Must Read Features

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Cold War

Russia Still Uses This Cold War Relic Of An Underground Anti-Ship Missile System In Crimea

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Navy

Why The Destroyer USS Paul Hamilton Came Home Flying A Crescent Moon Flag And A Long Pennant

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Navy

Check Out How Rusty And Battered USS Stout Looks After Spending A Record 215 Days At Sea

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

EA-18G

The EA-18G Growler Has Its Own Topgun School For Electronic Attack Instead Of Dogfighting

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Homeland

Secretive Tonopah Test Range Airport Had A Mysteriously Busy Week In September

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Navy

The Navy’s First Aegis Warship USS Ticonderoga Is Being Scrapped

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Royal Navy

Her Majesty’s Death Ray: How The AIM-9L Sidewinder Vanquished The Argentine Air Force

By Rowland White

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Sonar

How Warships Hunt For Enemy Submarines From A Veteran Submariner Who Has Been Hunted Many Times

By Aaron Amick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Navy

The Navy Is About To Sail With Its Next Big Leap In Shipboard Electronic Warfare Systems

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Cold War

The TOZ-81 ‘Mars’ Gun Was The Soviet Union’s Ultimate Space Revolver

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

KC-135

A Dozen Of The Most Unusual Variants Of The Ubiquitous KC-135 Family Of Aircraft

By Robert Hopkins

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

India

Historic Indian Carrier Set To Be Scrapped After 58 Years Of Service With Two Navies

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

F-15

Strike Eagle Pilot Gives A Detailed Walk Around Tour Of An F-15E

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Military Aviation History

The Forgotten Fireball Made The First Jet-Powered Carrier Landing By Accident

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Homeland

Area 51 Has A Huge New Hangar Facility That Points To A Drone Swarm Future

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Homeland

The Full Story On That Oregon F-15 That Fired Its Missiles Into The Sea Before Landing

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Air Force

Blasting The Air In Front Of Hypersonic Vehicles With Lasers Could Unlock Unprecedented Speeds

By Brett Tingley

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Navy

Here’s Why The Destroyer USS Kidd Was Flying A Huge Pirate Flag As It Pulled Into Port

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

NGAD

The Air Force’s Secret Next Gen Air Dominance Demonstrator Isn’t What You Think It Is

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Air Force

Fighter Pilots Could Soon Train To Dogfight Against Virtual Projections Of Adversary Jets

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Cold War

Yes, The United States Did Draw Up A Plan To Drop 80 Nuclear Weapons On North Korea

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

RQ-170

Notoriously Shy RQ-170 Spy Drone Lands At Its Skunk Works Birthplace

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

NASA

From NASA To Amtrak, These Are All The Government Agencies With Tactical Teams

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Marine Corps

The Plan For Making Aging USMC F/A-18 Hornets Deadlier Than Ever For A Final Decade Of Service

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Homeland

Mysterious Drone Incursions Have Occurred Over U.S. THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile Battery In Guam

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Homeland

The Little Model Shop That Played A Big Role In Killing Osama Bin Laden

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

F-15

How This F-117 Ended Up Nesting With An F-15 Alert Jet At Portland Air Guard Base

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

LGM-30 Minuteman III

Check Out These Rare Infrared Images Of A Minuteman III ICBM Blasting Off

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Hellenic Air Force

Face-Off Over The Aegean: How Greek And Turkish Air Forces Stack Up

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Feb 4, 2021

China

How China’s Ballistic Missile And Nuclear Arsenal Is Ballooning According To The Pentagon

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Bombers

You Can Buy The World’s Only Flyable P-82 Twin Mustang For $12,000,000

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Royal Air Force

The Day The Royal Air Force Lost Six Jet Fighters In Just 45 Minutes

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Royal Air Force

Here’s How An EC-135 Crew Pulled Off One Of The Most Jaw-Dropping Air Show Takeoffs Ever

By Robert Hopkins

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Unmanned

Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Air Force

F-102 Delta Dagger’s Weapons Bays Combined Rockets And Missiles In A Feat Of Cold War Ingenuity

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Cold War

The Mysterious Cold War Case Of Unidentified Aircraft Descending On Loring Air Force Base

By Brett Tingley

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Homeland

The Potentially Revolutionary Celera 500L Aircraft Officially Breaks Cover

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Navy

Navy F/A-18 Squadron Commander’s Take On AI Repeatedly Beating Real Pilot In Dogfight

By Commander Colin 'Farva' Price

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Cold War

Russia Releases “Tsar Bomba” Test Footage Of The Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Blast Ever

