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Ukraine's 'Miracle Weapon' Is a Cheap, Hard-to-Jam Glide Bomb

Ukraine Just Brought Back Its Bayraktar TB-2 Drones—And They're Breaking through Russia's Air Defenses

Russia Is Churning Out Hundreds of New T-90M Tanks—But Why Aren't They All in Ukraine?

Russian Troops' 'Huge-Ass Stupid' Thermal Blankets Backfired—And Got Them Killed

No, Iran Can’t Trigger a Nuclear Tsunami That Wipes Out Israel

In the Iran-Iraq War, F-5s and MiG-21s Fought to a Standstill

Russia Builds Hundreds of New T-90M Tanks—Maybe Saving Some for War with NATO

Karbala-5 Was Iran's Bloodiest Battle

The Tomahawk Cruise Missile's Very First Mission Was Over Iran—in 1991

The Iskander Has Become One Of Russia's Deadliest Deep Strike Weapons. Now Ukrainian Troops Are Hunting the Launchers, the Crews—and Warehouses Full of Missiles.

America’s First B-21 Bomber Was a Bust

Russia's Porcupine Tanks Are Actually Working

Ukrainian Marines Busted a Russian Bunker in a Risky Assault Across Mud—And in a Mud-Optimized Vehicle

Ukrainians Built an Invisible Wall of Radio Jamming Along Their Border. Any Russian Missiles Flying Through It Went Wildly Off Course.

Ukraine's 60-Year-Old Leopard Tank Switched from Sniper Mode—and Russian Troops Never Saw It Coming

To Deflect Russia's 'Miracle' Glide-Bombs, a Ukrainian Team Invented a New Jammer: One That Blasts Radio Noise In a Powerful Stream

The USA and USSR Used to Target Underground Facilities With Massive Nuclear Bombs

Russia Keeps Burning Through Its Last Tanks—So Why Isn't Ukraine Winning?

Desperate to Defeat Russian Missiles, Ukrainians Tracked Down Old Soviet Engineers at Their Factories

The U.S. Army Had Secret War Dogs in Vietnam

One Way for Ukraine to Win: Let Putin Declare Victory

A Proficient Chinese Spy Helped a Ukrainian Tech Team Jam Russian Drones

This Movie About a Man Who Can Talk to Tanks Has Surprising Depth

It Has Cost Russia Exactly One Armored Truck to Capture 60 Square Miles of Ukraine's Sumy Oblast

In the 1980s, Iran Outfitted F-14s as Heavy Bombers

Secretive U.S. Navy F-14s Covered Commandos in Iraq in 2003

Israel Is Blowing Up Iran's F-14s

Russian Troops Are Lobbing Chemical Rockets in Eastern Ukraine. Now Ukrainian Drones Are Targeting the Caustic Munitions.

Listen to This Harrowing Audio of B-52s Bombing Hanoi

Ukraine's First Motorcycle Unit Is Here—But the Cost Is Too High

A Russian Troop Convoy Got the HIMARS Treatment—20 Russians Died

In 1965, American and Dominican Tanks Fought Brief, Violent Skirmishes

Russia Replaces Soviet Howitzers With North Korean Clones as Ukraine Builds a Drone Wall to Stop Them

A Russian Drone Hit Ukraine's 'Hidden' Krab Gun—And Exposed a Billion-Dollar Flaw in Artillery Design

A Russian Su-25 Attack Jet Just Shot Down ... a Russian Su-25 Attack Jet

The Il-2 Sturmovik Wrecked Nazi Tanks

Russia's Surviving Bombers Are Evacuating—Away From Ukraine's Deadly Drones

There Is Such a Thing as Too Much Tank

Russia's Tanks Hid Behind Smoke—Ukraine's Drones Showed That Trick Is Dead

Russia Has 10 Gunpowder Factories. Ukraine's Drones Just Blew Up One Of Them.

