Watch These "All-Americans" Jump Out Of A Perfectly Good C-17

The has "been there, done that" in virtually every American military conflict of the last century and they continue to be one of our most potent fighting forces. The All-Americans, as they're nicknamed, aren't trained they are built down in Fort Bragg, NC, and some of the US Army's most...

Apr 20, 2025

The SpaceX Dragon V2 Design Was Inspired By A 60s Space Movie

Yesterday, potential supervillain Elon Musk unveiled the new manned spacecraft from SpaceX, the . It's a large-crew capacity capsule, and will be the first of its kind to actually fly. This fundamental idea was inspired by a that was so awful lampooned it. But it brought up some good points....

Apr 20, 2025

7 Things The Marines Have To Do To Make The F-35B Worth The Huge Cost

After years of passing more conventional capabilities by, I think it is time for the Marine Corps, and the "Gator Navy" for that matter, to get serious about getting the very most out of their soon to be fielded, extremely expensive and controversial F-35B force. At $150 million a pop,...

Apr 20, 2025

The U.S. Air Force's New AC-130 Gunships Are Really Bomb Trucks

The AC-130 flying gunship fleet is one of the most fabled and feared assets in the entire USAF inventory. Known for its ability to unleash a broadside of cannon fire in the dead of night, the newest of the AC-130 lot is more about smart bombs than raining lead and...

Apr 20, 2025

Arthur C Clarke Warned Us About The F-35 And Its Damning Costs

The fantastic and haunting short story "Superiority," written by the science fiction visionary Arthur C. Clarke in 1951, warns us about the opportunity cost of getting into a cycle of developing ever more complex and costly weaponry while sacrificing more numerous and proven systems in the process. It is an...

Apr 20, 2025

Life Gets Weird In Outer Space

Astronaut is still getting used to being in outer space. Poor guy. Though it sounds like he's enjoying it. Reid Wiseman's first few days in space are proving downright entertaining. Wedged between… ...

Apr 20, 2025

José "Fuji" Ramos Is A Photographer Whose Studio Is An F-5 Tiger

When it comes to the small world of aviation photography, José "Fuji" Ramos is notorious for taking fantastic shots, often times from the backseat of a Navy aggressor jet. Here's what he captures. José's images have a certain candid presence and mood about them that is often lost in the...

Apr 20, 2025

Moment By Moment: The Super Intense Hand-off Of Bowe Bergdahl

The electrifying video below depicts the tense moments before, during and after Bowe Bergdahl's transfer between Taliban and US Special Operations and possibly CIA or State Department personnel. Here's a breakdown of what it means. It starts with Bergdahl, a five year captive of NW Pakistan's mafia-like fundamentalist organization known...

Apr 20, 2025

How America Built A 'Factory In The Sky' To Defeat The Nazis On D-Day

When WWII started aviation experts were convinced no one could mass-produce the big, destructive B-24 Liberator bomber. A month before D-Day, a Ford factory was on the verge of producing one an hour. In this chapter from , A.J. Baime explains why it was pivotal to defeating the Axis...

Apr 20, 2025

27 Photos You Need To See On The 70th Anniversary Of D-Day

It was 70 years ago today that 156,000 Allied forces began their assault on France's Normandy coast. While the battle for Europe would last for months, D-Day marked the daring and brutal amphibious assault. Today we remember it with these stirring photos. Your bravery and sacrifice will always be remembered......

Apr 20, 2025

Shoulder Fired SAM Threat Exploding Over Battlefield Ukraine

Man Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS), otherwise known as shoulder fired heat-seeking surface-to-air missiles, have become prevalent among pro-Russian forces fighting in Ukraine, and their results have been grimly realized over the last few weeks of fighting. A was supposedly on a reconnaissance and intelligence collecting mission high over Slavyansk...

Apr 20, 2025

The Gargantuan XC-99 Was Almost The Post-WWII Airbus A380

Everyone loves big planes. The bigger they are the more interesting they become. Famed mammoths like Howard Hughes' HK-1 "Hercules," otherwise known as the "Spruce Goose," and Antonov's gigantic An-225 "Dream" conjure up feelings that man has somehow cheated physics by creating such flying hulks. Even today's Airbus A380s, the...

Apr 20, 2025

Everything We Know About The Terrorist Attack On Karachi Airport

Details remain fairly scant at this point, but it appears that Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan has come by gunmen strapped with explosives. The sky is bright red over NE Karachi and explosions continue to rock the airport's apron area. Check out this guy t as the airport was...

Apr 20, 2025

Ukrainian Mi-24 Hind Shot Down, Towed Away By Truck

I have , but I have yet to hear of any hard figures as to how many Ukrainian aircraft have been lost as a result, although I think the number is probably well into double digit territory. Check out this video of Marines training in Yuma on how to employ...

Apr 20, 2025

Watch These Giant Navy LCAC Hovercraft Conduct Night Ops

The Navy's Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) is one hell of a heavy hauling monster. Yet their large size that makes them so effective leaves their operators little margin for error when operating from the well-decks of the Navy's amphibious assault ships, especially at night. LCACs can carry up to...

Apr 20, 2025