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

AC-130

Check Out This AC-130 Gunship Pilot Wearing A Scorpion Helmet Mounted Display

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

MiG-29

F-15 Eagle Pilot Explains Exactly How He Downed Three Migs During Two Wars

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

F-22

This Shot Of An A-10, F-35, And F-22 Billowing Vapor In Formation Is Absolutely Insane

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Red Flag

F-117 Nighthawks Now Appear To Be Flying As Adversaries In Red Flag Aerial War Games

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

F-22

Test Pilot Explains The YF-23 Black Widow’s Awesomely Innovative Flight Control System

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

People

How A Canadian Pilot Became The First Westerner To Fly The Feared MiG-29 Fulcrum

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

F-16

How F-16 Testers Are Evolving The Jet’s New Radar Beyond The Homeland Defense Mission

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Australia

Air Combat Tales From Australia’s Storied Pitch Black Aerial War Games

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

U.S. Navy

How Submarine Sonarmen Tirelessly Hunt For Enemies They Can’t Even See

By Aaron Amick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Russia

Why Russia’s MiG-35 Is Starting To Look Like A Dead Duck

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

WWII

The British Had A Plan To Drop Anthrax Laced Cattle Feed Over Germany In 1942

By Thomas Newdick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Cold War

This Was The Largest Conventional Explosion America Ever Set Off

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

F-22

Check Out This Incredibly Rare Image Of An F-22 Pilot Wearing A Helmet Mounted Display

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

H-60

This Is The First Photo Ever Of A Stealthy Black Hawk Helicopter

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

Russia

The Only Missile-Toting Ekranoplan Russia Ever Built Just Took Its Last Trip On The Caspian

By Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Nov 27, 2020

X-37B

We Talk To The Scientist Whose Revolutionary Power Beaming Experiment Is Flying On The X-37B

By Brett Tingley

Updated on Jul 30, 2020

U.S. Homeland

The Night A Mysterious Drone Swarm Descended On Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick

Updated on Jul 30, 2020

U.S. Navy

Navy’s Super Hornet Boss On The Jet’s Game-Changing Infrared Search And Track Sensor

By Tyler Rogoway

Posted on Jul 27, 2020

Virginia Class

Check Out This Sailor Holding A Laser Rifle Aboard The Nuclear Submarine USS Minnesota

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 26, 2020

F-117

The Time When The USAF Got Caught Trying To Sneak F-117s Through Austrian Airspace

By Jamie Hunter

Posted on Jul 21, 2020

China

This Rare Cockpit Video Of Chinese Fighter Pilots Dogfighting Offers Unique Insights

By Jamie Hunter

Posted on Jul 15, 2020

People

Veteran Sailor On Why Navy Ships Can Be Most Vulnerable In Port And How To Change That

By Aaron Amick

Posted on Jul 15, 2020

F-14

This Crazy Video Of An F-14 Tomcat Blasting By Another At High-Altitude Will Make Your Day

By Jamie Hunter

Updated on Jul 14, 2020

F-22

This Lecture By An F-22 Test Pilot On The Raptor’s Flight Control System Is Bonkers

By Tyler Rogoway

Updated on Jul 11, 2020

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Check Out How Rusty And Battered USS Stout Looks After Spending A Record 215 Days At Sea

The EA-18G Growler Has Its Own Topgun School For Electronic Attack Instead Of Dogfighting

Secretive Tonopah Test Range Airport Had A Mysteriously Busy Week In September

The Navy’s First Aegis Warship USS Ticonderoga Is Being Scrapped

Her Majesty’s Death Ray: How The AIM-9L Sidewinder Vanquished The Argentine Air Force

How Warships Hunt For Enemy Submarines From A Veteran Submariner Who Has Been Hunted Many Times

The Navy Is About To Sail With Its Next Big Leap In Shipboard Electronic Warfare Systems

The TOZ-81 ‘Mars’ Gun Was The Soviet Union’s Ultimate Space Revolver

A Dozen Of The Most Unusual Variants Of The Ubiquitous KC-135 Family Of Aircraft

Historic Indian Carrier Set To Be Scrapped After 58 Years Of Service With Two Navies

Strike Eagle Pilot Gives A Detailed Walk Around Tour Of An F-15E

The Forgotten Fireball Made The First Jet-Powered Carrier Landing By Accident

Area 51 Has A Huge New Hangar Facility That Points To A Drone Swarm Future

The Full Story On That Oregon F-15 That Fired Its Missiles Into The Sea Before Landing

