They opened this war by moving two Navy aircraft carriers — along with dozens of Air Force fighters, bombers and refueling planes — into the region. Three destroyers escort each carrier, armed with a ...

At the start of World War II, most tanks carried short, low velocity guns designed mainly to support infantry rather than destroy enemy armor. That changed when the Soviet T-34 appeared with a ...

Many of the machines created during World War II were engineered with one goal in mind: to survive anything. Eight ...

The SS Thistlegorm was sunk by German bombs in 1941 and is now known as an underwater zoo that's home to all sorts of animals, including the crocodilefish.

Across decades of conflict, only a select group of weapons proved so reliable and adaptable that they remained in service ...