The Best Part Of British Arctic Warfare Training Is Sexual Healing

Contrary to popular belief, not all military training is devised to make you uncomfortable and miserable at the same time. Much of it is designed to make you uncomfortable, but still show you that you can keep your spirits up. Even if that involves making you sing Sexual Healing in...

Dec 17, 2025

The Force Is Strong With This International Space Station Expedition

Expedition 45's crew poster is outrageous. Six of the most capable human beings on this planet dressed up like six of the most capable creatures from other planets, Jedi Knights to be exact. Lightsabers, satellites that look like X-Wings and even a straight up Death Star are present. Now if...

Dec 17, 2025

Once Again The USAF Is Looking To Re-Engine Its B-52 Fleet

The USAF is kicking around 'creative concepts' under which it could re-engine its . With the bombers remaining in front-line service until at least 2040, and considering that flying with eight 1960s vintage TF33 engines is far from fuel efficient (burning 3k gallons an hour), re-engined B-52s should make great...

Dec 17, 2025

See Inside Kim Jong Un's Remodeled Air Force One

Kim Jong Un took to the skies in his remodeled to see a high-rise construction site located along the the Taedong River in Pyongyang. One of the North Korean Air Force's two known IL-62Ms , although the You would think to see a local construction project from the air, the...

Dec 17, 2025

Egypt Strikes Islamic State In Libya, Will Buy French Rafale Fighters

In what is a growing front in the war on the Islamic State, Egypt has admitted that it launched airstrikes against the group in Derna, Libya, a port city 150 miles east of Benghazi. The Egyptian military says that the attack is in response to a en masse. The strikes...

Dec 17, 2025

How To Successfully Get Launched Off A Carrier At Night In A F-14 Tomcat

LCDR Joe "Smokin" Ruzicka, the, is back to walk us through exactly what it took to strap on a 70k pound F-14 Tomcat in the dark of night and successfully get flung off the front of a US Navy super carrier via one of the ship's mighty steam-piston catapults. Going...

Dec 17, 2025

​This Is How A Musical Instrument Designer Makes A Motorcycle

Ask a dozen people what Yamaha makes and they'll tell you everything from motorcycles to pianos. They're right. Yamaha has its hands in dozens of industries, so why not combine a couple to see what you come up with? That's how you get to the Yamaha Root. Sorry, "√". The...

Dec 17, 2025

Watch These Fully-Armed F/A-18 Hornets Refuel Air-To-Air Over Syria

How do you top up the tank while on a Combat Air Patrol over Syria? This clip from the DoD shows you how it's done, with F/A-18 Hornets and Super Hornets suckling up to a. The jet's assignment is offensive counter-air, and out of the group shown, the average loadout...

Dec 17, 2025

​How To Turn A Wrecked Buell XBRR Into A John Player Special Tribute

There are only 50 Buell XBRR Daytona Superbikes in the world. When they landed in 2006, they cost upwards of $30,000 and were confined to racetracks, but that didn't stop a couple of tools from stealing one, doing a burnout, and promptly wrecking it in a ditch. Resurrection, thy name...

Dec 17, 2025

This War Weary Ukrainian Soldier Takes A Nasty Spill Off A Moving BMP

A very shaky ceasefire is in place in some parts of Eastern Ukraine, while in others, Ukrainian troops are running for their lives under heavy shelling. The toll from prolonged fighting on Ukrainian troops is showing. Case in point: this soldier who slipped from clinging to a BMP-1 as it...

Dec 17, 2025

The World's Most Secretive 737 Is America's Key To Better Stealth Tech

Nobody knows exactly where “Rat 55" lives or precisely what technology it uses to accomplish its mission, but it sure is an exotic beast. The USAF’s secretive NT-43A testbed is a highly modified 737-200 that goes far beyond on stealthy aircraft by plying its trade high up in the sky...

Dec 17, 2025

This Is What It's Like To Get Intercepted By A Eurofighter Typhoon

We've already seen what it's like for a , but Russian planes get intercepted by NATO just the same. Especially when you're in a looming Tu-95 Bear strategic bomber, and those intercepting planes are Royal Air Force Typhoons and French Mirages. Over the enormously loud drone of the engines and...

Dec 17, 2025

BMW Logger Bike: It's A Bike, For Logging

Most of the customs at Portland's motorcycle show tend to put style over substance. The crew from wanted to do something different, and the result is the Logger Bike. The name pretty much says it all. The staff at the dealer were kicking around ideas for a build for this...

Dec 17, 2025

The "Ghost Rider" B-52 Rises From The Grave To Ride Again

U.S. Air Force serial number 61-0007, aknown by its nose art as "Ghost Rider," was brought out of seven years of storage at the Defense Department's boneyard in Arizona. Its new mission? To replace an active B-52H that was badly damaged by fire while on the ground at Barksdale Air...

Dec 17, 2025

This F-16 Viper Managed To Fly Back To Base Missing Half A Wing

Last October there was between two F-16 Vipers from the 125th Fighter Squadron of the Oklahoma Air National Guard. All we knew at the time was that one of the jets went down in a field after the pilot safely ejected, while the other managed to land with a damaged...

Dec 17, 2025