M7 Priest Was Surprisingly Simple. So Why Did It Become One of the Best Self-Propelled Guns of World War II? The Germans had the Hummel and Wespe, while the Soviet […]

Eight Stingers on a Golf Course: Why the U.S. President Now Needs His Own Air Defense When the President of the United States goes golfing, it is normal to expect […]

How Sweden Lost Its Tank Industry and Switched to the Leopard 2 In the late 1960s, Sweden achieved something only a handful of countries could do: it […]

The Agar Gun: The “Coffee Mill” That Started Firing Before Gatling In 1861, when the standard American infantry weapon was still a muzzle-loading rifle, a mechanical […]

The TOW Is 56 Years Old. Why Is the U.S. Still Producing an Anti-Tank Missile From the Vietnam Era? The BGM-71 TOW entered service in 1970. Since then, Javelin, […]

Jesse James: How a Killer and Bank Robber Became an American Folk Hero Some historical figures gradually disappear beneath layers of legend. Jesse James is almost […]

KTO Rosomak: Why Poland Has Refused to Give Up Its Finnish Armored Vehicle for More Than 20 Years In the early 2000s, Poland was looking for a replacement for its […]

Poland Is Building Europe’s Strongest Army. But Its Shell Production Might Not Last a Week of Major WarPoland is undergoing what is probably the largest […]

Defense Order 2027: What Kalashnikov Will Produce and What It Reveals About the Future of Modern Warfare Kalashnikov Concern has begun assembling its production […]

A Legend Refuses to Retire: Why the U.S. Is Still Upgrading the Javelin Nearly 30 Years After Its Debut Hundreds of new anti-tank weapons have appeared over the […]

North Korea Could Supply Russia with Even More Ballistic Missiles. Why That Would Be Bad News for Ukraine at the Worst Possible Time Russia’s Iskander missiles […]

How a Patrol Boat Became a Mini-Frigate: Why the Falaj 3 Could Redefine Small Warships At just 680 tons, the UAE’s new Falaj 3 carries a weapons package that […]

Colonizing Mars: Who Is Closest to the Red Planet—and Why the First City Is Still a Long Way Off The United States is already testing a super-heavy spacecraft, […]

Pinkerton: How an Ordinary Cooper Created America’s First Private Intelligence Service In the mid-nineteenth century, a man could rob a bank in one American state, […]

Hitler's Flying Giant: Why Germany Built a 45-Ton Monster Aircraft At first glance, the Messerschmitt Me 323 Gigant looked like one of the strangest aircraft ever […]

The U.S. Is Building a New Missile to Defeat Shaheds. But the Real Problem Remains Unsolved The Pentagon’s next-generation interceptor promises impressive […]

India Closes the Door on the Su-57. But Has Russia Really Lost Its Biggest Fighter Market? New Delhi’s decision to reject Russia’s fifth-generation fighter is a […]

American Air Power Has Become Dependent on Just Two Companies The Pentagon admits that the crisis in fighter engine production is beginning to threaten America’s […]

The Return of the Supergun: Why the U.S. Army Is Reviving a Giant Cannon for Hypersonic Weapons Testing Just a few years ago, the U.S. Army’s Strategic Long Range […]

Virginia Block V Is No Longer Just an Attack Submarine. Why the U.S. Navy Has Reclassified Its Newest Nuclear Boats as Guided Missile Submarines The U.S. Navy is […]