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Mexican Light Attack Plane Strafes Cartel Forces After Arrest Of El Chapo’s Son (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 5, 2023

Air Traffic Controller Details Sea Of Red Tape That Mired 9/11 Response

By Emma Helfrich / Updated Sep 11, 2022

B-1B Bombers Are Hunting Illegal Fishing Boats Off South America

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Sep 9, 2022

King Air Plane Down, Pilot In Custody After Threatening Walmart (Updated)

By Stetson Payne / Updated Sep 3, 2022

Army’s New 9mm Submachine Guns Are Ready To Help Protect VIPs

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 19, 2022

U.S. Nuclear Convoy Guards’ New Pistol Looks Right Out Of John Wick

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2022

Deadly Gas Cloud Caught On Tape Engulfing Ship In Jordan

By Oliver Parken / Updated Jun 27, 2022

President Evacuated After Plane Flew Too Close To Delaware Beach Home

By Stetson Payne / Updated Jun 4, 2022

Air Scare In The Capital Was Caused By The Golden Knights Parachute Team (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 20, 2022

U.S. Intelligence Community Still Cannot Attribute Havana Syndrome To A ‘Foreign Actor’

By Brett Tingley / Updated Feb 2, 2022

You Can Buy This 27-Ton FBI Mobile Command Center Truck

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Feb 2, 2022

Swedish Police Arrest Russian National Accused Of Flying Drone Over Royal Palace

By Brett Tingley / Updated Feb 1, 2022

Swedish Security Agency Declares A National Event As Drone Incursions Over Nuclear Sites Grow

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 17, 2022

Kazakhstani Troops Caught Wearing Unsanctioned Blue U.N. Peacekeeping Helmets During Crackdown

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 10, 2022

Kazakhstan’s President Issues Shoot-To-Kill Order As Unrest Continues

By Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 7, 2022

An S-3 Viking Once Flew A Captured Terrorist On A Record-Breaking Flight To The United States

By Kevin Noonan / Updated Dec 2, 2021

Tucson Police Helicopter Chased Eerily Similar Craft Five Years Before Recent Mystery Drone Incident

By Brett Tingley and Marc Cecotti / Updated Nov 19, 2021

Bureaucracy And Chaos Strangled The Military’s Response To The Capitol Riot

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 18, 2021

Ecuadorian Navy Sailing Ship Catches Low-Profile Narco Speedboat

By Thomas Newdick / Updated Oct 25, 2021

Tucson Mystery Drone Had Rotors According To Border Patrol Helicopter Aircrew’s Emails

By Brett Tingley / Updated Sep 22, 2021

Radio Transmissions From Police Helicopter’s Chase Of Bizarre Craft Over Tucson Add To Mystery

By Brett Tingley and Marc Cecotti / Updated Aug 20, 2021

Security Surrounding Nuclear Football Being Officially Reviewed In Aftermath Of Capitol Siege

By Brett Tingley / Updated Jul 20, 2021

Police Helicopter Crew Says Mysterious Craft They Chased Was “Not Like Any Other” Drone

By Brett Tingley / Updated Jun 24, 2021

Investigation Launched Into Border Patrol Helicopter’s Low-Flying Attempt To Disperse Protesters

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 8, 2021

Border Patrol Helicopter Just Tried To Disperse A Protest Using Its Rotor Downwash

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 8, 2021

New Details Emerge On The “Highly Modified Drone” That Outran Police Helicopters Over Tucson

By Brett Tingley / Updated Jun 1, 2021

Belarus Now Wants You To Believe Hamas Sent Bomb Scare That Led To Journalist’s Capture

By Thomas Newdick / Updated May 24, 2021

Border Patrol Helicopter Had Bizarre Encounter With Mysterious “Highly Modified” Drone (Updated)

By Brett Tingley / Updated May 22, 2021

Turkish Cops Now Have Their Own Attack Helicopters

By Thomas Newdick / Updated Apr 9, 2021

Park Police Helicopter Makes Dramatic Landing Outside US Capitol After Car Rams Barrier (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 4, 2021

