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Cockpit Footage Shows A-10 Thunderbolt Landing and Taking Off From Michigan Highway
26 Aug 2021, 13:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in early August, several A-10 Thunderbolt airplanes landed and took off from a section of a Michigan highway, here's some cockpit footage
Boeing's Most Advanced F-15 Strike Eagle Jets Gear Up to Fly Over the Skies of Qatar
25 Aug 2021, 21:04 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / On August 25th, Boeing has celebrated the naming and rollout of the F-15 Qatar Advanced jets, known as the F-15QA, at its St. Louis facility.
Marine Corps F-35B Performs First Ever Cross-Deck Flight From Foreign Carrier
25 Aug 2021, 09:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An F-35B Lighting II deployed with a unit of the Marine Corps performs the first ever cross-deck operation from a foreign, British carrier
Ouch! Watch the U.S. Navy Break a Ship in Half With Torpedoes
25 Aug 2021, 01:57 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / During the Large Scale Exercise 21, the U.S. Navy conducted coordinated multi-domain, multi-platform, long-range maritime strikes on a retired ship.
Here's a C-5M Super Galaxy Giving Birth to a CH-47F Chinook, There Were Two in There
23 Aug 2021, 11:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A single C-5M Super Galaxy military transport plane was used to deliver two CH-47F Chinook to the Royal Australian Air Force
Liberty Wing F-15E Eagle Looks Locked and Loaded in the Skies Over Europe
22 Aug 2021, 06:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An F-15E Strike Eagle deployed with the 48th Fighter Wing (Statue of Liberty Wing) is seen here in the skies over the RAF Lakenheath base
F-16 Fighting Falcon Looks Like a Bird of Prey Feeding in the Misty Air
21 Aug 2021, 07:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This F-16 Fighting Falcon deployed with the 115th Fighter Wing of the Wisconsin Air National Guard is seen refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker
Touch on the Nose Shows Incredible Bond Between Man and Military Airplane
20 Aug 2021, 10:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A C-130J Super Hercules gets a good luck touch on the nose from a crew chief before departing on a mission in hostile territory
Pioneering MQ-25 Drone Meets Navy’s E-2D Hawkeye, in Second Successful Refueling Test
20 Aug 2021, 06:20 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Boeing and the U.S. Navy completed a second successful demonstration of an unmanned aircraft refueling another aircraft, after the "historic" first test.
Air Commando Refueling Black Hawk Seems Like a Towing Operation in the Sky
19 Aug 2021, 09:28 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / MC-130J Air Commando II seems to be towing an MH-60 Black Hawk in the sky over Australia during exercise back in July, it's a refueling operation
U.S. Navy Obliterates Vessel With Naval Strike Missiles During Large Scale Exercise
18 Aug 2021, 11:15 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / On August 15th, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps successfully tested its NMESIS ground-based anti-ship system during Large Scale Exercise 21.
It’s Raining Paratroopers Over Guam in Stunning USAF Photo
18 Aug 2021, 10:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Countless American and Japanese paratroopers drop from two C-130 Super Hercules planes over Andersen Air Force Base in Guam
Russian Military Kamaz Trucks Ready to Play Rough at Upcoming International Army Games
18 Aug 2021, 08:05 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Teams from five countries are training for the upcoming Masters of Armored Vehicles competition, a challenging obstacle race for the toughest military vehicles.
Ilyushin Military Plane Crashes in Russia, the Tragic Moment Was Captured on Camera
17 Aug 2021, 14:57 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / A military transport aircraft crashed in a forest west of Moscow, during a test flight that went terribly wrong. All three members of the crew were killed.
Taliban Fighters Take A Break From Creating Chaos By Enjoying Armed Bumper Car Rides
17 Aug 2021, 14:55 UTC · By: Todd Halterman / If the world hasn’t gone wild enough for you lately, feel free to enjoy the scene of Taliban fighters take a little break by riding around in bumper cars
Kratos Skyborg Military Drone Coming in 2023
17 Aug 2021, 13:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Kratos and the U.S. Air Force agreed to have the XQ-58 Valkyrie drone ready to support military operations as soon as 2023
AI Counter Drone System Titan Aims to Be the Smartest Military Drone Jammer Around
17 Aug 2021, 12:28 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Citadel Defense was awarded a $4 million government contract for its smart C-UAS, an artificial intelligence and machine learning-based solution against drones.
Pack of F-16s Meets Pack of Kfirs, Put on a Show Over Colombia
17 Aug 2021, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Four American F-16 Fighting Falcons meet up in the skies over Colombia with an equal number of Israel-made IAI Kfir fighters
Thirty-Year-Old W88 Nuclear Warhead Finally Gets Upgraded, Is Now Ready to Fire
17 Aug 2021, 08:44 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / The nuclear deterrent of the U.S. is now smarter and more reliable, with the W88 nuclear warhead receiving major updates, after 10 years of development.
Russia Leaves Checkmate in the Shadow, Bets on the SU-57E Fighter for Foreign Appeal
16 Aug 2021, 11:33 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Russia is tempting the foreign market with not just one, but two next-generation fighter jets, but doesn't seem to have funds for its own.