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Afghan Pilots That Fled To Tajikistan Are Finally About To Leave With U.S. Help
Afghanistan

Afghan Pilots That Fled To Tajikistan Are Finally About To Leave With U.S. Help

Ex-Afghan Air Force personnel who escaped Afghanistan as the Taliban took control had found themselves virtual captives in Tajikistan.

Aevum’s Space Launch Plane Is A-5 Vigilante Sized, Its Claims Are Even Bigger
Launch Vehicles

Aevum’s Space Launch Plane Is A-5 Vigilante Sized, Its Claims Are Even Bigger

The rollout of a mockup of the Ravn X Autonomous Launch Vehicle concept was intriguing, but it also raised a lot of questions.

Watch This Hypersonic Test Aircraft Wow A Crowd With Its Afterburner
U.S. Air Force

Watch This Hypersonic Test Aircraft Wow A Crowd With Its Afterburner

Hermeus, a hypersonic aviation startup, hopes to begin actually flight testing this design, with help from the US Air Force, as early as next year.

Metallurgist Admits To Falsifying Navy Submarine Steel Strength Test Results For 36 Years
Los Angeles Class

Metallurgist Admits To Falsifying Navy Submarine Steel Strength Test Results For 36 Years

The Navy had to pay additional maintenance costs to address the potential issues on an undisclosed number of submarines.

The Soviet Meteorit Mach-3 Cruise Missile Was A Colossal Cold War Oddity
Cold War

The Soviet Meteorit Mach-3 Cruise Missile Was A Colossal Cold War Oddity

The missile was designed to fly thousands of miles at over Mach 3 and 80,000 feet before diving onto its target and detonating its nuclear payload.

Check Out This Super Grimy B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Test Article
B-2

Check Out This Super Grimy B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Test Article

B-2 Spirits usually look otherworldly, but every nine years they head to their birthplace for some much-needed TLC. It turns out that this unique test airframe's job is to look this way.

China’s Giant Moving Warship Target In The Desert Shows How Seriously It’s Taking The Naval Arms Race
China

China’s Giant Moving Warship Target In The Desert Shows How Seriously It’s Taking The Naval Arms Race

China is expending considerable effort and resources to drastically increase the fidelity of its desert-based anti-ship weapons targets.

Watch The Goodyear Blimp Make A Crazy Zoom Climb Out Of Long Beach Airport
Airships & Blimps

Watch The Goodyear Blimp Make A Crazy Zoom Climb Out Of Long Beach Airport

Goodyear's airships are more capable than the blimps they replaced, and apparently, they can climb like a homesick angel.

Planetary Defense Test To See If An Asteroid’s Path Can Be Changed Is About To Launch
NASA

Planetary Defense Test To See If An Asteroid’s Path Can Be Changed Is About To Launch

An upcoming test will explore the feasibility of using a "kinetic impactor" spacecraft to change the trajectory of an asteroid by crashing into it.

C-130 Successfully Snatches Gremlins Drone In Midair
C-130

C-130 Successfully Snatches Gremlins Drone In Midair

Recent tests demonstrated that a mothership aircraft could launch and recover an X-61A Gremlins drone in flight.

Saudis Cleared To Buy Hundreds More AMRAAM Missiles They’ve Been Using To Shoot Down Drones
Saudi Arabia

Saudis Cleared To Buy Hundreds More AMRAAM Missiles They’ve Been Using To Shoot Down Drones

Royal Saudi Air Force fighter jets have been using AIM-120 missiles to shoot down Houthi drones regularly for years now.

Likely Drone Attack On U.S. Power Grid Revealed In New Intelligence Report (Updated)
U.S. Homeland

Likely Drone Attack On U.S. Power Grid Revealed In New Intelligence Report (Updated)

An apparent attack on a power substation in Pennsylvania underscores the very real threat drones pose to domestic critical infrastructure.

Germany Still Can’t Give Up Its Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles After Half A Century
Germany

Germany Still Can’t Give Up Its Marder Infantry Fighting Vehicles After Half A Century

The latest upgrade for the Marder armored vehicle might be the last, but it's still going strong in Germany and elsewhere.

Australia Could Push To Acquire Retired US Navy Los Angeles Class Nuclear Submarines
Australia

Australia Could Push To Acquire Retired US Navy Los Angeles Class Nuclear Submarines

Ex-Prime Minister floats using retired U.S. or U.K. nuclear submarines to bridge the gap until Australian-built ones can enter service.

Marine Corps Rejects Reports That It ‘Surrendered’ To British Forces During Exercise
U.S. Marine Corps

Marine Corps Rejects Reports That It ‘Surrendered’ To British Forces During Exercise

The U.K. Royal Marines that reportedly trounced a U.S. Marines Corps unit were actually fighting right alongside other American Marines.

Israel Begins Testing Giant Radar Blimp For Spotting Low-Flying Missiles
Israel

Israel Begins Testing Giant Radar Blimp For Spotting Low-Flying Missiles

As cruise missile and drone threats proliferate in the region, Israel is trying to succeed where the U.S. failed with its own radar blimp concept.

China’s New Ballistic Missile Subs Could Strike The U.S. Without Sailing Into The Pacific
China

China’s New Ballistic Missile Subs Could Strike The U.S. Without Sailing Into The Pacific

The ability to launch their ballistic missiles from the South China Sea or Bohai Sea would be a huge capability increase for China's SSBN force.

Video Shows U.S. Destroyer’s Very Intimate Standoff With Iranian Vessels Over Seized Oil Tanker (Updated)
Iranian Navy

Video Shows U.S. Destroyer’s Very Intimate Standoff With Iranian Vessels Over Seized Oil Tanker (Updated)

Iran's raid on an oil tanker resulted in an incredibly close encounter between its gunboats and a U.S. Navy destroyer.

Rare Pod Simulated AIM-120 Missile Engagements During Massive War Game
Targeting Pods

Rare Pod Simulated AIM-120 Missile Engagements During Massive War Game

The pod was used to collect data on multiple AIM-120 engagements during an exercise that spanned from California to Florida.

The Navy Isn’t Prepared To Face The Growing Diesel Submarine Threat
Diesel-Electric Submarines

The Navy Isn’t Prepared To Face The Growing Diesel Submarine Threat

A veteran submarine hunter explains how the proliferation of ever more capable diesel-electric submarines is a major problem for the U.S. Navy.