Built for speed instead of heavy armor, the M18 Hellcat redefined what a tank destroyer could be. Capable of racing around the battlefield at 55 miles per hour, it struck German armor where it wasn’t ...

In September 1944, German Panther units surged into Lorraine expecting to crush American armor. Instead, they ran straight into U.S. M18 Hellcats operating in thick fog and broken terrain. Using speed ...

Billy Mitchell, a World War I air power commander, warned battleships were obsolete and future wars would be decided in the air. After deadly aviation accidents in 1925, he publicly accused Army and ...

In this cinematic deep-dive, we revisit the Falklands War’s most bewildering dogfight as Sea Harriers—armed with AIM-9L ...

A major constraint on the Iowa-class design was an “escalator clause” in the Second London Naval Treaty of 1936, which raised the maximum allowable displacement of battleships from 35,000 tons to ...

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