In 2012, BAE Systems and General Atomics started developing one of the United States Navy’s most ambitious and unique ...

When the war in Ukraine started, Ukrainian defenders found themselves converting civilian cars and other commercial items into weapons of war. These technicals, battle buggies and modified drones ...

War is a phenomenon as old as humankind itself. The weapons of war have developed and become more advanced over time, but the purpose has remained the same — to exert dominance over an adversary. The ...

The destroyer Rafael Peralta fires its Mark 45 5-inch light-weight gun during a live-fire exercise while operating in the Philippine Sea in January 2023. (MC1 Greg Johnson/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy ...

For much of modern naval history, the role of a destroyer has been to protect larger warships from attack by enemy submarines, surface combatants, and aircraft. This objective was accomplished with a ...

A Russian army MT-LB with a 2M-3 naval gun mount. The Russian army is welding 80-year-old gun mounts, originally built to arm patrol boats, onto 70-year-old armored tractors—and sending them to ...