Malcolm Chalmers, deputy director-general of the Royal United Services Institute military think tank, told CBS News in March ...

“The M9 — to me — is a very reliable weapon compared to the 1911s rack grade, and even if you modify,” Lamb said. The M9 does not have the same trigger squeeze as a double-action pistol.

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology. She ...

The United States is giving satellite-guided bombs to Kyiv for the first time as part of a new $1.85 billion military aid package. By John Ismay An American weapon first dropped by stealth bombers ...

When military personnel fire certain powerful weapons, they are exposed to a blast wave that sends blood surging from the body to the brain. This "tsunami in the body" is one way a blast can ...

And while many of the US military laser weapons in development require minimal training to use (the BlueHalo Locust on which the P-HEL is based runs on an Xbox controller), the 2023 GAO assessment ...

Some weapons used by the U.S. military are so powerful they can pose a threat to the people who fire them. Today, we meet two Marines, William Wilcox and Michael Lozano, who spent years firing ...

Type of weapon: Assault rifle The M4A1 assault rifle comes standard issue in the U.S. military and there is a big reason behind that – it is one of the most formidable small arms in the world.

Computer generated rendering of the GBU-53 StormBreaker SDB-II. (Image credit: RTX) The L3Harris BRU-55/A Smart Rack used by the F/A-18 Super Hornet can accommodate two StormBreakers per weapon pylon.

The Pentagon’s traditional approach is to incrementally improve existing weapons, bring the latest technology to battle-tested platforms and build a better version of the same U.S. military.

To carry out these high-profile raids, the military began more frequently using belt-fed, Gatling miniguns – which can fire more than 4,000 rounds a minute – from helicopter gunships.