WWII weapons remain in service because replacing proven reliable systems often introduces more cost and risk than performance gains justify. Durability and mechanical simplicity allowed WWII weapons ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of tons of ammunition that remained unused after WWII was dumped off the coast of Germany. Now, these weapons of mass ...

World War II was decided by more than strategy and manpower. The weapons each side brought to the battlefield often determined how quickly an army could advance, how effectively it could defend, and ...

LOS ANGELES — A World War II-era weapons bunker in Irvine, California, has a new mission — sheltering preserved insect specimens. When a collection of bugs floating in specimen bottles outgrew his ...

It goes back far enough that militaries have developed weapons intended to overwhelm enemies and shift the balance of power on the battlefield.

What looked like an ordinary muddy pond turned into a submerged World War Two weapons cache as bayonets, pistols, rifle parts ...

Scientists exploring a World War II weapons dumpsite in the Baltic Sea have discovered swarms of sea creatures thriving on the surfaces of long-abandoned explosives thought to be toxic to marine life.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "As the peat continues to burn down, it is finding the World War II ordnance and therefore exploding, and we have now experienced ...

Millions of tons of ammunition that remained unused after WWII was dumped off the coast of Germany. Now, these weapons of mass destruction have turned into entire ecosystems. Missiles, bombs and ...