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By Joseph Trevithick May 17, 2019

The Air Force's New HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter Has Taken Flight For The First Time

These helicopters are set to start replacing the service's aging HH-60G Pave Hawks, which are becoming increasingly hard to maintain, next year.

By Joseph Trevithick May 17, 2019

Company Teases New F-16 Flight Sim After Developer Ends Up In Jail Over Buying USAF Manuals

The charges stem from an online purchase in 2011 that ultimately led to a U.S. government sting operation.

By Joseph Trevithick May 16, 2019

Russia Now Claims It Will Buy 76 Su-57 Advanced Fighter Jets By 2028

The cost estimates raise immediate red flags and, whatever the final price tag, the first of these production jets will remain underpowered.

By Joseph Trevithick May 15, 2019

Behold An MC-130J Spec Ops Transport With Its Badly Needed Terrain Following Radar Installed

Nearly all of the Air Force's MC-130Js do not have an adequate terrain-following/terrain avoidance capability to perform their low-level missions.

By Joseph Trevithick May 15, 2019

Allies Brush Off U.S. Warnings About Iran As Legislators Spar Over Threat Intel (Updated)

Close allies appear to be very skeptical of U.S. intel on pending Iranian aggression while public evidence remains totally elusive.

By Joseph Trevithick May 14, 2019

A B-52H Nicknamed "Wise Guy" Becomes The Second To Ever Come Back From The Bone Yard

The Air Force needed a replacement for another one of the bombers that crashed in Guam nearly three years ago.

By Joseph Trevithick May 14, 2019

Half Of Russia's Su-57 Fleet Escorted Putin To Military Test Facility Ahead Of Pompeo Meeting (Updated)

The Russian leader very publicly inspected some of the country's most advanced aircraft and air defense systems.

By Joseph Trevithick May 14, 2019

Shot Down? The USAF Now Wants To Air-Drop An Air Taxi To Fly You Out To Safety

The Air Force is looking at commercial work on urban air mobility concepts as starting places for an air-droppable autonomous rescue platform.

By Joseph Trevithick May 14, 2019

U.S. Government Claims Iran Is Behind Attacks On Oil Tankers, But Has Yet To Show Evidence

The news of comes amid a report that the Pentagon revised a contingency plan that includes sending 120,000 troops to respond to Iranian aggression.

By Joseph Trevithick May 13, 2019

Video Showing Damaged Norwegian Tanker Emerges After Reported Gulf "Sabotage" Attacks (Updated)

No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks so far amid growing speculation of Iranian involvement.

By Joseph Trevithick May 10, 2019

USAF Fighter Pilots Are Now Flying With These Converted M4 Rifles In Their Survival Kits

The rifles break in half and have other special features so they can fit inside the survival kit underneath a pilot's ejection seats.

By Joseph Trevithick May 10, 2019

Fully Armed F-15Cs Have Arrived In The Middle East Amid Accusations Of Iranian Threats (Updated)

The fighter jets join other F-15s, as well as B-52s and F-35s, already in the Middle East and the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group will soon arrive, too.

By Joseph Trevithick May 9, 2019

U.S. Navy Has Stopped Looking For Japan's Crashed F-35 That Remains Largely Unrecovered

Japan says the American salvage team helped recover parts of the jet and that it will continue the search for the rest of the aircraft and its pilot.

By Joseph Trevithick May 9, 2019

Secret Hellfire Missile With Sword-Like Blades Made Mysterious Strike On Terror Leader In Syria

We were first to question the weapon used in the bizarre strike and now we know it has been used to strike high-value targets in five countries.

By Joseph Trevithick May 9, 2019

News Of Sanction Busting North Korean Cargo Ship Seized As Kim Fires More Missiles (Updated)

The seizure of the ship is unprecedented and both events together underscore a major uptick in tensions between the United States and North Korea.

By Joseph Trevithick May 8, 2019

Royal Navy Sub Appears In Gibraltar Equipped With A Wake Detection System

This non-acoustic sensor could supplement the boat's sonar when hunting for especially quiet enemy submarines.

By Joseph Trevithick May 8, 2019

Canada's CF-18 Replacement Competition Structure Seems To Have Already Disqualified The F-35

The country's requirements for its new fighter jet competition are at odds with its existing obligations to the Joint Strike Fighter program.

By Joseph Trevithick May 7, 2019

USMC's CH-53K King Stallion's Woes Have Put It In A Duel With The CH-47 Chinook

Congress has ordered the Pentagon to examine any potential alternatives as the CH-53K program's schedule continues to slip.

By Joseph Trevithick May 7, 2019

USAF F-35As Will Get Navy's New Air Defense Busting Missile Amid Talk Of Anti-Ship Variants

A new warhead design and modular payload bay could open up even more roles in the future for the new fast-flying missile.

By Joseph Trevithick May 6, 2019

New Lockheed Concept Shows Navy F-35C Armed With Hypersonic Cruise Missiles

The missile would be a follow-on version of a weapon Lockheed Martin is already developing for the Air Force.

By Joseph Trevithick May 3, 2019

The Air Force Just Shot Down Multiple Missiles With A Laser Destined For Fighter Aircraft

The service wants this game-changing capability to be hanging off the wings of fighter jets by the early 2020s.

By Joseph Trevithick May 2, 2019

Parts From The Retired USS Enterprise Are Keeping Her Successors Ready For Combat

Anchors, catapult parts, and steel from the world's first nuclear aircraft carrier are already on other flattops or will go into future ones.

By Joseph Trevithick May 2, 2019

USAF Wants To Turn HC-130J's Self Defense Suite Into "Sauron's Eye" Vision System

The service says it wants the "all-seeing eye" for the rescue planes, but it could be readily adaptable to other types with the same defenses.

By Joseph Trevithick May 1, 2019

If The U.S. Isn't About To Intervene In Venezuela, It Sure Seems To Be Building The Case

U.S. officials remain adamant that Venezuelan President Maduro needs to step aside as they continue to stress that "all options are on the table."

By Joseph Trevithick May 1, 2019

U.S. Air Force T-6A Turboprop Training Plane Crashed Near Lake in Oklahoma

The aircraft had departed from Sheppard Air Force Base in Texas before the incident occurred.