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 ...

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 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 ...

Imagine spending weeks beneath the ocean, moving through thousands of tons of seawater while trying to make almost no sound. You can’t see your opponent. Your opponent can’t see you.… ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

They never declared war. No nuclear standoff, no fleets colliding, no formal battlefields. And yet, thousands died, governments collapsed, and entire regions were reshaped. This is the invisible ...

When people think of American military might beneath the ocean’s surface, the iconic Ohio-class ballistic missile subs or Cold War-era Los Angeles-class attack submarines might come to mind. But ...

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.