A bomb can be built to hit hard. The BLU-109 Bomb was built to get inside. That difference explains why this weapon has lasted for decades. The BLU-109 bomb is a 2,000-pound-class hard-target ...

Anduril’s FQ-44 Fury is one of two Increment 1 CCA designs selected for production. The other is General Atomics’ FQ-42 Vengeance. In June 2026, the Air Force awarded both companies engineering, ...

The Ilyushin Il-20 first appeared decades ago, yet NATO fighters were still being sent to identify the aircraft in 2026. In March, Norwegian F-35s shadowed an Il-20M flying in international airspace ...

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 ...

Blink, and it’s already gone. That’s the unsettling idea behind the Fattah-2, a hypersonic missile that Iran claims can streak through the atmosphere at speeds faster than 15 times the speed of sound.

Picture this for a moment. It’s the middle of the night, somewhere hundreds of kilometers behind the front line. Suddenly a faint buzzing sound grows louder, almost like a lawn mower in the distance.

Power doesn’t always announce itself with parades and flyovers. Sometimes it hums quietly in the background, embedded in ports, politics, proxy groups, and production lines. That’s where the Islamic ...

You don’t hear a Kilo-class submarine coming. That’s the point. Long before underwater drones and hypersonic headlines grabbed attention, naval crews whispered about a diesel-electric boat so quiet it ...

If you’ve ever watched a clip of a railgun test, you probably felt that same mix of wait… that can’t be real and okay, that’s actually kind of incredible. The idea of flinging a chunk of metal at ...

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser might not be the flashiest ship in the Navy, but it has quietly been the brain and backbone of American sea power for nearly four decades. These ships carried the sensors ...

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was once seen as a glimpse of the Navy’s future. It’s a smaller, faster vessel that could operate close to shorelines and handle a mix of missions with ease. It was ...