The German 8.8 cm Flakfa,mously known as the "88", was s one of the most feared weapons of World War II. Originally designed as a high-altitude anti-aircraft gun, it unexpectedly became one of the ...

National Air and Space aeronautics curator Michael Neufeld examines the myth of the Nazi wonder weapons and the oft-repeated statement that if Germany had had the V-2 and other ...

Like the U.S. carbine, this German weapon is a gas-operated, locked-breech weapon, and fires ammunition of service caliber which is not interchangeable with any other German small-arms ammunition ...

All this was similar to the Sturmgewehr 44, although the German weapon was designed to allow accurate single shots as well as, in emergencies, automatic fire. Despite its wide popularity the AK-47 has ...

While some weapons failed due to outdated design thinking, others were too far ahead of their time. The Goliath, for example, was a remote control vehicle that could carry bombs with up to 100 kg ...

Laser weapon design hits 100-kilowatt target ... Five years in the US Army as a translator (German and Polish). See full bio. Jon Skillings. March 22, 2009 2:46 p.m. PT. 2 min read.

It didn't buy American; it skirted around the excellence of German and Scandinavian weapons design; and, unsurprisingly, it didn't call the Russians.

January 17, 2014: The government in Los Angeles, California recently held a gun buyback program offering $200 grocery gift cards or pre-paid Visa cards for any firearm turned in, no questions asked.