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Kel-Tec's offering differs in having a specific talent: folding down for compact storage. By rotating the barrel upwards and back, the Sub-2000 essentially folds over onto itself for an overall length of just sixteen inches and a height of seven inches. Once in the compact configuration, ...

A four-person vehicle crew with the U.S. Army's 2nd Cavalry Regiment in Europe won a personal victory in early February 2019 when they beat out other crews to claim their squadron's 'top gun' prize. But the crew's achievement underscores an uncomfortable fact for the U.S. ...

This is the story.В  The United States Navy retired the venerable Grumman F-14 Tomcat in 2006 after more than three decades in service. However, the Tomcat's demise has left gaps in the carrier air wing that are only now being felt. With the end of the Cold War and declining budgets, ...

Even if the Raptors had run out of AMRAAMs and were forced to engage within visual range, the F-22s can use their stealth to close in unobserved to less than 1000ft to either kill the F-14s with Raytheon AIM-9X Sidewinders or 20mm Vulcan cannon fire. Indeed, ...

Is Iran's military stronger than Israel's? Israeli media is abuzz over a website that ranks the world's armies—and placed Iran above Israel. Iran's armed forces ranked thirteenth in the world, according to GlobalFirepower.com's 2018 rankings, ...

The Navy originally conceived of the FFG(X) frigate as a small, inexpensive warship with modest combat capabilities that would complement the fleet's bigger, pricier and more sophisticated destroyers and cruisers. But in the five years since the sailing branch decided it needed a new frigate, ...

The Navy is building two new large drone ships to coordinate synchronized attacks, perform command and control across fleets of Unmanned Surface Vessels and conduct high-risk maritime missions such as anti-submarine operations, mine countermeasures, surface warfare and forward-deployed surveillance. ...

Once either China or Russia manages to put together a long wave IRST, high-speed data-links, and the computers and algorithms for multi-ship sensor fusion, the ability of U.S. fifth-generation fighters to operate independently will diminish. ...

From 1978 to 1988, a secret U.S. Air Force unit flew captured Russian MiG fighters in a dangerous effort to teach American pilots how to defeat the planes in combat. The 4477th Test & Evaluation Squadron, also known by its code name 'Constant Peg,' flew 15,000 sorties and trained 6,000 U.S. pilots, ...

Combined with the dramatic collapse of the Russian economy in the wake of Western economic sanctions following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the inflexibility of UAC made the Su-57 impossible to realize. ...

Kiev has been quietly developing their own arms manufacturing industry since 2013. The goal was two-fold: to supplement aid from Washington with domestically-produced equipment, and to become a player in the export markets. How have they fared five years down the line? ...

Will it work?В  Russia is working on a new trick to track American submarines: sonar-equipped robots. (This first appeared several months ago.) But turnabout is fair play: the United States has already developed a robotic yacht-sized surface craft designed to stalk diesel subs. ...

The Air Force's budgetary problem has been a long time coming. Spending on new planes peaked at $29 billion in 1986 when the military still was preparing to wage war with the Soviets in Europe. A new fighter to replace the F-22 Raptor could eat the U.S. Air Force's budget starting in the 2030s, ...

Also, the B-2 is slated to fly alongside the services' emerging B-21 Raider next-generation stealth bomber; this platform, to be ready in the mid-2020s, ...

We have a few ideas... This month, the U.S. Marine Corps declared that its first squadron of F-35Bs had reached 'initial operating capability'. That's 21 years after the program first began as the Joint Advanced Strike Technology (JAST) program, ...

Mao Zedong must be turning in his grave. In his day, the name 'People's Liberation Army' conjured images of hordes of soldiers overwhelming their enemies with sheer numbers and Communist fervor. Not anymore. China's military is trading quantity for quality, foot soldiers for cyberwarriors. ...

The Pentagon really botched a $7-billion effort to equip the Afghan military with UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters. The American-made Blackhawks cannot fly as high or carry as much as can the older, Russian-made Mi-17s they're replacing. ...

The Heidar is a hybrid, possessing what appears to be a grip and trigger mechanism copied from the MG 3, a modernized version of the MG-42 which is of German design. Iran has produced its own version of the MG 3 since before the 1979 Islamic revolution. ...

But no matter when it reaches Marine scout snipers, the new rifle represents a major, long-awaited breakthrough for the Corps РІР‚' and certain doom for their adversaries downrange. The Marine Corps plans on adopting the Mk 13 Mod 7 sniper rifle for Marine scout snipers, ...

A carrier with no working runway or flyable air complement is like a battleship with no working guns. Sending a 'wake-homing' torpedo into its propellers would similarly incapacitate it. Deprived of propulsion, ...