Aviation

The Buccaneer flew off the Royal Navy’s fleet carriers until 1978, then with the RAF in Operation Desert Storm.

The Swiss voted to upgrade their fighter jets fleet and government is determined to go ahead with the project despite opposition voices.

An Israeli tech company is field testing Xtend Skylord, a drone-hunter that uses augmented reality to track down and neutralize its targets.

The new Chinook Block II will give U.S. Special Operations Forces significantly more capability for extremely challenging missions.

This article was written by Alex Hollings and originally published on Sandboxx. DARPA’s AlphaDogfight trials have officially come to a close. Heron Systems’ incredible artificial intelligence pilot system defeated not only its industry competitors but went on to secure five straight victories against a highly trained U.S. Air Force F-16 pilot, without the human pilot […]

This article was written by Alex Hollings and originally published on Sandboxx.com. The United States Air Force says they intend to pit an artificial intelligence-enabled drone against a manned fighter jet in a dogfight as soon as next year. Although drones have become an essential part of America’s air power apparatus, these platforms have long […]

“We are not a second land army, nor do we aspire to be anything other than the world’s premier naval expeditionary force.“ General David Berger’s “Commandant’s Planning Guidance” (CPG) may be one of the most ambitious such documents in Marine Corps history.  It envisions sweeping changes in Marine Corps structure and doctrine, carrying it both […]

Afghanistan’s premier Special Operations Aviation unit is slotted to receive an unspecified number of CH-47 Chinooks from the U.S. Established in 2005, the Special Mission Wing (SMW) is the cream of the crop of the AAF. With less than 1,000 pilots and ground personnel in its ranks, the unit was initially designed to support counter-narcotics […]

Aviation and Special Operations go hand-in-hand. Whether it is rotary-wing or fixed-wing, SOF units have been using SOF aircraft to increase their effectiveness and lethality. Recognizing the lack of a dedicated SOF aviation program, NATO has decided to launch a training facility that aims to bring together the Alliance’s elite aviation units for training. The […]

The fighter squadron bar is a place of fun and jest, of solace and reflection, and also a place to soothe the daily reminders of how real the job can be. Fighter pilots are born in the fighter squadron bar. Emerging into the world of tactical aviation, in the bar is where the combat fighter pilot […]

Former F-16 fighter pilot Nate “Buster” Jaros takes us along for a ride in the Centrifuge and tells us what it is like to feel 9G’s crushing your body. You are basically put into a small coffin. It swings a little as you enter, reminiscent of how a gondola swings on its wire, or how […]

A good friend of mine is a career law enforcement professional here in New England and although we don’t hang out on a regular basis, whenever we run into one another we’ll stop and catch up. So weaving around a stoppage in the road a few weeks ago, I saw my friend trying to make […]