Sleek, agile, powerful and possessing a multitude of guns on the nose and wings – the fighters of World War II have etched themselves a position in history akin to the greatest knights of the medieval ...
One of the more notable aspects of firearms designed for war is that they are built to withstand all kinds of punishing environments. Even when produced in mass quantities, these weapons are designed ...
World War II accelerated the shift from bolt-action rifles to semi-automatic and automatic weapons that redefined infantry tactics. Mass production innovations like metal stamping enabled nations to ...
From century-old bolt actions to WWII-era machine guns, weapons once displayed in museums are now being used on modern battlefields in Ukraine. Donald Trump's approval rating surges in polls ...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – A massive gun that was on the battleship Missouri when the Japanese surrendered at the end of World War II will soon be installed on a cliff at the entrance to San Francisco Bay.
Early on the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, the destroyer USS Ward was patrolling the waters around the entrance to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. When another American vessel spotted a periscope peeking out of ...