Alex Hollings

On Friday, footage of Russian troops riding on an unusual piece of equipment over Moscow began pouring onto social media platforms. The footage appears to show a small group of armed Russian soldiers standing on a disk that’s being carried beneath an Mi-8 helicopter, in a tactical extraction system that bears a slight resemblance to […]

Mars, perhaps the only planet in the universe populated solely by robots, is about to gain a new resident — that is, if everything goes the way it’s supposed to today. Watch the landing live right here. The stream is scheduled to begin at 2 p.m. Eastern time. At 3 p.m. EST, NASA’s InSight lander […]

Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction (SPIE) flights offer a unique way to get troops into and out of terrain that a helicopter may not be able to land on. To the untrained observer, SPIE flights might look like a helicopter simply lowers a rope, warfighters clip on with carabiners, and then they get taken for one hell […]

The United States Navy is moving forward with plans to develop a hypersonic weapon that meets the requirements set forth by the Pentagon for what has been called a “conventional prompt global strike mission.” Notably, this new missile platform is being developed for deployment on both surface vessels and aboard submarines, as the Navy seeks […]

Social media policing has been a hot topic in recent years, thanks in no small part to the revelation that Russian operatives used America’s love affair with online communication to manipulate perceptions leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Americans, it could be argued, are always eager to place the blame on for the public’s […]

Once the habitat of the legendary Concorde commercial jet, the realm of supersonic flight has been relegated primarily to military aircraft for years now, but Lockheed Martin aims to change all that thanks to funding from NASA and their new X-59 program. The premise behind the X-59, also known as the Quiet Supersonic Technology (QueSST) […]

Not all that many years ago, Alex Hollings, regional HR manager for an aerospace defense contractor, left his cushy corner office and impressive paycheck for the uncertain world of writing. Fresh out of college and a few years removed from the Marine Corps, that guy hoped he’d find a way to make his passion into […]

An American Christian missionary is believed to have been killed by the Sentinelese people of North Sentinel island — among the most remote and isolated peoples anywhere on the planet. North Sentinel Island, located in the Bay of Bengal and technically falling under the jurisidiction of the Indian government, has been home to an isolated […]

On April 13, 2018, one of America’s relatively small fleet of F-22 Raptors belly-flopped on the runway at Naval Air Station Fallon in Nevada. While images of the stealth fighter quickly made their way onto the internet, what exactly caused the fifth-generation fighter to end up in such a predicament has remained a mystery to […]

With the Russian Navy placing an increased emphasis on its submarine fleet, the United States has taken a number of steps meant to curb the Russian advance throughout the Arctic and Northern Atlantic. But longstanding issues caused by budgetary delays, sequestration, and repeated cuts continue to haunt the force. The re-establishment of the once defunct […]

Last week, two U.S. Marine pilots joined the likes of previous Navy and Air Force pilots that have been administratively chastised for using their aircraft to draw penises in the sky. Now, it appears test pilots out of Seville, Spain may be looking to join the fight with a festive twist; apparently drawing a massive […]

In a recent interview on Fox News, President Donald Trump made a number of controversial statements regarding former SOCOM Commander, retired Admiral William McRaven, referring to him as a “Hillary Clinton fan” and seemingly insinuating that McRaven could have killed the terrorist leader sooner. “OK, he’s a Hilary Clinton backer and an Obama backer and […]