Category: Weapons

The Gatling gun is one of the most iconic early rapid-firing guns, a forerunner to the machine gun that revolutionized warfare. Gatling’s spring loaded, hand-cranked weapon was first used by Union forces during the American Civil War in the early 1860s, but it didn’t see widespread use by US forces until after the war. Dr. […]

An Iranian military base near Damascus came under attack just after midnight Saturday by missiles from the Israeli military, according to Lebanon’s Al-Mustaqbal TV and the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya network. Twelve Iranian military personnel were killed in the air strike, Syrian sources claim that they intercepted and shot down two Israeli missiles. Arab media reports said Israel […]

North Korean citizens who live near the country’s nuclear test site believe that they are suffering from radiation exposure and fear that the health of many others is in jeopardy, according to defectors who made their way south. One former North Korean, Lee Jeong Hwa tells her story with a familiar twist. That North Korean […]

The Pentagon’s plan to ban the use of older types of cluster bombs due to take effect on Jan. 1, 2019, has been delayed indefinitely. US officials are stating that safety improvements in munitions technology, in particular, because of a large number of bombs that failed to explode hasn’t advanced enough to replace older stockpiles. […]

The Ministry of Defense of Argentina released a more detailed timeline for their missing submarine on Tuesday. The military said that the captain of the vessel reported that water had entered thru the ship’s snorkel causing a battery to short-circuit before an explosion-like anomaly was detected underwater 10 hours later near the ship’s last known […]

In 1944, the US knew what awaited them when facing the Japanese forces as they got closer and closer to the homeland of Japan. The prospects of a Japanese surrender were practically non-existent and the ferocity and bloodshed for tiny specks of islands as the Allies hopped from chain to island chain were much higher […]

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration has been increasing its arms sales to the Middle East. And particularly to what was characterized as “dictatorships” in both Egypt and Saudi Arabia. This has brought a wave of criticism leveled at Merkel from the left with one opposition lawmaker calling the practice “reprehensible.” The German government’s arms sales […]

British Prime Minister Theresa May spared no words in her criticism of Russia and President Vladimir Putin on Monday, accusing Moscow of attempting to undermine the West by election meddling and seeking to “weaponize” information. May’s sharp criticism of Putin contrasts sharply with that of President Trump who mostly skirted around the issue and cast […]

Russia’s Ministry of Defense has egg on their face when they were caught lying about a serious charge that the US isn’t trying to defeat ISIS but actually is helping the Islamic State. Russia’s claims to have “irrefutable evidence” that US forces are in league with ISIS was actually footage from a video game. Russia, […]

Russia was playing double speak on Monday, on one hand stating that it was still in talks with the United States about the ongoing inquiry by the U.N. Security Council into the Syrian governments use of chemical weapons on their own people, but the US countered that the Russians have refused to engage on the […]

In a strongly worded statement, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz said on Tuesday that the Iranian government’s arming of Yemen’s rebels with missiles was a “direct military aggression by the Iranian regime,” and added comments to the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson that Tehran’s actions “may be considered an act of war against the […]

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, that the country’s missile program will continue and is not in breach of its nuclear deal, despite objections from the Trump White House. Earlier this month, Trump said that the nuclear deal signed in 2015, was one of worst, one-sided agreements that the US had ever entered into […]