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 ...

The best attack helicopters in the world are no longer judged simply by how many missiles they can carry or how fast they can fly. Modern gunships are closer to flying sensor-and-weapons networks, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Think fighter jets, and one name always comes up, the F-4 Phantom. Built for speed, power, and adaptability, the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II wasn’t just another Cold War aircraft; it was the ...

The Palestine-2 missile, a new addition to the Houthi arsenal, has emerged as one of the most advanced weapons in Yemen’s ongoing conflict. Backed by Iranian technology and expertise, the Palestine 2 ...

In May 2025, the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group sailed into the South China Sea, drawing global attention as tensions around Taiwan spiked yet again. Watching an aircraft carrier and its ...