We explore how the Soviet Union sought to replace the aging Maxim by tasking Degtyarev in the late 1920s with creating a single, air-cooled machine gun capable of infantry, vehicle, and anti-aircraft ...

For the first half of the 20th century, one of the most important firearms in the U.S. military arsenal was the water-cooled ...

The Five Best US Machine Guns Ever Produced: The United States military has produced some incredible machine guns throughout history, but worldwide, the machine gun has changed warfare forever.

CAMP HANSEN, Okinawa — Marines who normally man a desk stepped behind machine guns at a firing range on this northern Okinawa base recently to hone their skills defending a command post. About 30 ...

Amid a rising tide of low-cost weaponized adversary drones menacing American troops abroad, the US military is pulling out all the stops to protect its forces from the ever-present threat of death ...