These ships carried the sensors ...