Modern military weapons often arrive with staggering price tags and even bigger promises. Billions of dollars, years of development, and cutting-edge technology are supposed to guarantee battlefield ...

Often failures can be attributed to a few determining factors. Not every good idea that leaves the drawing board is going to be practical on the battlefield. You can even see this with the earliest ...

Military weapons are often introduced with bold promises like greater efficiency, revolutionary design, and battlefield dominance on paper. But war has a way of stripping those promises down to their ...

For centuries, weapons relied on the principle of throwing objects at high speed to destroy their targets. From arrows to railguns that launch projectiles at nearly 10,000 feet per second, kinetic ...

The bill attempting to ban the purchase of a long list of so-called "assault weapons" has failed for the second consecutive year. House Bill 1292 was expected to be heard this week in the Senate State ...

WASHINGTON – In the chaos of an early morning assault on a remote U.S. outpost in eastern Afghanistan, Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 carbine quit firing as militant forces surrounded the base. The ...

The infographics were everywhere in the run-up to Sunday's early-morning strike on Iran's nuclear facilities by American stealth bombers. They depicted America's bunker-busting bomb, known as the ...

Russia’s BMPT “Terminator” was meant to be the armored wonder weapon that could shield tanks from ambushes and restore momentum on the battlefield in Ukraine. Instead, fresh footage of another ...

Hurler came a lot closer to winning than many Americans think. If he had kept allied with Stalin he would not have to fight on two fronts. If England fell - the Republicans tried hard to block arms to ...

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — A student from Millennium High School was arrested after bringing a gun to campus on Feb. 14 with the intention of shooting a teacher. The student also brought a gun to school on Feb ...

Fallout is dependent primarily on whether the fireball touches surface material, not on whether it's fission or fusion. In the largest weapons, the sequence is fission-fusion-fission. The fireball is ...