Discover just how the machine gun has evolved over the years, from crude black powder cannons to the digital revolution.
The Vietnam War forced militaries to rethink doctrine around guerrilla warfare and jungle operations. Air mobility through helicopters like the UH-1 Huey created modern air assault doctrine and ...
The M1 Garand established semi-automatic rifles as the infantry standard and shaped modern assault doctrine. The StG 44 created the blueprint for modern assault rifles with its intermediate-caliber ...
In September 1943, the Italian battleship Roma was steaming toward Malta to surrender to the Allies when a pair of German Dornier Do 217 bombers appeared overhead. The planes released two Fritz X ...
Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. […] ...
If machines ever fight a war against humans, it’ll probably be fought with modern weapons of war — bullets, bombs, and perhaps plasma weapons a la “The Terminator” — in a conflict, the robots will ...
Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine has increasingly exposed a growing shortage of modern weapons and advanced equipment in its armed forces, leaving the Kremlin ever more reliant on older Soviet-era ...