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When officials in Washington need air support for the most complex and secretive military missions, this is who they call in.

Newly declassified documents show the iconic spy plane has survived attempts to send it to the boneyard for nearly fifty years.

Take it from General Yeager—it was a damn good jet.

The concept is a modern and much more potent iteration of the "Harrier Carrier" concept used in the past.

The Cold War project cooked up an ingenious but overly complicated method for submarines to send covert messages.

Contractors dumping broken cars into the sea, zombie fleets of unused vehicles, poor maintenance, and drivers without proper training are just a few signs of major trouble.

In 2015, the Navy Expeditionary Intelligence Command's specialized teams produced nearly 1,000 "high value" reports for commanders around the world.

Early in the Cold War, the Royal Canadian Air Force modified two iconic Lancasters to carry early unmanned aircraft.

The Raptor will never reach its full potential without a helmet mounted display, something that was promised with the jet nearly 30 years ago.

Choppers dropped modified mortar bombs on communist insurgents.

The Prime Minister writes hand-penned orders to Royal Navy ballistic missile submarine captains explaining what to do following a sneak nuclear attack that wipes out the United Kingdom government.

A Topgun student who later became an instructor tells us all about how to fly the Tomcat, Skyhawk and Tiger II in a dogfight and what it was like to both learn and teach at the legendary school.

Diesel electric submarines may be on the verge of returning to their simpler roots with the help of lithium-ion batteries.

The HK416 and its derivatives are quickly becoming the combat rifle that all others are judged by—and the Pentagon is having a hard time denying that fact.

A submarine that can fire back at an aircraft hunting it certainly sounds intriguing, but is such a capability really relevant?

You will be using the term "threat cloud" all day after watching this.

It's like the real world version of Agent Smart's "Cone Of Silence."

Cernan became one of the greats, but it took a little bit of luck to get there.

Fielding a stealthy tanker would go a long way to remedy the USAF's near-sighted practice of betting heavily on relatively short-ranged stealth fighters, but it won't be cheap.

America's most valuable stealth combat aircraft might have seemed like an odd choice to bomb a target whose air defenses were neutered in 2011. It wasn't.