Military weapons aren't always as straightforward as you might think. Over the years, there have been all kinds of odd tests and designs. Here are just a few of the strangest WW2 weapons ever to be ...

World War II accelerated the shift from bolt-action rifles to semi-automatic and automatic weapons that redefined infantry tactics. Mass production innovations like metal stamping enabled nations to ...

Few weapons of World War II inspired the same fear as white phosphorus, a substance that burned, blinded, and suffocated all at once while filling the battlefield with choking smoke. We examine how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People take images of a flower installation commemorating the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing BEIJING ...