The military once considered using balloons as nuclear weapons systems

During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a ...
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26 Weapons the Military Regrets Ever Purchasing

The article reviews 27 military weapons systems that failed due to cost overruns, engineering flaws or poor combat performance. Failed programs like the F-35, Littoral Combat Ship and USS Zumwalt ...
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30 Military Weapons That Seemed Perfect, Until They Entered Combat

Combat exposes weapon flaws missed in testing like maintenance complexity and environmental stress that controlled trials cannot replicate. Many failed weapons were overdesigned or mismatched to ...
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Russia’s Terminator tank suffers another weapon failure in Ukraine

Russia’s BMPT “Terminator” was meant to be the armored wonder weapon that could shield tanks from ambushes and restore momentum on the battlefield in Ukraine. Instead, fresh footage of another ...
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Iraq weapons assessment failures shadow US intelligence 20 years later

WASHINGTON (AP) — In his U.S. Capitol office, Rep. Jason Crow keeps several war mementos. Sitting on a shelf are his military identification tags, the tailfins of a spent mortar and a piece of ...