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British Army Green-Lights £800m Contract For Challenger 3 MBTs

A challenger tank in the field.

An £800 million contract has been signed that will see the delivery of 148 new Challenger 3 main battle tanks (MBTs). These new vehicles are…

The Surprising Origins Behind These 9 Military Superstitions

AI rendering of two US Army soldiers standing in uniform on a stormy day

The US military is made up of the country’s finest men and women. They’re willing to risk their lives for their countrymen and will take…

Iraq Hero Alwyn Cashe To Be Honored At US Military Base

Sgt Alwyn Cashe

The U.S. Army’s 3rd Infantry Division will rename its ceremony area after Sgt. 1st Class Alwyn Cashe, an Iraq War hero who sacrificed his own…

Charlottesville City Council Votes To Remove Robert E. Lee Statue

A statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee is seen in Market Street Park on April 1, 2021 in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Action is being taken in Charlottesville, Virginia, to remove statues of former Confederate American Civil War generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson from the…

Replica B-17 Flying Fortress Spotted On ‘Masters Of The Air’ Set

Director Steven Spielberg (L) and actor Tom Hanks attend the The National Board Of Review Annual Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 9, 2018 in New York City

A quiet airfield in Oxfordshire has been returned back to the 1940s for the upcoming miniseries Masters of the Air. Abingdon airfield was used during…

A Solomon Islands Man Is Killed By Unexploded 1940s Ordnance — Who Is To Blame?

One man has been killed and another three people injured on the Solomon Islands when a WWII bomb suddenly exploded. The bomb exploded in May…

David Dushman: Last Surviving Soviet Solider To Liberate Auschwitz Dies At 98

David Dushman during a memorial service in Ukraine in 2015

David Dushman was a 21-year-old serviceman with the Red Army when he took part in the liberation of Auschwitz. The last surviving Soviet soldier to…

UK Halts Training With ‘Unsafe’ Ajax Tank

Prototype of the Ajax Tank

The British military has put trials of a new vehicle on hold after reports emerged that state the vehicle is unsafe to drive at speeds…

How Cockroaches Are Helping The Army Build Better Legs

US Army's LLAMA legged robot

U.S. Army scientists are looking to the animal kingdom to help future legged robots catch up to the efficiency of tracked and wheeled transport. It…

Soldiers Lost On Flying Tiger Line Flight Are Finally Memorialized

Over 20 families gathered in May to witness the unveiling of a new memorial in Columbia Falls, Maine, dedicated to the victims of Flying Tiger…

Everyday Slang We Didn’t Know Originated In the Navy

Close-up of a ship's wheel

Over the centuries, sailors have created a language all their own to describe objects, people, actions and places. Much of this slang has found itself…

Oops! Metal Detectorist Attempted to Sell Live WWII-Era Incendiary Bomb on eBay

British soldier walking by a bomb disposal truck

British metal detector hobbyist Mark Williams, 51, discovered a live World War II-era German incendiary bomb with his metal detector in Southampton, England, and later…