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Watch an Ungoverned Golf Cart Fold in Half While Crash Testing at 30 MPH
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Never-Titled 2009 Honda S2000 With Only 95 Miles Can Be Yours Right Now for $100,000
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Sep 21, 2019 9:16 AM
Driver Arrested After Careening Through Illinois Mall In a Chevrolet TrailBlazer
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Sep 20, 2019 4:59 PM
Bugatti's First Electric Car Is a Miniature Type 35 Grand Prix Racer That Starts at $33,000
Sep 20, 2019 4:30 PM
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Sep 20, 2019 1:02 PM
Watch the 2020 Porsche Taycan Travel Down the Assembly Line at Zuffenhausen
Sep 20, 2019 11:42 AM
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By Tyler Rogoway Sep 11, 2019

Looking To The Past And Thinking Of The Present As We Reflect On 9/11 And Never Forgetting

Never Forget means also remembering what binds us together as Americans and how we have way more in common than not. 
By Tyler Rogoway Sep 10, 2019

Egypt's New Ministry Of Defense "Octagon" Complex Looks Like An Alien Base From Space

The sprawling and highly exotic installation is part of a new, fledgling administrative capital located 20 miles east of Cairo.
By Joseph Trevithick Sep 10, 2019

USAF F-35As and F-15Es Flatten ISIS "Infested" Island In Iraq With 80K Pounds Of Bombs (Updated)

The strikes were a remarkable display of what precision-guided munitions can do even when it comes to efficiently carpet bombing an entire land mass.
By Joseph Trevithick Sep 10, 2019

The Navy's Oldest Attack Submarine Goes Out On Top After Circumnavigating The Globe

USS Olympia's twilight years have included a number of notable events, like being the first sub to launch a Harpoon anti-ship missile in decades.
By Joseph Trevithick Sep 9, 2019

The F-35A Is Set To Finally Get Chaff Countermeasures To Confuse Enemy Radars

These cartridges full of radar-reflecting material have been curiously absent from the stealthy fighter's already highly capable defense suite.
By Tyler Rogoway Sep 9, 2019

Watch Japan's Giant US-2 Amphibious Flying Boat Land In An Amazingly Short Distance

The US-2 may look like one of the flying boats of yesteryear, but it is actually a very modern aircraft with some remarkable features.
By Tyler Rogoway Sep 8, 2019

You Can Buy Paul Allen's Octopus, Arguably The World's Most Incredible Yacht

Allen accurately described the Octopus, a ship that's capable of exploration and entertainment, as being “less a Bentley than a Range Rover.”  
By Joseph Trevithick Sep 7, 2019

U.S. Ballistic Missile Sub Fired An Impressive Four Trident II Missiles In Just Three Days

The uncommonly large set of launches comes as the U.S. is developing multiple new warheads for the Trident II as a new arms race with Russia looms.
By Tyler Rogoway Sep 7, 2019

Bunker Talk: Let's Chat About All The Stories We Did And Didn't Cover This Week

We can talk about super-duper Tomcats, hypersonic rocket sleds, geopolitics, air-to-air missile-armed stealth bombers—you know, no big whoop.
By Tyler Rogoway Sep 6, 2019

Air Force Touts B-1B Bomber's Potential To Carry Huge Hypersonic Missiles And External Stores

The B-1B may have to fight for its life in the not so distant future, but new upgrades could give it the ammo it needs to survive the budget ax. 
By Joseph Trevithick Sep 6, 2019

Remote Navy Submarine Test Base Has Been Key In Rescuing Hundreds In The Bahamas After Dorian

The site's main job is to support various underwater test and evaluation tasks, including measuring how quiet Navy submarines are.
By Tyler Rogoway Sep 6, 2019

This Video Of A Rocket Sled Doing 6,599mph At Holloman AFB Is Absolute Insanity

The sound alone of something ripping by at hypersonic speed just feet above the desert floor is worth the click!
By Joseph Trevithick Sep 5, 2019

Upgrades Needed For Sustained F-22 Operations During A Crisis In Europe Axed For Border Wall

The Air Force had planned to award contracts for the infrastructure improvements, including a specialized repair facility, next year.
By Joseph Trevithick and Tyler Rogoway Sep 5, 2019

"B-21s With Air-To-Air Capabilities," Drones, Not 6th Gen Fighters To Dominate Future Air Combat

The Air Force's vision of the future of aerial combat has evolved greatly as of late and has moved away from plans for new, costly manned fighters.
By Chris "Ox" Harmer Sep 5, 2019

Marine Boss's Audacious Plan To Transform The Corps By Giving Up Big Amphibious Ships

The bold vision of a USMC that is far less dependent on the lumbering "Gator Navy" comes with a sacrificial offering of the force's most sacred cow.
By Joseph Trevithick Sep 4, 2019

European Missile Maker and Polish Defense Giant Join Forces On New Tank Destroyer Concept

The two companies are vying for a Polish contract, but could also find success on the export market.
By Tyler Rogoway and Joseph Trevithick Sep 3, 2019

The AIM-9X Sidewinder May Finally Evolve Into A Completely New And Longer-Range Missile

The Navy is still funding work on a new rocket motor and other features that could fundamentally change the character of this "dogfighting" missile.
By Tyler Rogoway Sep 3, 2019

This Is What Grumman's Proposed F-14 Super Tomcat 21 Would Have Actually Looked Like

If the Super Hornet hadn't been built, Grumman's next-gen Tomcat may have become a reality. We forensically recreated it in these awesome renderings.
By Joseph Trevithick Sep 3, 2019

Air Force Wants Super Realistic Mock Launchers So It Can Replicate An S-300 SAM System

This follows the acquisition of two mobile radars from Ukraine in the past year, including one associated with the S-300.
By Tyler Rogoway Aug 31, 2019

Bunker Talk: Labor Day Weekend Edition

We can talk about electronic warfare systems, mothballed F-117s, geopolitics, the cost of shipping U-2 chase cars—you know, no big whoop.
By Joseph Trevithick Aug 30, 2019

Trump Tweets Intelligence Image After Iran's Rocket Explosion And Offers Them "Best Wishes"

The disclosure of this type of high-resolution imagery on the fly via social media is unprecedented.
By Tyler Rogoway Aug 30, 2019

Shadowy New Electronic Warfare System Has Been Installed On U.S. Navy 7th Fleet Ships

The mysterious modular system with a peculiar past is designated AN/SLQ-59 and has been quietly deployed on Asia-based U.S. surface combatants.
By Joseph Trevithick Aug 30, 2019

Check Out These Photos Of USAF B-2s And RAF F-35Bs Flying Together For The First Time

Three B-2s are in the United Kingdom to take part in various training exercises including these first-of-their-kind sorties with foreign F-35s.
By Joseph Trevithick Aug 29, 2019

USAF MC-130J Spec Ops Transport Flies Through Taiwan Strait With U.S. Spy Plane Nearby

Another unidentified aircraft also flew a mysterious orbit in the southern end of the Strait shortly after the MC-130J left the area.
By Joseph Trevithick Aug 29, 2019

New Space Command's Flag Sure Looks A Lot Like Old Space Command's Flag

Although the idea of an independent Space Force has made headlines for years now, Space Command isn't new. Even its flag hearkens back to the 1980s.