The U.S. Army Had Plans for Helo-Riding, Tank-Killing Rangers

Russia's New V2U A.I. Drone Hunts Ukraine's Best Weapons—So Far, It's Unjammable

Don't Drive Your Tank Into a Nuclear Bomb Crater

Russian Soldiers Used Scissors to Down a Ukrainian Fiber-Optic Drone

Watch Ukraine's Best FP-1 Strike Drone Dodge a Russian Surface-to-Air Missile

Ukraine's Best New Attack Drones Flew 600 Miles to Blow Up a Critical Defense Plant in Western Russia

The Atomic Bazooka Was a Bad Idea

Ukraine Learned How to Jam Russian Bombs. So Russia Made Them Fly Beyond the Jammers.

Russia's Ghost Riders Are Storming Sumy—and They're Not Meant to Come Back

The Russian Air Force Is Slowly Going Blind as Ukraine Blows Up Its A-50 Radar Planes

A Ukrainian Surface-to-Air Missile Just Shot Down One of Russia's Best Su-35 Fighters

Too Damn Close: North Carolina Nuclear Bomb 'Could Have Detonated'

Britain's Chicken-Heated Nuclear Land Mines

No Real Drone Jammers? Russian Troops Use Painted Pots to Trick Military Police.

The A-10 Could Have Become a Nuclear Strike Plane

America Almost Had a Nuclear-Armed Drone Bomber ... in the 1950s

How a Hipster City Planned to Survive Nuclear Armageddon

Russia Just Copied Ukraine's Drone Mothership Tech—and the Battlefield Won't Look the Same

Saddam Hussein Seriously Feared a U.S. Nuclear Strike During the Gulf War

A Nuclear-Powered U.S. Military Ice Base Will Resurface as the Arctic Melts

Want to Increase Your Property Values? Try a Nuclear War.

Confirmed—Ukraine's Drones Blew Up At Least 1/7th of Russia's Flyable Bombers and Radar Planes

Soviet Docs Shed Light on the Red Army's Booze-Fueled Nuclear Vacation in Cuba

Ukraine's Fighter Pilots Adopt Western Tactics, Learn to Hunt in Packs

Ukrainian Agents Just Blew Up a Pillar of the Strategic Kerch Bridge with a 2,400-Pound Underwater Bomb

The Nuclear War Tank Came at Exactly the Wrong Time

U.S. Learns, Very Slowly, from Ukraine Drone Experience

Ukraine's Smuggled Drone Raid May Have Blown Up One of Russia's Last Few A-50 Radar Planes

Soviet Troops Trained to Fight Underneath Nuclear Explosions

Ukraine Hurls Rare F-16s into Russia’s Northern Offensive as Ground Forces Stretch to Breaking Point

The Russian Air Force May Be Down to 52 Flyable Tu-22Ms

Why 'Fallout' Is the Best Nuclear War Story Ever Told

On Saturday, Russia Had the World's 2nd Biggest Bomber Force. After Smuggled Ukrainian Drones Attacked on Sunday, It Might Have the 3rd Biggest.

Ukrainian Drones Just Took Out 1/3 of Russia's Bomber Force

First the Russians Invented 'Turtle Tanks' to Ward Off Drones. Now They've Invented 'Porcupine Tanks,' Too—By Adding Metal Spines.

The Tower of Boom

Russia Is Now Bombing Ukraine with Practice Drones, but Why?

Russia's Dan-M Training Drone Mimics the U.S. Tomahawk Missile. Now It's Attacking Ukraine.

Japan's Super Battleships Were Awesome—And a Waste

Russia Just Wasted a $3-Million Ballistic Missile on Grounded Ukrainian Hobby Planes

Russia Just Lost Its 4,000th Tank in Ukraine

See the Beautiful Stained Glass at the U.S. Air Force's Mushroom Cloud Chapel

Apocalypse Comes to Kostiantynivka as Tens of Thousands of Russians March on the Strategic Town

Ukraine's Surviving Challenger 2 Tanks May Be Rolling Toward Their Third Major Battle

Ukraine's Only Challenger 2 Brigade Is Rushing South to Block a Major Russian Offensive

A Strange Braggart's Incompetent Naval Career in the Heart of Africa

Trench Art Just Got Cheaper!

