Watch: Amazing F-16 Footage…Must Watch! Hope You Don’t Get Airsick!

A compilation of some of the coolest F-16 footage available, some new, some a bit older. The F-16 was and still is an amazing fighter platform, and this is a dedication to one of the best air-to-air fighters ever built. – Gerard Griessel Featured image of F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot and crew chief communicating while preparing for […]

Watch: Army vet subdues armed casino robber

Heidingsfeld, Germany — A U.S. Army veteran, Elliot Montalvan, was working at a small casino last year in south-central Germany, near Würzburg, approximately halfway between Nuremberg and Frankfurt. Montalvan saw a robber toting a Batman mask enter the building, and heard him threaten someone in German, demanding money. His instincts kicked in and Montalvan, 35, attacked […]

Watch: US Navy Releases Video Footage of Russian Jet Buzzing EP-3 Aircraft

On Jan. 29, 2018, a U.S. EP-3 Aries aircraft flying in international airspace over the Black Sea was intercepted by a Russian Su-27. This interaction was determined to be unsafe due to the Su-27 closing to within five feet and crossing directly through the EP-3’s flight path, causing the EP-3 to fly through the Su-27’s […]

Watch: Awesome Nighttime Video Footage From Red Flag!

Great video footage from Red Flag night exercises at Nellis AFB, Las Vegas, Nevada. Night flight line operations during Red Flag 16-1 aerial combat exercise, where you can get a good view of fighter jet afterburners shooting fire. Red Flag is an annual event at Nellis Air Force Base designed to train pilots and aircrews […]

Watch: Chinese rocket booster stage crashes back to earth near village

A spent booster from a Chinese rocket launch fell from the rocket and exploded near a small town in the Guangxi province of Southwest China on Friday. The Long March 3B rocket lifted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan Province just after 7 am local time, carrying a payload of two communications satellites. […]

Mobile Assault Force: Inserting SEAL Team Six on dirt bikes and quads

During the writing of “The Final Mission of Extortion 17,” I learned of a very interesting type of operation Extortion Company Chinooks supported: MAF, or Mobile Assault Force. During an MAF raid, Chinooks of Extortion Company (the Army aviation unit to which Extortion 17 belonged) would insert members of DEVGRU SEALs using dirt bikes and […]

The one time 160th Special Operations Aviation flew during the day, and why

One of the hallmarks of the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) – 160th SOAR(A) – AKA “The Night Stalkers,” is that they rarely fly during the day. One of the most secretive of all American special operations units, the 160th flies during daylight hours only in extreme circumstances. One of these times was during […]