On this day in aviation history-83 years ago, on May 26, 1942-the Northrop XP-61 Black Widow prototype took to the skies for the first time. At the controls of aircraft XP-61-NO, serial number 41 ...

Sgt. Trever Linberg, a helicopter repairman with 10th Mountain Division, tests the new XM152 mounted machine gun optic on the Mark 19 40mm grenade machine gun. (Sgt. Matthew Connor/Army) Soldiers ...

Armament: Giat M621 20mm gun pods, 2.75″ rocket pods, AS-15 TT anti-ship missiles, HOT anti-tank missiles, Mark 46 torpedoes 15. Bell Model 206 (JetRanger / LongRanger) ...

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A hidden remnant of World War II has been recognised ahead of Anzac Day. The former gun emplacement at Eastern Beach in east Auckland had sat on the hillside for some years filled with leaves and ...

Faced with mounting lawsuits over a popular pistol, New Hampshire-based gunmaker Sig Sauer has gotten protection in the form of a new state law that makes it harder to take the manufacturer to court.

The Hughes family’s World War I cannon passed its annual test on Friday for use at the Anzac Day Dawn Service in Invercargill on Sunday. It fired two blanks perfectly for owners Neil and Heather ...

Korea Aerospace Industries (KAI) is preparing its Marine Attack Helicopter (MAH) with the ability to carry out manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T) operations.

In the affidavit, the owner of the West Coast Game Park, Brian Tenney, is accused of owning military-caliber weapons — like a 20 mm cannon and a .50-caliber rifle — and a concrete vault on his ...

Then the U.S. warplanes arrive, diving just ahead of the APCs to rend the forest with their 20-mm. cannon and 2.75 rockets. The APCs move forward into the smoke, are stopped again by a pocket of fire.

Ralph Saternow, without helmet, mans a 20mm gun during training aboard Landing Ship Tank 139. He was among the sailors aboard the craft when it landed on the Normandy beaches on June 6, 1944.