The Most Evil Weapons Ever Created (Video)

WNU Editor: Video is from "We Are The Mighty".

Ranking Machine Guns

Stephen Gutowski, Washington Free Beacon: Machine Guns Ranked

WNU Editor: The above video ranks the top ten. The Washington Free Beacon article ranks the popular top 4.

These Are The Weapons That The Pentagon Should Retire ASAP

Photo: A Minuteman-III missile in its silo. Wikipedia

Dave Majumdar, National Interest: 4 U.S. Weapons of War That Need to Be Retired Now

America's military sports some of the finest weapons imaginable. However, there are a few exceptions...

WNU Editor: No argument from me on these four .... I would add a few more but I will be spending a good part of my day listing them.

Why U.S. Soldiers Love The .50 Caliber Machine Gun

We Are The Mighty: 17 Photos That Show Why Troops Absolutely Love The .50 Caliber Machine Gun

WNU Editor: One more thing to put on my "bucket list".

Are These The Five Most Overrated Weapons Of War?

An A-10 from the 81st Fighter Squadron, Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany. Wikipedia

The Five Most Overrated Weapons of War -- Robert Farley, National Interest

“Overrated” is a challenging concept. In sports, a player can be “great” and “overrated” at the same time. Future Major League Baseball Hall of Famer Derek Jeter, for example, is quite clearly a “great” player, well deserving of the first ballot invitation he will likely receive. However, as virtually all statistically minded aficionados of the game have noted, he is highly overrated (especially on defense) by the baseball press. Similarly, no one doubts that Kobe Bryant is an outstanding basketball player. However, many doubt that he is quite as good as his fans (or the NBA commentariat) seem to believe.

The five weapons of war listed below are “overrated” in the sense that they occupy a larger space in the defense-security conversation than they really deserve. Some of them are fantastic, effective systems, while others are not. All of them take up more ink than they should, and (often) distract from more important issues of warfighting and defense contracting.

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My Comment: A lot of sacred cows are pilloried in this post.