Declassified: Turning Cargo Planes into Gunships
A declassified look at how U.S. airmen turned ordinary cargo aircraft into deadly gunships, reshaping modern airpower through wartime improvisation.
A declassified look at how U.S. airmen turned ordinary cargo aircraft into deadly gunships, reshaping modern airpower through wartime improvisation.
The Army is fast-tracking Bell’s MV-75 FLRAA tiltrotor to get prototype aircraft flying by late 2026 and push fielding years ahead of schedule, betting digital engineering and prior V-280 testing can manage weight and payload risks to deliver Indo-Pacific range and speed gains over the UH-60.
The reactivated 11th Airborne Division, Alaska-based and built for Arctic warfighting, was placed on standby for Minnesota because it offers fast-deploying Title 10 combat power with cold-weather mobility and a high-end escalation signal even though many readers know far more about the 82nd and 101st.
General Eichelberger, a man of quiet competence and strategic brilliance, emerged as an under-recognized hero during World War II.
A first look at the M1E3 Abrams reveals how the U.S. Army is reshaping its iconic tank for a lighter, faster, and more digital future.
Federal authorities have placed active-duty Army units on standby amid escalating immigration protests in Minneapolis, as court rulings tighten ICE crowd-control limits, fringe pro-ICE activism collapses locally, regional tensions shift in Syria with a Kurdish withdrawal east of the Euphrates, and President Trump moves to assert U.S. control over postwar Gaza through a new international “Board of Peace.”
Five Years to Freedom is a compact, must-read POW memoir that shows how Nick Rowe endured five years of Viet Cong captivity through discipline and mental control, influenced the modern SERE program, and belongs alongside Frankl and Solzhenitsyn as a study of inner freedom under coercion.
April 21, 1989 the US Army Special Forces lost a legend in its ranks. Communist guerrillas assassinated COL. Nick Rowe while on his way to work as a military advisor to the Philippine Army. Rowe had escaped a Viet Cong prisoner of war camp on New Year’s Eve 1968 while being taken to his execution. […]
A junior soldier’s first Al Mar purchase becomes the entry point into how Al Mar’s Special Forces ties, friendship with Nick Rowe, and SERE-driven design priorities shaped some of the most respected knives in the tactical world.
He proved the warrior-poet is real when he turned a punji-stick tourniquet and a Green Beret tab into a chart-topping hymn, then proved the other half of the equation when the discipline slipped, the hearth went cold, and the same fire that made art started taking bodies.
At eleven, Willie Johnston carried his drum through the Seven Days retreat when others tossed their gear to survive.
Major John L. Plaster’s SOG is a blunt, first-hand account of MACV-SOG’s small-team missions behind enemy lines that makes Hollywood action look fake by comparison because it’s built on real consequences, brutal odds, and men who did not get to choose how it ended.