Watch A Kamikaze Fish Take Out A Minigun Toting Sailor

Special Warfare Combat-Craft Crewman (s) are the tough bastards who deliver, support and extract Navy SEALs via boat under the cloak of darkness or during the hellish chaos of full on firefights. No one can touch them... except for maybe a kamikaze fish attack. SWCCs usually creep up rivers as...

Apr 20, 2025

Iraq's F-16s Have A Cool Paint Job But Antiquated Weapons

Post-Saddam Iraq's first tactical fighter aircraft has taken flight. Lockheed flew the Block 52 F-16D for the first time just a couple days ago, and deliveries of the first batch of four jets are said to be just a couple months away. It looks great, but... Iraq consummated its order...

Apr 20, 2025

Victory Day: Unnerving Soviet-Style Militarism In The Age Of Putin

"Victory Day" has been rebooted since Vladimir Putin took the reins of Russia over a decade ago. May 9th is the official day that marks the end of what Russians call "The Great Patriotic War," otherwise known as WWII to the rest of us. Russians do have a lot to...

Apr 20, 2025

Watch These Flare Spewing SU-24's Perform A Very Low Flyby

Russian low level flybys are not that rare, but ones that have infrared countermeasure flares literally landing on the tarmac certainly are! And who can forget these Su-24 classics: Then there is this little gem from Syria that popped up recently. Syria has 20 Su-24s, although the fleet's overall serviceability...

Apr 20, 2025

S-92 Is The Next Marine One, What About Combat Search & Rescue?

After a decade-long saga, including one serious boondoggle of a development program, America's next "Marine One" will be based on the . But what about the USAF's critical Combat Search & Rescue mission? Couldn't they benefit from the S-92's features as well? The fact that the Sikorsky won the Marine...

Apr 20, 2025

Russia Flew A Ridiculous Amount Of Airpower Over Crimea Yesterday

There was one hell of a lot of Russian airpower flown over Crimea for Putin's Victory Day visit to Sevastopol yesterday. Virtually every type of aircraft in the Russian Air Force made an appearance, including their most potent attack aircraft, the Su-34 Fullback and \the Tu-160 Blackjack. Still, the Black...

Apr 20, 2025

Did The Drone That Had A Near Miss With A Plane Belong To The USAF?

Yesterday, a story concerning a US Airways CRJ-200's near miss with a while on approach to Tallahassee Regional Airport made big news. The aircrew stated that the aircraft looked like a small unmanned F-4 Phantom wearing camouflage paint. The event occurred at around 2,300 feet. Some very elaborate radio controlled...

Apr 20, 2025

Ford Dealership Sends Tiny Mustang To Near Space

I'm sure Ford dealerships all over will be doing all sorts of things to celebrate the Mustang's 50th anniversary — somber, majestic Sale-a-brations, banners hung from windows, all that crap. But at least one dealership in Stockton, CA knows how to do it right. They sent a Mustang into space....

Apr 20, 2025

Watch This Crazy Icelandic Coast Guard Helicopter Rescue!

The North Sea is one brutal place. It can make a ship that displaces tens of thousands of tons bob around like a rubber ducky. Subsequently, the Icelandic Coast Guard has the job of operating daily in this horrific environment, and they are damn good at it too. Operating a...

Apr 20, 2025

TOP GUN Day Special: The Super Tomcat That Was Never Built

In light of it being I think it would be proper to take a look back to see how the true star of the movie, the F-14 Tomcat, could have lived on in various forms far past its 2006 retirement date. In our reality, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet became the...

Apr 20, 2025

How NASA Can Run The International Space Station Without Russia

Russia announced today that they would be as of 2020, something . Some news outlets framed this as them just ending their participation, others suggested they'd "" the station. The US has been planning on using the station until 2024. Can we do it without them? This news from Russia...

Apr 20, 2025

North Korea Debuts Kim Jong Un's "New" Plane Amidst Sad Display

Maybe Kim Jong Un celebrates ? We knew his dad loved cheesy American movies so anything is possible right? Here's North Korea's "Air Force One" and some of their amusingly lackluster air force resources. Apparently the boy tyrant showed up to what appears to be some sort of air-to-ground rocketry...

Apr 20, 2025

Syrian Rebels Assassinate A Mound Of Dirt In Spectacular Fashion

Tunnel bombs have become , although they do not always end up in the perfect location to be effective. Example, the video below. As with so many insurgencies and guerrilla warfare scenarios, when living and/or fighting the enemy above ground becomes to dangerous or strategically deficient, fighters will begin to...

Apr 20, 2025

Beautiful But Deadly, 122mm Rocket Salvo On A Winter's Day

It is not clear what exactly the weapon system being used is or who owns it, but I would guess that it is the BM21 "Grad" ("Hail") truck mounted multiple rocket launcher system filling sky with almost certain death. These rockets may not be "smart" but they are extremely effective...

Apr 20, 2025

The Air Force's Rationale For Retiring The A-10 Warthog Is Bullshit

The fact that the USAF is so willing to throw away 300 of the finest close air support platforms ever invented just to save the cost equivalent of 30 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters is total bullshit and both the American taxpayer and those who bravely fight our wars on the...

Apr 20, 2025