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5.45mm AK-12 rifle - Engineering technologies international forum. Wikimedia Commons

The AK-12 and AK-15: Russia's Latest Deadly Assault Rifles

By U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kamaile O. Long - http://www.af.mil/shared/media/photodb/photos/100710-F-7478L-590.jpg, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10880490

Imagine a U.S. Air Force That Never Built the B-52 Bomber

Russia's Next Big Military Sale: To Mexico?

Sailors stand aboard the Kokuryu submarine of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) during its fleet review at Sagami Bay, off Yokosuka, south of Tokyo October 15, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

How to Take on China's Navy: America Could Deploy Diesel Submarines

Ukiyoe nishiki-e woodblock print by Kobayashi Kiyochika Inoue Kichijirô depicting the Naval Battle of the Yellow Sea (Yalu River)in Korea (Chôsen Hôtô kaisen no zu) in the First Sino-Japanese War, dated 1894

When China and Japan Went to War

Taiwanese soldiers stand in front of M60A3 tanks during a military drill in Hualien, eastern Taiwan, January 30, 2018. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu

China vs. Taiwan: Would Beijing Ever Invade?

U.S. Navy Aviation Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Tilford Breedlove signals to the pilot of an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft, with the Strike Fighter Squadron 22, during an arrested landing on the flight deck of aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) in th

The Navy's Worst Fear: What Happens if an Aircraft Carrier Was Sunk?

A Chinese serviceman takes part in the Paratrooper's platoon competition for airborne squads, part of the International Army Games 2016, at the Rayevsky shooting range outside the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, Russia, August 8, 2016.

Everyone Knows China Is Building a World-Class Military. But They Need to Ask Why.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and his wife Ri Sol Ju pose beside Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife Peng Liyuan in Beijing, China, in this undated photo released June 20, 2018 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency.

Maximum Pressure RIP? China, Russia Throw Wrench in US Plans to Cut Off North Korea’s Oil

The U.S. Navy Has a New Plan to Find Deadly Mines in a War