The term “Franken weapon” evokes an image of weird armaments—something unnatural and even satirical, as if the Battle of the Bulge met the eponymous monster of the famous novel. But these odd weapons ...

On modern battlefields, tanks command a presence like no other. Their thick armor and heavy cannons epitomize ground warfare dominance. As they roll across diverse terrains, their formidable ...

The Javelin turns dismounted infantry into a serious threat to modern main battle tanks at long range with fire-and-forget thermal seeker and top-attack capability. The Hellfire II brings precision ...

‘Saint Javelin,’ a cartoon Madonna cradling an American missile launcher, has become a popular Ukrainian meme. The Javelin anti-tank missile is a powerful symbol of U.S. aid, and the war has cemented ...

Civilian volunteers on both sides of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have furiously worked to adapt hundreds of thousands of commercially available drones for combat use by soldiers on the frontline. And ...

Russia touts the Kornet-EM anti-tank missile's battlefield success in Ukraine, claiming it can defeat Western armor like the Abrams and Leopard 2 with precision, range, and tandem-charge warheads.

The first time Valeriya, an anti-tank missileer with the Ukrainian 79th Air Assault Brigade, destroyed a Russian vehicle—a tank—she said she immediately ran into her dugout to cry. But not out of fear ...

The M2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, named after World War II General Omar Bradley, is an armored personnel carrier with a lot of victories to its credit that go far beyond its original design ...

The Ukrainian counter-offensive in 2023 delivered a grim lesson in the brutal effectiveness of counter-mobility operations. Advancing Ukrainian forces found themselves in vast Russian minefields in ...