Sleek, agile, powerful and possessing a multitude of guns on the nose and wings – the fighters of World War II have etched themselves a position in history akin to the greatest knights of the medieval ...

The M1 Garand established semi-automatic rifles as the infantry standard and shaped modern assault doctrine. The StG 44 created the blueprint for modern assault rifles with its intermediate-caliber ...

Millions of tons of ammunition that remained unused after WWII was dumped off the coast of Germany. Now, these weapons of mass destruction have turned into entire ecosystems. Missiles, bombs and ...

WWII weapons persist in modern conflicts because they are rugged, affordable and easy to repair in low-resource environments. The Browning M2 heavy machine gun has remained in frontline service since ...

In the final months of World War II, as Allied forces pushed toward Germany’s border, an unexpected crisis threatened to slow the advance. Supply lines were stretched thin, Sherman tanks broke down ...

Scientists exploring a World War II weapons dumpsite in the Baltic Sea have discovered swarms of sea creatures thriving on the surfaces of long-abandoned explosives thought to be toxic to marine life.