The GBU-31 JDAM looks almost boring. It has no dramatic rocket motor. No exotic seeker sits in its nose. At its core, it is a large gravity bomb fitted with a guidance kit. That simple idea changed ...

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 ...

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 ...

Picture two fighter jets streaking across the sky. One is big, loud, and built to dominate the airspace around it. The other is lean, nimble, and can switch from dogfighting to dropping precision ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was once seen as a glimpse of the Navy’s future. It’s a smaller, faster vessel that could operate close to shorelines and handle a mix of missions with ease. It was ...

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 ...

Russia has once again stirred the aerospace world with talk of a new MiG-41 fighter. It’s a hypersonic interceptor that, if real, could rewrite the rules of air defense. In early October 2025, reports ...