For decades, many of the most advanced military weapons were developed in complete secrecy.

Amid waves of Iranian drone attacks, the U.S. Defense Department is pushing to finally field high-energy laser weapons in the ...

The U.S. Army's 300 kilowatt Indirect Fire Protection Capability-High Energy Laser system won't transition to a program of ...

Laser weapons go mobile as the US Army takes delivery of two 20-kW, anti-drone Joint Light Tactical Vehicle (JLTV)-mounted Laser-Oriented Counter-UAS System (LOCUST) Laser Weapon Systems (LWS) from ...

The United States is quietly rewriting the rules of small arms, betting that a radically different rifle and machine gun will decide future firefights. Instead of tweaking the familiar M4 and M249, ...

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 Army designation of an operational hypersonic missile battery would be a major step for the program, which has faced ...

Summary and Key Points - The cancellation of the M10 Booker in mid-2025 has ignited a rapid shift in the U.S. Army land warfare strategy. It follows a pattern of the Army cancelling many different ...