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 ...

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 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 happens when U.S. special operations forces ask for a rifle family that can handle different calibers while sharing as much commonality as possible? The answer became the FN SCAR. Developed by ...

A precision rifle built around three different calibers sounds like a contradiction at first. Usually, choosing a cartridge means accepting a particular set of trade-offs. The Barrett MRAD Mk 22 takes ...

Imagine a rifle so large that calling it a “rifle” almost feels like underselling the engineering involved. The Barrett M82 was built around a simple but ambitious idea: take the enormous .50 BMG ...

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 ...

A rifle introduced in the 1970s still looks like it came from a science-fiction movie. That is part of what makes the Steyr AUG so distinctive. Its green polymer body, bullpup layout and integrated ...

The HK416 rifle was never supposed to be just another rifle wearing the familiar shape of an AR-15. Its real story is about taking a design that soldiers already understood and reworking the machinery ...

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 ...

Few rifles have given the .50 BMG cartridge a reputation quite like the McMillan TAC-50. It is a large, heavy bolt-action rifle, yet its story isn’t really about size. It’s about what happens when a ...