I recently purchased the receiver shown above at a military antique store in Lake ... So pick up some surplus WW2 radio gear next time you see it and press it back into service.

Military spending not only has national and global impacts, it affects the economy too. The United States spends more on the ...

After World War II, the M22 was quickly retired and largely ... An interesting postwar anecdote involved a farmer who attempted to use surplus M22s as tractors, only to find them impractical ...

In the U.S. and elsewhere, architects studied the idea of converting old battleships, or sometimes unfinished battleship hulls, into aircraft carriers. In France, engineers studied the possibility ...

Twenty dollars. That’s what a 315-­gallon auxiliary fuel “belly tank” for a World War II P-38 Lightning fighter plane cost in ...

Antiques Roadshow expert Mark Smith was left impressed when he was presented with a green box that was thought to be a tool ...

Back in the day, Kevin Lockwood enjoyed tinkering with Chevy Camaros but soon realized he wanted to combine his interest in ...

Ukraine’s defense against the Russian invasion has been uniquely dependent on private shipments of food, laptops and ...

Lahti left the army in 1926 and started a private ... many were lost or destroyed during World War II. There were also some sold by surplus arms dealers in the U.S. However, most Lahti pistols ...

The name Grumman is rightly famous in the world of aviation. For starters, the company developed the iconic Grumman Lunar ...

In 1944, Captain Ronald Reagan of the Army ... World War II, quite possibly using the same personnel and the same radio control technology that was developed during Operation Aphrodite, war ...

As China's military spending surges, the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific has shifted. This has significant implications ...