Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Army is seeking to buy 65,000 pounds of powdered sugar, a little-known but key ingredient in the widely-used smoke M18 grenade ...

The United States Army has a lot of personnel to feed, which is why it routinely buys 25 tons of food each month for a battalion-sized unit. That's a lot of chow for a good number of soldiers, but a ...

A version of this article appears in the September 15 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology. Soldiers use smoke grenades for concealment and to signal via the release of colored smoke. In the U.S.