LUCAS drones and PrSM missiles are two of the many munitions that American forces have used to strike Iranian targets.

Military history is riddled with weapons systems failing to live up to the reality of the situation on the battlefield. This can be brought about by sudden, rapid advances in contemporary technologies ...

Military weapons don’t change unless the battlefield forces them to. For Navy SEALs, that pressure came as warfare moved indoors, after dark, and into environments where adaptability mattered more ...

Combat exposes weapon flaws missed in testing like maintenance complexity and environmental stress that controlled trials cannot replicate. Many failed weapons were overdesigned or mismatched to ...

Many military weapons failed not due to poor design but because they required ideal conditions war rarely provides. Systems dependent on clear weather, secure logistics, uncontested access and ...

The US Army has awarded a contract to integrate the M240 configuration of the Allen Control Systems (ACS) Bullfrog autonomous turret for at least two combat vehicles, a company executive told Janes on ...

The U.S. Army demonstrated a drone kill in 2025 using a laser weapon integrated into a Stryker vehicle at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Credit: Jim Kendall/ U.S. Army The time has come for high-energy lasers.