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Sep 21, 2023

F-35A Has Flown From A Highway For The First Time

Norway’s F-35As have shown the type can use roads as runways to reduce their vulnerability to enemy strikes during a Finnish exercise.

Norwegian F-35As have become the first aircraft of this type to operate from a road during an exercise in Finland.

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 21, 2023

BYHoward Altman

Sep 21, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia’s Main Defensive Line Breached

Though so far small and hotly contested, the breach by Ukrainian Stryker and Marders is a significant advance in the counteroffensive.

Ukrainian Strykers and Marders have broken through the main Russian line of defense.

BYHoward Altman

Sep 21, 2023

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 21, 2023

Special Ops MH-60 Seen Absolutely Crammed With Modifications

The Army’s Night Stalker Black Hawks are loaded with sensors, defensive systems, and communications gear to take on the hardest of missions.

Newly released pictures give a great look at just how loaded down with sensors and other specialized system the MH-60M Black Hawks assigned to the US Army's elite 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment really are.

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 21, 2023

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 21, 2023

Ukraine Strikes At Russian Airbase In Crimea

As Ukraine attempted a complex aerial attack on a Russian airbase in Crimea, Moscow resumed its bombardment of energy infrastructure.

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 21, 2023

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 20, 2023

Bizarre Iranian ‘Loitering SAM’ Shown To Russian Defense Minister

Iran has supplied what is only known as the 358 missile to proxies in Yemen and Iraq, but has never before acknowledged its existence.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was shown an unusual surface-to-air missile known only as the 358 during a recent visit to Iran.

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 20, 2023

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 20, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Unleashes New Wave Of Cruise Missiles On Crimea

Storm Shadow and SCALP-EG cruise missiles were reportedly at the forefront of the latest wave of Ukrainian strikes against Crimea.

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 20, 2023

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 20, 2023

Claims Swirl Around ‘Sabotage Raid’ On Airbase Near Moscow

Chkalovsky Air Base, just outside Moscow, is home to various strategic air assets as well as the high-profile presidential transport fleet.

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 20, 2023

BYPatrick “BURT” Brown

Sep 20, 2023

A-10 Pilot’s Compelling Case For Replacing Warthogs With Super Hornets

An A-10 Weapons Instructor lays out how buying F/A-18E/Fs fits the Air Force’s imperatives and keeps the A-10’s unique braintrust intact.

BYPatrick “BURT” Brown

Sep 20, 2023

BYHoward Altman

Sep 19, 2023

Decision To Give ATACMS To Ukraine Is About To Become Easier

With ATACMS’ replacement arriving very soon, one major argument against sending the ballistic missiles to Ukraine would lose its potency.

BYHoward Altman

Sep 19, 2023

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 19, 2023

Let’s Talk About Russia’s New Long-Range Kh-BD Cruise Missile

The chief of Russia’s Long-Range Aviation says that the Tu-160 Blackjack is now carrying the advanced new long-range weapon.

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 19, 2023

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 19, 2023

“He Just Lost It In The Weather” – Audio From F-35 Crash Response Emerges

Video of the crash site and radio calls made shortly after the F-35 pilot ejected add new color to this developing story.

New details about the crash of a Marine Corps F-35B on September 17, 2023, have emerged.

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 19, 2023

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 19, 2023

Azerbaijan Reignites Shooting War In Disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Region

Azerbaijan has launched a military campaign in the volatile Nagorno-Karabakh region, with fears that a new full-scale war could break out.

Azerbaijan launches anti-terror operation in Karabakh

BYThomas Newdick

Sep 19, 2023

BYJames Deboer

Sep 19, 2023

William Tell Air Combat Competition Crowns Its Winners

“This competition was the best thing I have done so far in my career,” an F-15 ground crewman told The War Zone as the contest wrapped up.

BYJames Deboer

Sep 19, 2023

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 19, 2023

Special Ops C-130s Using Beaches As Runways Eyed For Pacific Fight

MC-130s operating from beaches could provide critical logistics in the Pacific where runways are few in number and under threat.

Air Force Special Operations Command is looking at expanding its ability to land on beaches around the world as part of a shift toward "runway agnostic" operations.

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 19, 2023

BYHoward Altman

Sep 18, 2023

Ukraine Situation Report: M109 Paladins Are Proving Too Wily For Russian Gunners

With its ability to ‘shoot-and-scoot,’ Paladin self-propelled Howitzers are keeping enemies pinned down and surviving to fight another day.

BYHoward Altman

Sep 18, 2023

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 18, 2023

F-35 Debris Found In Field After Frantic Search For Missing Jet

The ‘zombie’ F-35B has been missing since yesterday after its pilot ejected after experiencing a mishap and the jet flew on.

US officials say debris from a Marine Corps F-35B stealth fighter that went missing on September 17, 2023, has finally been found.

BYJoseph Trevithick

Sep 18, 2023

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F-35A Has Flown From A Highway For The First Time

Ukraine Situation Report: Russia’s Main Defensive Line Breached

Special Ops MH-60 Seen Absolutely Crammed With Modifications

Ukraine Strikes At Russian Airbase In Crimea

Bizarre Iranian ‘Loitering SAM’ Shown To Russian Defense Minister

Ukraine Situation Report: Kyiv Unleashes New Wave Of Cruise Missiles On Crimea

Claims Swirl Around ‘Sabotage Raid’ On Airbase Near Moscow

A-10 Pilot’s Compelling Case For Replacing Warthogs With Super Hornets

Decision To Give ATACMS To Ukraine Is About To Become Easier

Let’s Talk About Russia’s New Long-Range Kh-BD Cruise Missile

“He Just Lost It In The Weather” – Audio From F-35 Crash Response Emerges

Azerbaijan Reignites Shooting War In Disputed Nagorno-Karabakh Region

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