Watch One Of Our Foxtrot Alpha Readers Refuel His B-1B Behind A KC-135R

Foxtrot Alpha reader 'B-1 Pilot' sent over this awesome video showing what it is like refueling a B-1B 'Bone' via a KC-135R over Afghanistan. You can see that the first connect resulted in sheet of fuel-spray covering the windscreen, the second worked better. The hand-eye coordination to make a regular...

Dec 17, 2025

Iowa Class Battleships Are The Widest Ships To Ever Use The Panama Canal

Now that's a tight fit! The image above depicts the decommissioned USS Iowa's final transit through the Panama Canal on March 28, 2001. The were the widest ships to ever traverse the canals, with a beam of 108 feet against the canal's width of just 110 feet, leaving only inches...

Dec 17, 2025

100 Stunning Photos Of The US Air Force Operating Around Japan

The United States Air Force has had a strong presence in Japan since the service's founding. Today, are centralized among three major air bases in that country: Misawa Air Base in the northern Japan, Yokota Air Base in central Japan, and the sprawling Kadena Air Base on the southern Japanese...

Dec 17, 2025

Israeli AG Rules They Can't Kill Their Own Soldiers To Prevent Capture

One of the worst conundrums facing modern militaries engaged in asymmetrical warfare is what to do in the event that one of your soldiers was captured. For decades, the Israeli Defense Forces have relied on a still-classified and highly controversial method known as the "Hannibal Protocol." And now a large...

Dec 17, 2025

This Is How You Sell A Motorcycle In Bangladesh

You can learn a lot about a culture from its advertising, so it's clear that every motorcyclist in Bangladesh sees themselves as a two-wheeled Jason Statham, wasting bad guys, saving hapless children, and then holding a press conference afterwards. I have , the star of the spot, or really what...

Dec 17, 2025

Watch This Guy Jump Over Two Motorcycles Going 70 MPH

How do you top ? Do it with a pair of motorcycles blasting down a runway at 70 MPH. Al the Jumper is back, living up to his name with a tandem motorcycle jump and a graceful landing. But he's not done yet – this is just to pad his...

Dec 17, 2025

Putin Is Bored With His ATV-Riding Android Toy

Russia has been on a tear to get new robotic combat capabilities up and running, and its ground forces, some of which are already online, including the tracked 'Platform-M.' Yet this gangly, ATV-riding patrol bot isn't exactly setting Russia's hunter-in-chief's heart on fire. What appears to be more of an...

Dec 17, 2025

This Crazy Complex In Jordan Is Like Disneyland For Elite Special Forces

On May 20th, 2009 Jordan's King Abdullah officially opened the King Abdullah Special Operations Training Center (KASOTC), a facility set against a dramatic pocketed plateau on the northern outskirts of Amman. It is called the most advanced in the world and it looks like a life-sized GI Joe dream set....

Dec 17, 2025

Let The 'Sumos' Show You All The Amazing Crap They Do In Their KC-130Js

Located at in the Yamaguchi Prefecture of Japan, VMGR-152 sits as the most forward deployed KC-130 Hercules unit in the entire USMC. Because of their location and the incredible versatility of the KC-130J Super Hercules, one day they can be delivering humanitarian aid to a tiny island airstrip and the...

Dec 17, 2025

US Navy Looking To Arm Its Logistics Ships With Missiles And Commandos

Under budgetary pressure, the Navy is putting forward an incredibly logical concept called "Distributed Lethality," under which it could add more weapons and combat capabilities to existing combat ships, as well as to ones that have never had any offensive capabilities at all. Distributed Lethality has evolved from a number...

Dec 17, 2025

​You'll Love To Hate The First Batch Of Ducati Scrambler Customs

There was never any doubt that Ducati would get into the hands of customizers before it even went on sale. This is the result. Let the flame wars and/or lovefest begin. Ducati gave three shops the first crack at customizing the new Scrambler, all from Italy and all debuting this...

Dec 17, 2025

This Is What It's Like To Get Intercepted By A Russian Fighter Jet

Russian intercepts of Western signal intelligence aircraft isn't anything new. It's been happening going back to the Cold War, and there have even been minor over it. But this is a video of it actually happening with an Su-27 fighter jet and a Portuguese P-3 Orion, and it's incredibly tense....

Dec 17, 2025

This Massive Black Hawk Assault Force Is Stunningly Intimidating

This amazing image shows just a portion of an enormous force of 25 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade Black Hawks hauling hundreds of US Marines and Republic of Korea forces during a vast long-rang assault drill last April. The 25 Black Hawks departed as one thundering force and approached the landing...

Dec 17, 2025

The Oldest Active Navy Ship Is A Century Old Russian Submarine Tender

For what it lacks in beauty it sure makes up for it in character, Russia's 100 year old Kommuna is the world's oldest active naval vessel. Launched as a submarine tender back 1915, this pre-Bolshevik Revolution relic continues to serve as a salvage ship and midget sub tender as part...

Dec 17, 2025

Watch How NASA Beautifully Visualized Airflow Over Years Of Flight Tests

This jaw dropping video spans many decades of NASA flight testing which is cool in itself, but the fact that it concentrates on clips where the normally unseen movement of air is documented makes it downright wondrous. It also acts as a strong reminder of just what the first 'A'...

Dec 17, 2025