Military weapons don’t change unless the battlefield forces them to. For Navy SEALs, that pressure came as warfare moved indoors, after dark, and into environments where adaptability mattered more ...

State media said Kim Jong Un also inspected the construction of a third destroyer of the same class as his 5,000-ton warship, ...

The ongoing Iran war is depleting US munitions. Weapons contractors in New Jersey and Pennsylvania may ramp up production.

As military spending skyrockets and the push is on for new weapons to go quickly from the lab to the fleet, military leaders, defense contractors, innovators and investors will gather Dec. 16 in ...

Combat exposes weapon flaws missed in testing like maintenance complexity and environmental stress that controlled trials cannot replicate. Many failed weapons were overdesigned or mismatched to ...

Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Christopher J. Chambers and Navy Special Warfare Operator 2nd Class Nathan Gage Ingram. automation The U.S. Navy has identified the two SEALs lost in the waters ...

The United States Navy developed the Zumwalt-class destroyer, which is the largest destroyer ever built, planning for a fleet of 32 vessels. The first of these, the USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), was ...

The first moving naval “torpedo” was physically attached to the submarine that used it—with perhaps predictable results.

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. This can be brought about by sudden, rapid advances in contemporary technologies ...

Warfare transitioned from open battlefields to urban environments. Compact carbines with shorter barrels replaced full-length rifles for maneuverability. Combat now occurs predominantly after dark.