Supreme Commander Of Swedish Forces On Mystery Sub: 'It's Fucked Up'

When we first heard the Sweden was hunting for a that may or may not be stranded in its coastal waters, we knew it was something. Weird? No. Confusing? Possibly, but not quite there. But thanks to the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Forces, we have new terminology for it:...

Apr 22, 2025

California Highway Patrol: 'Lane-Splitting Is Not Inherently Dangerous'

The California Highway Patrol and Office of Traffic commissioned UC Berkeley to study the safety affects of motorcycles riding between lanes in traffic, and found it adds no explicit danger to motorcycling in general. "What we learned is, if you lane-split in a safe or prudent manner, it is no...

Apr 22, 2025

Sweden Has A Sub That's So Deadly The US Navy Hired It To Play Bad Guy

We have been, where six days in Swedish forces have only now called off their search for an elusive sub hiding in the waters off Stockholm. Yet what nobody has mentioned is just how deadly and capable Sweden’s own subs are, and there are few better weapons for catching a...

Apr 22, 2025

Syrian Mine Clearance Shows One Of The Worst Moral Quandaries Of War

To call the Syrian Civil War "complex" is a vast understatement of our times. It's not only complicated in terms of who's fighting, its complicated in terms of what they're fighting for, and how exactly they're fighting it. Take this video of mine clearance, for example. Mine clearance is great,...

Apr 22, 2025

This Year's Hornet Ball Video Is Absolutely F/A-18 Hornet Heaven

The annual West Coast Hornet Ball video features a compilation of the most shit-hot video clips of Hornets in action from across the fleet, and in the day and age of GoPros and HD lipstick cams it does not disappoint. We have seen some units this year, but this baby...

Apr 22, 2025

Watch This $2.2M P-51 Mustang Make A Gear-Up Belly Landing

Big Beautiful Doll, a gorgeous 1944 P-51D Mustang, had a landing gear malfunction over Mesa, Arizona yesterday. As a result, its owner Jeff Pino executed an amzingly textbook perfect gear-up belly landing. The Mustang's Merlin engine, prop and underside will cost some serious dough to have repaired, but she and...

Apr 22, 2025

Swedes Ends Hunt For Mystery Sub

Sweden has been hunting for some sort of mystery... something, in its waters for about a week now. They never were entirely sure what it was, but the best guess was that it was a small Russian submarine. We may never find out now, though, because Sweden just called off...

Apr 22, 2025

This 22 Year Old Picture Reminds Us Of The Post Cold War Possibilities

This shot, taken in 1992 at Russia's strategic Northern Fleet port of Severomorsk, shows one of the US Navy's most advanced ships, the AEGIS cruiser Yorktown, and the destroyer O'Bannon, making a port visit among the ex-Soviet Navy's cream. In the distance is the looms. It is amazing how the...

Apr 22, 2025

The Navy's First Sea Base Gets Tested During Exercise Pacific Horizon

The US Navy's first giant Mobile Landing Platform, basically a semi-submersible highway interchange artery on the sea, has been put to the test for the first time. Exercise Pacific Horizon saw the tanker-sized ship being used to convey outsized cargo from a cargo ship to the shore via hovercraft as...

Apr 22, 2025

Russian Jet Team Shocks The World By Showing Up In New SU-30SM Flankers

Yesterday in , the lesser known of Russia's three jet fighter display teams surprised crowds by showing up in six of most advanced variations of the Sukhoi Flanker series jets in the world, the super maneuverable SU-30SM. You can see some fantastic photos from yesterday's display and a video is...

Apr 22, 2025

The A-7 Corsair II Finally Takes Its Last Flight After 49 Years

Last week, defense journalist spent some time in Greece at Araxos Air Base to capture what would be a bittersweet moment in the history of combat aviation – the retirement of the humble, but incredibly effective, Ling-Temco-Vought A-7 Corsair II. Though it's better known as the SLUF. Or Short Little...

Apr 22, 2025

​The Bienville Legacy Is An Engineer's Acid Trip On Two Wheels

JT Nesbitt doesn't design bikes – he completely reimagines them. You probably know him as the man behind the Confederate Wraith and G2 Hellcat, and after eight years of engineering he's created this, the Bienville Legacy, a 300 HP superbike that uses a single carbon fiber leaf spring as the...

Apr 22, 2025

The Russian Military Despises This Strange Wedge Shaped Spy Ship

When it was launched it looked like nothing else. Its pizza slice-like design made it one of the most stable ships for its size and it has since spawned a whole new class of crazy looking vessels. Yet this clandestine spy ship is most notorious in Russia, whose military absolutely...

Apr 22, 2025

There's A Box-Fresh Bimota DB1SR On eBay From 1987

There are few bikes more important to Bimota's history as the DB1. It's responsible for saving the company from financial ruin in the 80s, and the upgraded DB1SR is the pick of the litter. Finding one is North America is next to impossible. So finding one that hasn't been out...

Apr 22, 2025

Watch NASA's Unmanned Antares Rocket Explode Seconds After Launching

An unmanned Antares rocket was set to launch this evening from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, but the event ended in an explosion seconds after it began. An investigation is underway. [UPDATED] The reports the rocket lost its momentum and fell toward the ground before exploding not long after...

Apr 22, 2025