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The Air Force has been training Airmen to fly drones in an effort to counter the drone threat that is appearing on the modern battlefield. The goal of the program is to mimic enemy drone tactics so coalition forces can learn to defeat them. The 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron teamed up with a researcher […]
You have to watch the whole video! Truly amazing aerial display by this Su-35! If you already viewed this watch it again! It is mind boggling what this plane does. Featured image via video screen capture
The military war games conducted by the United States and South Korea elicited a typical North Korean response. Pyongyang threatened both countries on Tuesday with “merciless retaliation” over their ongoing joint military drills. North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News (KCNA) had a bombastic warning that both countries they “should take the whole responsibility for catastrophic results […]
The US Coast Guard rescued eight boaters that had run aground off the coast of South Carolina. Watch the rescue! Coast Guard Sector Charleston Command Center watch-standers were notified at 2:40 a.m. via 911 dispatch that a center-console boat had run aground on a sandbar. A Coast Guard Air Station Savannah MH-65 Dolphin rescue helicopter […]
U.S. Marines and members of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force watch as the MV-22 Osprey takes off Aug. 18, 2017, in Hokudaien, Japan, marking the first time the Osprey landed in northern Japan. U.S. Marine Corps Col. James Harp, the Marine Air-Ground Task Force commander of Northern Viper 17, and Japan Ground Self-Defense Force Col. […]
The search for the five missing crew members of the Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the ocean off the coast of Hawaii continues. The Coast Guard has expanded its search for five crew members of a downed Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed into the ocean off the coast of Hawaii more than […]
The future is here when it comes to modern combat. The use of armed drones is changing everything we thought we knew about warfare in a rapid fashion. TIKAD is a fully robotic weaponry system on an airborne platform. TIKAD uses the delivery of a unique suppression firing and stabilization solution. Duke Robotics team created a […]
I spent the better part of Saturday afternoon on the phone with one of oldest and dearest of friends. My buddy Wade Chapple is a retired Chief Warrant Officer CW4 from 7th SFG(A). He’s also one the funniest guys you’d ever meet and an absolute character. We spent the entire time remembering the good, funny […]
Air Force Capts. Aaron Cho, left, and Jared MacNaught taxi their KC-135 Stratotanker towards the runway during Exercise Mobility Guardian at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Aug. 3, 2017. Cho and MacNaught are pilots assigned to the 349th Air Refueling Squadron from McConnell Air Force Base, Kan. – US Department of Defense Featured image Air Force photo […]
Do you agree? Featured image By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice John Scorza [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
This is just flat out cool stuff! The X-47B is an amazing piece of high tech but when you actually watch it taking a cat shot, mid-air refueling and then taking a trap it just boggles the mind. How long until pilots are no longer needed (or wanted) in the cockpit? Let’s hear your thoughts […]
The wreckage of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that crashed near Hawaii was found about five miles off the coast of Oahu but there was no sign of the five missing crew members. Searchers spent Wednesday retrieving wreckage from an Army helicopter that went missing the night before about 5 miles off the coast of northwest Oahu; […]
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