News &amp; Features (Page 105)

Updated on Dec 2, 2020

South America

Collapsed Arecibo Radio Telescope Was Originally Built For Ballistic Missile Defense Research

Updated on Dec 1, 2020

Iran

Let’s Talk About Remote-Controlled Gun Turrets And The Killing Of Iran’s Top Nuclear Scientist

Posted on Dec 1, 2020

What It Is Like Flying The Most Advanced F-15 Eagle Ever Built

Updated on Nov 30, 2020

Navy Will Spend Around $30 Million To Scrap Fire-Damaged USS Bonhomme Richard

Updated on Nov 30, 2020

Australia

Australia Teams Up With U.S. To Get Hypersonic Missiles For Its Super Hornets In Five Years

Posted on Nov 30, 2020

Drones

The Army Wants To Launch Drone Swarms Behind Enemy Lines From High-Altitude Balloons

Posted on Nov 30, 2020

People

F-15 Eagle Pilot Explains Exactly How He Downed Three Migs During Two Wars

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

People

How A Canadian Pilot Became The First Westerner To Fly The Feared MiG-29 Fulcrum

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Australia

Air Combat Tales From Australia’s Storied Pitch Black Aerial War Games

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Russia

Why Russia’s MiG-35 Is Starting To Look Like A Dead Duck

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

WWII

The British Had A Plan To Drop Anthrax Laced Cattle Feed Over Germany In 1942

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

This Was The Largest Conventional Explosion America Ever Set Off

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Electronic Warfare/Countermeasures

This Is The First Photo Ever Of A Stealthy Black Hawk Helicopter

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Russia

The Only Missile-Toting Ekranoplan Russia Ever Built Just Took Its Last Trip On The Caspian

Updated on 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 on Nov 27, 2020

Russia Releases “Tsar Bomba” Test Footage Of The Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Blast Ever

By Commander Colin 'Farva' Price

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Artificial Intelligence

Navy F/A-18 Squadron Commander’s Take On AI Repeatedly Beating Real Pilot In Dogfight

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway

The Potentially Revolutionary Celera 500L Aircraft Officially Breaks Cover

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

The Mysterious Cold War Case Of Unidentified Aircraft Descending On Loring Air Force Base

By Brett Tingley

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

F-102 Delta Dagger’s Weapons Bays Combined Rockets And Missiles In A Feat Of Cold War Ingenuity

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

South America

Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

India

Historic Indian Carrier Set To Be Scrapped After 58 Years Of Service With Two Navies

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

United Kingdom

Strike Eagle Pilot Gives A Detailed Walk Around Tour Of An F-15E

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

People

The Forgotten Fireball Made The First Jet-Powered Carrier Landing By Accident

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Area 51 Has A Huge New Hangar Facility That Points To A Drone Swarm Future

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

The Full Story On That Oregon F-15 That Fired Its Missiles Into The Sea Before Landing

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Lasers

Blasting The Air In Front Of Hypersonic Vehicles With Lasers Could Unlock Unprecedented Speeds

By Brett Tingley

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Here’s Why The Destroyer USS Kidd Was Flying A Huge Pirate Flag As It Pulled Into Port

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

The Air Force’s Secret Next Gen Air Dominance Demonstrator Isn’t What You Think It Is

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Simulation

Fighter Pilots Could Soon Train To Dogfight Against Virtual Projections Of Adversary Jets

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Yes, The United States Did Draw Up A Plan To Drop 80 Nuclear Weapons On North Korea

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Notoriously Shy RQ-170 Spy Drone Lands At Its Skunk Works Birthplace

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Secret Service

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

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick

Mysterious Drone Incursions Have Occurred Over U.S. THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile Battery In Guam

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

The Little Model Shop That Played A Big Role In Killing Osama Bin Laden

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

How This F-117 Ended Up Nesting With An F-15 Alert Jet At Portland Air Guard Base

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

China

Check Out These Rare Infrared Images Of A Minuteman III ICBM Blasting Off

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

China

How China’s Ballistic Missile And Nuclear Arsenal Is Ballooning According To The Pentagon

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

WWII

You Can Buy The World’s Only Flyable P-82 Twin Mustang For $12,000,000

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

The Day The Royal Air Force Lost Six Jet Fighters In Just 45 Minutes

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Foreign VVIP Transport

Boeing Just Sold The Superyacht You Didn’t Even Know They Owned

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

People

How Israel Got This MiG-21 That Sean Connery Posed Next To Was Like A Real-Life Bond Movie

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Pilots Provide Fascinating Commentary On Video Of America’s Secret Red Eagles MiG Squadron

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

New Aggressor Squadron At Nellis Air Force Base Will Have Both F-16s And F-35s

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick

The State Department Is Now Warning Of Impending Drone Attacks And How To Survive Them

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Britain’s Cold War-Era Monster Destroyer Has Finally Been Retired

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

The TOZ-81 ‘Mars’ Gun Was The Soviet Union’s Ultimate Space Revolver

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

South America

Her Majesty’s Death Ray: How The AIM-9L Sidewinder Vanquished The Argentine Air Force

By Rowland White

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

The Navy’s First Aegis Warship USS Ticonderoga Is Being Scrapped

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Secretive Tonopah Test Range Airport Had A Mysteriously Busy Week In September

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Electronic Warfare/Countermeasures

The EA-18G Growler Has Its Own Topgun School For Electronic Attack Instead Of Dogfighting

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Why The Destroyer USS Paul Hamilton Came Home Flying A Crescent Moon Flag And A Long Pennant

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Russia Still Uses This Cold War Relic Of An Underground Anti-Ship Missile System In Crimea

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Vietnam War

The AH-1W Super Cobra Has Been Retired From The Marine Corps After 34 Years Of Service

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

This F-22 Raptor Wing Tank Storage Facility Looks Like A Science Fiction Movie Set

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Procurement

The A-10 Warthog Is Preparing For Its Biggest Upgrade In Over A Decade

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

United Kingdom

This Is The Elite Unit That Raided The Tanker Threatened By Stowaways Off The UK Coast

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Drones

Northrop Grumman’s Plan To Replace The MQ-9 Reaper With Stealthy Autonomous Drones

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Russia

Russia’s Strategic Bomber Trio Poses With Nearly All Its Weapons

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Civil Aviation

What It’s Really Like Piloting Private Jets For The Rich And Famous

By Stephen Walker

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

WWII

The Amazing Story Of How This Nazi Recon Plane Ended Up Being Tested In The U.S. During WWII

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Japan

So Long, Samurai: Japan Bids Farewell To Its Final Frontline Phantoms