Chinese Fighter Jet Crashes In The Middle Of A Town

Seven people were injured when a Chinese J-10B fighter jet crashed in a suburban district of Chengdu, a typical small Chinese city of over 14 million residents. Specifically, the Chengdu J-10B fighter crashed two days ago in Pitong Town, the administrative seat of Pi County, a few miles outside of...

Apr 23, 2025

Back In The Cold War The US Wasn't Above A Little Provocation Itself

Russia announced last week that it would commence of the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. Despite some concerns about interference with , the top brass actually seemed unimpressed with the whole thing, if not nonplussed. But the last incident of the Cold War might explain why. To understand the...

Apr 23, 2025

50 Totally Stunning Combat Aircraft Photos Taken Around Alaska

Wildlife is not the only thing that enjoys the vast empty expanses of America's northern-most state. There is so much room to train over Alaska's that there is really no other place in the world quite like it for military aircrews and weapons and tactics testers to push their hardware...

Apr 23, 2025

Behold The Humble Glory That Is The Grumman C-2 Greyhound

The Navy's venerable C-2 Greyhound carrier on-board delivery (COD) aircraft turned 50 this year. In celebration of this monumental occasion, VRC-30, the west coast C-2 squadron, put together this incredible video. So strap on your life vest and definitely wear ear protection – you're about to take an awesome flight...

Apr 23, 2025

This Nuclear Sub Was Part Of History's Most Unlikely Beer Run

Setting out on a nuclear submarine patrol is just about the closest thing there is to interstellar travel. Life is monotonous, there is nothing to look at, work is demanding and both sleep and space are in short supply. Navy ships can execute to give overworked crews a break, but...

Apr 23, 2025

This CBR-Powered Tuk Tuk Is One Batshit Gun-Toting Third-World Taxi

Some maniacs squeezed the 600cc engine from a Honda CBR sport bike into a dinky three-wheeled rickshaw taxi. Add a flamethrower, a few mounted machine guns, and you've got one hilariously horrifying ride across town. Software outfit Ubisoft sponsored this insanity, as part of an apparently "grassroots" promotional campaign for...

Apr 23, 2025

Green Shirts On The Deck Of A Carrier Have A Terrifying And Greasy Job

Green Shirts, those who deal with carrier deck ops, such as tending to the catapults and arresting gear, have one of the. Their working environment consists of 25 ton pterodactyls waltzing around trying to suck them in, shop or cook them, a greasy deck that moves, and steel arresting wires...

Apr 23, 2025

China And Russia Team Up To Build World's Largest, Most Powerful Chopper

Currently, the largest and most powerful helicopter to have ever entered production is the gargantuan Mi-26 'Halo' of Russian origin, of which many still serve in governmental and commercial roles around the globe. After decades of the 'Halo' being on top, a new record holder is now said to be...

Apr 23, 2025

That's No Moon! Did Russia Deploy An Experimental Killer Satellite?

Russia launched the Kosmos 2499 rocket mission back in May as part of what seemed like just another mission to further develop its constellations of 'Rodnik' communications satellites. Usually three satellites are released during these missions, but this one had a fourth object. The U.S. thought that this strange radar...

Apr 23, 2025

Loading An AH-64 Apache's 30MM Cannon Can Be A Pain In The Ass!

Arming and Refueling Points are places where combat aircraft can get gassed up and reloaded with weaponry, without shutting down. This allows them to get back into the fight fast with a low chance of breaking during restart. Like a pit crew but with high explosives. Here we see that...

Apr 23, 2025

Pakistan Looking To Buy China's J-31 Stealth Fighter

As I predicted since the very first blurry images ofhit the internet, China's youngest stealth project was meant for export as much as for PLAAF use. Pakistan is now said to be beyond the initial discussion phase for buying the stealth jet. This comes during a time of , whose...

Apr 23, 2025

Rocket Through The Majestic Cascade Mountains In An F-15E Strike Eagle

This is quite possibly the best F-15E Strike Eagle video of all time. F-15E cockpit videos are rare to begin with, but one that shows the 'Mud Hen' in its natural, low-level environment in . Amazing. VR-1355 is one of the most challenging and scenic low-level routes in the world....

Apr 23, 2025

Those Photos Of Superflankers And Advanced SAMs In Crimea Are Bogus

The buildup of Russian air combat capability in Crimea has been announced but only seen in glimpses. Yesterday, Twitter posts showed this militarization in vibrant color. The most stunning being a shot of Belbek AB. Once the home to mostly broken down Ukrainian MiG-29s, it now appears to bristle with...

Apr 23, 2025

Why Elon Musk's 'X-Wing' Rocket Isn't As Crazy As It Sounds

Elon Musk really understands the internet. This is, of course, news only to newborns and the recently coma-awoken, but it's impressive to see in action. This weekend, Musk tweeted about , making a technical recovery system seem like sci-fi, even if it actually makes perfect sense. Here's the X-wings Musk...

Apr 23, 2025

I Can't Stop Watching Aircraft Turning & Burning Through 'Mach Loop'

Machynlleth Loop, more popularly, and relevantly for that matter, known as "Mach Loop," is a series of grass covered valleys in central Wales that is known the world over by photographers and aviation enthusiast alike for some of the best military aviation action viewable from terra-firma. The whole area sits...

Apr 23, 2025