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Behold The SR-71 Blackbird’s Nest At Dawn
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 1, 2021
Reflections And Wisdom From A Cold War Submarine Hunter
By Kevin Noonan and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 30, 2020
The Making Of A Submarine Hunting S-3 Viking Crewman
By Kevin Noonan and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 30, 2020
The Tale Of A World War II British Submarine That Shot Down An Enemy Plane With A Torpedo
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 29, 2020
Britain’s Shackleton Radar Plane Was Born As An Already Antiquated Cold War Dinosaur
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 24, 2020
10 Fictional ‘Black Jet’ Toys, Models, And Video Games From The 1980s To Today
By Brett Tingley / Updated Dec 22, 2020
We Talk Tomcats With A Veteran Navy Test Pilot On The F-14’s 50th Birthday
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 21, 2020
F-16s Rescue Desperate Special Operators In This Chilling Account With Gun Camera Footage
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 18, 2020
Chasing Soviet Missiles In The Cobra Ball From A Desolate Rock In The Aleutian Islands
By Robert Hopkins / Updated Dec 16, 2020
The Soviet Union’s Burya Cruise Missile Was A Little-Known Cold War Monster
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 15, 2020
Inside The Air Force’s Elite Aggressor Program With One Of Its Top Pilots
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Dec 15, 2020
Chuck Yeager’s Amazing Life Told Through The Airplanes He Flew
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 9, 2020
Yes, Serbian Air Defenses Did Hit Another F-117 During Operation Allied Force In 1999
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Dec 2, 2020
F-15 Eagle Pilot Explains Exactly How He Downed Three Migs During Two Wars
By Jamie Hunter / Updated Nov 27, 2020
How A Canadian Pilot Became The First Westerner To Fly The Feared MiG-29 Fulcrum
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The British Had A Plan To Drop Anthrax Laced Cattle Feed Over Germany In 1942
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
This Was The Largest Conventional Explosion America Ever Set Off
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Here’s How An EC-135 Crew Pulled Off One Of The Most Jaw-Dropping Air Show Takeoffs Ever
By Robert Hopkins / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Russia Releases “Tsar Bomba” Test Footage Of The Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Blast Ever
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The Mysterious Cold War Case Of Unidentified Aircraft Descending On Loring Air Force Base
By Brett Tingley / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The Forgotten Fireball Made The First Jet-Powered Carrier Landing By Accident
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Yes, The United States Did Draw Up A Plan To Drop 80 Nuclear Weapons On North Korea
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
You Can Buy The World’s Only Flyable P-82 Twin Mustang For $12,000,000
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The Day The Royal Air Force Lost Six Jet Fighters In Just 45 Minutes
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
How Israel Got This MiG-21 That Sean Connery Posed Next To Was Like A Real-Life Bond Movie
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Britain’s Cold War-Era Monster Destroyer Has Finally Been Retired
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The TOZ-81 ‘Mars’ Gun Was The Soviet Union’s Ultimate Space Revolver
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Her Majesty’s Death Ray: How The AIM-9L Sidewinder Vanquished The Argentine Air Force
By Rowland White / Updated Nov 27, 2020
Russia Still Uses This Cold War Relic Of An Underground Anti-Ship Missile System In Crimea
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
The AH-1W Super Cobra Has Been Retired From The Marine Corps After 34 Years Of Service
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 27, 2020
This Soviet Twin-Rotor Helicopter Design Was A High-Speed Rival To The Mi-24 Hind
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 25, 2020
Navy Maritime Patrol Planes Flying From Cold War Base In Bermuda For First Time In Decades
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 20, 2020
Watch The Biggest Unexploded World War Two Bomb Ever Found in Poland Blow Up
By Thomas Newdick / Updated Nov 13, 2020
The US Moves Nukes in Booby Trapped Tractor Trailers Straight Out Of An Action Movie
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Oct 20, 2020
The Secretive Inventor Of The Navy’s Bizarre ‘UFO Patents’ Finally Talks
By Brett Tingley / Updated Oct 9, 2020
Veteran Sailor On Why Navy Ships Can Be Most Vulnerable In Port And How To Change That
By Aaron Amick / Updated Jul 15, 2020
Veteran Flight Tester On How The YA-7F Strikefighter Was Really A Jet Recycling Program
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 10, 2020
Skyhawks Over Cuba: VC-10 “Challengers” And Their TA-4J’s Unique Cold War Mission
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Making Steam: The Life And Times Of A U.S. Navy Chief Engineer
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Rogoway’s Reviews: Christopher Nolan’s War Epic Dunkirk
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Making Steam: High Seas Tales And Commentary On Today’s Navy From A Chief Engineer
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
US Navy Aircraft Carriers Had Escalators Just Like At The Mall
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
The USS Ranger Sailed With A Unique “Grumman Air Wing” In The Mid 1980s
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
The Crazy Aircraft Carrier Hangar Catapults Of World War II
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
Remember The Fallen With This Chilling “Grumman Cats” Missing Man Formation
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 5, 2020
The U.S. Air Force’s Last Tail Gunner Has Retired
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
The Time A F-4G Wild Weasel’s Anti-Radiation Missile Blew Apart A B-52’s Tail
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Family Demands To Know How A 200-Pound Antique Anvil Disappeared From Area 51
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Ryan Aeronautical Had Big Plans for the Vertifan Jump Jet
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
USAF’s Deadliest F-16 Pilot Talks F-15 Retirement, Syria, and Pilot Shortage
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
7 Revolutionary Hardware Changes the US Navy Should Make in the Trump Era
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
Taking The F-14A Tomcat On Cruise For My First Time
By Paul Nickell And Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
The Pentagon Thought it Could Retire the U-2 in 1969
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020
This ’80s Promo Video Will Make You Want A F-20 Tigershark So Freaking Bad
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 3, 2020
The U.S. Navy Tried to Turn Whale Songs Into Secret Code
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 3, 2020