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This Cockpit Video Of A KC-10 Refueling Another KC-10 Is Amazing

This Cockpit Video Of A KC-10 Refueling Another KC-10 Is Amazing

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Dec 23, 2019
Here Is How Much Those Decoy Flares Cost That Military Aircraft Fire Off All The Time

Here Is How Much Those Decoy Flares Cost That Military Aircraft Fire Off All The Time

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 21, 2019
Air Force To Conduct Its First Space Launch From Guam Next Year Using A 747 Jumbo Jet

Air Force To Conduct Its First Space Launch From Guam Next Year Using A 747 Jumbo Jet

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Dec 19, 2019
Can The U.S. Military Make An Airplane Invisible To The Naked Eye?

Can The U.S. Military Make An Airplane Invisible To The Naked Eye?

By Brett Tingley
Updated on Dec 19, 2019
Air Force Names Its Newest Helicopters “Grey Wolves” Because They Will Fly in “Packs”

Air Force Names Its Newest Helicopters “Grey Wolves” Because They Will Fly in “Packs”

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Dec 19, 2019
New Owner Of Stratolaunch And World’s Largest Plane To Refocus On Hypersonic Testing

New Owner Of Stratolaunch And World’s Largest Plane To Refocus On Hypersonic Testing

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Dec 18, 2019
A Must Watch Behind The Scenes Look At How Top Gun 2’s Flying Sequences Were Shot

A Must Watch Behind The Scenes Look At How Top Gun 2’s Flying Sequences Were Shot

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Dec 18, 2019
Air Force General Says His Planes Are Keeping An Eye Out For North Korea’s “Christmas Gift”

Air Force General Says His Planes Are Keeping An Eye Out For North Korea’s “Christmas Gift”

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Dec 17, 2019
Global Strike Command Strikes Confusion With New Helicopter Nickname Teaser Tweet

Global Strike Command Strikes Confusion With New Helicopter Nickname Teaser Tweet

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Dec 16, 2019
The Second Top Gun 2 Trailer Has Landed, Secret High-Speed Test Jet And All

The Second Top Gun 2 Trailer Has Landed, Secret High-Speed Test Jet And All

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 16, 2019
Check Out This Rare Footage Of Red Eagle MiGs At Tonopah Test Range Airport

Check Out This Rare Footage Of Red Eagle MiGs At Tonopah Test Range Airport

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 16, 2019
Here’s Why An E-6B Doomsday Plane Was Flying Tight Circles Off The Jersey Shore Today

Here’s Why An E-6B Doomsday Plane Was Flying Tight Circles Off The Jersey Shore Today

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 14, 2019
F-35 Cueing Artillery To Take Out Air Defense Site During Test Is A Glimpse Of The Future

F-35 Cueing Artillery To Take Out Air Defense Site During Test Is A Glimpse Of The Future

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Dec 13, 2019
Visitors To Area 51 Have To Wear “Foggles” That Severely Limit Vision When Moving About

Visitors To Area 51 Have To Wear “Foggles” That Severely Limit Vision When Moving About

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Dec 13, 2019
Pentagon Conducts First Test Of Non-Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile Post-INF Treaty (Updated)

Pentagon Conducts First Test Of Non-Nuclear Capable Ballistic Missile Post-INF Treaty (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 12, 2019
Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

Recently Retired USAF General Makes Eyebrow Raising Claims About Advanced Space Technology

By Brett Tingley
Updated on Dec 12, 2019
Behold The First Image Of A Navy CMV-22 Osprey That Will Replace The C-2 Greyhound

Behold The First Image Of A Navy CMV-22 Osprey That Will Replace The C-2 Greyhound

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 11, 2019
F-117 Spotted Playing Stealthy Aggressor Against F-15s And F-22s Over Nellis Range

F-117 Spotted Playing Stealthy Aggressor Against F-15s And F-22s Over Nellis Range

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 10, 2019
Everything We Know About America’s Sword Blade Hellfire Missile And Its Latest Target

Everything We Know About America’s Sword Blade Hellfire Missile And Its Latest Target

By Joseph Trevithick
Posted on Dec 10, 2019
Highly Impressive Lineup Of Chinese Air Combat Drone Types Caught By Satellite

Highly Impressive Lineup Of Chinese Air Combat Drone Types Caught By Satellite

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 8, 2019
America’s Missile That Uses Sword Blades Instead Of Explosives Has Struck Again In Syria

