Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The threat of a wider war in Europe feels increasingly real to many on the continent, after Russia’s drone incursion into Poland ...

It won’t come as any surprise to learn that weapons technology constantly changes. Over the last two hundred years alone, the advancements in gun technology, from the revolver to the weapons of the ...

The CIA reportedly recently used top-secret technology to rescue a USAF soldier in Iran - but that weaponry is just the tip ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Japan plans to test its rail gun, which uses electricity to fire projectiles, aiming to enhance its defense against ...

A truck-fired 50 kW laser weapon — an upgrade of the lumbering HEL-MTT — will be test fired in 2018. A 100 kW weapon on a more mobile vehicle — perhaps an 8×8 Stryker or tracked Bradley — will be test ...

Laser beams, robodogs and drone-zapping microwaves, these are the types of weapons that could be deployed on battlefields in the not too distant future. Some are already here. The threat of a wider ...

The 2019 Missile Defense Review (MDR) has been expanded to offensive missile threats includes non-ballistic systems. The US will defend against advanced cruise missiles and hypersonic weapons. There ...