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A-10

Early On, The A-10 Warthog’s Legendary Gun Was Both a Blessing and a Curse

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

U.S. Air Force

Is The United States Firing Off “Electricity Bombs” in Syria?

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

C-130

Unusual High-Altitude Spy Plane Appears at Special Operations Exercise

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Helicopters

Unmasking The S-92 Mystery Helicopter In Syria Which Was Spotted Again Near Raqqa

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Flankers

People Are Freaking Out Over Video Of Su-35 Practicing For Moscow Air Show

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

A-6

The USS Ranger Sailed With A Unique “Grumman Air Wing” In The Mid 1980s

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Stealth

The U.S. Coast Guard May Be Flying a Unique Stealthy Spy Plane

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Royal Australian Air Force

Australia Set To Become One Of The World’s Top Aerial Electronic Warfare Powers

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Helicopters

Watch This Russian Mi-35 Hind Do What No Other Attack Helicopter Can

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

F-35

Navy Presents Revealing F-35 Helmet Display Videos And Flight Test Dangers

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Military Aviation History

The Crazy Aircraft Carrier Hangar Catapults Of World War II

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Air-To-Air

The AGM-122 “Sidearm” Came To Be From A Novel Missile Recycling Scheme

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

F-22

Study On Restarting F-22 Production Has Finally Arrived, Here’s The Verdict

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

A-10

The U.S. Air Force Almost Rented a Squadron of A-10 Warthogs to Colombia

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

F/A-18E/F

This Syria-Bound Super Hornet Is Carrying A Uniquely Massive Bomb Load

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Red Flag

Air Force Aggressor Squadron Has A Surprising Secondary Mission

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

160th SOAR "Nightstalkers"

Nightstalkers Show Off For the Public With a Dramatic Urban Air Assault

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Airborne Sensors

Missile Defense Agency Seeking A High-Flying Drone For “Airborne Laser 2.0”

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Air-To-Air

Israel Is Testing An Air-To-Air Variant Of Its Dolphin-Nosed Stunner Missile

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Air-Launched Hypersonic Missiles

Here’s How Hypersonic Weapons Could Completely Change the Face of Warfare

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

SR-72

What’s The Deal With Lockheed’s Gabbing About The Secretive Hypersonic SR-72?

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

F-35

Israel Is Getting A Single F-35 Test Jet Unlike Any Other

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

F-14

Remember The Fallen With This Chilling “Grumman Cats” Missing Man Formation

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

F-35

F-35 Pilots Dress For Chemical and Biological Warfare For The First Time

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

J-20

China’s Own “Catfish” Flying Avionics Testbed For The J-20 Fighter Emerges

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

RQ-170

Exclusive: Uniquely Configured RQ-170 Stealth Spy Drone Appears At Vandenberg AFB

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

F/A-18

Celebrate 4th Of July With This Exhilarating F/A-18 Super Hornet Cockpit Footage

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 4, 2020

U.S. Air Force

Major Airfield Expansion On Wake Island Seen By Satellite As U.S. Preps For Pacific Fight

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Air Force

The U.S. Air Force’s Last Tail Gunner Has Retired

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-4

The Time A F-4G Wild Weasel’s Anti-Radiation Missile Blew Apart A B-52’s Tail

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Area 51

Family Demands To Know How A 200-Pound Antique Anvil Disappeared From Area 51

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Air Force

Ryan Aeronautical Had Big Plans for the Vertifan Jump Jet

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

French Air Force

France Turned the B-26 Invader Into a Colonial Night Fighter

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Air Force

These Unassuming Planes Have Been Key Players in America’s War on Terror

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-14

A Tomcat Pilot’s Early Struggles to Tame the Mighty F-14

By Paul Nickell And Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-117

The Mysterious Case Of The F-117 Nighthawk’s Flip-Down Radar Locators

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-16

USAF’s Deadliest F-16 Pilot Talks F-15 Retirement, Syria, and Pilot Shortage

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

P-8

15 Questions With One of VP-5’s ‘Mad Foxes’ on Flying the P-8 Poseidon

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-14

Taking The F-14A Tomcat On Cruise For My First Time

By Paul Nickell And Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F/A-18

A Hornet Weapon Systems Officer’s View of the Navy’s Suffocating Jet Crews

By Joe “Smokin” Ruzicka

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Special Operations Aviation

Secretive U.S. Task Force Has Been Criss-Crossing Asian Skies

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

C-5

Lockheed Once Pitched the Massive C-5 as a Flying Command Center

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

160th SOAR "Nightstalkers"

Shedding Some Light On The Pentagon’s Most Shadowy Aviation Units

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U-2

The Pentagon Thought it Could Retire the U-2 in 1969

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Topgun

This ’80s Promo Video Will Make You Want A F-20 Tigershark So Freaking Bad

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-35B

Here’s the USMC’s Plan for ‘Lightning Carriers’ Brimming With F-35Bs

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Royal Canadian Air Force

Watch These Old World War II Bombers Launch Target Drones

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-22

F-22 Now Has AIM-9X But Still No Helmet Mounted Display To Use With It

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

UH-1

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army Turned Hueys Into “Mad Bombers”

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-14

How To Fight To Win In The F-14, A-4 and F-5 At The Navy’s Topgun School

By Paul Nickell And Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Helicopters

A Helicopter Crash Almost Kept Gene Cernan From Going To The Moon

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Air Force

The Air Force Desperately Needs A Stealth Tanker

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

B-2

Why the B-2 Stealth Bomber Was Used to Strike ISIS Camps in Libya

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Military Aviation History

Aircraft Carrier “Bow Prongs” and Why They Are Disappearing

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Unmanned

ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet On Abrams Tank Is A Sign Of What’s To Come

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-117

Reagan Invited Thatcher To Join The Top Secret F-117 Program

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Air Force

John Glenn’s Combat Nickname Was “Old Magnet Ass” For All The Right Reasons

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

A-6

Behold the Pioneering A-6C Intruder With its Massive Ventral Sensor Pod

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Fighters

SAAB’s Viggen Could Stick a Landing and Takeoff Again Like No Other Fighter

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-16

This Bird Strike Reminds Us it Doesn’t Take a Missile to Down a Fighter

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-117

The “Toxic Death” Paint Scheme Was The F-117 Nighthawk’s Most Outrageous

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 2, 2020

F-22

Now the Head Of the USAF Is Jumping On the F-22 Production Re-Start Bandwagon

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 2, 2020

F-35

Could the F-35 Become the Biggest Electronic Intelligence Collection System Ever Devised?

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 2, 2020

F-111

Flying the Iconic Swing-Wing F-111 Aardvark at the Height of the Cold War

By Richard Crandall and Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 2, 2020