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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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: […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]