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Latest Special Operations Aviation Stories
One Company Is Putting A New Spin On How To Yank Downed Pilots Out Of Enemy Territory
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jul 10, 2019
Glimpse Of The Future?: MC-130 Sets Up Forward Refueling Point For MQ-9 Reaper Drone
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
Document Offers New Details About Those OV-10 Broncos That Went to Fight ISIS
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 30, 2019
Watch Never Before Seen Clips of Chinook Helicopters Supporting SEAL Team Six Overseas
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
U.S. Military Wants Tech Companies To Battle Each Other in the ‘ThunderDrone’
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
This Is the Tech Special Operators Want for Their Light Attack Planes
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
F-22s Team Up With Combat Rescue Personnel to Practice for Quick Deployments
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
USAF Says Spec Ops Light Attack Program Will Complement Larger OA-X Effort
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
U.S. Special Operations Forces Want Their Own Light Attack Aircraft
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
US Special Operators Are Moving Closer to the Fighting in Raqqa
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
We May Finally Know What JADE HELM Has Stood For All Along
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
“Identity Intel Ops” Turn US Special Operators Into Combat Detectives
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 29, 2019
The Air Force’s Special Operations PC-12s Finally Have An Official Nickname
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 20, 2019
These Secretive US SpecOps Spy Planes Are Getting New Sensors And Anti-GPS Jamming Gear
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 14, 2019
New Video Shows Night Stalker Little Bird Helicopters With Rare Modifications
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 25, 2019
The Dark World Of USAF Special Ops Air Refuelers And Their Modified KC-135RT Tankers
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 24, 2019
Watch Four U.S. Special Operations C-130s Roar Through A Valley Together In The U.K.
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 22, 2019
Special Operators Fly Across Moscow Skyline On Tactical Platform Slung Below Mi-8 Helo
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 17, 2019
Army’s Elite Night Stalkers Quietly Stood Up A New Unit Ahead Of Getting New Drones
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Feb 8, 2019
U.S. Helicopter Crash Kills One In Iraq After Reported Special Operations Raid
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Aug 21, 2018
Russia Executes Mock Special Operations Raid On Remote Island Off Finland
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 10, 2018
U.S. Special Operators Want Propaganda Leaflets That Talk And Might Even Listen Back
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 28, 2018
Use Of Raider Moniker For Modern Special Ops Marines Was Hotly Contested Internally
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Jun 5, 2018
We’ve Posted The Pentagon’s Entire Moment-By-Moment Niger Ambush Video Briefing
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 17, 2018
Night Stalker MH-47D Chinooks Once Snatched A Libyan Hind Gunship From Chad
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated May 16, 2018
AC-130 Gunship Mysteriously Flew Hours Worth Of Laps Over Seattle on Tuesday (Updated)
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 22, 2018
Cessna’s New Skycourier Twin Turboprop Plane Will Make A Wonderful Weapon
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 13, 2018
This Slo-Mo Video Of MH-60M Spec Ops Helicopters Refueling At Sunset Is Glorious
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Oct 19, 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
Watch This C-130J Become Engulfed In Its Own Dust Storm During Rough Field Ops
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jul 1, 2017
Lockheed Unveils New Super Versatile Special Operations C-130 Variant
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 20, 2017
The CH-53E Super Stallion Looks Gargantuan In This Slow Motion Helocast Clip
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Apr 28, 2017
The Army’s Elite Special Ops Aviators Sure Burn Through A Lot Of Rockets
By Joseph Trevithick / Updated Mar 2, 2017
Spec Ops MC-130 Provides Forward Arming And Refueling Point For F-22 Raptors
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Mar 2, 2017
10 CV-22 Ospreys Flying Low in Formation Sounds Like a Pit of Hissing Snakes
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Feb 4, 2017
Watch Special Ops Forces Full-On Assault Downtown Tampa
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated Jun 7, 2016
The AH-64 Apache Will Get A Laser Cannon To Play With This Summer
By Tyler Rogoway / Updated May 27, 2016