Iraqi F-16 Crash In Arizona Is Another Blow To Troubled Training Program

An Iraqi Air Force F-16D went down near the town of Douglas, along the Arizona-New Mexico border late last night. The jet was reportedly the inauguraland the condition of its pilot, reportedly an Iraqi airman training in the U.S., remains unknown. The crash has sparked a large fire near a...

Apr 6, 2026

Why DARPA's Robotics Challenge Is More Important Than Robots Falling

DARPA throws its big competition every year in an attempt to push the boundaries of what is possible when it comes to android-like capabilities. Although a lot of us like to laugh at, the technology gets better every year, with the hopes that one day it will be able to...

Apr 6, 2026

NASA's Planned Venus Mission Would Have Put Astronauts In A Fuel Tank

Venus has never been really high on us Earth-people’s priority list for exploration or colonization, mostly because as a species we tend to be big candy-asses when it comes to . But that doesn’t mean it’s not worth exploring, and plans have been made to do so — even ones...

Apr 6, 2026

This Video Puts You In The Cockpit Of An F-16 Rocketing Over Alaska

The 35th Fighter Squadron, based in Kunsan Airbase in South Korea, participated in two Alaskan exercises this year, and they happened to take their GoPro cameras with them. The result of which is some gorgeous and exciting footage. The video is a showcase of many of the missions the modern...

Apr 6, 2026

Meet Northrop's XST, The Plane That Lost Out To The Original Stealth Jet

The year was 1974, and Defense Research Projects Agency was becoming more and more interested in the idea that an aircraft, or a remotely piloted vehicle, could be almost totally invisible to enemy sensors. The aircraft that resulted was the , better known as the first stealth fighter. This is...

Apr 6, 2026

75 Amazing Images Of U.S. Air Power In South Korea

America has close to 30,000 military personnel deployed to the Korean Peninsula, still holding the line alongside their South Korean counterparts from a stalemate of a war that officially never ended over 60 years ago. Part of this force and the Apache, Chinook and Black Hawk helicopters. In many ways,...

Apr 6, 2026

"Kick The Tires And Light The Fires!" Top Gun 2 Details Emerge

After the abrupt passing of director , , which was in development at the time, was put on hold indefinitely before being revived last year. Now, according to Hollywood exec David Ellison, the project is again in development. Yes, the long awaited sequel will almost certainly include Tom Cruise reprising...

Apr 6, 2026

See WWII Warbirds Buzz The Hell Out Of St. Barth's Scary Little Airport

Saint Barthélemy Airport is widely known as being one of the most extreme airports with regular commercial service in the world. As such, it is an unlikely place to see WWII fighters tearing up the overhead pattern and doing high-speed, ultra low-level flybys, but the Texas Flying Legends did just...

Apr 6, 2026

The F-35 Can't Beat The Plane It's Replacing In A Dogfight: Report

We’ve heard of before with the fighter jet that’s supposed to be America’s future, but this is just as bad as it gets. The F-35 performed so dismally in a dogfight, that the test pilot remarked that the it had pretty much no place fighting other aircraft within visual range....

Apr 6, 2026

Indonesian Air Force C-130 Crashed Into A Dense Neighborhood In Medan

In what is truly a horrific scene, a C-130 belonging to the Indonesian Air Force crashed in a dense residential neighborhood in Indonesia’s third largest city. At this time, reports state that 12 crewman were on-board the Hercules transport, and at least have been recovered from the scene. A frantic...

Apr 6, 2026

Vintage Catalina Flying Boat In Nic Cage Film Partially Sinks On Beach

Yesterday, a gorgeous Catalina PBY named Flora-Bama that was being used as a prop for the upcoming Nicolas Cage movie USS Indianapolis: Men of Honor began taking on water while performing touch and goes for the camera. Today, the plane sits half sunk in the surf along Gold Beach, Florida,...

Apr 6, 2026

Houston's New Spaceport Will Launch Spacecraft Horizontally

After being for one of NASA’s three surviving space shuttles () and enduring a review and approval process, Houston, Texas just became the tenth space launch site in America to win an operator’s license from the FAA. And those launches can happen horizontally, a key element in the future of...

Apr 6, 2026

Was This Huge WWII Floatplane Going To Deploy Mini-Subs To U.S. Shores?

After , I began to wonder what the biggest floatplane ever built was. Not a flying boat, where the aircraft’s fuselage also serves as a monohull with pontoons providing sea-keeping stability, but literally a plane attached to floats. Then I came across the obscure Italian-built CANT Z.511, which seems to...

Apr 6, 2026

Terrifying Image Shows Heroic Crew Trying To Keep Stricken Osprey Flying

This image from the Marine Corps shows a deadly event that occurred on October 1 last year. The crew flew the Osprey in maintenance mode by accident, which greatly reduced engine power output. The harrowing story of heroics and the loss of a young Marine’s life, After taking off and...

Apr 6, 2026

Confessions Of A U.S. Navy Submarine Officer

We have all seen Hunt For The Red October, Crimson Tide and other submarine films, but what is life really like aboard the world’s most advanced and silent submarines? One of our go-to submariners,who , takes us into this shadowy world, one , and gives us an inside look at...

Apr 6, 2026