The F-15C Demo Was Ten Minutes Of Screaming Eagle Freedom

The now defunct F-15C Eagle Demonstration Team put on one hell of a show, only to be rivaled by the Navy's notorious . The Eagle is one sleek yet brutish machine, punching out close to 50,000lbs of thrust. When flown totally clean, the jet's raw performance is jaw dropping, and...

Apr 23, 2025

Watch The Navy's First Operational Laser Cannon Blow Crap Up

The Navy's first operation laser cannon is now on active duty in Persian Gulf. Perched high above the bridge of America's Afloat Forward Staging Base, the , the Office of Naval Research's Laser Weapon System (LaWS) has exceeded the Navy's expectations when it comes to reliability and capability and it...

Apr 23, 2025

The Pentagon's Flying Decoy Super Weapon Is About To Get Much Deadlier

One of America's most potent air combat creations doesn't hang as a poster on adolescent boys' walls or gets featured in a Bruckheimer blockbuster. The humble yet game-changing Miniature Air Launched Decoy has had a quiet history and it is already operational in two iterations. Now, this radar stumping super-missile...

Apr 23, 2025

First Ride: The Ducati Scrambler Is An Amazingly Fun Bike For All Riders

At some point the motorcycle industry forgot that bikes are supposed to be fun. They don't have to be overpowered enablers of natural selection or obscenely styled, over-priced midlife crisis machines or vapidly retro fashion trinkets. They just need to be fun. And the new Ducati Scrambler is exactly that....

Apr 23, 2025

There Is A Quiet Narco Air War Being Waged Over Venezuela

Although the probably comes to mind as the , a quiet war over Venezuela's air sovereignty has been almost as deadly. The downing of a Sabreliner jet is just the latest example of that country's ongoing counter-narcotics operation that has seen multiple aircraft shot down this year and alone. Interestingly...

Apr 23, 2025

Russia On US Treaty Violation Accusation: Go Screw Yourself

A few months back the United States formally notified Russia that it had carried out missile tests in of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and it may exert military and economic pressure as a result. Russia's Foreign Ministry responded today, and it's pretty much exactly what you would expect....

Apr 23, 2025

The Navy's Experimental Underwater Drone Looks Like A Shark

The Navy is testing its shark-like 'Ghostswimmer' unmanned underwater vehicle at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek this week. It is one of a handful of programs being brought to life by the Navy's innovative Rapid Innovation Cell. The project is called 'Silent Nemo' and it is aimed to put real-world...

Apr 23, 2025

​Riding A Trials Bike Through A Giant Igloo Is Oddly Relaxing

At some point Red Bull is going to run out of unique, picturesque places to shoot obscenely talented riders. Today is not that day. Red Bull dropped trials ace Dougie Lampkin and a film crew into a Northwestern Finland forest and they went to town. "Town" in this case is...

Apr 23, 2025

​Che Guevara's Son Is Giving Motorcycle Tours Of Cuba

Che Guevara's image has been hijacked to hock everything from t-shirts to albums in the 47 years since his execution. Now his son is getting in on the action with , where – or around $20. Not that I can really blame the guy. Guevara's youngest son, Ernesto Guevara, is...

Apr 23, 2025

How Would You Spec Your Scrambler?

The Ducati Scrambler comes in four flavors, but , there are no mechanical differences between them. It's the same engine, the same suspension, and the same frame holding it all together. And that means you can pull any bit from any bike to create your own. It's like a two-wheeled...

Apr 23, 2025

​This Is How The French Do A Suzuki GSX-R 750 Streetfighter

Le French Atelier isn't well known in the U.S. custom bike scene. They've been cranking out tracker-style rides for the past few years, but their latest project is a bit of a coming out party – a Suzuki GSX-R that's as simple as it is sleek. The crew picked a...

Apr 23, 2025

24 C-130s 'Elephant Walk' For The USAF's Joint Forcible Entry Exercise

Imagine the sound of 24 C-130 Hercules transports buzz-sawing their way down the runway at Dyess Air Force Base. This incredible scene, and the many others posted below, was the result of the USAF's latest Joint Forcible Entry Exercise, which also saw 20 take part, along with a plethora of...

Apr 23, 2025

Canadian Army Soldiers Parody The Lonely Island With "I'm On A LAV"

was a cultural pop culture phenomenon back in 2009 and apparently it still is up in Canada. A group of Canadian Army LAV3 crews decided it would be funny to do their own version, aptly named I'm On A LAV. The is the staple armored vehicle in the Canadian military,...

Apr 23, 2025

Kim Jong Un Visits Submarine Base, Maybe Eyeing Sub-Based Nuke Ability

The ‘Young Master’ visited a North Korean Navy submarine base this week to ‘provide guidance’ over military drills. There he inspected a buffet, a WWII tactical table full of toy-like boats, some bunk beds, political education hall and a portion of the belonging to navy Unit 189. The ‘Great Successor’...

Apr 23, 2025

New TV Series Gives Us The Best Look At World War II Atomic Sabotage

Alright, so it's a Norwegian TV series, but if you die in Norway you die in real life so I'll count it. And since The Heavy Water War focuses on a uniquely Norwegian facet of one of the less-well known events of World War II, you might even say that...

Apr 23, 2025