America’s Missile That Uses Sword Blades Instead Of Explosives Has Struck Again In Syria

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 8, 2019
Navy Boss Hints At A Very Different Looking Future Fleet Of Naval Combat Aircraft

Navy Boss Hints At A Very Different Looking Future Fleet Of Naval Combat Aircraft

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 6, 2019
RC-135 Rivet Joint Surveillance Jet Emerges With Puzzling New Modification

RC-135 Rivet Joint Surveillance Jet Emerges With Puzzling New Modification

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 6, 2019
U.S. Seizes Missile Parts Headed To Yemen Amid Reports Of New Iranian Threats (Updated)

U.S. Seizes Missile Parts Headed To Yemen Amid Reports Of New Iranian Threats (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 5, 2019
The Saga Of The AGM-129 Cruise Missile That Was Basically A Stealth Jet Designed Upside Down

The Saga Of The AGM-129 Cruise Missile That Was Basically A Stealth Jet Designed Upside Down

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 5, 2019
Another Syrian Terrorist Seemingly Killed By Hellfire Missile With Pop-Out Sword Blades (Updated)

Another Syrian Terrorist Seemingly Killed By Hellfire Missile With Pop-Out Sword Blades (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 4, 2019
This Photo Proves How The Hellfire Missile That Uses Blades Instead Of Explosives Works

This Photo Proves How The Hellfire Missile That Uses Blades Instead Of Explosives Works

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Dec 4, 2019
China’s New Surveillance Blimp In The South China Sea Is Likely Just The Beginning

China’s New Surveillance Blimp In The South China Sea Is Likely Just The Beginning

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 3, 2019
Russia Plans To Set Up Massive New Radar Array To Help “Control” The Arctic Region

Russia Plans To Set Up Massive New Radar Array To Help “Control” The Arctic Region

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 3, 2019
What Aircraft Snuck Trump Out Of Florida On His Way To Afghanistan For Thanksgiving?

What Aircraft Snuck Trump Out Of Florida On His Way To Afghanistan For Thanksgiving?

By Tyler Rogoway
Posted on Dec 2, 2019
Setting The Record Straight On Why Fighter Jets Can’t All Simply Fly Away To Escape Storms

Setting The Record Straight On Why Fighter Jets Can’t All Simply Fly Away To Escape Storms

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Air Force One Has This Unique Navigator’s Cockpit Station That’s Unlike Any Other 747

Air Force One Has This Unique Navigator’s Cockpit Station That’s Unlike Any Other 747

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Censored Craft Near Hangar Appears In Satellite Image Of Secretive Tonopah Test Range Airport

Censored Craft Near Hangar Appears In Satellite Image Of Secretive Tonopah Test Range Airport

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Historic Topgun Hangar At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Is Notoriously Haunted

Historic Topgun Hangar At Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Is Notoriously Haunted

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
NKC-135R Tanker From Edwards AFB Flew This Peculiar Night Mission Over Area 51

NKC-135R Tanker From Edwards AFB Flew This Peculiar Night Mission Over Area 51

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter Stuns By Brandishing Full Load Of Missiles At Zhuhai Air Show

China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter Stuns By Brandishing Full Load Of Missiles At Zhuhai Air Show

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
This Isn’t An Early B-2 Cockpit Mockup, It’s For A Previously Undisclosed Special Ops Transport

This Isn’t An Early B-2 Cockpit Mockup, It’s For A Previously Undisclosed Special Ops Transport

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
This Is What A Northrop F-23A Would’ve Looked Like If It Had Beaten Lockheed’s F-22

This Is What A Northrop F-23A Would’ve Looked Like If It Had Beaten Lockheed’s F-22

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
The U.S. Sold This Unique Stealth Drone Called ‘Scarab’ To Egypt In The 1980s

The U.S. Sold This Unique Stealth Drone Called ‘Scarab’ To Egypt In The 1980s

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Why F-5s Beat Out F-16s For The Navy’s Latest Commercial Aggressor Contract

Why F-5s Beat Out F-16s For The Navy’s Latest Commercial Aggressor Contract

By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
This A-10 Warthog Ground Trainer Still Has A ‘Tickler’ Muzzle Device On Its Cannon (Updated)

This A-10 Warthog Ground Trainer Still Has A ‘Tickler’ Muzzle Device On Its Cannon (Updated)

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Declassified: US Honors Swedish Pilots For Escorting Stricken SR-71 To Safety During Cold War

