The Stryker Armored Vehicle is getting better just as the U.S. Army is becoming less certain about where it belongs. That is the paradox. The Army has spent years improving the Stryker Armored Vehicle ...

More than six decades after entering service, the M113 APC is still moving soldiers across battlefields. That alone is remarkable. Designed during the Cold War, the M113 APC predates drones, digital ...

A bomber does not need to be the fastest aircraft in the sky, or carry the biggest payload, to be the most powerful. In modern warfare, the real measure is harder to see: can the aircraft reach a ...

The newest aircraft in the Air Force’s special operations fleet started out spraying pesticide on farmland, not dropping precision munitions on insurgents. The OA-1K Skyraider II is a single-engine ...

Imagine two fighter jets entering a tight turn at high speed. One has a higher top speed. The other can change direction faster, keep its nose pointed where the pilot wants it, and recover energy ...

The best attack helicopters in the world are no longer judged simply by how many missiles they can carry or how fast they can fly. Modern gunships are closer to flying sensor-and-weapons networks, ...

A weapon designed when propeller aircraft and armored vehicles dominated the battlefield is now appearing in a fight increasingly shaped by cheap drones. The KPV Heavy Machine Gun seems like an ...

What if a military sniper rifle didn’t have to belong to just one caliber? That question sits at the heart of the Accuracy International AXSR, a precision rifle designed around a concept that ...

At first glance, the CheyTac M200 Intervention looks almost too specialized to be practical. It is enormous, unusually shaped, and built around a problem most rifles never have to solve: maintaining ...

A machine gun can look deceptively simple: a barrel, an ammunition belt, a receiver, and a mechanism that keeps cycling. But once you start comparing the most powerful machine guns ever fielded, the ...

At extreme distances, a fraction of a degree can turn a carefully aimed shot into a complete miss. That is what makes the search for the most accurate sniper rifle so fascinating: once a target is ...

Call the SVD Dragunov a sniper rifle and most people will know exactly what you mean. But that label misses an important part of the story. When the Soviet Union adopted the SVD in 1963, it was not ...