Blasting The Air In Front Of Hypersonic Vehicles With Lasers Could Unlock Unprecedented Speeds

Here’s Why The Destroyer USS Kidd Was Flying A Huge Pirate Flag As It Pulled Into Port

The Air Force’s Secret Next Gen Air Dominance Demonstrator Isn’t What You Think It Is

Fighter Pilots Could Soon Train To Dogfight Against Virtual Projections Of Adversary Jets

Yes, The United States Did Draw Up A Plan To Drop 80 Nuclear Weapons On North Korea

Notoriously Shy RQ-170 Spy Drone Lands At Its Skunk Works Birthplace

From NASA To Amtrak, These Are All The Government Agencies With Tactical Teams

The Plan For Making Aging USMC F/A-18 Hornets Deadlier Than Ever For A Final Decade Of Service

Mysterious Drone Incursions Have Occurred Over U.S. THAAD Anti-Ballistic Missile Battery In Guam

The Little Model Shop That Played A Big Role In Killing Osama Bin Laden

How This F-117 Ended Up Nesting With An F-15 Alert Jet At Portland Air Guard Base

Check Out These Rare Infrared Images Of A Minuteman III ICBM Blasting Off

Face-Off Over The Aegean: How Greek And Turkish Air Forces Stack Up

How China’s Ballistic Missile And Nuclear Arsenal Is Ballooning According To The Pentagon

You Can Buy The World’s Only Flyable P-82 Twin Mustang For $12,000,000

The Day The Royal Air Force Lost Six Jet Fighters In Just 45 Minutes

Here’s How An EC-135 Crew Pulled Off One Of The Most Jaw-Dropping Air Show Takeoffs Ever

Drug Cartel Now Assassinates Its Enemies With Bomb-Toting Drones

F-102 Delta Dagger’s Weapons Bays Combined Rockets And Missiles In A Feat Of Cold War Ingenuity

The Mysterious Cold War Case Of Unidentified Aircraft Descending On Loring Air Force Base

The Potentially Revolutionary Celera 500L Aircraft Officially Breaks Cover

Navy F/A-18 Squadron Commander’s Take On AI Repeatedly Beating Real Pilot In Dogfight

Russia Releases “Tsar Bomba” Test Footage Of The Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Blast Ever

Check Out This AC-130 Gunship Pilot Wearing A Scorpion Helmet Mounted Display

F-15 Eagle Pilot Explains Exactly How He Downed Three Migs During Two Wars

This Shot Of An A-10, F-35, And F-22 Billowing Vapor In Formation Is Absolutely Insane

F-117 Nighthawks Now Appear To Be Flying As Adversaries In Red Flag Aerial War Games

Test Pilot Explains The YF-23 Black Widow’s Awesomely Innovative Flight Control System

How A Canadian Pilot Became The First Westerner To Fly The Feared MiG-29 Fulcrum

How F-16 Testers Are Evolving The Jet’s New Radar Beyond The Homeland Defense Mission

Air Combat Tales From Australia’s Storied Pitch Black Aerial War Games

How Submarine Sonarmen Tirelessly Hunt For Enemies They Can’t Even See

Why Russia’s MiG-35 Is Starting To Look Like A Dead Duck

The British Had A Plan To Drop Anthrax Laced Cattle Feed Over Germany In 1942

This Was The Largest Conventional Explosion America Ever Set Off

Check Out This Incredibly Rare Image Of An F-22 Pilot Wearing A Helmet Mounted Display

This Is The First Photo Ever Of A Stealthy Black Hawk Helicopter

The Only Missile-Toting Ekranoplan Russia Ever Built Just Took Its Last Trip On The Caspian

We Talk To The Scientist Whose Revolutionary Power Beaming Experiment Is Flying On The X-37B

The Night A Mysterious Drone Swarm Descended On Palo Verde Nuclear Power Plant

Navy’s Super Hornet Boss On The Jet’s Game-Changing Infrared Search And Track Sensor

Check Out This Sailor Holding A Laser Rifle Aboard The Nuclear Submarine USS Minnesota

The Time When The USAF Got Caught Trying To Sneak F-117s Through Austrian Airspace

This Rare Cockpit Video Of Chinese Fighter Pilots Dogfighting Offers Unique Insights

Veteran Sailor On Why Navy Ships Can Be Most Vulnerable In Port And How To Change That

This Crazy Video Of An F-14 Tomcat Blasting By Another At High-Altitude Will Make Your Day

This Lecture By An F-22 Test Pilot On The Raptor’s Flight Control System Is Bonkers