A survey of German soldiers has found that an overwhelming majority have doubts about the reliability of their weapons. ... replacing the G36 in 2019 with 167,000 rifles of a different design.

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 ...

The IS-2 tank, introduced by the Soviet Union during World War II, was a battlefield monster that struck fear into the hearts ...

However, the German Reichswehr actually rejected the design and only about 3,000 of these weapons ended up being produced. Most of those were used by Germany’s Axis ally Hungary during the ...

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 ...

While some weapons failed due to outdated design thinking, others were too far ahead of their time.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 ...

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 ...

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.