The Lethal History Of Rubber Bullets — And Why They Should Never Be Used On Peaceful Protesters
Rubber bullets fired on protesters can kill. So why are we using them?
Rubber bullets fired on protesters can kill. So why are we using them?
The planned test is part of a project to develop an artificial intelligence-driven drone that could change the face of air combat.
Seventy plus years later, these scars from World War II have largely healed, leaving only still ponds for us to reflect on.
The officers staggered across the steps, blocking the protesters from what has long been the symbolic center of public protest in America. Wearing army fatigues and body armor, they looked like what they were: an army occupying ground.
The chemical weapon was originally marketed to police as a way to turn protesters "into a screaming mob."
Military commanders are finally speaking out against Trump.
There's a myriad of reasons why some troops often do nothing in war.
There is no federal tracking of tear gas usage by US law enforcement.
How did neutrality become one of the main principles of Switzerland's foreign policy? Johnny Harris explains the history of this fundamental Swiss worldview.
From a combat vehicle shaped like a tortoise to a glider tank that would shed its wings, here are 21 tank and proto-tank concepts that didn't really work.
Maintaining existing nuclear norms is in everyone's interest.
The most powerful people and institutions in the South spread paranoia and fear to protect slavery. Their beliefs led the country to war — and continue to haunt our politics to this day.
During World War II, Japan came close to launching surprise attacks on New York, Washington, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles. Here's the story behind their submarine aircraft carrier that never fully utilized its full capacity.
Video footage released by the navy shows a jet hovering just behind each wing of the Navy plane — where they hung out for over an hour.
The USS Portland successfully shot a small drone out of the sky.
Earlier this month, a "Twilight"-related tweet caught my eye. It was a simple question posed by author Casey McQuiston: "Did Edward Cullen dodge the draft?" I investigated.
A new recruit of the Chinese Navy almost made a fatal mistake when he failed to throw a grenade far enough away from himself and his instructor.
Noor Khan, a pacifist descendant of Indian Royalty became a famed World War II spy for Britain's Special Operations Executive.
The UH-60 Black Hawk is a helicopter legend and the battle to replace it is heating up.
Jordan Goudreau, a former US Army Green Beret, led a failed coup attempt against Nicolás Maduro in partnership with Venezuela's opposition.
It's an obscure chapter in Cold War history, the time the US's plans to defend the country against Soviet bombers with nuclear missiles went awry.
American mercenaries employed by Silvercorp — founded by ex-Green Beret Jordan Goudreau — tweeted about an alleged coup, and may have brought Airsoft guns in an apparent effort to topple Nicolás Maduro.
Nobody wants a war between the two Koreas but who would win? Both sides have many advantages and disadvantages. A YouTuber crunched the numbers.
Weapons expert Mike Loades tests out an enormous medieval weapon, courtesy of The Smithsonian Channel
The iconic blades of medieval Japan and Europe, compared.
We've seen a lot of Atom Central's restored nuclear test footage, but this 1957 clip from the Plumbbob test escaped our notice — and it's quite something.
The satellite, launched in 1967, has been orbiting the Earth for decades with no one listening.
Even without VR goggles, this is quite something.
The discovery by Yuri Dmitriev, after years of searching, "has clearly made some people very uncomfortable," his daughter says.
The president's off-again, on-again speech in June will bring back cadets who had scattered across the country to help counter the coronavirus.
Aerodynamics is everything.
Just like how Navy planes have vast instrumented ranges for aerial wargames, submarines have one too, and it is arguably even more impressive.
It's an iconic image, but the photo is being taken out of context.
From alcohol to amphetamines, a new book shows intimate links between the policing of substances and the waging of war.
In an email, Navy captain blamed himself for not demanding decisive action sooner for crew with coronavirus. His message was later mischaracterized.
The cannons used by navies in the 1600s might not be a match for modern artillery, but they were still powerful as hell.
The CIA wanted a device similar to the siren the Nazis had used on their legendary Ju-87 Stuka dive bombers — and went to great lengths to get one.
The German army is just having a grand old time at a testing facility in Sweden.
Even as it's called upon to aid the coronavirus response across the country, the military is struggling to contain the disease among its own personnel.
Hundreds of sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt gave an enthusiastic send off to Captain Brett Crozier after being relieved of duty for too widely disseminating a letter warning that the coronavirus threatened the lives of his crew.
The story behind how Strava's online exercise-tracking map revealed military bases to the public.
Meanwhile, ship crews face a menace that has ravaged navies for centuries.
Maybe not the most practical use for a rocket engine, but maybe one of the best.
Writer Irin Carmin asks her cousin Jack, who spent two years hiding from the Nazis in a Polish farmhouse, for advice on surviving a disaster during the coronavirus pandemic.
The decision was a culmination of two years of research and planning.
Hundreds of pages of documents obtained by Motherboard lay out the development of "Operation Overmatch."
It's yet another headache plaguing America's newest aircraft carrier.
Renowned scientist and best-selling author Vaclav Smil meticulously charts the single largest cause of non-natural mortality in the 20th century.
A training exercise in 1958 sent the USS Stickleback to the ocean floor.
It may sound like fiction, but on rare occasions, ordinary air bases have extraordinary mystery visitors. It happened to me, twice.
The unique Navy helicopter unit that supported this particular exercise could be on the chopping block next year.
The USS Gerald R. Ford is a technological marvel. It also has toilets designed so incredibly poorly that the entire system needs to be unclogged and flushed out with acid, yes acid, on a regular basis, at the cost of $400,000 a pop.
Accounts from Fort Bliss and Fort Hood describe porous quarantine conditions — as well as Army officials scrambling to do better against a pathogenic enemy they didn't expect.
Eighty years ago, US industry mobilized in a big way during a crisis. We could do it again.
This could be the future of combat aircraft.
This is… a completely voluntary sporting activity? Different (axe) strokes for different folks.
A growing body of evidence suggests that the way in which trauma victims talk about their experiences is as important as whether they talk about it at all.
A British soldier and two Americans serving in Iraq were killed by the rockets fired.
A fascinating history of how the cookiecutter shark had a bad habit of taking a bite out of submarines.
The pilum was ideally designed to take down a charging enemy — or at least take their shield away. Here's how.