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Israel

Israel Is Testing An Air-To-Air Variant Of Its Dolphin-Nosed Stunner Missile

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

F-14

Remember The Fallen With This Chilling “Grumman Cats” Missing Man Formation

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Israel

Israel Is Getting A Single F-35 Test Jet Unlike Any Other

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Continuity Of Government

Raven Rock Author Tells Us How Our Government Plans For Its Own Annihilation

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

Desert Storm

The Time A F-4G Wild Weasel’s Anti-Radiation Missile Blew Apart A B-52’s Tail

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Air Force

The U.S. Air Force’s Last Tail Gunner Has Retired

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

People

Family Demands To Know How A 200-Pound Antique Anvil Disappeared From Area 51

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Afghanistan

This Shadowy Afghan Unit Fights Alongside America’s Most Elite Forces

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Navy

‘Kraken’ Is the U.S. Navy’s Monster Motion-Based Research Simulator

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Cold War

Ryan Aeronautical Had Big Plans for the Vertifan Jump Jet

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Special Operations

How a Secretive Special Operations Task Force Is Taking the Fight to ISIS

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Europe

France Turned the B-26 Invader Into a Colonial Night Fighter

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Air Force

These Unassuming Planes Have Been Key Players in America’s War on Terror

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Confessions Of Series

A Tomcat Pilot’s Early Struggles to Tame the Mighty F-14

By Paul Nickell And Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Mysteries

The Mysterious Case Of The F-117 Nighthawk’s Flip-Down Radar Locators

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-16

USAF’s Deadliest F-16 Pilot Talks F-15 Retirement, Syria, and Pilot Shortage

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

History

7 Revolutionary Hardware Changes the US Navy Should Make in the Trump Era

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Navy

15 Questions With One of VP-5’s ‘Mad Foxes’ on Flying the P-8 Poseidon

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

North Korea Nuclear Crisis

Here’s America’s Plan for Nuking its Enemies, Including North Korea

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Navy

A Hornet Weapon Systems Officer’s View of the Navy’s Suffocating Jet Crews

By Joe “Smokin” Ruzicka

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

People

Taking The F-14A Tomcat On Cruise For My First Time

By Paul Nickell And Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

UAE

This Crazy Militarized Semi Is Bristling With 240 Artillery Rockets

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Carriers

Here’s the USMC’s Plan for ‘Lightning Carriers’ Brimming With F-35Bs

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Cold War

The U.S. Navy Tried to Turn Whale Songs Into Secret Code

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-22

F-22 Now Has AIM-9X But Still No Helmet Mounted Display To Use With It

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Cold War

Watch These Old World War II Bombers Launch Target Drones

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Navy

This Small, Obscure U.S. Navy Unit Hunts Terrorists and Smugglers

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Homeland

The State Department’s Armored Vehicle Program Is a Mess

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

C-5

Lockheed Once Pitched the Massive C-5 as a Flying Command Center

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

160th SOAR "Nightstalkers"

Shedding Some Light On The Pentagon’s Most Shadowy Aviation Units

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Cold War

The Pentagon Thought it Could Retire the U-2 in 1969

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

History

This ’80s Promo Video Will Make You Want A F-20 Tigershark So Freaking Bad

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Confessions Of Series

How To Fight To Win In The F-14, A-4 and F-5 At The Navy’s Topgun School

By Paul Nickell And Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Hollywood

This Photo Of Connery and Baldwin on ‘The Hunt For Red October’ Set Is Nuts

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

South China Sea

Secretive U.S. Task Force Has Been Criss-Crossing Asian Skies

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Vietnam War

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army Turned Hueys Into “Mad Bombers”

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Homeland

Exclusive: Uniquely Configured RQ-170 Stealth Spy Drone Appears At Vandenberg AFB

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

M16/AR15/M4 Pattern

The Pentagon Has Slowly Fallen In Love With H&K’s Take On The AR-15

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Japan

Japan Goes Back To The Future With Lithium-Ion Battery Powered Submarines

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Secret Service

This Is A Rare Shot Of POTUS Inside A Sensitive Compartmented Info Facility

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-35

F-35 Pilots Dress For Chemical and Biological Warfare For The First Time

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

China

China’s Own “Catfish” Flying Avionics Testbed For The J-20 Fighter Emerges

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 5, 2020

United Kingdom

Letters Of Last Resort Are Post-Apocalyptic Orders for UK Vanguard Sub Crews

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Iraq

ISIS Drone Dropping Bomblet On Abrams Tank Is A Sign Of What’s To Come

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

USS Enterprise (CVN-65)

Aircraft Carrier “Bow Prongs” and Why They Are Disappearing

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Egypt

Why the B-2 Stealth Bomber Was Used to Strike ISIS Camps in Libya

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Air Force

The Air Force Desperately Needs A Stealth Tanker

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

People

A Helicopter Crash Almost Kept Gene Cernan From Going To The Moon

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Maritime Surface-To-Air Missiles

Have Submarine-Launched Anti-Aircraft Missiles Finally Come Of Age?

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Ground-Based Midcourse Defense

This Primer On Midcourse Intercept Ballistic Missile Defense Is Marvelous

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Cold War

Reagan Invited Thatcher To Join The Top Secret F-117 Program

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

People

John Glenn’s Combat Nickname Was “Old Magnet Ass” For All The Right Reasons

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Europe

SAAB’s Viggen Could Stick a Landing and Takeoff Again Like No Other Fighter

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Army

Meet The Biggest And Baddest Ships In the US Army

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Russian Navy

What Oddities Can You Spot In This Tour Of Russia’s Aging Aircraft Carrier?

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

Vietnam War

Behold the Pioneering A-6C Intruder With its Massive Ventral Sensor Pod

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Marine Corps

This Shot Is an Example of Veterans’ Unique Dedication to Dedication

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

F-16

This Bird Strike Reminds Us it Doesn’t Take a Missile to Down a Fighter

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 3, 2020

U.S. Homeland

The Pentagon Envisions a Horrible and Dystopian Metropolis of the Future

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 2, 2020

Cold War

Russia’s Carrier Was Designed To Be Heavily Armed Even Without Its Air Wing

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 2, 2020

People

Pour Out an Iced Tea for Bob Hoover

By Chris Cantle

Updated on Jul 2, 2020

U.S. Homeland

The 10 Best Military Arcade Games of the 80s

By Chris Cantle

Updated on Jul 2, 2020

Cold War

This Nuclear-Capable 1950s Missile Once Delivered the U.S. Mail

By Chris Cantle

Updated on Jul 2, 2020

U.S. Navy

The Navy’s New Stealth Destroyer Has Watered Down Capabilities, Questionable Future

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 2, 2020