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Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:59:43 +0000

Twelve Rockets Instead of Six: Why Poland Is Betting on Homar-K Over HIMARS The American M142 HIMARS has practically become synonymous with modern precision rocket […]

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Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:24:12 +0000

Northrop Lost the U.S. Air Force Competition — And Built an Unmanned Fighter Anyway On October 3, 2026, something happened at Mojave Air and Space Port in California […]

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Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:31:35 +0000

AR-10 Was Lighter, FAL Was More Popular. So Why Did the G3 Win? In the early 1960s, Portugal found itself in a rather unusual position. It had to choose a new […]

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Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:28:34 +0000

A 1945 Tank Made It Into the 21st Century: How the Centurion Became the 60-Ton Olifant Mk2 There is a simple way to understand just how far the modernization of an […]

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Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:43:58 +0000

Hyperloop Actually Worked. Why It Still Failed to Become a Real Transportation System After 13 YearsIn August 2013, the Hyperloop Alpha paper was released — 58 p […]

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Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:10:43 +0000

Zastava M70 vs. AKM: Why Yugoslavia Reinforced the Soviet Design Place a Soviet AKM next to a late-production Yugoslav Zastava M70 and the ancestry of the latter is […]

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Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:06:10 +0000

Arjun Against the World: Why India Built a Completely Different Main Battle Tank Put modern main battle tanks from different countries side by side, and something […]

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Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:21:19 +0000

The King Rome Took Alive: Why Captivity Could Be Worse Than Death for a Defeated Ruler Dying by the sword in a lost battle was unpleasant for an ancient king, but […]

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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 10:43:29 +0000

S-500 Prometheus: Why Russia’s New System Can No Longer Be Considered Just Air Defense The S-500 Prometheus is usually described through an impressive set of […]

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Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:57:16 +0000

The U.S. Marines Began Hiding F-35s at Temporary Airfields. Did Their New Tactics Work? During Operation Epic Fury, the U.S. Marine Corps employed a concept in […]

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Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:05:38 +0000

Its Landing Gear Does Not Even Retract: Why Cessna Built the SkyCourier in the 21st Century At the Air, Space & Cyber Conference in September 2026, Textron […]

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Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:04:42 +0000

They’re 70–80 Years Old, Yet Armies Still Won’t Retire Them: 10 of the Oldest Tanks Still in Service A modern tank is usually imagined as a huge computer on tracks: […]

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Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:21:07 +0000

The Wehrmacht Was Building an Army Around Tanks — So Why Did It Need an Armored Car With No Weapons? By the late 1930s, Germany was developing one of the most highly […]

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Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:35:21 +0000

400 Mines Without a Single Combat Engineer: Why Poland and Finland Are Turning a Tracked Robot Into a Mobile Minefield FactoryIn September 2026, the MSPO defense […]

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Thu, 10 Sep 2026 19:13:01 +0000

The MQ-9 Became Too Expensive to Lose: Why the U.S. Is Building the Wildfire, Which Looks Like a Reaper All Over Again General Atomics has unveiled the Wildfire, a […]

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Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:38:01 +0000

From the Knight’s Shield to the National Coat of Arms: How Heraldry Emerged and Why It Follows Such Strict Rules Imagine that an artist is given just one sentence: […]

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Tue, 08 Sep 2026 20:33:01 +0000

The Sword That Was Never Meant for Battle: Why European Executioners Needed a Weapon of Their Own At first glance, it looks like an ordinary European two-handed […]

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Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:33:49 +0000

A Wingspan Almost as Large as the B-2, but Only About 14 Meters Long: Why China Built the Giant WZ-X Stealth Drone For a long time, China’s WZ-X looked almost like […]

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Sun, 06 Sep 2026 11:21:35 +0000

The Mortar Needed a Racing Car: Why the U.S. Army Is Putting the 81mm Scorpion on a Lightweight Buggy The U.S. Army has decided to acquire a weapon its manufacturer […]

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Fri, 04 Sep 2026 23:12:15 +0000

One Aircraft Could Drop 28 Soldiers Behind Enemy Lines: How the C-47 Made Paratroopers One of the Symbols of World War II On the night of June 5–6, 1944, s […]

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Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:32:46 +0000

Why Does China Need Spy Ships If an Ordinary Container Ship Can Do the Same Job and Enter Almost Any Port in the World? In early September 2026, a story emerged […]

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Thu, 03 Sep 2026 09:21:08 +0000

Sweden Spent 40 Years Building Small Warships — Now It Is Buying Four Large Frigates: Why the Baltic Suddenly Needs a “Patriot at Sea” It took Sweden just three months […]

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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:49:52 +0000

286 Days Without a Proper Port Call: USS Abraham Lincoln Returned Covered in Rust — and That Is a Bad Sign for the U.S. Navy When the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier […]

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Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:25:44 +0000

Japan Built a Missile to Kill Ships — Now It May Be Able to Hunt Aircraft: Why the ASM-3 Kai Needs a Second Job A short line in Japan’s fiscal 2027 defense budget r […]

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Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:35:50 +0000

China Is Building a Huge Fleet, While Taiwan Is Answering With a Missile From the 1970s: Why the Island Wants 400 Harpoons In late August 2026, the U.S. Navy […]

