News & Features

Posted on Feb 5, 2023

China

F-22 Shoots Down Chinese Spy Balloon Off Carolinas With Missile (Updated)

By Stetson Payne, Howard Altman, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 4, 2023

China

Why Shooting Down China’s Spy Balloon Over The U.S. Is More Complicated Than It Seems

By Emma Helfrich, Joseph Trevithick, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 4, 2023

Coast Guard Rescue Columbia River capsize

U.S. Homeland

Coast Guard Rescue Swimmer Makes Incredible Save After Huge Wave (Updated)

By Oliver Parken, Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Feb 4, 2023

Bunker Talk

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 4, 2023

Ukraine will soon field Ground Launched Small Diameter Bombs. (GLSDM)

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Officially Getting Long-Range Rocket-Boosted Bomb

By Howard Altman

Posted on Feb 3, 2023

China

Chinese Spy Balloon Reaches Missouri

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 3, 2023

Germany

Germany Now Wants To Send Cold War-Era Leopard 1 Tanks To Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 3, 2023

China

China’s Spy Balloon Over Montana Is Part Of A Larger, More Troubling Pattern

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 3, 2023

Ukraine

MQ-9 Reapers Offered To Ukraine For $1, But Relevancy Questions Remain

By Emma Helfrich, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 2, 2023

Drones

Gambit Drone Chosen To Fly Under Secretive Off-Board Sensing Station Program

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 2, 2023

South America

Brazil Plans To Sink Its Asbestos-Riddled Aircraft Carrier In The Atlantic

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Feb 2, 2023

U.S. Homeland

Huge Ekranoplan-Like Airlifter Design Teams Selected By DARPA

By Oliver Parken, Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Feb 2, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia Says It’s Relocating Citizens Near Border Due To Attacks

By Howard Altman

Posted on Feb 2, 2023

Procurement

Air Force Says It Needs More Survivable Tankers By 2040

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

Drones

MQ-1C Has Air-Launched The Eaglet Drone On Its First Flight

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: The Battle For Dnipro River Islands

By Howard Altman

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

U.S. Homeland

New Shots Of Stealthy XQ-58A Valkyrie Highlight Its Runway Independence

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Feb 1, 2023

Arctic

F-35s Have Debuted At Greenland’s Strategic Thule Air Base

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

Civil Aviation

Bell Is Arming Its Civil Helicopters In Hopes Of Replacing Europe’s Russian Rotorcraft

By Dan Parsons

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

DARPA's Hypersonic Airbreathing Weapon Concept completes final flight

U.S. Homeland

DARPA’s Hypersonic Cruise Missile Flew Its Final Test, Follow-On To Come

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

Russia

Intriguing Features Seen On Largely Intact Russia Cruise Missile Wreck

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: M2 Bradleys Have Begun Their Voyage To The Battlefield

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 31, 2023

Cold War

Soviet Submarine Launched All Its Missiles In An Unprecedented Rehearsal For Armageddon

By Matus Smutny

Updated on Jan 31, 2023

Eastern Europe

Ukraine Claims Poland In Talks To Transfer Its F-16s (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 30, 2023

Ukraine

M1 Abrams Was Once Tested With A Diesel Engine That Replaces Its Thirsty Turbine

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 30, 2023

Iran

Iran Claims It Has Come Under Drone Attack Following Explosions

By Stetson Payne

Posted on Jan 29, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Heavy Fighting As Battle For Vuhledar Rages

By Stetson Payne

Posted on Jan 28, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Improving Airfields Anticipating Western Fighters

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 28, 2023

French officers in an underground HQ on the western front, during WWI.

Bunker Talk

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jan 28, 2023

China

Air Mobility Command Boss Predicts War With China In 2025 In Dire Memo

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 27, 2023

Ukraine

France Is Considering Transferring Fighter Aircraft To Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 27, 2023

Indo-Pacific

Marine Corps Activates Sprawling New Base On Highly Strategic Guam

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 27, 2023

U.S. Homeland

Air Force Aggressors More Relevant Than Ever At 50

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Jan 27, 2023

Ukraine

This Is What M1 Abrams Tanks Will Bring To The Fight In Ukraine

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 26, 2023

Africa

Watch This Congolese Su-25 Get Popped By A Surface-To-Air Missile

By Oliver Parken

Posted on Jan 26, 2023

U.S. Homeland

Stealthy Tanker-Transport Aircraft Concept Unveiled By Boeing

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 26, 2023

Israel

Biggest U.S.-Israel War Games Ever Are Underway

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 26, 2023

Ukraine

M1 Abrams Tanks In U.S. Inventory Have Armor Too Secret To Send To Ukraine

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 25, 2023

Germany

M1 Abrams And Leopard 2 Tanks Will Officially Be Headed To Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 25, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Claims New Combat Aircraft Has Been Determined

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 25, 2023

Advanced Block 70 F-16 Viper flies for the first time

U.S. Homeland

First Block 70 F-16 Has Flown From Lockheed’s New South Carolina Plant

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 25, 2023

Ukraine

Up To 50 M1 Abrams Tanks Could Be Headed To Ukraine: Reports (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 24, 2023

Cold War

Navy Pilot Who Secretly Killed Four MiGs On One Mission Finally Recognized

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 24, 2023

Piasecki Aircraft Corporations PA-97 experimental heavy-lift Helistat

U.S. Homeland

The Monstrous Helistat Flew Just About As Good As It Looked

By Emma Helfrich

Updated on Jan 24, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Why Capturing The Small Town Of Kreminna Matters

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 24, 2023

Europe

Watch Nine F-16s Make A Crazy-Looking ‘Attack’ On A Danish Airbase

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 23, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Donated Sea King Helicopter Makes Debut Near Black Sea

By Stetson Payne

Posted on Jan 21, 2023

Bunker Talk

Bunker Talk: Let’s Talk About All The Things We Did And Didn’t Cover This Week

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jan 21, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Russian Casualties “Significantly Well Over 100k” Says Top U.S. General

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

U.S. Homeland

F-15EX First Operational Units Will Not Get Conformal Fuel Tanks (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

Ukraine

Dutch Open To Transferring F-16 Jets To Ukraine (Updated)

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

Germany

No Western Tanks For Ukraine Announced After Allies Meet In Germany

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

Russia

Stryker Combat Vehicles Will Be Headed To Ukraine From U.S.

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Battle Over Tanks For Kyiv Could Culminate Soon

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

Hollywood

HK’s Iconic USP Pistol, Made Famous By Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six, Turns 30

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jan 20, 2023

Israel

Israeli X-Wing-Looking Loitering Munition To Be Tested By U.S. Special Ops

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 20, 2023

Russia

Pantsir Air Defense Systems Appear On Moscow Rooftops

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 19, 2023

Ukraine

This Is The CV90 Fighting Vehicle Sweden Is Sending To Ukraine

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 19, 2023

Civil Aviation

The Carl Gustaf Recoilless Rifle Confiscated By TSA Was All Legal

By Emma Helfrich

Posted on Jan 19, 2023

Russia

Ukraine Situation Report: Germany And U.S. Play Chicken Over Tanks For Kyiv

By Howard Altman

Posted on Jan 19, 2023

South America

New Nuke-Sniffing Jet Flies Off South America On First International Mission

By Joseph Trevithick

Posted on Jan 19, 2023

China

Tailless Warplane Concept May Provide Clues To China’s Future Fighter Ambitions

By Thomas Newdick

Posted on Jan 18, 2023

China

Inside How The Marine’s Island-Hopping F-35B Playbook Is Being Written

By James Deboer

Posted on Jan 18, 2023

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