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Over 70 years ago, the Imperial Japanese Navy's prizedВ  Sen TokuВ  I-400-class submarine aircraft carriers were captured and scuttled off the coast of Hawaii. ...

A century ago submarines presented as much of a challenge for naval war planners as drones do today. Like airborne and surface stealth decades later, underwater stealth was a game-changer — but how to use it? Until the missile age, ...

In December 2011, the Russian navy's aging, poorly-maintained aircraft carrier  Admiral Kuznetsov  departed from its northern base on the troubled vessel's fourth deployment to the Mediterranean Sea.True, the full-size carrier—which displaces 55, ...

During World War II, American G.I.s called the German MG42 machine gun 'Hitler's buzz saw' because of the way it cut down troops in swaths. The Soviet Red Army called it 'the linoleum ripper' because of the unique tearing sound it made—a result of its extremely high rate of fire. ...

In 2016, Israel and Germany signed a general agreement for three additionalВ Dolphin IIВ submarines worth up to 1.5 billion Euros. Israel's government apparently plans to replace the olderВ Dolphins with the new ones from the year 2027 onward. ...

As one infantry veteran lamented: 'The Russian arms industry makes reliable and simple weapons, but ammo quality just annihilates it.' Russian infantry weapons have a reputation for reliability. The AK and PKM are renowned for enduring through adverse conditions, ...

Millions could die... Recently India alleged a series of ceasefire violations—in the form of automatic weapons fire—by Pakistan on the border between the two countries. According to India, it was the sixth attack in just five days . ...

China's 1980s stopgap rifle may continue to see service far into the twenty-first century. In the 1980s, China's small arms were largely inferior to the United States and Russia.The PLA was mostly armed with the Type 56 assault rifle, a clone of the original AK-47, and the Type 56 carbine, ...

While the SovietВ  Avtomat Kalashnikova В has become the iconic weapon of bad guys in Hollywood blockbusters and big-budget video games, U.S. commandos made good use of the rugged rifles in Vietnam. By the end of the conflict, the American military had reissued captured Ak-47s, ...

Gen. George Patton, the renowned World War II commander who possessed a sizable ego, called the M-1 Garand rifle 'the greatest battle implement ever devised.' В Some might be surprised that the self-promoting Patton did not considerВ  himselfВ the greatest battle implement ever devised. ...

Given that the A545 has been reported to pass field trials (alongside the AK12), we may finally see a balanced action rifle adopted and mass-produced in the near future. (This first appeared last year. ...

The U.S. Army's standard infantry weapon repeatedly overheated and jammed during a bloody 2008 battle in Afghanistan.В  The Washington Times В reported last week В on the reported failure of the M-4 carbine during the fierce firefight in Wanat, during which the Taliban nearly overran an Army outpost. ...

In February 2019, Japan turned heads with its decision to proceed with the development of an indigenous stealth fighter jet. This came in the wake of the decision to purchase more than one hundred American F-35 jets, ...

Ballistic computers will eventually be standard issue in Western armies. The ability to easily hit a target at 500 yards, even while standing or lying beneath a car, is a rifleman's dream come true—especially if he didn't have to train for years in order to do it. ...

The news that the film will feature an actual F-14 comes as a relief to those who were concerned thatВ Top Gun: MaverickВ would be little more than a CGI dogfight extravaganza. Since the sequel to the 1986 action flick ( and wildly successful Navy recruitment tool )В Top Gun, В was announced, ...

The Soviet government often exaggerated tales of its front-line snipers for propaganda purposes. The sniper duel between famed Soviet sniper Vasily Zaitsev and 'Major Konig' was probably myth, although Zaitsev was unquestionably a remarkable soldier. ...

During the Battle of the Little Bighorn, June 25 to 26, 1876, troopers of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer were massacred by Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne braves led by Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, ...

In the first two decades of the Cold War, it became clear to the Soviet military establishment that their submarine lineup was in dire need of reform. At that time, the Soviet fleet was dependent on increasingly outdated 'Whiskey-class' iterations of WWII-era German submarines. ...

If one's main text on airpower is Douhet's Command of the Air, as it appears to be at the Naval War College, then it is no wonder that one feels the need to call for a Corbett of airpower .James Holmes recently argued that airpower needs a theorist with the heft of Clausewitz. This, he insists, ...

The rifle itself was just a mockup cast of the G11, loaned to the production team by H&K; and outfitted with a bunch of embellishments and accessories fit for a Hollywood blockbuster .Decades before the U.S. ...