U-2 Flight Along The Border Yesterday Wasn’t A Surveillance Mission

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 2, 2021

FBI’s Elite Hostage Rescue Team Is Now Flying Gloss Black UH-60 Helicopters

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 4, 2021

The Polish Military Is Now Officially Armed With The Warmate Suicide Drone

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Feb 19, 2021

The Ultimate Guide To Surveillance Aircraft Available To Help Safeguard The Inauguration

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 19, 2021

Listen To What The Capitol’s ‘Giant Voice’ Alert System Sounds Like When It Goes Into Lockdown

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 18, 2021

25,000 Guardsmen Are In The Capital, Five Times The Troops In Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq Combined

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 17, 2021

Capitol Siege Shines Light On Vast Underground Tunnel Network

By Joseph Trevithick and Thomas Newdick / Updated Jan 9, 2021

Why Plainclothes Police Had Striped Reflective Tape On Their Glocks During The Capitol Siege

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jan 7, 2021

U.S. Capitol Under Siege (Updated)

By The War Zone staff / Updated Jan 7, 2021

From NASA To Amtrak, These Are All The Government Agencies With Tactical Teams

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 27, 2020

Watch This Spanish Customs Speedboat Go Full Miami Vice By Ramming A Smuggler

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 17, 2020

New Details About Controversial Army Helicopter Flights In DC Emerge Ahead Of Tense Election

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 3, 2020

The Air Force Just Tested “Robot Dogs” For Use In Base Security

By Brett Tingley and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 7, 2020

Veteran Military Helicopter Pilot On Why Hovering Over Protestors Was Dangerous And Stupid

By Chris "Ox" Harmer / Updated Jun 3, 2020

Military Helicopters Descend On Washington In Bizarre Very Low-Altitude Show Of Force (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 2, 2020

White House OKs Rules Giving Troops Along Mexico Border New Authority To Use Lethal Force

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 1, 2020

Trump Ends Restrictions on Giving Surplus Military Gear to Cops

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 1, 2020

Customs And Border Protection Reaper Drone Appears Over Minneapolis Protests

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 29, 2020

Watch This UH-60 Black Hawk Pounce On An Unsuspecting Speedboat And Then Go Vertical

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 14, 2020

The Mysterious Case Of Customs And Border Protection’s Unmarked S-76 Helicopters

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Apr 23, 2020

Captured Narco Jet Loaded With 69 Bales Of Cocaine Is Biggest Bust In Belize History

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 6, 2020

AH-64 Gunships And Extra Marines Race To U.S. Embassy In Iraq After Militant Mob Attacks (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jan 19, 2020

Watch This Crazy Middle Eastern Assassination Attempt Drill

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 19, 2019

The First Narco Submarine Ever Seized Off A European Coast Is A Monster

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Dec 10, 2019

George Bush Saved The CIA

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019

The Movie War Games Inspired President Reagan To Take Cybersecurity Seriously

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Dec 1, 2019

Here Is How The Pentagon Comes Up With Code Words And Secret Project Nicknames

By Tim McMillan / Updated Dec 1, 2019

Here Is What Really Happened With That Mysterious Washington D.C. Air Defense Scare

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Nov 29, 2019

Mysterious Airspace Violation That Triggered D.C. Lockdowns Highlights Air Defense Challenges

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Nov 26, 2019

Cartel “Narco Tanks,” Heavy Weapons On Full Display During Battle Over El Chapo’s Son

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Oct 21, 2019

This German Police EC135 Helicopter Unit Is The “Tetris Challenge” Champion

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 12, 2019

This Is Our Best Look Yet At The Elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team’s UH-60 Black Hawks

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Oct 4, 2019

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

By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Sep 20, 2019

Chinese Paramilitary Police Have Appeared In Force Near Hong Kong As Tension Mounts

By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 13, 2019