Tag: video

The Kremlin offered up a late Christmas gift on Wednesday, unveiling brand new footage of a hypersonic missile test conducted that same day. The “Avangard” missile platform is a boost-glide vehicle that is deployed from the tip of an ICBM before gliding back to earth in a controlled descent at speeds in excess of Mach […]

A video captured inside the cockpit of a Kuwaiti Air Force F/A-18 Hornet shows what it’s like to have your ride struck by lightning when you’re cruising at 30,000 feet. The footage was uploaded to Twitter on Friday and quickly made the internet rounds, but as shocking as the footage may be, the Hornet likely […]

As many Americans sought refuge from their holiday visitors on social media this week, a video surfaced out of New York City that shows an NYPD officer holding five advancing attackers at bay using his baton and some extremely effective push kicks. The footage, which was recorded on a cell phone and then uploaded to […]

The Kremlin offered up a late Christmas gift on Wednesday, unveiling brand new footage of a hypersonic missile test conducted that same day. The “Avangard” missile platform is a boost-glide vehicle that is deployed from the tip of an ICBM before gliding back to earth in a controlled descent at speeds in excess of Mach […]

Per the Department of Defense: Army Air Forces 1st Lt. Eugene P. Ford, killed during World War II, has now been accounted for. On Dec. 17, 1944, Ford was the a member of the 765th Bombardment Squadron, 461st Bombardment Group, 15th Air Force, as the pilot of a B-24J aircraft known as The Tulsamerican. Accompanied […]

The Curiosity rover, NASA’s pickup truck sized robot on the Red Planet, has been poking around our closest neighbor’s surface since it’s arrival in August of 2012. The robot was tasked with a specific set of mission objectives: assess the climate and geology of the Gale Crater that it landed in. Its purpose is perhaps […]

There aren’t a ton of images floating around of the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator and its intended platform, the B-2 Spirit (often known as a the “stealth bomber“). What sets the GBU-57 apart from its penetrator predecessors isn’t its ability to reach bunkers hidden deep underground — it’s the massive amount of firepower it delivers. […]

I’m not sure if you know this yet, but I’m a fan of everything aviation related. My wife graduated from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and I was her first private pilot student. My childhood dream of flying finally became a reality in the mid 90’s. And I suggest anyone interested in becoming a pilot to go […]

There aren’t a ton of images floating around of the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator and its intended platform, the B-2 Spirit (often known as a the “stealth bomber”). What sets the GBU-57 apart from its penetrator predecessors isn’t its ability to reach bunkers hidden deep underground — it’s the massive amount of firepower it delivers. […]

Since Russia’s military annexation of Crimea in 2014, NATO officials have been working tirelessly to find ways to effectively counter Russian aggression throughout Europe’s Eastern flank. Troops from throughout the alliance have established new commands all over the continent, and plans continue to develop to mount an even more robust defensive posture in the region. […]

Al Qaeda branch in sub-Saharan Africa, Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM, or the “Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims”), has released a new video addressing the families of several of its hostages. Also addressing the French government’s lack of interest in freeing these hostages. JNIM and other groups in the region have for […]

It’s 1989 and a pair of US F-14 Tomcats are patrolling the Mediterranean when two Libyan MIG-23 Floggers try to get cute with them. Like most people my age, I was a huge fan of the movie Top Gun and these Naval Aviators got it done. I had just graduated high school and was headed […]