Moroccan F-16 Fighter And Saudi AH-64 Attack Helicopter Down In Yemen

A Moroccan F-16 and a Saudi AH-64 Apache both went down while operating over Yemen yesterday. The crew of the Apache has supposedly fallen while the F-16’s pilot fate remains less clear, although grisly images of a body said to be located at the crash site are making their rounds...

Apr 6, 2026

Check Out The Walmart-Grade GPS Systems In These Russian Attack Jets

Apparently, at least a portion of Russia’s fleet of Su-24 Fencers are running on handheld Garmin-like GPS systems in addition to their aging inertial navigation systems, as seen in this photo tweet showing a Fencer refueling from an Il-76 Midas tanker. Setups like these were not totally uncommon in the...

Apr 6, 2026

These Mods Turn The Honda CB500X Into The Adventure Bike We Want

Honda was ahead of the game when it came out with the CB500 trifecta (F, R, and X). They’re each light, fun, have adequate power, and compelling price tags. But the 500X, despite being billed as a quasi-ADV, doesn’t have the necessary kit for serious off-roading. Rally Raid Products is...

Apr 6, 2026

Watch F-35Bs Hover In For A Landing Off A Fake Ship Deck In The Desert

As the F-35B closes in on its (somewhat arbitrary) Initial Operational Capability date, crews have been expanding their flight training. Part of that includes Field Carrier Landing Practice where pilots hone their abilities at handling the aircraft around the tight confines of a amphibious assault ship – or at least...

Apr 6, 2026

Ducati Scrambler Sales Are Off The Chain

Ducati just had its best month ever, delivering 7,309 bikes in April. That’s a 29 percent increase in sales over this time last year and blows past the previous record of 6,500 bikes sold in May of 2012. The reason? . Ducati is already seeing a 10 percent bump in...

Apr 6, 2026

Hell Yes The Honda Africa Twin Is Back

Honda has finally confirmed that it’s bringing the Africa Twin back to battle the BMW GS, Ducati Multistrada, and KTM 1190. It’s hitting Europe later this year, landing in the States in early 2016, and it’s also packing an off-road-tuned dual-clutch transmission. The new Africa Twin is the successor to...

Apr 6, 2026

Come Watch Three Kings With Us And Talk Iraq, NatSec, And Marky Mark

Before American Hustle, David O. Russell made arguably the best modern war film... or at least the best modern war film with Mark Wahlberg, George Clooney, and Ice Cube stealing gold in Iraq. in Brooklyn on Tuesday, May 19th at 7:30 pm and stick around for a discussion with experts....

Apr 6, 2026

Airmen Throw Sparks And Glow In The Dark In Night Live Fire Training

No, this is not a screen cap from Michael Bay’s next Transformers movie, these are real Security Forces Squadron members of the 106th Rescue Wing conducting dynamic night fire training in upstate New York. During this type of training, Security Forces dawn night vision goggles, use visible and infrared laser...

Apr 6, 2026

Navy Hornets Mock-Dogfight With Malaysian Flankers In South China Sea

With Malaysia operating Russian and U.S. made designs alongside one another, including the thrust vectoring Su-30MKM Flanker, . This is exactly what the Carl Vinson Strike Group did Sunday while churning through the strategic South China Sea. During the dissimilar air combat training (DACT) event, Carrier Air Wing 17’s Hornets...

Apr 6, 2026

Victory Will Race A De-Tuned Brammo At The Isle Of Man

Victory Motorcycles bought . The first fruit of that appears to be participation at next month’s Isle of Man TT Zero race, where the company will be campaigning two de-tuned Brammo Empulse RRs. Let’s back up a bit. Based out of southern Oregon, Brammo was the most promising of the...

Apr 6, 2026

This Explosion In Yemen Looks Like A Tactical Nuke Going Off

There have been some during the last month of positions, but the result of this particular attack is so enormous you could be mistaken that it’s the kind of mushroom cloud and fallout seen during The fireball and resulting mushroom cloud seen in this video is not just from a...

Apr 6, 2026

Yesterday Was A Rough Day For American Air Power

Yesterday, a Super Hornet crashed on takeoff from the USS Theodore Roosevelt , a UH-1Y went missing during disaster relief operations in Nepal, a Cobra made an emergency landing in the LA River canal and the NAS Corpus Christi flight line was inundated with water. It was a rough Tuesday...

Apr 6, 2026

Here’s Our First Taste Of The Honda Africa Twin’s Aural Pleasures

Less than a day after , grainy, black and white “test footage” of the CRF1000L playing in the dirt has “leaked” online. Funny how that works… The video gives us our first taste of what the 1,000cc parallel twin sounds like, and damned if it doesn’t have the wobbling gargle...

Apr 6, 2026

Jay Leno Rides One Of Our Favorite Customs In Years

remains one of all our all-time favorite bikes in the past decade. After the original prototype was built back in 2009, we didn’t think there was a shot that Magpul would actually build them at scale. We were wrong, and now Jay Leno has gotten his hands on one. Magpul...

Apr 6, 2026

Watch This C-17 Haul 9000 Gallons Of Gas To A Base Fighting ISIS

In what has to be one very expensive fuel run, a C-17 Globemaster III flew 9,000 gallons of jet fuel from Al Udeid Air Base to a forward operating base near the front lines of Operation Inherent Resolve, refueling in flight on the way back home. I wonder how much...

Apr 6, 2026