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Korean F-35 Fighters Grounded After ‘Major Systems Malfunction’ Leads To Belly Landing
South Korea

Korean F-35 Fighters Grounded After ‘Major Systems Malfunction’ Leads To Belly Landing

The grounding order follows yesterday's belly-landing incident involving a Joint Strike Fighter at Seosan Air Base.

Army Green Berets Brought Out Their Newest Sniper Rifle For A Celebrity Shoot-Off
Green Berets

Army Green Berets Brought Out Their Newest Sniper Rifle For A Celebrity Shoot-Off

Army Green Berets first began receiving their new Advanced Sniper Rifles last year and conventional units are now set to get versions of these guns.

Marine F/A-18 Hornets Bolster U.S. Presence In Saudi Arabia
U.S. Marine Corps

Marine F/A-18 Hornets Bolster U.S. Presence In Saudi Arabia

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115 has deployed at Prince Sultan Air Base to join the resident Air Expeditionary Wing.

Air Force Releases List Of What’s In Its Famous ‘Petting Zoo’ Threat Training Facility
Air Combat Exercises

Air Force Releases List Of What’s In Its Famous ‘Petting Zoo’ Threat Training Facility

Nellis Air Force Base's 'Petting Zoo' houses a big collection of foreign military equipment for use in familiarization, training, and threat analysis.

Video Emerges Of Centurion Cannon And Missile Repelling Drone Attack In Iraq
Iraq

Video Emerges Of Centurion Cannon And Missile Repelling Drone Attack In Iraq

There have been two unsuccessful suicide drone attacks in as many days targeting facilities in Iraq that host American troops.

Watch These Russian Su-30 Fighter Jets Fire Eight Air-To-Air Missiles Simultaneously
Russia

Watch These Russian Su-30 Fighter Jets Fire Eight Air-To-Air Missiles Simultaneously

The live-fire exercise is one of the biggest of its kind that we've seen and has an important training function.

750 F-35s Now Delivered, Navy To Put Some Of Its Oldest Test Models Into Storage
F-35

750 F-35s Now Delivered, Navy To Put Some Of Its Oldest Test Models Into Storage

The F-35 program has hit a major production milestone as primary test efforts are finally spinning down.

A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter Can Fit Inside A C-130
U.S. Coast Guard

A Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin Helicopter Can Fit Inside A C-130

The Coast Guard prides itself on self-reliance, exemplified by this image of one of its Dolphin helicopters being transported by one of its C-130s.

Biden Briefly Stuck On Air Force One After Snow Storm Landing At Andrews AFB (Updated)
Foreign VVIP Transport

Biden Briefly Stuck On Air Force One After Snow Storm Landing At Andrews AFB (Updated)

It was snowing so hard that the airstair truck got stuck, delaying Biden and his entourage from deplaning promptly after arriving.

Iranian-Backed Houthi Rebels Show Off Captured Saudi Weapons After Seizing Cargo Ship
Iran

Iranian-Backed Houthi Rebels Show Off Captured Saudi Weapons After Seizing Cargo Ship

While Houthi rebels in Yemen have launched multiple attacks on ships over the years, actually seizing one is much rarer for the group.

Suicide Drones Shot Down Over Baghdad Airport On Anniversary Of Soleimani Killing
Loitering Munitions

Suicide Drones Shot Down Over Baghdad Airport On Anniversary Of Soleimani Killing

The attempt to hit the U.S. military compound on the symbolic date was rebuffed by Centurion point defense gun systems.

French Rafale Naval Fighters Are Headed To India For Ski Jump Carrier Launch Tests
Rafale

French Rafale Naval Fighters Are Headed To India For Ski Jump Carrier Launch Tests

Dassault's Rafale M is competing against Boeing's Super Hornet to supply India with a new carrier-based multi-role fighter.

Bunker Talk: Welcome To 2022 Edition
Bunker Talk

Bunker Talk: Welcome To 2022 Edition

2022 sounds so far into the future, doesn't it?

Watch This C-130 Run For Its Life At Low Level From A Mock Enemy Missile Crew
C-130

Watch This C-130 Run For Its Life At Low Level From A Mock Enemy Missile Crew

Realistic threats on the ground are an important if often underappreciated aspect of the Air Force's Red Flag air combat exercises.

Infrared Search And Track Pods Spotted On USAF F-15 Eagles Based In Japan
F-15

Infrared Search And Track Pods Spotted On USAF F-15 Eagles Based In Japan

The long-awaited arrival of infrared search and track pods represents a big capability boost for Kadena Air Base's F-15s.

China Releases Image Of Japanese Carrier Sailing Right Alongside Its Own Carrier
China

China Releases Image Of Japanese Carrier Sailing Right Alongside Its Own Carrier

Japan's use of its aircraft carrier to closely shadow China's own is highly unusual.

Japan Wants To Arm Its Submarines With Long-Range Cruise Missiles: Report
Japan

Japan Wants To Arm Its Submarines With Long-Range Cruise Missiles: Report

The missiles would offer land-attack and anti-ship capabilities and would be expected to serve as a deterrent to China and North Korea.

Behold The Naked Warplanes Of Tinker Air Force Base
KC-130

Behold The Naked Warplanes Of Tinker Air Force Base

With the depot maintenance mission for a number of big jets, Tinker AFB offers rare glimpses of what these planes look like without their paint.

No, Russia’s S-550 Missile Defense System Hasn’t Been Fielded
NATO

No, Russia’s S-550 Missile Defense System Hasn’t Been Fielded

One Russian state media outlet has contradicted bombastic claims from another about the state of the still-nebulous S-550.

Aftermath Of Israel’s Bombardment Of Syrian Port Seen In Satellite Imagery
Israel

Aftermath Of Israel’s Bombardment Of Syrian Port Seen In Satellite Imagery

The Israeli air raid may have been connected to the appearance of an Iranian-flagged container ship at the port.