Another American F-15 Crashes, This Time In England

A US Air Force F-15D just crashed during an training sortie in England, according to multiple reports. The cause is still unclear, but bystanders reported that the jet came down backwards, though the pilot is reported to have ejected safely. The 493rd Fighter Squadron is the only F-15C unit in...

Apr 22, 2025

A Topgun Instructor's Chance Encounter With An SR-71 Blackbird

David "Bio" Baranek is the author of the hit memoir , in which he describes the making of Top Gun, and the fighter pilot culture that spawned it, from inside Navy's elite Fighter Weapons School itself. "Bio" also has other fascinating stories to tell from his time as a Topgun...

Apr 22, 2025

Canadian Hornets To Kuwait, Aussie Super Hornets Make Combat Debut

The anti-ISIS air coalition is a tapestry made up of an ever growing number of nations and, and now international F/A-18 Hornet operators are entering the fray. Australia has sent half a dozen F/A-18F Super Hornets, a KC-30A, and an E-7 Wedgetail and Canadian Hornets are on the way. On...

Apr 22, 2025

First Ever Inflatable Space Station Module Set To Launch Next Year

has been experimenting with the concept of inflatable space modules for quite some time, and they're to put it to a real test: at least two years docked to the ISS. Now, finally, ISS astronauts and cosmonauts can have those zero-g wrestling tournaments they want so badly. The BEAM (Bigelow...

Apr 22, 2025

China's Air Force Is Releasing A Game Where You Blow Up U.S. F-15s

In celebration of the People's Liberation Army Air Force's 65th birthday, and because they are seriously a powerful force now, China is called Golden Helmet. Judging by its cover, in this game you triumphantly blow American F-15s to smithereens with your J-11 Flanker knock-off. Golden Helmet is actually a real...

Apr 22, 2025

Watch The Looming B-1 Bomber That Pounded ISIS In Syria

When one Twitter user wrote that they were cowering in a Syrian pepper field, waiting out the weapons of ISIS while an American lobbed crushing explosives at them from the sky, they weren't kidding. Here's video of that very B-1 doing its thing over the town of Kobane. It loiters...

Apr 22, 2025

Camera Drone Slams Into Turkey's Blue Mosque, Recovers, Moves On

Camera wielding quad copters are spots around the globe. The National Park Service has even outlawed unmanned aircraft within their domain as they were becoming a major annoyance to non-drone toting visitors. Damage caused by remote controlled aircraft to fragile historical structures and sites is also a major concern, as...

Apr 22, 2025

Why Is This Mi-24 Hind Wearing U.S. Coast Guard Colors?

Apparently, these are screencaps from some '80s Russian action movie, one in which the US Coast Guard was a way more aggressive fighting force than their actual mission requires. Still, the Hind looks quite dapper in its Coastie clothes don't you think? These images also remind us that the Mi-24...

Apr 22, 2025

Holy Crap, NASA Is Considering Improvements To Orion That We Proposed

I'm not going to lie; I'm pretty excited about this. Let me make this clear right up front, though: I don't actually think NASA is using my idea, as such. But, NASA has announced it's spacecraft that's Hear me out. On October 3, 2014 — about a week ago —...

Apr 22, 2025

Dear US Navy: The Futuristic X3K Is What Littoral Combat Ships Should Be

The last decade has seen some pretty awesome looking warships hit waters around the globe. On the "blue water" side of things the Star Wars looking Zumwalt Class and the minimalist art-like Lafayette Class were clearly designed with stealth in mind. Yet the "brown water" is where , and this...

Apr 22, 2025

Welcome Your Future Death In This Film On The Navy's Stealth Drone

Gaze upon my works, ye mighty, because in 50 years they will be bombing your grandchildren from above visual height. We — the X-47B first performing successfully integrated unmanned and manned carrier operations back in August. The US Navy just announced that it has successfully integrated unmanned and manned carrier…...

Apr 22, 2025

​I Swallowed My Tongue Just Watching This 170 MPH Stoppie

You know your riding buddy that likes to do cute little stoppies at every damn traffic light? Here's Dani Pedrosa showing him how it's really done. Pedrosa was running in the first free practice at Motegi, where teams tend to fit larger carbon ceramic discs because of the track's massive...

Apr 22, 2025

Watch This F/A-18 Hornet Torch The Night Sky With Its Afterburners

The MCAS Miramar Air Show features a lot of nighttime afterburner, like A LOT. It is traditionally one of the biggest air shows in the United States and imagery from it never disappoints. One of the unique things about this show is its gratuitous display of fighter jet afterburner action...

Apr 22, 2025

SEALs & MARSOC Units Conduct Training From The USS George Washington

US Navy SEALs and Marine commandos conducted joint special forces training using the Navy's only forward deployed nuclear aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, as a forward operating base. The training was part of Special Operations Command Pacific's initiative to integrate special operations forces with the carrier and its deployed...

Apr 22, 2025

USS America: The Navy's Newest Flattop Can't Decide What The Hell It Is

Yesterday, as part of San Francisco's Fleet Week festivities, the US Navy had a high-profile commissioning ceremony for the USS America LHA-6, the fourth US Navy ship to bear the name and the first in a new class of amphibious assault ships that are really more like aircraft carriers, yet...

Apr 22, 2025