F-16 fighter jet shoots down drone inside Israeli airspace
At around 1.30 PM local time on Apr. 25, 2013, the Israeli Air Force shot down an UAV (unmamned aerial vehicle) from Lebanon over the sea off Haifa, in norther…
UK hosts largest tactically focused military exercise in Europe: Joint Warrior 2013
Held twice each year in the Scottish Exercise Areas, Joint Warrior is a large exercise that sees the participation of assets from all three UK armed services as well as…
Broken Arrow: When U.S. B-52s Lost Their Nuclear Weapons During Cold War
Two Broken Arrow incidents involved the B-52 Stratofortress strategic bomber fleet. Back in 1955, when it entered the operational service with the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC), the…
Join a Marines “Jump Jet” on a flight over the Mediterranean sea off USS Kearsarge
Take a seat and watch the following interesting video. It shows Capt. David Neely, an AV-8B Harrier Pilot assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 266 (Reinforced), 26th Marine Expeditionary…
Meanwhile, in Guam: B-52 bomber is loaded with (dummy) Air-Launched Cruise Missiles
The following images show airmen from the 36th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, deployed from the 23rd Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Unit, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, preparing a dummy AGM-86C…
This rocket-like plane could have been the SR-71 Blackbird replacement
The following image, published by Code One on its Facebook page, shows configuration SA-2S, an SR-71 Blackbird replacement concept that was studied by Convair in the early '60s. According to…
