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F-15

Flying The F-15E Strike Eagle In Air-To-Air Combat, From Dogfighting To Drone Hunting

F-15E pilot describes how, despite its air-to-ground roots, the Strike Eagle developed into a powerful air-to-air fighter.

Air-To-Ground

Recalling The Nazis’ Bizarre Piggyback Bombers 80 Years After They Went To War

In the last months of the war, Germany flew missions using manned fighters attached to unmanned explosive-packed bombers.

Air Force One

Built-In Counter-Drone Defenses Sought For Air Force Transports, Tankers

The USAF's Air Mobility Command says adding new drone defenses to its aircraft is critical for future combat and routine operations.

Bunker Talk

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

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Land

Ukraine Situation Report: Besieged Russian Troops Holding Out In Bombed-Out Factory

Russia's offensive has left a factory town where street battles continue rage in ruins and dozens of its troops surrounded.

Multiple-Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS)

Ukraine May Have Lost An M270 MLRS For The First Time

The M270s have been a bane to Russian war efforts and were reportedly involved in a recent deadly ballistic missile strike on Crimea.

Russia

Russian’s New Combat Icebreaker Starts Sea Trials

Armed with a gun and the capacity to carry cruise missiles, the Ivan Papanin is designed to break ice and launch kinetic attacks.

160th SOAR "Nightstalkers"

160th SOAR Night Stalkers Testing Arctic, Desert Vinyl Camo Wraps As Global Missions Evolve

In addition to a blue scheme, the 160th SOAR has been looking at other new camouflage options to support missions old and new.

MiG-29

Watch A Ukrainian MiG-29 Toss A Bomb Across The Front Lines

Toss bombing offers a key way to conduct precise strikes behind the front lines while also increasing chances of survival.

North Korea

Conflicting Claims Surround North Korea’s Test Of Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicle

MIRV capability doesn’t just mean more targets struck by one missile, paired with decoys, it would be harder for some interceptors to defend against it.

Video

The Army’s New M10 Booker: Deploy Fast And Carry A Big Gun

The M10 Booker isn't a smaller M1 Abrams, it's meant to be used in a fundamentally different role than that of a main battle tank, which we breakdown in detail in our latest feature video.

Russia

“People’s Satellite” Helped Ukraine Hit Over 1,000 Targets Spy Agency Says

A crowd-funded satellite has enabled Ukraine to have a much better independent view of the battlefield, as well as targets in Russia.

Artificial Intelligence

Using AI To Read Aircraft Identification Numbers On Navy Carrier Decks In Testing

The Navy’s NOCTRNAL project connects artificial intelligence to cameras around the carrier's flight deck to automate aircraft identification and tracking.

Air Combat Exercises

European Air Power Teams Up For Pacific Mega Deployment

Covering some 36,000 miles, Pacific Skies 24 will see German, French, and Spanish aircraft hopscotch all over the Asia-Pacific theater.

North Korea

Ukraine Situation Report: North Korea May Send Forces To Occupied Territories

Even sending hordes of laborers, let alone troops, to Ukraine would mark a new phase in North Korea's mutual aid relationship with Russia.

Arctic

Portuguese Diesel-Electric AIP Submarine Just Patrolled Under The Arctic Ice

The Arpão is the first Portuguese sub to operate below the ice and could herald patrols by other advanced conventionally powered NATO boats.

Future Vertical Lift

AW609 Tiltrotor Has Flown From Italy’s Aircraft Carrier Cavour

Successful ship trials look to have put the AW609 closer to entering military service after more than 20 years in development.

B-52

What It Will Take To Make The Entire B-52 Fleet Nuclear-Capable

Congress looks set to compel the Air Force to restore nuclear weapons capability on dozens of B-52s after the New START treaty with Russia expires.

Iran

War Drums Grow Louder Along The Israel-Lebanon Border

America's top uniformed officer says the U.S. military may not be able to support Israel like in the past if an all-out war with Hezbollah were to erupt.

Russia

The Story Of The Soviet Union’s Monster Mi-6 Helicopter Airliner

The airline variant of the Mi-6 could seat up to 80 passengers and was intended to usher-in a new era of Soviet rotary-wing commercial air travel.