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Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:10:10 +0000

Zircon Was Reconstructed From Debris — and Something Odd Emerged: Its Main Secret May Have Nothing to Do With a Hypersonic Engine For more than a decade, Russia’s 3 […]

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Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:29:24 +0000

Japan Wanted Two Missile Defense Bases and Got Two Missile Cruisers Instead: Why ASEV Needs 12,000 Tons and 128 Missiles At Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ shipyard i […]

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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:38:13 +0000

Saab Put a Second Person Back in the Fighter: Why the Gripen F Needs an Extra Seat in the Age of AI and Drones On August 28, 2026, a new fighter took off from […]

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Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:51:27 +0000

A Shell Heavier Than a Car: Why Germany Needed the 540mm Gerät 041 “Karl” Siege Mortar The history of German weapons development during World War II is full of […]

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Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:39:13 +0000

The U.S. Army Is Looking for a Stinger Successor: Who Will Win the Contract for 11,000 Missiles and Become the New Standard for Short-Range Air Defense? The FIM-92 […]

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Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:26:03 +0000

Subutai: How a Blacksmith’s Son Became the General Whose Armies Marched from China to Europe In the history of great conquests, commanders and rulers are often the […]

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Sat, 29 Aug 2026 23:11:51 +0000

Volkswagen Wants to Put an Idling Factory to Work on Defense Orders. But Why Could Qatar Block It? The story has an almost perfect setup for an economic paradox. […]

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Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:38:51 +0000

Cyclopean Walls, Gold, and War: What Greece Was Like Before Homer Several centuries before the supposed Trojan War, the Minoan palaces of Crete were flourishing, […]

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Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:11:03 +0000

The Air-Defense Missile That Does Not Rush: Why Iran Built the Unusual 359 and Why Russia May Be Interested in the Concept Air-defense missiles are normally built […]

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Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:15:44 +0000

Upton’s Breakthrough: How a 24-Year-Old Colonel Found a Way Through the Trenches — and Why It Still FailedOn May 10, 1864, roughly five thousand Union soldiers […]

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Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:14:58 +0000

Why Did the Kettenkrad Need a Front Wheel? The Strange Feature That Actually Made Engineering Sense Some vehicles make sense the moment you look at them. A car has […]

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Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:57:09 +0000

Why Does the Bradley Need Its Own Swarm of Ground Drones? The U.S. Army Is Changing the Role of the IFV At first glance, the photograph looks almost comical. An […]

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Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:33:12 +0000

The Destrier: How Much Did a Knight’s Warhorse Cost, and Why Was It Not a Medieval Draft Horse? It is difficult to imagine a medieval knight without his horse. […]

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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 21:39:10 +0000

“I Am No King or Duke. I Am de Coucy”: Why One Medieval Dynasty Placed Its Name Above Titles In the Middle Ages, a title was far more than an impressive word placed […]

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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 14:21:50 +0000

A Third Panzer II Luchs Has Been Found on the Baltic Spit: Why Germany Built Only About a Hundred of Its Best Reconnaissance Tanks An event that looks almost […]

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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:57:26 +0000

China Is Building Its First Supercarrier: Type 004 Could Be the Biggest Leap for the Chinese Navy in 30 Years On satellite images of the Dalian shipyard, an […]

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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:11:52 +0000

Russia Is Already Building Its Own Rassvet Satellite System. Why Are a Few Dozen Satellites Still Not Enough?On March 23, 2026, the first 16 production satellites […]

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Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:41:32 +0000

The Sea Drone Is No Longer a Torpedo: Why the New Magura MV11 Carries 18 InterceptorsThe first generation of modern naval drones was conceptually very simple. […]

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Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:04:32 +0000

Gripen Finally Gets Its Long-Range Spear: Why Sweden Needed Taurus After 20 Years For more than two decades, this combination has existed in Saab promotional […]

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Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:43:53 +0000

Heirs of the Type XXI: What the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain Really Inherited from German Submarines In May 1945, Germany’s submarine war ended in c […]

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Mon, 24 Aug 2026 14:13:30 +0000

A Feudal Lord Had His Own Armed Men, Court, and Taxes: How the Medieval Seigneurial System Really WorkedImagine a small French village in the twelfth century. A few […]

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Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:18:06 +0000

Germany’s Cobra 600 Takes Flight: Why an IRIS-T Missile Needs Its Own Jet-Powered Drone In August 2026, a rather unusual first flight took place over the Baltic […]

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Sun, 23 Aug 2026 10:59:54 +0000

The U.S. Unveils the AIM-424 Malice: Why Does a Fighter Need a Nearly 700-Kilogram Air-to-Air Missile? The U.S. inventory of air-to-air weapons is becoming […]

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Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:46:23 +0000

Saab Unveils the A3 Uncrewed Fighter: Why Gripen’s New “Wingman” Is Nothing Like the Ghost Bat Just a few years ago, the term “loyal wingman” painted a fairly str […]

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Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:41:22 +0000

India Could Revive the Il-214: Why a Failed Project Has Suddenly Become Very Interesting for Russia AgainSometimes an aircraft project is abandoned because nobody […]