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US tests world’s longest range helicopter munition that hits 10× farther than Hellfire
The US Marine Corps has fired a new long-range munition designed to extend the reach of its attack helicopters in the latest ...
A nonpartisan government watchdog is calling on the Department of Defense to update its testing policies so U.S. troops can acquire weapons at a quicker scale. The Government Accountability Office ...
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The Most Expensive Weapons That Failed Their First Real Test
Modern military weapons often arrive with staggering price tags and even bigger promises. Billions of dollars, years of development, and cutting-edge technology are supposed to guarantee battlefield ...
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Rise of military lasers in 2025: How directed weapons reshaped defense plans
Militaries spent decades trying to turn light into a weapon. In 2025, introduction of several lasers show how fast technology ...
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The Pentagon is pushing for speed, but sloppy weapons testing is slowing it down, watchdog says
The Defense Department wants troops to have new weapons quickly. But testing processes don't include the best ways to do that, a new report documents.
On Oct. 30, 2025, President Donald Trump ordered the United States to resume nuclear weapons testing for the first time since the early 1990s, arguing the move was necessary to keep pace with Russia ...
The US military was spotted testing a new stealth nuclear weapon on a Cold War bomber last week — just as the Air Force was preparing to test its Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile An ...
President Donald Trump’s announcement that the U.S. would revive nuclear weapons testing — which the U.S. has not done since 1992 — left experts, lawmakers and military personnel scratching their ...
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30 Military Weapons That Seemed Perfect, Until They Entered Combat
Military weapons are often introduced with bold promises like greater efficiency, revolutionary design, and battlefield dominance on paper. But war has a way of stripping those promises down to their ...
Resuming full testing of nuclear weapons - as President Donald Trump called for last week - would be unnecessary, costly, undermine nonproliferation efforts, and empower the nation's adversaries to ...
The Department of Defense (DOD) identified test and evaluation modernization as a crucial part of its effort to get capabilities to warfighters faster. DOD organizations, including the Office of the ...
Russia’s New Weapon Could Send Radioactive Tsunamis to American Shores. How Do We Defend Against It?
The weapon is the most recent iteration of the Poseidon, a nuclear-powered super torpedo named after the Greek god of the sea ...
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