Military weapons don’t change unless the battlefield forces them to. For Navy SEALs, that pressure came as warfare moved indoors, after dark, and into environments where adaptability mattered more ...

Several nations boast nuclear arsenals, although nearly 90% of all nukes belong to a minority. Here's who holds the lion's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday unveiled a sweeping overhaul to how the Pentagon buys weapons, a restructuring aimed at ...

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. This can be brought about by sudden, rapid advances in contemporary technologies ...

The U.S. continues to lag behind its adversaries in the hypersonic arms race. Both China and Russia likely have multiple operational hypersonic weapons, according to a recent congressional report, and ...

On paper, many of the world’s most famous weapons looked like reliable successes. In practice, desert sand, jungle humidity, and arctic cold often had other ideas. Systems that performed well in ...

The Marine Corps is reinforcing its security around weapons, ammunition and explosives storage after government watchdog audits found that annual inspections were “not conducted or completed” in ...

Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...

Beijing’s military focuses on swarming drones that can pick off prey or robots that can chase down enemies.

The investigative minds at How to Survive explore the deadliest military weapons, blast effects, and what risks they pose to civilians.

Two decades after American forces invaded Iraq, the circumstances are different but the failure is unmistakable.