Watch: Want to Break the Speed of Sound? MiGFlug MiG-29 Edge of Space Flight!

If you have the money, you can break the sound barrier, climb to 65,000 feet, see the curvature of the Earth and experience 8 G’s on a MiG-29 ride. The famous MiGFlug MiG-29 Edge of Space flight (also known as Stratosphere or high altitude flight) makes the news regularly as it probably is the craziest […]

Violent Turbulence Causes Qantas Flight to Free Fall for Ten Seconds

Passengers got a wild ride when Qantas flight QF94 from Los Angeles to Melbourne encountered severe turbulence. QF94 passenger Janelle Wilson told The Australian the “three-quarters-full” plane suddenly entered a “free-fall nosedive … a direct decline toward the ocean” for about 10 seconds. “It was between 1½ and two hours after we left LA and all of a sudden the […]

Watch: A-10 Thunderbolt II Strikes a Fleeing Taliban Vehicle

A U.S. A-10 Thunderbolt II conducts a strike on a Taliban vehicle fleeing the scene of an attack in Kandahar province on January 24, 2018. The insurgents in the vehicle were armed with a DShK heavy machine gun, which they had been using to attack the Afghan people. – MilitaryNotes on Youtube Featured image by […]

Picture of the Day: Australian Defence Force Jump from a MRH-90 Helicopter

Members of the Australian Defence Force jump out of an MRH-90 helicopter while participating in a helocasting exercise off the eastern coast of Australia. The service members are embarked aboard the Australian navy landing helicopter dock ship HMAS Canberra (D 33) in support of Exercise Sea Series 18. U.S. Marines and Navy corpsmen with Marine […]

US Boosting ‘Nuke Sniffing’ Capabilities with ‘Harvester Kits’

The US Air Force’s aging WC-135 Constant Phoenix aircraft will soon be able to freshen up their nuke-sniffing capabilities, thanks to new “harvester kits” with the ability to detect microscopic nuclear particles in the atmosphere. In 2016, the USAF spent $10.1 million on two “Harvester Particulate Airborne Collection System” kits that can be strapped to WC-135 aircraft, […]