World War II accelerated weapons innovation at an unprecedented pace. As global conflict intensified, the United States rapidly expanded and refined its arsenal, adapting existing designs while ...

Originally designed as a high-altitude anti-aircraft weapon, Germany’s 88mm gun quickly became one of the most feared weapons ...

The D-Day invasion is typically remembered for the brutal fighting on the beaches of Normandy, but the battle had already ...

On March 24, 1945, the largest single-day airborne assault in history dropped 16,000 paratroopers on the eastern bank of the ...

World War II produced some of the most famous armored vehicles in military history. Tanks became a central part of how armies fought, and certain designs quickly gained reputations among soldiers who ...

Campaigners have been protesting outside a Berlin factory as it switches from auto parts to munitions. But the workers and unions are divided— they want peace, but militarization offers job ...

Israeli war on Iran in its seventh day, President Trump says the aim is to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction and ...

When Reed Peggram met Arne Hauptmann in Paris in 1939, neither could have imagined their love would carry them through imprisonment, escape, and survival behind enemy lines in wartime Italy.

The sinking of the IRIS Dena by an American submarine in the Indian Ocean and off the coast of Sri Lanka marks the first time the US sunk a ship with a torpedo after World War Two. What are torpedoes, ...

Trump may learn the hard way that in addition to being ineffective, bombing campaigns alone can actually be counterproductive ...

The French president intends to establish an “advanced deterrence” for Europe as a whole and station nuclear weapons in ...

France is moving to tie its nuclear deterrent strategy more closely with European allies while keeping full control over any ...