Check Out This Shotgun Silencer That Actually Works

The Cohen Brothers hit No Country For Old Men featured one of the best villains in modern times played by bowl cut wearing Javier Berdem. As a hitman, his weapons of choice were a cattle killing air compressor and a shotgun with a suppressor. After much internet debate as to...

Apr 20, 2025

Elite F-14 Flight Officer Explains Why The Tomcat Was So Influential

We sat at the end of the runway, our F-14's GE-110 motors humming, awaiting our clearance to begin what would be the last F-14 Demonstration ever. The Air Boss's voice crackled over the radio: "Tomcat Demo, you're cleared to five miles and 15k feet. The air show box is yours"...

Apr 20, 2025

SpaceX Can Now Land Rockets Like Old Sci-Fi Drawings Did

One of the biggest problems with rocket boosters is that you cram them full of amazing materials and engineering, and then ditch them after the first trip. It'd be like buying a , driving it to the coast, and then jumping out of it just before your let it drive...

Apr 20, 2025

Seattle Police Investigate "Drone Strike" On Space Needle

'Drone' really is such a stupid term for what was reported to be a hobbyist quadcopter with a small camera attached. None-the-less, earlier today, visitors to the Seattle Space Needle said such a craft was hovering up around the observation deck when it supposedly impacted the iconic structure. It then...

Apr 20, 2025

Watch This Bomb Bay View Of A B-52 Carpet Bombing An Island

You are looking at 45 surplus M117 750lb general purpose bombs being dropped out of the weapons bay of a B-52H Stratofortress in under two seconds. You can see the impacts seconds later on the island far below. Last March I asked a B-52 pilot how accurate using the B-52's...

Apr 20, 2025

Watch These Canadian Commandos Storm An Airliner Full Of Passengers

Sunwing Airliners Flight 772, a 737 with 183 passengers on-board, was only about 45 minutes into its trip from Toronto to Panama when a bomb threat was made by a passenger. What followed was an F-16 escort and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police special tactics team storming the aircraft upon...

Apr 20, 2025

U.S. Quietly Evacuates Libyan Embassy With Surprise Convoy Escape

With and a civil war raging in the streets, it's been clear for a while that the fighting in Libya was getting out of control and the evacuation of U.S. staff and troops would be necessary. How'd they do it? With a sneaky early morning convoy. if the State Department...

Apr 20, 2025

MiG-29 'Fulcrum Drivers II" Video Is Out And It Is Marvelous

A few months back Mike Ballaban posted one of the coolest combat aircraft videos of the year, called that put us right into the cockpit of the mighty MiG-29 during some jaw dropping maneuvers. Well now the Fulcrum and its master are back for 'Fulcrum Drivers II.' In this installment...

Apr 20, 2025

Is This Giant Soviet Era Hovercraft China's New Access Weapon Of Choice?

Whether it be the massive , or the menacing the USSR of the 1980s tended to prefer their military hardware massive. When it comes to hovercraft, the Zubr Class landing craft air cushion (LCAC) is no different, and it is now being reborn as China's ultimate access weapon. Compared to...

Apr 20, 2025

Behold: The Mother Of All Flotillas At The Mother Of All Naval War Games

Exercise Rim Of The Pacific, commonly known as RIMPAC, is the largest multinational naval training event in the world. Based out of Honolulu, Hawaii, RIMPAC brings together a multitude of Navies with far ranging capabilities to train together cooperatively under intricate battle scenarios similar to the ones they may face...

Apr 20, 2025

Grumman Hellcat Or SRT Hellcat: Which Is Truly The Greatest Hellcat?

One was the premier US carrier-borne fighter of WWII that epitomized the term "Grumman Iron," the other is the massively powerful pinnacle of Dodge's muscle car heritage. So let's , Hellcat vs Hellcat, and see how close these heavy hitting American icons truly are to one another. SRT Hellcat: By...

Apr 20, 2025

Flood Washes Away Fighter Jet In Russia

Flooding in Magadan, Russia has gotten so bad that it's sweeping away not only cars and roads, but fighter jets. This picture from appears to show a Sukhoi SU-15 Interceptor, washed away last week. It wasn't an active plane by any means, more like it was part of some static...

Apr 20, 2025

James Bond's Micro-Jet Lives On As A Pretend Cruise Missile

You probably remember it from the Bond classic Octopussy, where the Roger Moore piloted the tiny BD-5J microjet through a hangar to dodge a missile. It was one of the Bond Franchise's most memorable moments. Some 30 years later, the tiny BD-5J has found a new purpose in life, not...

Apr 20, 2025

The A-10 Warthog Will Soon Be Chasing Tornados And Attacking Storms

Soon, there will be more to the A-10's original "Thunderbolt" moniker than just a name. Everyone's favorite down and dirty chariot of destruction is going geek and soon will be receiving thunderbolts instead of throwing them. A single surplus Warthog is currently undergoing transformation into the ultimate storm chasing vehicle....

Apr 20, 2025

Star Tornado Chaser Can't Believe The A-10 Warthog Storm Chaser Is Legit!

Apparently, , America's most recognizable storm chaser, could not believe that the National Science Foundation has commissioned. For a dude who drives a , I don't think the idea of an A-10 weather sciences platform is that unbelievable, especially considering No harm done Reed, I dig the work you do,...

Apr 20, 2025