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Stealthy ‘Son Of Ares’ Jet Seen Covered In Mirrors During Mysterious Test Flights
Stealth

Stealthy ‘Son Of Ares’ Jet Seen Covered In Mirrors During Mysterious Test Flights

The alien-looking aircraft and its twin are being used for intriguing trials involving a number of other aircraft high above the Mojave Desert.

Russia Sent Three Types Of Fighters To Intercept B-52s Flying Rare Mission Into Sea Of Okhotsk (Updated)
Russia

Russia Sent Three Types Of Fighters To Intercept B-52s Flying Rare Mission Into Sea Of Okhotsk (Updated)

The sorties into the Sea of Okhotsk come amid an increase in American and Russian aerial activity around each others' borders.

Turkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export
Turkey

Turkey Now Has Swarming Suicide Drones It Could Export

This is yet another wake-up call to the threat that low-end weaponized hobby-like drones pose and how widespread they will become.

Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet Crashed Into The Philippine Sea
U.S. Navy

Navy F/A-18F Super Hornet Crashed Into The Philippine Sea

Both crewmembers in the jet, which was part of Carrier Air Wing on the USS Theodore Roosevelt, were able to eject and were quickly rescued.

Ukraine Cleared To Buy 16 Of The U.S. Navy’s Newest Patrol Boats
Ukraine

Ukraine Cleared To Buy 16 Of The U.S. Navy’s Newest Patrol Boats

A notable naval skirmish with Russian forces a year and a half ago underscored the country's desperate need for additional and more capable ships.

The Stealthy F-117 Nighthawk Could Have Executed Nuclear Strikes Against The Soviet Union
F-117

The Stealthy F-117 Nighthawk Could Have Executed Nuclear Strikes Against The Soviet Union

The F-117 was built with the ability to deliver nuclear bombs and the Air Force didn't forget that during the last years of the Cold War.

This Is Our Best Look Yet At The Shadowy Hellfire Missile With Pop-Out Sword Blades
U.S. Air Force

This Is Our Best Look Yet At The Shadowy Hellfire Missile With Pop-Out Sword Blades

These missiles keep taking out terrorist leaders overseas by ripping through their vehicles and mortally slicing them up.

Canada Cleared To Upgrade Its Aging CF-18 Hornets With New Radars, AIM-9X Sidewinders
Canada

Canada Cleared To Upgrade Its Aging CF-18 Hornets With New Radars, AIM-9X Sidewinders

The Royal Canadian Air Force is looking at a Hornet Extension Program amid an ongoing saga over buying new fighter jets that it needed years ago.

Air Force Says These Are Its Options For Hiring Private Aerial Refueling Companies
KC-10

Air Force Says These Are Its Options For Hiring Private Aerial Refueling Companies

Between its aging KC-135 and KC-10 tanker fleets and problems with the new KC-46A, the Air Force is facing a worrying tanker gap.

Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Unique Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Submarine
Boomers (SSBNs)

Nukes, Nubs And Coners: The Unique Social Hierarchy Aboard A Nuclear Submarine

Getting assigned to your first sub doesn't make you a submariner and once you become one you'll find yourself in a social structure unlike any other.

Wreckage Of The F-15C Eagle That Crashed Off The United Kingdom Has Been Found (Updated)
United Kingdom

Wreckage Of The F-15C Eagle That Crashed Off The United Kingdom Has Been Found (Updated)

A major search and rescue operation is underway in the North Sea and assets belonging to the UK and US Air Force are involved in the effort.

Navy Super Hornet Conducts First Guided Launch Of Impressive ‘Stormbreaker” Miniature Bomb
U.S. Navy

Navy Super Hornet Conducts First Guided Launch Of Impressive ‘Stormbreaker” Miniature Bomb

The testing milestone comes amid difficulties and delays that have pushed back Air Force plans for the weapon and temporarily halted its production.

Japan Halts Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Plans Indefinitely Amid Public Opposition
Japan

Japan Halts Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Plans Indefinitely Amid Public Opposition

Technical issues and concerns about cost, coupled with public outcries and embarrassing blunders have hampered the project.

The Mysterious Case Of The Air Force’s New Strangely Modified 737 With A Puzzling Past
U.S. Air Force

The Mysterious Case Of The Air Force’s New Strangely Modified 737 With A Puzzling Past

The aircraft still wears its factory coating and has crude alterations, but its ownership history is just as curious as its configuration.

Watch Giant DC-10 Fire Bombers Make Intense Attack Runs On Arizona’s Multiple Blazes
U.S. Homeland

Watch Giant DC-10 Fire Bombers Make Intense Attack Runs On Arizona’s Multiple Blazes

It's amazing just how close these huge tankers get to the sides of canyons and tops of ridges as they fight the spread of destructive wildfires.

Easing Drone Export Rules Is Great For The Defense Industry, But Doing So Has Consequences
Unmanned

Easing Drone Export Rules Is Great For The Defense Industry, But Doing So Has Consequences

While being able to export advanced unmanned air combat systems abroad more easily is great for business, it could come at its own price.

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

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

We can talk nuclear icebreakers, exporting killer drones, geopolitics, Cold War bunkers—you know, no big whoop.

RAF Bentwaters Has This Bizarre-Looking Cold War Bunker Called The Star Wars Building
Royal Air Force

RAF Bentwaters Has This Bizarre-Looking Cold War Bunker Called The Star Wars Building

The base is like a Cold War Disneyland that has been frozen in time. As such, studios go there to make fantasy come true on the big and small screen.

Senate Looks To Block Many Of The Pentagon’s “Tough Choices” Airpower Cuts In Next Budget
U.S. Homeland

Senate Looks To Block Many Of The Pentagon’s “Tough Choices” Airpower Cuts In Next Budget

A proposed draft of the annual defense policy bill would prohibit services from getting rid of certain aircraft and order them to buy more of others.

Scaled Composites’ Mysterious Stealthy Jets Spotted Working With High-Flying Proteus (Updated)
U.S. Homeland

Scaled Composites’ Mysterious Stealthy Jets Spotted Working With High-Flying Proteus (Updated)

The highly unique aircraft flew between China Lake and Mojave Air and Space Port in what appears to have been an aerial test.