Watch This Massive CH-53 Sea Stallion Chopper Do Loops And Rolls

Helicopter performance can be very deceiving. Large, fat and ungainly choppers can also be super-fast and highly maneuverable, even compared to their streamlined little cousins. The Sikorsky H-53 exemplifies this this truth with its massive six bladed rotor and large four bladed tail rotor. The video below shows the Sea...

Dec 17, 2025

Why Northrop Grumman Ran A Super Bowl Ad For A Stealth Bomber

How many American consumers are looking to purchase ? None. So why would Northrop Grumman spend big bucks on producing such a glitzy ad and pay to have it run in Washington DC and Dayton, Ohio during the Super Bowl? Defense contractors have learned a thing or two from Steve...

Dec 17, 2025

How To Win In A Dogfight: Stories From A Pilot Who Flew F-16s And MiGs

Lt. Col. Fred "Spanky" Clifton is one of the most experienced aggressor pilots ever, having flown the F-15, F-5, F-16 and the notorious MiG-29. He's been in dogfights with pretty much every fighter out there and is a graduate of the prestigious Fighter Weapons School. Now he's here to share...

Dec 17, 2025

You Can Buy This Crazy Experimental Littoral Combat Ship For $180,000!

It was one of Lockheed and the Navy’s naval experiments of the 1990s and it still looks cutting edge today. Sea Slice was born to test technologies surrounding a low-draft, high-speed and super-stable modular surface combatant, the grand father of the controversial Littoral Combat Ship if you will. Now this...

Dec 17, 2025

This Is Why Your Motorcycle Holds Up To A Massive Jump

Motorcycle drop tests are one of those things that everyone does, but no one really talks about. Alta Motors wants to shed some light on the process, even if it's just a video of them dropping their new electric bike a couple stories from a makeshift rig. When I visited...

Dec 17, 2025

Here's Your Gratuitous 2015 MotoGP Honda RC213V Gallery

If you've been waiting to obsessive over every weld, every bolt, every carbon fiber and unobtainium bit on Honda's latest entries in MotoGP, today is your day. HRC has taken the wraps off Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa's new ride for the 2015 season, with the two-time champ and his...

Dec 17, 2025

Embraer's KC-390 Multi-Role Transport Has Flown For The First Time

Brazil's Embraer marked a huge milestone today, flying its largest and most complex jet, the KC-390. The flight lasted one hour and 25 minutes, during which the test crew put the C-130-sized twin jet through a series of maneuvers to assess its handling. The flight is said to have gone...

Dec 17, 2025

The Victory Charger Could Be Polaris' First Electric Motorcycle

It's been less than a month since , and the first fruits of that partnership may have been revealed in a trademark filing for the Victory Charger. , filed on January 27, is owned by Polaris Industries and titled "Victory Charger", with the description reading "Electric motorcycles and structural parts...

Dec 17, 2025

This Is Reportedly The CIA's Shadowy Car Bomb Facility In North Carolina

In 2008, Lebanese terrorist overlord Imad Mughniyeh was killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria. Twisted metal wreckage was all that remained of his Mitsubishi Pajero. And according to a report from the , the CIA built and tested the entire system at a secret facility, somewhere in North...

Dec 17, 2025

Watch This Semi-Submerged CH-47 Gobble Up A Boat Full Of Special Forces

It's one of the most dynamic extraction and infiltration techniques in the Special Operations community. Known unofficially as the "Delta Queen" maneuver, a massive twin-rotor Chinook lowers its empennage into the water, drops the ramp, and a team of special forces in their rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB) "beaches" directly...

Dec 17, 2025

Jordan's King Wants To Go After ISIS Like Clint Eastwood In Unforgiven

There is a good chance that we will wake up to a very different anti-ISIS campaign over the skies of Syria in the coming days. Following the gruesome execution of their, Jordan, led by its Special Forces impresario King, says it will bring 'every weapon it has' down on ISIS....

Dec 17, 2025

Watch A Downhill Racer Tear Through A Shopping Mall

I did not realize that my dreams sometimes come to life. This is Slavik Hannes putting down the winning run of a recent downhill biking race held in the middle of Arkady Mall in Prague. Apparenty the whole thing was called the 'Downmall Tour' of which Hannes is now champion....

Dec 17, 2025

Sikorsky's Exotic S-97 Raider Spins Its Rotors For The First Time

Sikorsky'spun its rotors and pusher propeller for the first time today. Although the innovative light attack and scout chopper does not have a customer yet, its technology aims to replace the vast majority of the Army's helicopter fleet while offering double the speed and greater range. Originally the S-97 was...

Dec 17, 2025

Check Out This Shot Of A US Navy Super Carrier Passing Through A Rainbow

One of the most common things I hear from those who've served aboard carriers – and other Navy ships – is the wild atmospheric conditions they see on a daily basis. This incredible picture of the USS John C. Stennis passing through a rainbow is proof. Mass Communication Specialist 3rd...

Dec 17, 2025

You Think Your Commute Sucks? Try A Highline Transfer Between Two Ships!

When you have to get a person from one big ship to another, and a helicopter is not available, you get the ride of your life in a steel chair attached to a wire that gets winched over the churning ocean. The 'high-line personnel transfer' has been around for over...

Dec 17, 2025