While the US military is accustomed to destroying faraway targets with Predator drones from the comfort of a chair in Nevada and building “Iron Man” suits for the Special Forces, Syrian insurgents ...

Finished DIY mortars loaded onto a pickup truck at the Free Syrian Army’s secret munitions factory in Aleppo. During my five months in Syria, there’s one remark I keep hearing from the rebels: we need ...

The Hammer Gun stands out as one of the strangest and most impractical homemade weapons ever built, demonstrating exactly why some DIY ideas should never be attempted. Engineered to fire a massive 50 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Collin Mayfield/Sipa USA/Newscom Illegal home-built guns are bringing libertarianism to the world. That's what the good people at ...

Under an awning in a bamboo thicket in northern Myanmar, an anti-coup fighter following instructions from YouTube welds scavenged steel into crude mortar rounds and shells to be fired at junta troops.

There is a great streak of ingenuity that runs through the American people. The phrase improvise, adapt, and overcome is intertwined into our military culture for a reason. Our troops are pros at ...

Ukraine's arsenal largely dated back to Soviet times when drones were unheard of - Copyright AFP Genya SAVILOV Ukraine's arsenal largely dated back to Soviet times ...

There are limits to what you can legally do with a gun you've created from a kit that doesn't include a registered receiver. You can't sell it, for example. So it's illegal to go into the manufacture ...

Sophia Feona Cantiller, a cum laude graduate in Computer Science from the University of the Philippines, swapped coding bugs for content buzz. Her true love? Writing stories. A hobbyist engineer has ...

Ukraine’s arsenal largely dated back to Soviet times when drones were unheard of – Copyright AFP Genya SAVILOV In a metal workshop in the industrial city of ...