This is a video of firearms expert and the UK’s Royal Armouries museum curator Jonathan Ferguson (complete with an “I’m Your Huckleberry” t-shirt under his blazer) reacting to and seriously discussing a variety of the outlandish weapons seen in the video game DOOM: The Dark Ages. That look on his

This is a video from Brick Technology (previously) of a quaint LEGO town being destroyed by various LEGO war machines. It begins with a battering ram, but as the town ramps up its defenses in the form of a ravine, a bridge-crossing machine is built, followed by a crossbow and

This is a clip of a group of hardcore gamers playing ‘World Of Tanks’ with a custom desk-mounted cannon (and Volkswagen steering wheel). The cannon uses C02 and 2-liter soda bottles for ammunition, and produces some insane kickback when fired, ejecting a smoking shell afterwards. That’s absolutely nuts, and I’ve

Developed by defense contractor Onyx Industries, the United States Marine Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) is currently testing a quadruped robot with an AI-powered rifle attached to its back capable of bullseyeing womp rats with the precision of Luke Skywalker in his T-16 back home. Will the future of war

Note: Some appropriately colorful language from the people filming. This is a video of a pilot ejecting from an F-35B Lightning II fighter jet at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth in Texas after a failed attempted at a vertical landing. Thankfully, the pilot is fine, but

Because the robotic apocalypse can’t come soon enough, this is a video from Chinese defense contractor Kestrel Defence featuring its Blood-Wing/Red Wing drone deploying a robotic war dog armed with a machine gun. So, if you were wondering what the beginning of the end looks like, this is definitely it.

In loose lips news, this is a video testing the Air Force’s new ‘Quicksink’ missile, capable of splitting even large ships in two and sending them to Davey Jones’s locker in a hurry. Wow! Thank goodness these didn’t exist when I was a pirate! “When were you a pirate?” During

This is a graphic created by Carrie Patrick comparing the weights of various swords to common household objects like cans of chili, loaves of bread, boots, and children. Children thankfully not being that common a household object in my home aside, I learned a lot by looking at the chart.