The 14th UAV Regiment Is Ukraine's 1,000-Mile Drone Strike Force

Russia's Best Drones Lie in Wait Beside the Road, Patiently Watching for Passing Ukrainian Troops

How to Find a Missing H-Bomb

Russia Straps Carcinogenic Asbestos to Burning Tanks in Bloody Push for Kostiantynivka

Russia's Newest Armored Vehicle Is So Bad That One Russian Would Prefer to Ride Into Battle in a Golf Cart

The U.S. Marine Corps' Portable Helicopters Were Too Crazy to Survive

The U.S. Navy Almost Had an Undersea Rocket Ship

Russia Tests New 'Porcupine' Anti-Drone Armor. Ukraine's Drones Still Win.

In the 1940s, the U.S. Navy Launched Planes From Trapezes

Iranian F-14s Once Battled UFOs

Ukraine Found a Way to Beat Russia's Unjammable Drones. It Doesn't Work Anymore.

Trench Art Is 20% Off for Memorial Day!

Did the Russians Just Build a Lawnmower Assault Vehicle?

Hundreds of North Korean Howitzers and Rocket Launchers Are Rolling into Eastern Ukraine

The CIA Built a Special Helicopter to Sneak Into North Vietnam

America's Aborted Plan to Flood Laos With Anti-Aircraft Missiles

The Owen Was One Weird Submachine Gun

Europe Needs a Navy. Can the U.K. Supply It?

Ukraine’s WWI-Style Vintage Drone Hunter Was So Good that Russia Just Copied It

Of Course Kim Jong Un's New Destroyer Capsized. The North Koreans Packed Too Many Missiles in a Small Hull.

Her Majesty’s Nuclear Seaplane

Ukrainian Troops Are Advancing in Kursk Behind a Wave of Bomb-Dropping Fighter Jets

A Sloppy Ukrainian Commander Paraded Their Trainees Out in the Open Just 25 Miles from Russia

For a Brief Moment, the U.S. Navy Had a Nuclear-Powered Wetsuit

The Convair B-58 Hustler Was America’s Cold War Bomber Blunder

Ukraine's Most Useless Mechanized Brigade Is Still Disintegrating

Ukraine Just Crushed a Rare Russian Armored Attack in Belgorod

Disarming an Atomic Bomb Is the Worst Job in the World

Dug In and Camouflaged, Russian Artillery Is 'Quite Hard to Destroy'

Belgium Sends Ukraine a Tank That Runs Away Faster Than Russian Drones Can Strike

The Only Counteroffensive Strategy That Could Break Russian Lines

This Nuclear Outboard Motor Was a Really Terrible Idea

The Best Battleships Ever Designed

Ukraine Is Probably Getting a Lot More M-1 Abrams Tanks. But Its Only M-1 Brigade Is In Crisis.

In Vietnam, the U.S. Army Turned Truck Drivers Into Boat Troops

From Nazi Germany to Argentina—The World's First Small Supersonic Cruise Missile

A Russian Soldier Assaulted Ukrainian Positions on an Electric Unicycle

How Israel Won Its Independence—With Nazi Guns

The Single Drone Target That Could Cripple Russia's Oil Empire

Russian Troops Are Hiding from Ukraine’s Deadly Night-Vision Drones—But Not Well Enough

Ukraine Lost Another F-16—Its Third Since August

Check Out the CIA's Monster Manual

Small Drones, Big Impact: Ukraine's FPVs Shatter Russia's Armored Might

With or Without Truce, Russia's War with Ukraine Heading for Freeze, Analyst Says

The Russians Have Lost So Many Compact Cars in Ukraine That They're Now Building New Cars From the Wreckage

A Heat-Trapping 'Bag of Farts' Can Protect You From Ukraine's Deadly Night Drones. But It'll Cost You $400.

