The M16 halftrack and its M45 Quadmount were designed to defend airfields from low-flying Japanese aircraft. But near ...

The M2 Browning was not the newest or most elegant weapon of World War II, but German troops encountered it everywhere: on bombers, tanks, halftracks, trucks, and defensive positions. Its real power ...

Few weapons have defined the tempo of modern warfare quite like the machine gun. It isn’t a new concept by any means, with the notion of rapid fire volleys being something dating back to the Age of ...