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The U.S. Navy is hard at work developing new underwater transports for its elite commandos. The SEALs expect the new craft—and improvements to large submarine 'motherships' that will carry them—to be ready by the end of the decade. ...

In yet another milestone on Tehran's path to becoming a self-sustaining regional power, Iranian state news announced the Iranian Navy has commissioned its first homemade submarine.The new Fateh-class vessel was unveiled by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani late last week, ...

After more than a decade and billions spent developing the consistently troubled F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the Air Force is eyeing a new variant of the F-15 — much to lawmakers' dismay. ...

If the JH-XX is truly under active development, then additional rumors and photos may eventually surface. Until then, the supersonic stealth-bomber's development status must come with an asterisk, even if that won't dissuade model-makers and defense writers alike from speculation. In January 2018, ...

Lawmakers passed a bill specifically banning any trade in Tomcat components to Iran or any other entity, and then-president George W. BushВ  signed the law В in 2008. On April 9, 1972, Iraq and the Soviet Union signed an historic agreement. ...

Syrian air defense troops reportedly fired dozens of missiles in response, primarily medium-range missiles from Buk air defense systems (SA-17), and 57E6 missiles from short-range Pantsir-S1 (SA-22) systems. On January 21, Iranian, ...

The Navy is making lethality enhancing 'modifications' to its next two new Ford-class aircraft carriers, to include weapons-oriented ship-adjustments intended to further increase overall aircraft carrier combat effectiveness. The initiatives, according to Navy statements, ...

This could be a really big deal.В  The Army is working on a supergun with a 1,000-mile range that could potentially hit targets in the South China Sea from a gun pit on land, Army Secretary Mark Esper told reporters on Wednesday.(This first appeared last month. ...

For years the AR-15 pistol had a rough time in the handgun and personal defense weapon markets. Reviews tended to be critical or even dismissive. Some even openly mocked the weapon for its supposed impracticality. The public wasn't very interested in it other than as a novelty gun. ...

If the U.S. Air Force follows through on its ambitious plan to add 75 new squadrons, it either will have to buy a lot more new bombers, or hold on longer to older bombers. The service apparently is reluctant to confront this hard choice. ...

It is not inconceivable that Moscow may consider ordering a carrier from Chinese yards in the future, however profound a reversal that might seem. (This first appeared last year.) Historically a land power, ...

Podmoskovie is also thought to be able to host the secretive  AS-12 Losharik  — a nuclear-powered mini-submarine designed for intelligence and special operations missions at extreme depths — perhaps as  great as 20,000 feet .In August 2016, ...

The most iconic rifle of the 20th century is the  AK-47. One of the most iconic rifles of World War II — granted, this is more debatable — is the  Mosin-Nagant. Both were developed in Russia.The SKS, short for  Self-Loading Carbine of the Simonov System , is the odd one out. ...

In the early 1970s, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency worked on a 'Low Maintenance Rifle' concept—or LMR. DARPA thought the new weapon could be a replacement for the troubled M-16 rifle.  The Pentagon hired TRW Systems to design the new gun. The U.S. ...

In the early 1970s, U.S. Navy SEALs and Underwater Demolition Teams got a special new weapon. The Mk. 1 Underwater Defense Gun helped combat swimmers defend themselves beneath the waves. В The weapon was relatively simple and even has a safety switch that just reads 'on' and 'off. ...

The Navy's SEALs are well-known for their exotic guns—everything from machine gun to  grenade launchers  … and several iconic, quiet handguns.  The Navy stood up the Sea Air Lands teams in 1962 and quickly sent them to Vietnam to search out the enemy and work with local forces. ...

In 1969, the Soviet navy shocked the U.S. and NATO militaries with a new and incredibly capable submarine—one that could swim faster and dive deeper than anything else under the sea. But the seven high-tech  Alfa-class submarines—able to reach 45 knots and 2, ...

World War I is often called 'the machine gun war' because of the devastating use of automatic weapons such as theВ  Maxim gun . It's also when some of the drasticВ developments in machine gun technology occurred. Artillery fire actually killed more men than machine guns, ...

When Lauren Bacall Wellington served during the Iraq War, the former Army sergeant and combat medic did more than treat the wounded.  Wellington spent her 13-month deployment from 2007 to 2008 with the 1st Cavalry Division at Forward Operating Bases Falcon—just south of Baghdad—and Prosperity, ...

The SA80 is the British Army's main assault rifle, and everything about it just screams '1980s.' The British Army Rumor Service — a message board and comedy site — described it as the weaponized version of civil servant, 'as  it doesn't work , and can't be fired. ...