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Smash 2000L: How a Smart Rifle Scope Helps Marines Fight Battlefield Drones
How SMARTSHOOTER's Smash 2000L fire-control optic helps infantry engage small drones, and why smart rifle scopes still face hard battlefield limits.
LOCUST X3: The Laser Built to Make Drone Defense Affordable
How AeroVironment's LOCUST X3 uses a 20-35+ kW laser to attack the cost problem behind modern drone defense.
SLAM: The US' Most Insane Missile Project
Project Pluto's SLAM missile paired a Mach 3 low-altitude cruise missile with an unshielded nuclear ramjet and a string of thermonuclear warheads.
Altay Tank: Is Turkey's First Modern Main Battle Tank Any Good?
Turkey's Altay tank has modern firepower, protection, and mobility on paper. Its real test is production scale, powerpack maturity, and battlefield proof.
Talon-A2: The Pentagon's Reusable Hypersonic Test Vehicle
Talon-A2 is not a fielded missile yet. It is a reusable Mach 5-plus test vehicle that could change how fast the Pentagon learns hypersonics.
AGM-183A ARRW: Why the Air Force Revived a Troubled Hypersonic Missile
The AGM-183A ARRW survived failed tests and a procurement pause. Air Force budgets now put the hypersonic weapon back into production planning.
Project Pulse
The engineering briefing that explains why nothing gets built on time — or on budget.
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Arleigh Burke: The U.S. Navy's Guided-Missile Destroyer Workhorse
The Arleigh Burke destroyer survives because it keeps absorbing radar, missile-defense, and fleet-escort jobs while the Navy waits for DDG(X).
Project Babylon: Saddam Hussein’s Supergun
The true story of Gerald Bull, the Canadian artillery genius who helped Saddam Hussein build a gun capable of firing satellites into space.
Kugelpanzer: The Most Bizarre Tank of World War II
The Kugelpanzer is WWII's strangest armoured vehicle — a one-man steel ball with no confirmed builder, no known purpose, and no surviving documents.
The Maxim Gun: The Terrifying First Machine Gun
How Hiram Maxim built the first true machine gun in 1884 — its recoil-operated design, devastating service history, and why it still fights today
The Bohdana: Ukraine's Secret Weapon of War
How Ukraine's domestically produced 155mm self-propelled howitzer evolved from a single prototype to a mass-produced artillery system capable of changing the course of battles.
Explosive Reactive Armor: Fighting Explosions with Explosions
How explosive reactive armor saves tanks by meeting an incoming warhead with a smaller blast of its own, plus its drawbacks and what comes next