The 620-year-old solid piece of iron is as heavy as it looks. Examining this brutally simple hand cannon, it's hard to imagine that virtually all modern weaponry, and the tactics required to ...

An unusual cannon found underwater off the coast of Sweden in 2001 may be the oldest shipboard gun ever discovered in Europe, a new study finds. Pieces of cloth found inside the object — thought to be ...

I wonder if they were trying to make shaped charges or just placing omnidirectional explosives in strategic locations (or even artificially creating confinement). Brass was better (and more expensive) ...