Ever wonder how Civil War artillery shells actually detonated? This video breaks down the main fuse types time fuses, impact/percussion fuses, and the transitional designs in between. Using real ...

During the Battle of the Bulge, Allied artillery was failing in the frozen forests of Europe. German infantry advanced beneath trees and deep snow, protected from ground explosions that should have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A man in France was rushed to the operating room after shoving a 37mm brass-and-copper "collectible shell" from WW1 up his rectum.

Health professionals have long had to deal with patients who inadvisably shoved a whole range of foreign objects up their behinds, often requiring medical intervention to retrieve them. It’s a ...

The war in Ukraine has become a grinding test of attrition, where movement on the map is measured in metres, not miles. In the frozen wastelands where this fight is being waged, it feels never-ending.

WARSAW, Feb 11 (Reuters) - U.S. defence supplier Northrop Grumman (NOC.N), opens new tab and Polish arms group Niewiadow-PGM (GNSP.WA), opens new tab aim to make more than 180,000 artillery shells ...

A surprise weapon is hitting Russian tanks in Ukraine: US laser-guided Copperhead 155mm artillery rounds from the 1980s. This is not just the US Army dumping some of its outdated stock to an ally ...

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Soldiers in the Arizona Army National Guard apparently have fired their last artillery shell. Guard officials have shuttered the state's only two field artillery battalions, forcing about 700 soldiers ...