The US Army moved fast to arm its Stryker armored vehicles with a powerful autocannon. The 30mm gun would even the odds with Russian and Chinese troop carriers. But the Army put in a large order ...

In the First World War, fighter aircraft typically had only two light machine guns. By the Second World War, the firepower ...

The Stryker is getting more firepower, and it’s safer for crews, too, after General Dynamics replaced the manned, unarmored turret. This post is appearing on Autoblog Military, Autoblog’s sub-site ...

(Kingman, Ariz.) It looked like fire lighting up the air, accompanied by a very loud noise, smoke and the sight of a large fiery explosion on the other side of a desert canyon. The backward thrust was ...

Key Points and Summary on A-10 Warthog Cannon - The heart of the A-10 Thunderbolt II "Warthog" is its legendary GAU-8/A Avenger, a 30mm, seven-barreled Gatling gun that produces the iconic "BRRRRT" ...

WASHINGTON (Army News Service) -- The first prototype Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle, outfitted with a 30 mm cannon, was delivered to the Army Thursday. The upgraded Stryker vehicle will be known as ...

Summary and Key Points: In the twilight of the Cold War, the U.S. Air Force explored replacing the A-10 Thunderbolt II, known for its 30mm GAU-8 Avenger cannon, with a variant of the F-16, dubbed the ...

Serbia's Military Technical Institute (MTI) rolled out the latest variant of the M-80 at the Partner 2023 exhibition in Belgrade. The BVP M-80AB2 is armed with a new Zastava 30 mm M12 autocannon, and ...

International attention has been drawn to tank warfare in Ukraine. Tanks have big guns, but medium-caliber cannons on other armored vehicles can be just as deadly. Those smaller cannons have "shaped ...