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In part two of our series, we talk adventures and very close calls on the high seas and some of the Navy's biggest issues.

German company Grob only ever made five G 520s and one showed up for drills in Indiana.

We may have finally discovered who likely owns the helicopter, but who is using it and exactly for what remains a mystery.

The Su-35 may have a few new tricks to perform at MAKS 2017, but does the jet represent "peak fighter maneuverability" based on current air combat trends?

Instead of carrying shopping bag toting consumers, these escalators carried fully geared-up aircrews on the way to their aircraft.

Late production Oliver Hazard Perry class frigates had what is akin to the mother of all trolling motors that crews used creatively during multiple phases of the ship's operation.

The same year USS Ranger became the star of Topgun, the carrier sailed with a air wing made up almost entirely of Grumman aircraft.

The service's Manned Covert Surveillance Aircraft project has connections to decades of secretive work on "quiet aircraft."

Along with Growlers and other capabilities, five Gulfstream jets fitted with the latest electronic warfare and surveillance gear are being ordered by the RAAF.

The Hind's often forgotten secondary capability as a troop transport remains intriguing and is highlighted in this video.

Seminar by F-35 testers details tense nighttime carrier vertical landing that almost went wrong and the breaking off of a F-35B's refueling probe tip during tanker trials.

The idea was novel, but far from a long-lived success.

This is one impressive ship that underlines China's changing weapons development capabilities and its emerging greater naval strategy in the region and beyond.

And we could use something like it now more than ever.

The report has finally been delivered to the House Armed Services Committee, and its secret, but its findings are already emerging.

The Colombian Air Force was very interested in turning the tank-busting jets on rebels and drug cartels.

This F/A-18F's configuration is reminiscent of the big bomb loads lugged around by the A-6 Intruder.

During a national emergency an airliner pilot may get a special surprise when a camouflaged F-16 with foreign-like markings shows up on their wing.

Show-and-tell at Fort Bragg, the U.S. Army's special operations hub, saw MH-60Ms and MH-47Gs zoom in and raid a simulated town.

You can think of the defunct YAL-1 as the "analogue" version of the Airborne Laser concept, with an unmanned high-flying drone sporting a solid state laser being the digital version.