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National Defense
July 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Has High Expectations For Smart Artillery Rounds Past unsuccessful attempts to field precision-guided munitions have served as hard lessons to U.S. Army developers, who are now trying to bring to fruition a new generation of smart weapons.   |
AskMen.com
Aaron Broverman |
Top 10: Future Weapons In the wrong hands, these weapons could pick entire civilizations clean, but thankfully when used with striking precision and tactical strategy these weapons mean more of the good guys survive, while all that evil never stands a chance. |
World War II
September 2007 |
Letters From Readers Unlikely Comrades in Arms... The Shot Heard 'Round Shanghai... A Survivor Who Spoke for Many... etc. |
National Defense
August 2004
Harold Kennedy |
Army Eyeing New Artillery Systems The U.S. Army gradually plans to modernize its field artillery systems, in an effort to replace aging platforms and introduce advanced technology. |
National Defense
January 2015
Valerie Insinna |
Important Tests Loom for Navy and Marine Corps F-35 The Navy and Marine Corps variants of the joint strike fighter have an eventful year ahead, and program officials are saddled with a long list of work to do before major milestones in the summer. |
National Defense
February 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Lasers Seen as Solution to Checkpoint Safety When it comes to stopping people and vehicles at checkpoints and during convoys, the Pentagon wants something more effective than "shouting, waving hands and shooting." A "laser dazzle" may be the solution, at least for the short term. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Palmeri & Crock |
Evening The Odds In A Guerrilla War Helped by feedback from Iraq, companies are speeding up weapons design. Defense contractors are also looking to retool weapons. |
National Defense
August 2010
Grace V. Jean |
Navy Aiming for Laser Weapons at Sea The Navy expects to incorporate lasers onto most ship classes in its surface fleet, including amphibious ships, cruisers and destroyers. |
National Defense
September 2011
Eric Beidel |
Lasers to Aid Machine Guns Aboard Ships Sailors soon may have a new weapon to use on the high seas, one that combines the precision of directed energy with the lethal power of a machine gun. |
Wired
Nicholas Thompson |
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret. |
National Defense
June 2013
Dan Parsons |
Energy Weapons: The Next Gunpowder? The U.S. military has been investigating and investing in solid-state lasers and other directed energy weapons for half a century. All that work has finally paid off, as the Navy is set to deploy the first laser small enough to fit on a ship. |
National Defense
September 2006
Harold Kennedy |
Marines buying powerful telescopes for every rifleman in fighting units The total number soon will surpass 600,000, said the program manager for optics and non-lethal systems at Marine Corps Systems Command in Quantico, Va. |
Wired
February 25, 2008
Jeremi Suri |
The Nukes of October: Richard Nixon's Secret Plan to Bring Peace to Vietnam New documents offer additional proof that Richard Nixon planned to end the Vietnam war with a fake nuclear strike on the USSR. |
World War II
Robert LaRue |
Berkeley Summer: Building the Bomb A gathering of many of the world's greatest scientists in 1942, hosted by J. Robert Oppenheimer, laid the foundation for the development of the atomic bomb. |
National Defense
August 2011
Eric Beidel |
Gun Barrel Holds Up Under Extreme Heat In the heat of battle, machine gun barrels firing repeated rounds can become so hot that they begin to melt. Soldiers and marines carry extras just in case. |
BusinessWeek
February 25, 2010
Paul Barrett |
Rambo Rifles for Weekend Hunters The "Modern Sporting Rifle" is a hot seller. Please, just don't call it an assault weapon. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2005
DeBlois et al. |
Star-Crossed Should the United States, or any nation for that matter, weaponize space? From orbiting lasers to metal rods that strike from the heavens, the potential to wage war from space raises startling possibilities---and serious problems. |
National Defense
February 2015
Valerie Insinna |
Amphibious Combat Vehicle Competition to Heat Up In its efforts to replace the 30-year-old amphibious assault vehicle, the Marine Corps has traversed a long and bumpy road. |
National Defense
July 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Back to the Drawing Board: Army Rewrites Small Arms Plans Army leaders have concluded that the service's current inventory of small arms is ill suited to the guerrilla wars that U.S. ground forces now are fighting. |
National Defense
August 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s. |
Popular Mechanics
July 14, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Top 5 High-Tech Guns for Next-Gen Infantry Reviews of five new weapons technologies are provided |
Reason
February 2003
Steve Chapman |
Learning to Love the Bomb Is nuclear proliferation inherently dangerous? In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, Columbia University political scientist Kenneth Waltz makes an exhaustive case that "the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is more to be welcomed than feared." |
Wired
April 2002
Bruce Sterling |
Peace Is War Get ready for the new frontier of missile defense, where peacekeeping space lasers battle a storm of rogue nukes... |
Popular Mechanics
January 22, 2009
Joe Pappalardo |
Questions on the American Rifle for Author Alex Rose Military historian Alex Rose, author of American Rifle: a Biography, says that Americans have a special relationship with rifles that represents a way of thinking. |
National Defense
November 2007
Grace Jean |
Electric Guns on Navy ships: Not Yet on The Horizon Scientists have been researching the electromagnetic rail gun for decades and as it slowly develops, analysts question when and if it will come to fruition in the face of ongoing engineering challenges. |
Mother Jones
May/Jun 2002
Michael Scherer |
Building a Better Bomb Meet the Penetrator, one of the 'mini-nukes' the Bush administration wants to develop for conventional wars... |
National Defense
January 2013
Dan Parsons |
Army, Marine Corps Succeed in Rapidly Fielding Specialized Individual Weapons In February, the Army began arming troops with the M26 Modular Accessory Shotgun System, which can be fitted to the underside of an M4 carbine barrel. It offers troops the ability to carry one gun with the power of two. |
Wired
January 2007
Clive Thompson |
My 4-Week Quest: Shoot Straighter For one month, the author did everything possible (and legal) to shoot straighter. Here is his journal. |
Salon.com
July 12, 2002
Patrick Smith |
Up, locked, and loaded Should guns be allowed in the cockpit? Possibly, says Salon's aviation expert, but not at the expense of other solutions to air terror. |
