It hasn't taken long for savvy Minecraft players to work out how to use the fresh close-range weapon as a fully-fledged siege ...

On 31 July the third battle of Ypres began and, while road-making, Ledwidge was killed and is buried in Artillery Wood Cemetery, Belgium [Commonwealth War Graves Commission www.cwgc.org ]. “Songs of ...

In the early stages of the First World War, Brits and Germans came together on the frontlines to pause the fighting for ...

If someone told you it rained fish once upon a time, would you believe them? You'd be forgiven if you said "no." But get this ...

When you think about more recent military history, it’s unsurprising that World War II is the centerpiece of most ...

The Military Medal was brought in during World War One and was third in order of rank below the Victoria Cross and ...

In the summer of 1914, German top brass ordered a full-frontal assault on Osowiec Fortress, located in north-eastern Poland.

Despite existing earlier and still being relevant in modern conflicts, trench warfare is synonymous with the First World War. This is also true of trench combat in video games, which, thankfully, ...

Ever since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the headlines have been filled with HIMARS rockets that can hit targets nearly 200 miles away; hypersonic missiles that can reach ...

The US Marine Corps is no stranger to firing live ordnance as part of training, but it had been years — more than 70, according to one US official — since Marines had fired artillery over a stretch of ...

A controlled artillery round that can hit targets from 120 kilometers away in GPS-denied environments was successfully tested at U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground, Arizona. General Atomics Electromagnetic ...

SUMY, Ukraine—In the winter, a Ukrainian commander saw 12 Russian soldiers moving across a field, leaving him with a choice of how to respond: drones or artillery? He chose artillery, which wiped out ...