When Richard Nixon Threatened to Nuke North Vietnam

What It Means When Vladimir Putin Plays the Nuke Card

Russian Bike Assaults Tend To Get The Riders Killed—Especially When They Try Jumping

Russian Troops' Cheap Thermal Blankets Worked Too Well. Their Cold Signatures Gave Them Away to Ukraine's Drones.

The Baker Rifle Transformed Soldiers Into Long-Distance Killers

Ukraine Is Back in Kursk, but This Time, It’s Blowing Bridges First

Ukrainian Forces Prep Their 8-Ton Strike Missiles at Night. The S-200 Is an Ancient Soviet Weapon That Still Works Just Fine.

The ‘Snatch Method’ Was One Crazy Way to Make a Glider Fly

Russian Motorcycle Troops Keep Riding to Slaughter in Ukraine—There’s a Calculated Reason Why

Under the Cover of Darkness, Dozens of Russians Marched Toward the Front Line. Unfortunately for Them, Ukraine's Drones See at Night.

To Halt Ambushes, the U.S. Army Once Covered Cargo Trucks With Landmines

Ukraine’s HIMARS Are Blowing Up Russia’s Best North Korean Rocket Launchers

Ukraine's Bad-Luck 100th Mechanized Brigade Made a Mad Dash Into the Ruins of Toretsk—And Got Massacred

This Little Warship Blew Up, Burned—And Saved America

Ukrainian Drone Crews Patiently Followed a Russian Tank Back To Its Base—And Then Blew Up the Base From the Inside

A 1955 War Game Was NATO’s First Glimpse Into the Nuclear Abyss

India’s Armored Cavalry Rolled—And Swam—Into Bangladesh

In Ukraine, Drones Are Forcing Tank Crews to Become More Cautious. The Old German Leopard 1 Is Good For This Kind of Fighting.

The PT-76 Was the Little Soviet Amphibious Tank That Could

How to Fight a War from a Crappy Compact Car—And Die Doing It

‘Iron Duke’ Was the United Kingdom’s Super Dreadnought

Try and Try Again! Ukraine’s A.I. Drones Defeat Russian Electronic Warfare in New Kursk Offensive

Ukraine Races to Take Out Russia’s Best Drone Jammer Yet: the Black Eye

On the Same Day, Russia and Ukraine Destroy Each Other's Best Rocket Launchers: Scratch 1 HIMARS and 1 KN-09

USS ‘Washington’ Wrecked a Japanese Battleship At Point Blank Range

China Needs Taiwanese Ports to Take the Island

Ukrainian Engineers Just Breached Russia's Anti-Tank Defenses in Kursk, Kicking Off Another Incursion Onto Russian Soil

Burt Rutan’s Light Attack Plane Was Too Radical for the U.S. Military

A Soviet Film Predicted Our Robot Apocalypse—In 1977

150 Russians Attacked in Southern Donetsk, Mostly on Motorcycles. Almost All of Them Were Killed or Wounded.

The Air Force Had a Brony Squadron

Mass Attack! Ukraine Launches Largest Drone, Missile Raid in Months, Downs 2 Russian Jets

Splash One Sukhoi! Ukraine's Drone Boats Just Shot Down a Russian Fighter Jet.

'No Russian Tank Would Survive': German Leopard 2A4 Withstands 10 FPV Drone Strikes in Ukraine

An Army of Taxis Helped France Win World War I

Ukrainian Drones Blew Up a Radar in Crimea, Clearing the Way for a Dramatic Attack on Saki Air Base

In 1943, Piloting a Flying Fortress Over Italy Was One Frightening Job

Russian Troops Infiltrated Pokrovsk—But Not for Long

American F-16s Are Going to Ukraine. But They Can't Fly.

Scooters, Bikes, Cars and Golf Carts Now Account for 90% of Russian Losses

Ukraine’s Air Force Has Survived. Taiwan’s Almost Certainly Couldn’t.