Declassified: US Honors Swedish Pilots For Escorting Stricken SR-71 To Safety During Cold War

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Test Pilot Recounts F-117’s Wobbly First Flight And Entering Into Its Top Secret World

Test Pilot Recounts F-117’s Wobbly First Flight And Entering Into Its Top Secret World

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
B-52s Would Have Nuked Their Way Through Soviet Air Defenses With These Missiles

B-52s Would Have Nuked Their Way Through Soviet Air Defenses With These Missiles

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
These Secret Helicopters Were Flown By A Shadowy Unit During The Battle of Mogadishu

These Secret Helicopters Were Flown By A Shadowy Unit During The Battle of Mogadishu

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
We Talk Everything S-97 Raider And SB>1 Defiant With Sikorsky’s Top Program Officials

We Talk Everything S-97 Raider And SB>1 Defiant With Sikorsky’s Top Program Officials

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
These Are The Briefings President-Elect Trump Got On The F-35, Air Force One, and Nukes

These Are The Briefings President-Elect Trump Got On The F-35, Air Force One, and Nukes

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
The Army Nearly Adopted This Stealthy OH-58X Kiowa Warrior Variant

The Army Nearly Adopted This Stealthy OH-58X Kiowa Warrior Variant

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Vandenberg AFB’s Space Shuttle Processing Facility Now Has A Very Mysterious Mission

Vandenberg AFB’s Space Shuttle Processing Facility Now Has A Very Mysterious Mission

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
The Only Man Who Flew Both The F-22 And The YF-23 On Why The YF-23 Lost

The Only Man Who Flew Both The F-22 And The YF-23 On Why The YF-23 Lost

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Enough With The Indian Mig-21 Bison Versus Pakistani F-16 Viper Bullshit

Enough With The Indian Mig-21 Bison Versus Pakistani F-16 Viper Bullshit

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
The EA-6B Prowler Has Been Retired, But Its Impact On Air Warfare Will Live On Forever

The EA-6B Prowler Has Been Retired, But Its Impact On Air Warfare Will Live On Forever

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Pocket Force Of Stealthy Avenger Drones May Have Made Returning F-117s To Service Unnecessary

Pocket Force Of Stealthy Avenger Drones May Have Made Returning F-117s To Service Unnecessary

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Let’s Talk About The Rumor That F-117s Have Flown Missions In The Middle East Recently

Let’s Talk About The Rumor That F-117s Have Flown Missions In The Middle East Recently

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
The Mysterious Saga Of America’s Hunt For A Stealth Special Operations Transport, Part 2

The Mysterious Saga Of America’s Hunt For A Stealth Special Operations Transport, Part 2

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Confessions Of An E-2C Hawkeye Radar Operator

Confessions Of An E-2C Hawkeye Radar Operator

By Craig Picken and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Behold Arguably The Most Spectacular Photo Of NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Ever

Behold Arguably The Most Spectacular Photo Of NASA’s Shuttle Carrier Aircraft Ever

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
The Russians Just Did A Fly-By Of Area 51

The Russians Just Did A Fly-By Of Area 51

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
F-35’s Most Sinister Capability Are Towed Decoys That Unreel From Inside Its Stealthy Skin

F-35’s Most Sinister Capability Are Towed Decoys That Unreel From Inside Its Stealthy Skin

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Air Force Wanted To Turn Skunk Works’ Mach 3 Capable Recon Drone Into A Nuclear Bomber

Air Force Wanted To Turn Skunk Works’ Mach 3 Capable Recon Drone Into A Nuclear Bomber

By Joseph Trevithick
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Trump “Had Never Seen Anything Like” His Secretive Flight To Iraq Aboard Air Force One

Trump “Had Never Seen Anything Like” His Secretive Flight To Iraq Aboard Air Force One

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
The Time Air Force One Took Evasive Maneuvers To Defend Itself Against Syrian MiGs

The Time Air Force One Took Evasive Maneuvers To Defend Itself Against Syrian MiGs

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
Origins Of Stealth Black Hawks Date Back Over Three Decades Before The Bin Laden Raid

Origins Of Stealth Black Hawks Date Back Over Three Decades Before The Bin Laden Raid

By Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019
The Mysterious Saga Of America’s Hunt For A Stealth Special Operations Transport, Part 1

The Mysterious Saga Of America’s Hunt For A Stealth Special Operations Transport, Part 1

By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway
Updated on Dec 1, 2019