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The AGM-86C Cruise Missile That Introduced GPS Guided Weaponry Is Bowing Out Of Service

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 24, 2019

This Mini Documentary Shows What A Sailor’s Life Is Like Aboard A U.S. Navy Destroyer

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 6, 2019

CIA Releases Photo Taken Just Before Its Operatives First Entered Afghanistan After 9/11

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 20, 2019

You Can Buy Paul Allen’s MiG-29 Fulcrum Jet Fighter

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 13, 2019

Confessions Of A U.S. Marine F/A-18 Hornet Maintainer

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 25, 2019

Remembering Hugh Hefner And His Iconic Jet Black DC-9 “Big Bunny”

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 16, 2019

Confessions Of A C-2 Greyhound Carrier Onboard Delivery Pilot

By James Wallace and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 9, 2019

The French Navy Is Finally Retiring These Antique Helicopters After 55 Years of Service

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019

Trump Steps Over The Line

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 30, 2019

The USAF Is Rebuilding World War II-Era 40mm Shells for its AC-130U Gunships

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

Declassified Document Shows Reagan Had the NSA Monitor Vietnam for Details on POW/MIAs

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

The US Army Is Buying New Boats to Replace Vietnam-Era Landing Craft

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

This F-16 Unit Battling ISIS Has Legendarily Rebellious Revolutionary War Roots

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019

Army Tried To Get Data On Soviet Lasers With Bond-Like Sensors Hidden In Consumer Cameras

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 28, 2019

Locomotive “4141” Painted Like Air Force One Will Carry George Bush To His Final Resting Place

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 27, 2019

Don’t Be So Quick To Blame Trump’s No-Show At WWI Ceremony On The President Himself

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 4, 2019

This In-Depth Interview With Chuck Yeager Is An Absolute Must Watch

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 5, 2019

It Has Been One Hell Of An Important Two Weeks For U.S. Military Aviatrixes

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Feb 4, 2019

Bizarre Chase Through High Security Nevada Nuclear Test Site Ends In Deadly Shooting

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 29, 2019

Russia Just Imported More World War II Era T-34 Tanks Than They Will Buy New T-14s This Year

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 9, 2019

Read Mattis’s Final Communique To Those In Uniform “Keeping Watch By Night” Over Christmas

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 24, 2018

Navy Hornet Adorned With George Bush’s Name To Lead 21 Jet Flyover For Presidential Funeral

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 4, 2018

WWII Vintage USS Oak Ridge Is Being Auctioned Off, Maybe The Navy Should Buy It Back

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 6, 2018

Fair Skies And Tailwinds John McCain, You Will Be Sorely Missed

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 27, 2018

Lockheed’s Wayne Roberts On Looping The Hercules, Test Flying, And All Things C-130

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 10, 2018

The Talos Missile Had A Wonderfully Complex Shipboard Assembly Line Of A Launch System

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 2, 2018

The World’s Oldest Active Fighter Pilot, A Grandfather Of Four, Retires

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 19, 2018

The British Army Hoped This Rifle Could’ve Helped Halt The American Revolution

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 4, 2018

For Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, It’s All About Getting To The Prototype Stage

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 26, 2018

Use Of Raider Moniker For Modern Special Ops Marines Was Hotly Contested Internally

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 5, 2018

There Is A Magical Place Called Bomber Camp Where B-17s And B-24s Still Drop Bombs

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 5, 2018

Listen To A P-82 Twin Mustang Purr, A Glorious Sound Not Heard In Over 30 Years

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 30, 2018

GE Really Wants To Sell You A 30mm Cannon Pod In this Classic Marketing Reel

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 16, 2018

Veteran Aerospace Reporter’s Old File Cabinet Is Full Of 2000s Military Treasure

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 7, 2018

This Ancient Suit Of Elephant Armor Holds The Record For The Largest Of Its Kind

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 20, 2018

Test Pilot Recounts Flying Both Have Blue And Tacit Blue Experimental Stealth Jets

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 28, 2017

The First Giant Mecha Robot Fight Was Lame, But This Real Cold War Era Mecha Wasn’t

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 19, 2017

This Northrop Grumman Exec Has Some Very Interesting Airplane Models On His Desk

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 3, 2017

Audio From The 1999 Shoot Down Of F-117 “Vega 31” Over Serbia Is Chilling

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Aug 24, 2017

Buzz Aldrin Blasts Off With The USAF Thunderbirds For A Record Flight

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 3, 2017

Awesome Photos Show Early Days of Canada’s Most Elite Special Operators

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 13, 2017

This Is What USAF Bomber Pilots Would Wear During a Nuclear Apocalypse

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 28, 2017

Russia Breaks Arms Control Treaty By Deploying Land-Based Cruise Missiles

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 14, 2017

You Can Buy The World’s Largest Operational Flying Boat For About The Price Of A P-51 Mustang

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 28, 2016

These Sneaky Russian Snipers’ Scopes Are Anything But Stealthy

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 15, 2016

The RAF Celebrated The Queen’s 90th Today With This Aerial Parade Over Buckingham Palace

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 11, 2016

This Nic Cage Film Based On The USS Indianapolis Disaster Doesn’t Look That Horrible—Or Maybe It Does

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 25, 2016

Trump Says He Will Talk Directly With North Korean Dictator Kim Jong Un

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 18, 2016

Watch This German Tornado Rip Up a Steep Canyon at Extremely Low Level

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 10, 2016