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U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3/6, 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), fire M240B machine guns during a live fire deck shoot while aboard the U.S. Navy Wasp-class ...

Long-range marksmanship is one of the most demanding skills in the SEAL arsenal, and the rifle a sniper brings to ...

For three days, soldiers of the 7th Cavalry Regiment poured rifle and machine gun fire into the twin tunnels. Families huddled behind walls of corpses. Mothers shielded their children with their ...

The infantry needed something that didn’t require a crew: what they needed was “individual” artillery. Thus, in 1963, the M72 ...

Many Cold War weapons remain in U.S. service because modernization proved faster and cheaper than replacement. Platforms like the B-52 and M2 Browning endure because no newer system matches their ...

Former Mayor Eric Adams got snubbed Tuesday as his socialist successor Zohran Mamdani and NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch triumphantly unveiled new data showing gun violence dropped to record lows in ...

Temporary military gear often outlasts replacements because battlefield performance and reliability outweigh procurement plans. Many systems like the B-52 and M16 were rushed into service as stopgaps ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. The State Historical Society celebrated a century of service to Iowa on Feb. 7, 1957. When the state ...

WATERLOO — Three Waterloo residents have been arrested in connection with weapons stolen from a Mason City gun store earlier this month.