The weapons U.S. forces trust most weren’t chosen for novelty or hype. They earned their reputations the hard way, through repeated use in real combat across multiple conflicts and environments. From ...

A Russian strategist has argued that infantry weapons such as mortars and machine guns are obsolete. He said he believed drones would replace them, making infantry units smaller and lighter. Light ...

The U.S. military has suffered dozens of “Broken Arrow” nuclear weapons accidents—events involving lost weapons, accidental ...

Here’s What You Need To Remember: While everyone oohs and aahs over nuclear weapons, submarines and stealth fighters, modern wars usually involve infantries on the ground—and they need guns. Yet there ...

In April, the Army unveiled a new model of its mainstay armored vehicle: the M2 Bradley infantry fighting vehicle (IFV), which both transports infantry and supports them in combat using a rapid-firing ...

As military spending skyrockets and the push is on for new weapons to go quickly from the lab to the fleet, military leaders, defense contractors, innovators and investors will gather Dec. 16 in ...

The Defense Department wants troops to have new weapons quickly. But testing processes don't include the best ways to do that ...

When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they are exposed to a blast wave that sends blood surging from the body to the brain. This “tsunami in the body” is one way a blast can injure ...