US Air Force Wants To Assemble A Badass Batalion Of Tiny Dirt Bikes

The US Air Force is shopping around for 54 Kawasaki KLX110L “motorcycles” (dirt bikes) with skid plates, infared lights, and milspec desert tan paint jobs. I mean, awesome. But why? Specifically; “Hulburt Field, FL, is conducting market research to determine the existence of potential sources to provide Kawasaki KLX110L Motorcycles.”...

Apr 6, 2026

USS Arizona Memorial Reportedly Struck During Docking Op In Pearl Harbor

in that thewas struck by the USNS Mercy while the massive hospital ship was attempting a docking operation in Pearl Harbor. It’s unclear if the hallowed site was hit by the ship, one of its tugs, or both and what kind of damage occurred, but eyewitness say they heard the...

Apr 6, 2026

What's The Hardest Thing To Do In Zero Gravity?

We humans are very used to gravity. We live with it every day! What gets hard when it goes away? This might be a hard question to answer for most of us, given that a very small percentage of us are astronauts, but it’s a interesting question. Certainly some things...

Apr 6, 2026

It's Time To Get Your Motorcycle Back From The Mice And Onto The Road

The sun’s shining here in northeastern USA, and more importantly the last winter salt has finally been rained off the road. Motorcycle season hath begun. Time to blow the dust off your bike, or if you ride a temperamental jalopy like I do; execute the complex ritual of revival. The...

Apr 6, 2026

17 Wacky Naval Aviation Terms You Never Knew You Wanted To Know

Our good friend andis back to share with us his list of the weirdest terms any Naval Aviator or carrier-borne Naval Flight Officer would know. Make sure to also check out Joe’s fantastic Foxtrot Alpha contribution that puts you right in the Tomcat’s cockpit during a tense night carrier catapult...

Apr 6, 2026

You Can Bid On This Rusty P-51 Mustang For The Price Of A Ford Mustang

That’s right, you can go and that has not flown since the 1970s for same price as an entry level base Ford Mustang! This oxidized example of North American’s legendary WWII fighter has been untouched for over ten years but has been stored out of a elements in a hangar....

Apr 6, 2026

China Tries To Jam U.S. Global Hawks While Busy Developing Their Own

China has reportedly been trying toflying over the . Meanwhile, they are busy perfecting their own High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) unmanned aircraft, with new pictures of a twin fuselage design emerging on the internet. The works on both UHF line-of-sight and UHF and Ku band satellite data-links to communicate...

Apr 6, 2026

The Ten Hardest Things To Do In Zero Gravity

Here on earth we’re thankful to have the pull of gravity to keep us and our favorite objects grounded to the ground. When you head a couple hundred miles up, all of that changes. If astronauts in space were to take conventional showers, the water would go everywhere and it...

Apr 6, 2026

Watch Our Timelapse Video Of The USS San Antonio Sliding Into New York

As you may have already heard, last week we flew on an as part of New York’s Fleet Week festivities. What you may have glossed over is that we were heading to land, well, not on land at all per se, but on the deck of the USS San Antonio....

Apr 6, 2026

Extremely Be-Mulleted Hero Burns Out So Hard On Bike It Catches Fire

Every so often, the Motoring Gods that reside atop Mount Opel Olympia anoint a new hero for our ages. They come from far, they come from wide, but they all bear a . That of smoke and flame, from a fully sikkkk burnout. And this anointing from Poland is hilarious....

Apr 6, 2026

This Navy Squadron's Cruise Video Includes A Terrifying Carrier Landing

U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet Squadron VFA-115 “Eagles” put together a pretty sweet WESTPAC cruise video. One clip in particular reminds us just how challenging landing a 25-ton, $50 million dollar fighter on a chunk of steel floating in the middle of the ocean can be, especially when visibility is...

Apr 6, 2026

The Blue Angels Roar Over Graduation At The U.S. Naval Academy

In what has to be one of the best graduation ceremony shots of all time, the Blue Angels are caught above the speaker’s podium, where Vice President Joe Biden and the Navy and Marine Corps Brass welcome the U.S. Naval Academy’s graduating class of 2015. Seconds later the stadium is...

Apr 6, 2026

Watch And Hear The Last Time The Battleship Wisconsin Fired Its Big Guns

This awesome video, shot on May 16th, 1991, documented the last time the Iowa Class Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) fired off its main battery. Watching her 16 inch guns going off in a crescendo and then ending in a full broadside is breathtaking, and the sound is ferocious. Make sure...

Apr 6, 2026

Legendary Skunk Works Founder Kelly Johnson's Rules Of Management

Clarence “Kelly” Johnson is the Babe Ruth of aerospace design. Aircraft programs under Johnson were so cutting edge and historically influential, and his cult of personality and management strategy so effective, that he and Lockheed’s Skunk Works (which he also founded) are forever enshrined in mankind’s technological hall of fame....

Apr 6, 2026

Navy Responds To Claim Ship Was Scared Off By Russian Jets With Video

Media outlets in Russia began crowing last week about an incident in the Black Sea, off the coast of the contested Crimean Peninsula. Russian fighters buzzed an American destroyer, sending it running scared after it entered Russian waters, they said. But the US Navy just verbally struck back, with video...

Apr 6, 2026