Watch This EA-6B Prowler Pilot's View Of A Catapult Launch

The EA-6B Prowler, the last of the true Grumman Navy iron, is currently on She has been almost entirely replaced by the way more modern E/A-18G Growler, although the USMC will continue to fly a couple dozen of these "flying frying pans" until the end of the decade. You've gotta...

Apr 20, 2025

This Is What A BBQ'd Russian 5th Generation Fighter Looks Like

One of Russia's Sukhoi T-50 prototypes had a very bad day recently, catching fire at the end of a test sortie and the resulting damage is pretty horrific. It is not clear what exactly caused the fire, but the PAK-FA program, although appearing to be moving along swiftly, has its...

Apr 20, 2025

The Right Fighter For Canada Is The Super Hornet, Not The F-35

Canada's process for selecting a future fighter to replace its CF-18 Hornets has been a rocky one, with the F-35 option doing what it seems to do best: Making lots of controversy. All the while the most logical option, Boeing's Super Hornet Advanced is waiting in the wings. Up until...

Apr 20, 2025

Watch George HW Bush Jump Out Of A Helicopter For His 90th Bday!

Once again the ex-Commander In Chief, Vice President, CIA Director and TBM Avenger pilot took a leap out of a perfectly good aircraft to celebrate his birthday, of which this is his 90th. President Bush leaped out of a helicopter hovering at 6,000 over Kenibunkport, Maine attached to an ex-US...

Apr 20, 2025

Intense Air-To-Air Intercepts Off The Coast of US, Russia & China

It is really amazing how much tensions have increased among major powers over the last year, and this reality has manifested itself in newsmaking air-to-air intercepts now occurring regularly around the globe. Just last week, three major intercepts made national news, all of which were unique in their own right....

Apr 20, 2025

The Navy's Most Vital And Secretive Submarine Base Is In... Idaho?!?

The US Navy's submarine bases are some of the most high-security installations in the world, but one of their most important and shadowy submarine outposts is not located along the ocean, but rather in a lake in landlocked Idaho. The Navy's Acoustic Research Detachment (ARD) at Bayview, Idaho, which is...

Apr 20, 2025

Watch Iraqi Mi-35 Hind Attack Choppers Take The Fight To The ISIS

This video depicts Iraqi "Hind-E" advanced helicopter gunships, of which the Iraqi armed forces only have a handful in inventory, taking the fight to the ISIS in Northern Iraq. A much larger analysis on the events currently unfolding in Iraq will be posted soon. In the meantime, check out this...

Apr 20, 2025

Can We Learn Something From The Defunct A-7F "Strikefighter?"

The A-7 Corsair II, known also as the SLUF, as in "Short Little Ugly Fucker," was a conservative balance of economy, persistence, payload, and technology, and its final design evolution, the A-7F, could have been the right fighter for the wars to come in the new millennium. The A-7 was...

Apr 20, 2025

The Painful Truth About NASA's Warp Drive Spaceship From A Physicist

I'll be honest — this is not the post I wanted to write. When NASA released their new renders of a , I wanted to believe that such a craft was mere decades away from reality. Then I made the mistake of asking someone much smarter than me about it....

Apr 20, 2025

Helmet Cam Shows What It's Like To Launch A Jet From A Carrier Deck

The ultimate pit crew? Maybe, as the Slot Check is the last chance deck handlers and an aircraft's crew have to catch something wrong before the plane is hurtled off the deck by a steam powered piston at 200 mph. Check out what it looks like in first person in...

Apr 20, 2025

The Joint Threat Emitter Can Be Any SAM Site You Want It To Be

America's air arms are increasingly under the threat of a wide array of surface-to-air missile systems, search radars and electro-optical tracking devices, yet it would take an air armada to move all these separate systems to training locations around the globe. The Joint Threat Emitter takes care of this problem....

Apr 20, 2025

Watch Fighter Jet Crews Race To See Who Can Get Airborne Fastest

During the recent air combat exercise known as hosted by the Royal Jordanian Air Force, one of the contests was a race to see who could get strapped in their fighter jet and airborne the fastest. Considering that getting up and on your way to your target fast has become...

Apr 20, 2025

Pierre Sprey's Anti-F-35 Diatribe Is Half Brilliant And Half Bullshit

A that featuring an interview with F-16 co-designer and king of the 1970's era Pierre Sprey. In it he slams the F-35 in almost every way possible. Sadly, about half of what he says is totally relevant, the other half is totally bullshit. I am not fond of the F-35...

Apr 20, 2025

30 Totally Stunning Photos Taken Around Andersen AFB, Guam

Andersen AFB is located on the island of Guam, about two thirds of the way between Hawaii and Taiwan. Given its location, Andersen is one of America's most strategic outposts, and with it sprawling size it acts like gigantic aircraft carrier and sea base from which the USA can project...

Apr 20, 2025

There's A Magical Place Where A-4 Skyhawks Still Fly Off Carriers?

The A-4 Skyhawk, also lovingly known as the "Scooter," was one cost effective little carrier capable jet that was first known for its ability to haul tons of bombs, and later for its nimbleness in a dogfight. These traits are precisely why Brazil procured it so late in life for...

Apr 20, 2025