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Weapons the military stopped using, and why

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. This ...
Not every underperforming weapon was poorly designed. In many cases, the problem wasn’t the technology but really it was the environment that it depended on. From aircraft that needed perfect timing ...
To the surprise of many, the U.S. Army, long considered to be the most bureaucratically hidebound of the military services, appears to have successfully reoriented itself toward the demands of a ...
And, well, they were slow and easily shot down, by air or by ground forces.
A common hypersonic glide body launches from Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii, in 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The U.S. Navy and U.S. Army jointly executed the ...
For some weapons, the hardest fight wasn’t against the enemy, in fact it was more so against wear and time. Advanced ...
The Lebanese army on Tuesday received the fifth batch of weapons handed over from Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, as ...
April 24 (UPI) --The United States Army announced Thursday that it will call its new long-range hypersonic weapon "Dark Eagle." Dark Eagle is intended to be a quick-response, strategic-attack weapon ...
NEW YORK, Aug. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Autonomous Military Weapon Market is experiencing rapid growth as nations increasingly invest in advanced technologies to bolster their defense capabilities ...
British Army soldiers successfully tracked, targeted and destroyed swarms of small drones in the latest test of a Directed Energy Weapon. The British Army has completed the UK’s largest counter drone ...
The post IDF says it struck Hezbollah weapons depot after Lebanese army failed to dismantle it appeared first on The Times of ...