Ukraine May Cut Its Tank Force in Half

Sloppy Russian Gunners Gave Away Their Howitzers' Positions

My Grandfather’s Unit Was Overrun by Hitler Youth, Then Attacked by a Stuka

Russian Forces Attacked Bahatyr In a Long Column of Civilian Cars

Loneliness at Mach Three

The U.S. Navy Tried to Create a Far-Out Seaplane Strike Force

Ukraine Is Building a Nine-Mile-Wide 'Wall' of Drones

These Weird Warplanes Didn’t Need Runways

I Built My Own Copy of Iran’s Faux Stealth Fighter

The Russian 76th Guards Air Assault Division Used to Be Elite. Now Its Troops Ride on Electric Scooters.

America Badly Underestimated the Enemy at Tarawa

'You're Fucking Kidding Me,' One Ukrainian Soldier Mused as the Russians Attacked on Scooters

The Pentagon Misplaced One of America’s First Nuclear Howitzers

Buildings Were Once Safe Havens from Explosive Drones. Fiber-Optics Changed That.

Ukrainian Drones Blew Up Hundreds of Thousands of Tons of Ammo At a Depot Near Moscow

The AR-15 Pistol Seemed Like a Bad Joke at First

Ukraine's T-55 Heavy Fighting Vehicle Is All Alone On the Battlefield

Celtic Warriors Didn’t Give Up Spain to the Romans Without a Fight

Support David Versus Goliath in Ukraine

Every Once In a While, the Russians Scrounge a Few Dozen Armored Vehicles—And Then Send Them to Get Droned

A Russian Fiber-Optic Drone Edged Past a Tarp Covering a Garage—And Found a Ukrainian Leopard 2 Tank Inside

The Mosin-Nagant ‘PU Sniper’ Was the King of 20th-Century Sniper Rifles

A Ukrainian Drone Slipped into a Warehouse to Blow Up a Hidden Russian Tank

JFK Had a Secret Nuclear Fallout Bunker in South Florida

The Russian Army Rolled an Armored Assault Train Into Battle in Eastern Ukraine

A Four-(and More) Wheeled Reason Russian Can't Win in Ukraine

Moscow’s Cuban Propaganda Movie Was a Cinematic Masterpiece—And a Commercial Flop

Russia's Scooter Troops Don't Live Long on the Battlefield

A Russian Missile Blew Up Another Ukrainian HIMARS

Australia Once Lost a War With the Mighty Emu

150 Russian Motorcycle Troops Attacked Pokrovsk

Royal Marines With LAW Rockets Outfought Argentine Commandos

A Russian Soldier On Crutches Tried to Breach Ukrainian Defenses Near Pokrovsk

Lessons From the Deadliest Chemical War That Didn’t Happen

No, You Can't Bomb Away a Problem Like the Houthis and Their Missiles

Isn't It Ironic? Ukrainian Drones, Probably Guided by GPS, Blew Up 2 Russian GPS-Jammers.

There Was a Time When the United States Feared Israel’s Nukes

A Single Ukrainian Drone Killed 10 Russians Riding In An Unprotected Truck. That Kind of Thing Is Normal Now.

'Triton' Was America’s Pioneer Nuke Sub

Thirsty for Revenge, Ukrainian Territorials Hunted Down One of Russia's North Korean Howitzers

The ‘Moriarty’ Supremacy

I Bought a Tank

The Swiss Manual on Guerrilla Warfare Advises Hiding in Atomic Ruins

Russian Troops Riding in Vans And Getting Massacred by Drones—It's All Part of the Plan

Germany’s He 177 Bomber Was a Big Mistake

Ukraine Just Lost Another F-16

Russia Is Burning Through One Of Its Last Stocks of Old Cold War Vehicles

The Supermarine Nighthawk Was a Bizarre, Zeppelin-Hunting Flop

Russian Engineers Inspected a Captured Ukrainian Leopard 2A6 Tank, But Couldn't Even Get the Tank's Designation Right

It’s Hard to Believe Swarms of Pissed-Off Bees Routed the British Army

A Ukrainian Drone Blew Up a Russian Tu-22M Bomber As The Bomber Was Landing

The French S35 Was a Good Tank Wasted by Bad Generals

Russia's Kh-22 Missiles Are 6-Ton Tubes Full of Acid. Ukraine Is Flinging Explosive Drones at Them.

