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Ukrainian Officer’s Defiant Dispatch From Inside Mariupol’s Besieged Steel Plant
By Howard Altman / Updated Apr 29, 2022
The B-52 Flight Simulator Trains Of The Cold War
By Emma Helfrich / Updated Apr 29, 2022
Father Flew First F-15 Eagles Into Europe, Son Just Flew Them Out
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Apr 27, 2022
The One Time North Vietnam’s MiGs Attacked U.S. Navy Warships
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 22, 2022
Unique Soviet Monster Tank Designed To Survive A Nuclear Blast Has Roared Back To Life
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 31, 2022
F-15 Eagle Driver On What It Is Like Flying Against Ukraine’s Fighter Pilots
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Mar 29, 2022
X-32’s Test Pilot On Why It Lost To What Became The F-35
By Brett Tingley / Updated Feb 4, 2022
Bug Out To Your Own Decommissioned Atlas Missile Silo For $380k
By Brett Tingley / Updated Feb 1, 2022
An Air Stewardess Fell 33,000 Feet And Lived To Tell The Tale 50 Years Ago Today
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 27, 2022
The Secretive U-2 Spy Plane Missions Flown Out Of Norway’s Bodø Airbase
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 6, 2022
SEAL Team Six Founder Richard Marcinko Has Died
By Brian O'Rourke / Updated Dec 27, 2021
What It’s Like To Live And Work Inside White Sands Missile Range
By Randy Smith / Updated Dec 22, 2021
Flying Boats Flew Japan’s Little-Known Follow-On Raid On Pearl Harbor
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 8, 2021
This Myth-Busting Walk-Around Of The Soviet MiG-23 Flogger Fighter Is A Must-Watch
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 10, 2021
The Soviet Meteorit Mach-3 Cruise Missile Was A Colossal Cold War Oddity
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 9, 2021
Disembodied Voices Were Blasted Into The Jungle By The U.S. In Vietnam To Spook The Enemy
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Oct 29, 2021
An OV-10 Bronco Pilot’s Adventure Teaching Thai Flyers Forward Air Control
By ‘Danno’ / Updated Oct 28, 2021
Life On The High Seas Aboard A Tin Can Destroyer During The Cold War
By Juan Rivera / Updated Oct 21, 2021
Confessions Of A Navy F-14 Fleet Pilot Turned F-5 Aggressor
By Francesco "Paco" Chierici and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 28, 2021
Confessions Of An A-6 Intruder Pilot
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 28, 2021
The Army Acquired Its Own Hovercraft In The 1980s. It Didn’t Go Well.
By Brian O'Rourke / Updated Sep 23, 2021
Two NATO Fighters Accidentally Flew Behind The Iron Curtain 60 Years Ago Today
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Sep 16, 2021
Looking To The Past And Thinking Of The Present As We Reflect On 9/11 And Never Forgetting
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 11, 2021
What 9/11 Was Like For The Only American That Watched It From Space
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 11, 2021
Previously Unreleased Photo Shows Secret Service Armored Limos Damaged On 9/11
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 8, 2021
New Light Shed On The Once Top Secret Tacit Blue Aircraft By Veteran Program Manager
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 10, 2021
The Mach-3 XF-108 Rapier Would Have Packed Its Big Missiles On A Revolver-Like Launcher
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jul 14, 2021
You Can Bug-Out To Your Own Cold War Communications Bunker For A Cool $695,000
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jul 13, 2021
Marines Had An “Aircraft Carrier On Land” With Catapults And Arresting Gear In Vietnam
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jul 9, 2021
The B-17 Bomber’s Combat Debut 80 Years Ago Today Was A Fiasco
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jul 9, 2021
The Most Replayed Carrier Crash In History Happened 70 Years Ago Today
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 23, 2021
The Soviet-Era Hurricane High-Speed Missile Boat Had Absolutely Gargantuan Hydrofoils
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 12, 2021
Texan F-16 Viper Appears In Vietnam-Era Green And Tan Camouflage
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 10, 2021
What It Was Like Dogfighting In The F-14 Against America’s Secret MiG Squadron
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jun 3, 2021
A Boeing 707 That Survived The ‘Black September’ Hijacking Spree Is Getting Scrapped
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 11, 2021
With No Ejection Seats, Skyknight Fighter Crews Slid Down A Tunnel To Salvation
By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 5, 2021
Royal Navy Is Painting Its Patrol Boats In WWI-Style Dazzle Camouflage
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 27, 2021
The Hunt For A Soviet Submarine Desperately Trying To Sneak Through The Strait Of Gibraltar
By Juan Rivera / Updated Apr 23, 2021
Canada’s CF-105 Arrow Interceptor Is The Cold War Legend That Refuses To Die
By Stephen Walker / Updated Mar 25, 2021
Yes, The U.S. Navy Also Took The Spitfire Into Battle During World War II
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Mar 5, 2021
New Docs Show 1983 NATO Exercise Led To The Soviets Arming 100 Jets For Nuclear War
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 18, 2021
Take A Rare Look Inside Russia’s Doomsday Ballistic Missile Warning System
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 16, 2021
The Oddly Shaped USS Grayback Was A Cold War Submarine Like No Other
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Feb 14, 2021
Royal Air Force Turned A Torpedo Bomber Into A Flying Flamethrower During World War II
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 20, 2021
The Story Of The Jet That Would Have Delivered South Africa’s Nuclear Bomb
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 18, 2021
Here Is What Happened The Last Time The U.S. Capitol Was Stormed Over Two Centuries Ago
By Brett Tingley / Updated Jan 8, 2021