Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. […] ...

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...

Brain-focused weapons have moved from speculative fiction into the realm of active research, and the gap between what is technically possible and what is legally or ethically governed is widening fast ...

Modern battlefields may be filled with drones, precision strikes, and advanced sensors, but wars are still decided by ...

U.S. defense startup Castelion announced on Friday it will integrate its affordable, long-range, hypersonic strike weapons with operational Army and Navy platforms. Under the recently signed contract ...

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In parallel, Japan has built a heavy-truck demonstrator with a 10-kilowatt-class laser for stopping small drones. Mitsubishi ...

Long-range weapons will not totally reshape war as we know it—but they could blur the difference between offensive and defensive operations. The character of warfare feels increasingly elastic.