During the Cold War the U.S. considered putting nuclear weapons on balloons and letting them float into enemy territory for a strike.

Combat exposes weapon flaws missed in testing like maintenance complexity and environmental stress that controlled trials cannot replicate. Many failed weapons were overdesigned or mismatched to ...

Wars are rarely fought with perfect equipment. Throughout history, militaries have fielded weapons they knew were flawed, ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hailed the country's "unique" nuclear-powered Burevestnik missile after the military carried out new tests of the long-range missile and several of Moscow's most ...