Tag: video

There are two things you could never accuse SpaceX of being shy about: trying new things, and sharing intense footage of their failures. Last September, SpaceX founder Elon Musk shared a “highlight” reel of some of the most spectacular failures the company had along its path to becoming one of the most prominent private space […]

Manufactured by Rockwell, the B-1 Lancer bomber, affectionately known as the ‘Bone’ is a four engine supersonic aircraft with variable swept wings. The B-1 was originally thought to be a replacement for the B-52 Stratofortress. It entered service in 1986 as a nuclear bomber before being permanently converted for use only with conventional ordnance in […]

Yet another video of an incredibly dangerous low pass, this time in a Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot, has surfaced out of Ukraine, suggesting that the Ukraine’s Air Force may make a habit of conducting such death defying stunts. This footage shows a pair of Su-25s coming in low over what appears to be a military airfield. […]

The United States boasts not only the largest and most powerful air force in the world, it actually boasts three of them. If you were to divide the airborne assets employed by the Air Force, Navy, and Army into service for separate nations, each branch would earn a spot on the military power podium; that’s […]

Although it was introduced way back in 1966, and retired from service a whopping eighteen years ago, the SR-71 Blackbird remains among the most popular military aircraft of all time — and for good reason. Despite its relative old age when compared to modern feats of aviation ingenuity like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter or […]

Although Russia’s fifth generation fighter may be little more than a token collection of jets, they have gone to great lengths to upgrade their existing fourth-generation platforms in a way that, they believe, will keep them from falling behind nations like the United States and China, who currently boast the most technologically advanced fighters on […]

Last Friday, footage of Russian troops riding on an unusual piece of equipment over Moscow began pouring onto social media platforms. The footage appears to show a small group of armed Russian soldiers standing on a disk that’s being carried beneath an Mi-8 helicopter, in a tactical extraction system that bears a slight resemblance to […]

Exercise Point Blank kicked off this week at RAF Lakenheath, UK — offering the world it’s first glimpse of America’s fastest fighter, the UK’s most advanced fighter, and France’s workhorse platform all flying side by side in joint operations. These drills are aimed specifically at preparing for a near-peer or peer level conflict with the […]

Footage of Turkish T-129 attack helicopters unleashing their 20mm cannons on a training target have found their way onto social media. These attack helicopters have been in service in Turkey’s military since 2014, and have seen action on at least two occasions: once within Turkey’s borders in counter-terror operations, and again earlier this year in […]

The South China Sea is among both the most heavily traversed and heavily contested waterways on the planet. With an estimated one-third of all global commerce crossing the expansive body of water at some point and significant natural resources beneath the surface, it’s no small wonder then that a nation like China, eager to exercise […]

Russia’s state-owned television network Zvezda TV released never before seen footage of the nation’s fifth-generation fighter, the Su-57 on Tuesday night. One of the two pieces of footage shows four of the rare jets flying in formation, before one of the fighters executes a maneuver commonly referred to as a “flat spin.” The second piece […]

Although it was introduced way back in 1966, and retired from service a whopping eighteen years ago, the SR-71 Blackbird remains among the most popular military aircraft of all time – and with good reason. Despite its relative old age when compared to modern feats of aviation ingenuity like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter or […]