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 ...

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 ...

Imagine two stealth fighters taking off from opposite sides of the Pacific. One is the F-35 Lightning II, a jet that has become the backbone of Western air power and serves with more than a dozen ...

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 ...

It seems like the K2 Black Panther is often considered one of the most advanced main battle tanks in the world today, or at least that is what many experts tend to suggest. When you look at the Korean ...

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 ...

Sweden started working on the Gripen back in the late 1970s with a simple goal in mind. It didn’t need the fastest jet or the one carrying the most weapons. It needed something it could build and ...