One of Maxim's early prototypes could fire 666 rounds in a minute – around 11 bullets every second. In the battlefield conditions of WW1 this meant ... was the brutal artillery bombardments ...

Stefan Westmann was a German conscripted in 1914, and recalls the terror and horror of being under heavy artillery fire in the trenches. He expresses horror and ...

It also incorporates the self-loading, autonomous features that have made MLRS the premier rocket artillery system in the world. The HIMARS fire control system, electronics and communications ...

Field artillery soldiers are assigned to one of five military occupational specialties: fire control specialist (13J), cannon crew member (13B), fire support specialist (13F), firefinder radar ...

U.S. troops came under artillery fire from the Turkish military that landed within "a few hundred meters" of their position in Kobani, Syria, a Pentagon spokeswoman said Friday. By Paul Szoldra ...

The M198 155mm howitzer is a towed field artillery piece of a split trail carriage ... The M198 is capable of providing fire support in both indirect and direct fire capacities.

A fire can give off incredible amounts of heat. A room fire can range from 100 degrees at floor level to 1,200 or more degrees at the ceiling. Skin can burn with permanent injuries at 160 degrees. The ...

The school in Sarmin was being used to shelter people displaced by a government offensive Syrian government artillery fire killed nine people, including five children, in opposition-held Idlib ...

Tanks used in the Second World War evolved significantly compared to the Great War, going from slow, cumbersome armored ...

The latter was developed in WW1 as a chemical weapon to incapacitate ... After soldiers flee the trenches, surveillance ...

By Ivor Bennett, Moscow correspondent It was a classic curveball from Vladimir Putin. Initially, the Kremlin played it cool. "No plans to congratulate Donald Trump," it said, "the US is a hostile ...

Vladimir Putin is ready to discuss Ukraine with Donald Trump, but that doesn't mean he is willing to alter his demands, the Kremlin has said. The Russian president congratulated Mr Trump on ...