Weapons

Sometimes, a weapons designer gets tired of making regular, boring guns and bombs and decides to make something . . . special. The results are often…

Catapults and crossbows have a certain simple mechanical charm that just can’t be matched by the most advanced missiles and rifles of…

Weapons are the idiomatic double-edged sword. They could kill or save lives, depending on how they are used. Over the years, creative…

Continuing our journey into overpowered weapons from mythology, we now look to the Middle East and the three main Abrahamic religions: Judaism,…

For most of the history of warfare, defensive technology was far in advance of offensive weapons. A stout wall was enough to…

Celtic mythology is mainly from Britain, though not so much England. These are the tales of the druids, the Irish Otherworld, the…

Give a man a fish, and he’ll eat for a day. Give a hero a modified nail gun and a box full…

In all of human history, the most devastating weapon has been the nuclear bomb. With just one piece of ordnance, a military…

Ancient weapons may have been forged from wood, stone, and lower-grade metal, but they were all deadly. Recent discoveries unearthed rare swords…

Despite their knuckle-dragging, backwards-looking territorialism, the war machines of the world are under constant pressure to stay one step ahead of the…