When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they are exposed to a blast wave that sends blood surging from the body to the brain. This “tsunami in the body” is one way a blast can injure ...

The Defense Department has been aggressively pursuing laser weapons and defense systems, a push that gained significant attention this week when the use of an anti-drone laser system led to the ...

The Marine Corps is reinforcing its security around weapons, ammunition and explosives storage after government watchdog audits found that annual inspections were “not conducted or completed” in ...

Many military weapons failed not due to poor design but because they required ideal conditions war rarely provides. Systems dependent on clear weather, secure logistics, uncontested access and ...

WASHINGTON — Brain injuries and mental health problems diagnosed in veterans exposed to repeated low-level blasts from firing their own weapons would be closely tracked and studied under legislation ...

The article reviews 27 military weapons systems that failed due to cost overruns, engineering flaws or poor combat performance. Failed programs like the F-35, Littoral Combat Ship and USS Zumwalt ...

The U.S. continues to lag behind its adversaries in the hypersonic arms race. Both China and Russia likely have multiple operational hypersonic weapons, according to a recent congressional report, and ...

The U.K. Ministry of Defence recently tested the DragonFire laser weapon at a facility in Scotland, destroying high-speed drones with its targeted energy technology. Why it matters: Militaries have ...

The posts on the white supremacy forum Iron March called for a paramilitary force that would operate as a "modern day SS." As Iron March users traded messages, a vision for a new group began to emerge ...

Today, the Chinese military has weapons systems so technologically advanced that, in some cases, there are no Western equivalents. From a country that used to be known for deriving designs from the ...

Some weapons used by the U.S. military are so powerful they can pose a threat to the people who fire them. Today, we meet two Marines, William Wilcox and Michael Lozano, who spent years firing ...