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 ...

Beyond, up a gentle slope, looms Russia. Finns used to drive across here to fill up on half-price gasoline. That was before Russia started pushing migrants across the two countries’ roughly 830-mile ...

During the Battle of Kursk in July 1943, one of the most famous and controversial tank encounters of World War II reportedly took place near the village of Teterevino. A lone German Tiger I, commanded ...

The 2026 Paralympics have begun under political tension as Russia's return has sparked controversy — and already resulted in ...

Lithuania has appropriated roughly €700 million for 44 advanced Leopard 2A8 tanks—but rather than buying them from Germany outright, it has arranged to build them in its own factories.

A new energy shock would hit an economy still recovering from previous price jumps, said Veronika Grimm of Germany’s council of economic experts.

The lecture that became one of the most consequential speeches in world history took place on March 5, 1946. Churchill came ...

The great irony, however, is that the LUCAS drone is based on Iran’s own low-cost one-way attack drone, the Shahed-136. In May 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump publicly praised the Iranian drones as ...

Giving affordable weapons smarts means that we are on the brink of a similar transition from cavalry to tanks, argues defence start-up, Anduril UK. Ahead of the RAeS Weapon Systems & Capability ...

The war is not only about regime change in Iran, ending its nuclear ambition and ballistic missile programme, and permanently debilitating Israel’s arch-enemy ...

Takaichi is committed to enhanced defence expenditure, already at 2 per cent of GDP but likely to go up to 3 per cent ...

Public health has its own bracket of champions: breakthroughs that eliminated deadly diseases, revolutionized surgery, and opened entirely new doors in medicine. From vaccines to mRNA technology, ...