The U.S. Navy’s strangest destroyer is no longer built around guns at all. The Zumwalt class entered service as a stealthy surface combatant centered on two 155mm Advanced Gun Systems, then spent ...

The Navy’s railgun matters again, but not for the reason that first made it famous. After years of silence, the prototype ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NATO warships deployed to the Red Sea have used their deck guns to shoot down Houthi drones. The deck guns fire cheaper ammunition ...

The destroyer Rafael Peralta fires its Mark 45 5-inch light-weight gun during a live-fire exercise while operating in the Philippine Sea in January 2023. (MC1 Greg Johnson/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy ...

U.S. soldiers and Marines have fired Raytheon’s Excalibur guided artillery shell more than 1,000 times in land combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Now, Tucson-based Raytheon Missile Systems is vying to ...

These new, state-of-the-art magazines represent a significant upgrade to the installation’s ordnance capabilities and replace outdated weapons magazines that were previously in use since the Cold War ...

FN America has been awarded a $9.9 million contract to supply the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy with FN M240B machine guns, ...

The Mk 110 gun system, known internationally as the Bofors 57 Mk 3, is the deck gun of choice for the Constellation class. It is a multi-mission, medium-caliber shipboard weapon, effective against air ...

A group of Chinese navy engineers claim to have built an electromagnetic rail gun that can swiftly fire a multitude of projectiles without sustaining damage. There were older photos that China had ...