Heckler & Koch firearms have played an unheralded and destructive role in the civil wars that have consumed the country since ...

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

The American military's M1 Abrams tank was a trailblazer for the U.S. Armed Forces, though many preceding tanks helped inspire its imposing design.

As the propeller shaft spun, it would also rotate a cam wheel that was linked to the machine gun and timed the shots so they wouldn't hit the prop. Versions of the synchronization gear were rolled ...

Along with Ukraine's other key Western backers, Germany has lifted range restrictions on the weapons it sends to Kyiv to fight Russia. The Kremlin has called it a "dangerous" move.

Perhaps even more harrowing than the progression towards these new weapons, was the regression back towards the basic weapons from the past. ... Medieval Weapons and Armor used in WW1.

The first operational jet bomber in history was called the Arado Ar 234 Blitz and entered service with the Luftwaffe in 1943 during World War II. It participated in several operations, demonstrating a ...

Imperial German WW1 Trench Club. Posted: November 26, 2024 | Last updated: November 26, 2024. Trench raiding clubs were homemade melee weapons used by both sides during World War I.

As reported by many of the troops who participated in the combat trials, "trench guns" were often not suited for the tactical tasks demanded of the units who carried them, made even worse by the ...

On Christmas Eve 1914, Rifleman Graham Williams, of the 5th London Rifle Brigade, stood out on sentry duty staring out anxiously across the wasteland of no man's land to the German trenches.

In the name of German businessman Adolf Lüderitz, Vogelsang offered Fredericks 200 rifles and 100 pounds sterling for the area around a desolate bay on the Atlantic coast.

8.8 cm Flak 36, 1943. (Photo Credit: Briecke / Bundesarchiv, Bild 101I-724-0135-16 / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 de) Among the most-used artillery pieces by the Germans during D-Day and the Battle ...