Growing up on a farm in Minnesota, Charles Lindbergh often lay in the grass and looked up at the clouds.
The young boy wanted to be closer to them, and the only way he knew how was to learn to fly. His father was against the idea, but Lindbergh was determined. From his first time at the controls of an airplane in 1922, he was transfixed.
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“My early flying seemed an experience beyond mortality,” Lindbergh recalled.
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The Army has put a hold on a proposed wave of closures that would have shuttered more than 20 official museums on Army bases around the country. Instead, the service will fall in line with rules set down by Congress this year that direct each military service to establish a “museum system.”
The Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps each operate a handful of established formal museums, but the Army’s 45-facility museum network is by far the largest and least centralized, spread across nearly 100 buildings and warehouses on bases across the U.S. and overseas.
The US Department of State has authorised a potential Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to Singapore, covering the acquisition of Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System-Alternative Warhead (GMLRS-AW).
General Dynamics Land Systems UK informed Army Technology of its rigorous testing procedures for Ajax despite DE&S concerns.
The Armalite Rifle platform has been serving the United States military for more than 60 years, with its original adoption dating back to 1963. While the M16 was initially met with plenty of justified criticism, the platform and the 5.56 NATO ammunition it uses have come a long way.
When you look at what a frontline infantryman needs, it’s not surprising why it was adopted and why it’s stayed in service for so long. But, like anything else, it’s not without its flaws. In particular, there is one flaw with the M4 that, if fixed, could make it a near-perfect carbine.
S. Trimble, AvWeek
A new variant of a low-cost, air-launched cruise missile quietly entered development for the U.S.
John Hill, Airforce Tech.
Iran’s degraded air defence has allowed the U.S. to step up its bombing campaign.
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Mikayla Easley, DefenseScoop
Introduced in 2025, the Group 3 drone is an inexpensive, one-way attack platform that can drop smaller munitions and provide non-kinetic effects
On July 4, 2026, the United States turns 250. At Cogs of War, we plan to mark the occasion the way we know best: by examining how Americans have built, adapted, and fought with technology in war.From David Bushnell’s Turtle submarine to the Gatling gun, nuclear warhead, GPS, and AI, American defense innovation has always been more about people working at the edge of constraint to deliver advantage in war — improvising, scaling, and sometimes breaking institutions — than any singular invention.