Tag: Alex Hollings

A new video apparently taken on November 28, 2018 shows an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter engaging five separate ground targets at once, including one that was allegedly traveling at over 40 miles per hour. While details associated with the footage are sparse, the aircraft is clearly an F-35, and based on the live ordnance being […]

In terms of military technology, the United States stands head and shoulders above the rest of the world in a number of categories, and stealth aircraft is certainly one of them. America’s stealth-expertise dates back decades, when classified programs that produced radar-defeating bombers like the F-117 Nighthawk and the B-2 Spirit were still in their […]

Two weeks into a partial government shutdown that has required America’s Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officials to continue to work without pay, a passenger managed to carry a firearm through security and onto his Delta flight to Tokyo. The TSA has since issued a statement denying that the partial government shutdown had anything to do […]

As a journalist in the United States, some questions become unavoidable. Whether you’re doing an interview on the radio or making an appearance on a podcast, there often comes a time when you’re expected to answer for your industry as a whole regarding the dreary state of the media. While the wording of the questions […]

Maj. Rachael Winiecki flew her first test flight in an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter out of Edwards Air Force base last week, making her the first female aviator to serve as a test pilot for the advanced fighter. Previously an A-10 pilot, Winieiki also served as an F-16 test pilot in the 461st Flight Test […]

The United States Coast Guard maintains the nation’s only operational ice-breaking vessels, and to date, neither are considered powerful or reliable enough to sustain any sort of extensive Arctic operations. Russia, on the other hand, maintains more than 40, including the world’s only nuclear-powered ice-breaking vessels. In recent years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made […]

Back in December, the U.S. Air Force announced plans to form a new F-35A demonstration team, and now footage of the team practice has made its way onto the internet. If anyone was wondering what this new demonstration team would bring to the table, it seems clear now — with some acrobatic stunts the public […]

In terms of military technology, the United States stands head and shoulders above the rest of the world in a number of categories, and stealth aircraft is certainly one of them. America’s stealth-expertise dates back decades, when classified programs that produced radar-defeating bombers like the F-117 Nighthawk and the B-2 Spirit were still in their […]

When Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor first took to the skies in 1997, it represented such a fundamental shift in military aviation that it was clear the U.S. was dealing with an entirely new generation of fighter. Slower than its air superiority predecessors, but boasting the sort of advanced technology that no nation on the planet […]

We’re all familiar with F-16s. We’re all familiar with drones. But we’re not all quite so familiar with F-16s flying like drones. Little do most people realize, the U.S. Air Force and Lockheed Martin actually started flying robo-F-16s in complex training exercises back in 2017. Attempts at “dronifying” the F-16 were validated by two weeks […]

The generational monikers bestowed on fighter jets aren’t quite as definitive as the people arguing in the comments below most articles tend to think. The corporations that design and build these jets, the military forces they’re operated by, and the analysts who spend their days pouring over comparisons and tech schematics may all provide you […]

A new proposal published by the U.S. Naval Institute suggests purchasing merchant ships and converting them to carry and fire ballistic missiles in order to support the nation’s growing need for a larger naval presence around the world. As crazy as it sounds, the proposal actually makes some interesting points. The U.S. Navy faces a […]