That Time Chechen Rebels Floated Into Combat on Inner Tubes

Ukraine's Seth Drone Patiently Waited For a Russian Air-Defense Vehicle to Appear—And Then Attacked

Britain’s Bizarre ‘Fleet Shadower’ Showed Up at the Wrong Time

The Russians Have Captured 11 Ukrainian M-2 Bradleys. Studying the Vehicles, They Were Impressed.

This Is the War Plan America Will Use When It Invades Canada

Ukrainian Drones Double-Tapped the Factories That Make Parts for Russia's Best Fiber-Optic Drones

Ukraine's Drone Force Is Blowing Up the Industrial Infrastructure Supporting Russia's Best Unjammable Drones

Iraq Did All It Could to Kill Hashem All-e-Agha, Iran’s Top F-14 Pilot

David Needs Work

Attacking Along a Main Road in Broad Daylight, a Large Russian Assault Group Broke a Lot of Rules—And Paid For It

When a Ukrainian T-64 Blasts a Russian Vehicle at Point-Blank Range, It's Because the T-64 Had Unseen Help

Hashem All-e-Agha Was Iran's Top F-14 Pilot

The Russian Navy Will Build 24-Percent Fewer Submarines

Deploying More Anti-Ship Missiles Toward Taiwan, Japan Closes a Key Maritime Chokepoint for China

Steam Trains Were 19th-Century Super-Weapons

Remembering Long Tan, Australia’s Costliest Vietnam Battle

Operation Splinter Factor Combined Espionage and Personal Revenge

Spies Helped the U.S. Air Force Shoot Down a Third of North Vietnam’s MiG-21s

In 1944, a Malfunctioning B-24 Bomber Required Mid-Air Surgery

The Comedy the Pentagon Wishes We’d Forget

Iceland’s Ghost Planes

This American Warship Shot Down MiGs and Pranked the Soviets

In 1987, a Secret Iraqi Warplane Struck an American Frigate and Killed 37 Sailors

The Biggest Tank Battle in History Wasn’t at Kursk

The British Perfected the Art of Brewing Tea Inside an Armored Vehicle

The U.S. Army Tested a Helicopter Shotgun With 1,200 Barrels

Eating Too Much Rice Almost Sank the Japanese Navy

Russia’s Giant Secret Spy Ship Killed Rats, Ruined Careers and Almost Got Blown Up Twice

How Britain Beat Germany’s Magnetic Sea Mines

The CIA’s Operation ‘Midnight Climax’ Was Exactly What It Sounded Like

The SKS Is the Cockroach of Weapons

They Don’t Call It ‘Goblin Metal’ for Nothing

Soviet Cosmonauts Carried a Shotgun Into Space

A Remarkable Armored Train Fought Its Way Across Eurasia

All the Men and Women Who Marched to Their Deaths in Chernobyl

‘Threads’ Is One of the Most Horrifying Movies Ever Made

The Awful History of Real Life Suicide Squads

The Man Who Ruined the Soviet Warplane Industry

Charlie Chaplin Made Adolf Hitler Cry

The Greatest Sniper Duel in History Is a Myth

A Nazi War Train Hauled the Biggest Gun Ever Made

Cold War Coloring Book Taught A-10 Pilots to Kill Soviet Tanks

The CIA and KGB Both Tried to Blackmail This World Leader With Sex Tapes

One Man Private Army

Combat Vehicles Are Running Out. In 2025, More Russians Will Fight On Foot.

'We Held Them Back,' Ukraine's 'Viking' Su-27 Pilot Said After Surviving Three Years of Combat Against Superior Russian Forces