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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Imagine a rifle so large that calling it a “rifle” almost feels like underselling the engineering involved. The Barrett M82 was built around a simple but ambitious idea: take the enormous .50 BMG ...

At first glance, the CheyTac M200 Intervention looks almost too specialized to be practical. It is enormous, unusually shaped, and built around a problem most rifles never have to solve: maintaining ...

A machine gun can look deceptively simple: a barrel, an ammunition belt, a receiver, and a mechanism that keeps cycling. But once you start comparing the most powerful machine guns ever fielded, the ...

What if a military sniper rifle didn’t have to belong to just one caliber? That question sits at the heart of the Accuracy International AXSR, a precision rifle designed around a concept that ...

At extreme distances, a fraction of a degree can turn a carefully aimed shot into a complete miss. That is what makes the search for the most accurate sniper rifle so fascinating: once a target is ...