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We hear a lot about the T-14 Armata and the T-90, some of Russia's latest designs. But neither of these tanks, historically, has served as the backbone of the Russian Army. Let's face facts: Most of the T-90 production has been for export — In…
Many believe that the true rise of social media began after Google bought out the video streaming service, YouTube, for $1.65 billion in 2006. Since then, billions of people around the globe have documented their lives and ran successful …
Russia and Communist China have worked together a lot since the fall of the Soviet Union. Back in the 1990s, Russians sold the Chinese a lot of military technology, including the Su-27/30/33 Flanker family of multi-role fighters and Sovremennyy-clas…
The BTR family of wheeled armored personnel carriers, which were introduced by the Soviet Union in 1960, predates the Stryker family of vehicles by several decades. The Sov…
During Operation Desert Storm, the world watched as approximately 2,000 M1 Abrams tank demonstrated the warfighting capabilities of American armor. By the end of the conflict, the M1 Abrams proved to be a monumental success, as the massive fleet des…
About two weeks after he found the sunken aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV 2), Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has located another legendary wreck. This time, according to
When it was first designed, the AGM-114 Hellfire missile was intended to give the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter a way to kill the Soviet tanks of World War II, replacing a combination of the AH-1 Cobra and the BGM-71 TOW missile. But the Hellfire h…
It's not uncommon in war movies to see a pilot heroically struggle to save the lives of wounded crewmen on board a damaged plane as he brings her to the carrier or base. At the end of the 1976 movie Midway, for example, Matt Garth (as pla…
In March 2018, the United States Paralympic Team sent 18 U.S. military veterans to PyeongChang, South Korea to compete for Olympic gold. That's just…
Your first duty station is always full of surprises. You'll quickly learn that your career is nothing like how you envisioned it in the recruiter's office. The troops you serve with are nothing like the ones portrayed in films. Every tr…
Is this the best way to deal with a live grenade?
Our veterans have done a lot for the country over the years. They keep us safe from terror organizations and dictators who would use weapons of mass destruction for selfish politics. They took down Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. They've led singa…
D-Day, the Battle of the Bulge, and Operation Market Garden; no matter the campaign and no matter the battle, our nation's bravest men fearlessly surged forward to defeat the German threat in World War II. Although each infantryman was r…
It's every infantryman's job to train hard so when they deploy to a combat zone, they're ready to take the fight to the enemy. Most boots primarily learn the ins-and-outs of their weapon system and formations, but many fail to mentall…
The CH-53K King Stallion is intended to be the new heavy-lift helicopter for the United States Marine Corps, replacing the CH-53E Super Stallion, which entered service in the 1980s. It's currently being tested, and looks pretty impressive, to say t…
Quick. Think of a ninja. If you imagined them as an honorable Feudal-Japanese assassin dressed entirely in black and throwing shuriken at their enemies, I've got some bad news for you.This isn't to say that they weren't bad asses in …
When a commander designates you and your squad to be OPFOR (Opposing Force), what they're doing is giving you an opportunity at the most fun you can have in training — playing bad guy. This is a way for you to use all the knowledge and…
Flamma, Spartacus, and Carpophorus are just a few of the deadly gladiators that saw many victories while fighting in Rome's famous arenas. The vicious sport of gladiator fighting was just as popular back then as boxing and MMA are today.…
If you saw The Pacific on HBO, then you saw what amphibious landings usually involved during World War II and most of the 1950s and 60s. Higgins boats were used to deliver infantry and light vehicles while heavier vehicles and tanks came fr…
We live in a world more connected than ever before. Within many of our pockets is a device that can instantly share words, voice, photos, and videos with anyone else connected to the internet. That unprecedented ease of access to information has led…