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The Air Force’s Software Chief Resigns as Pentagon Takes Control of Millions of IP Addresses

Nicolas Chaillan, the U.S. Air Force’s first chief software officer dropped his resignation letter, on LinkedIn, on September 2; he gave the reason as a lack of support. His resignation View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Cyber Warfare, Military, News + Intel, Technology

AFSOC Moves Forward With Plans for an MC-130J Seaplane

Back in May during the annual Special Operations Forces Industry Conference (SOFIC), the Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) said it was looking into the development of a plane that View More ›

SOFREP No Comments AFSOC, Air Force, Coast Guard, News, Special Operations

The Green Hornets of 20th Special Operations Squadron Respond at Ground Zero

Members of AFSOC’s 20th Special Operations Squadron, also known as Green Hornets, responded to events at Ground Zero in the best way they could: by going where others could not. View More ›

SOFREP No Comments AFSOC, Air Force, Aviation, Special Operations

Major Richard Bong, America’s Ace of Aces

Richard Ira Bong was rightly nicknamed America’s “Ace of Aces” during World War II. He is credited with shooting down 40 Japanese aircraft during combat while flying a P-38 Lightning View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Aviation, Military History

3 Things You Didn’t Know About the F-22 Raptor

The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter tends to garner the lion’s share of media attention, but it was the F-22 Raptor that introduced the world to the very concept of a View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Aviation, Technology

F-22 Raptor Vs F-35 Lightning II: Who Wins This Dogfight?

Conceived in the ’80s, born in the ’90s, is the F-22 that millennial kid who can’t get a job because of the recession? On the other hand, the F-35 is View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Aviation, Weapons

Paul Tibbets, the Ace Pilot Who Bombed Hiroshima

Paul Tibbets was a retired Air Force brigadier general who flew the Enola Gay (named after his mother) when it dropped Little Boy, on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. In View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Aviation, War Stories

Kabul Evacuation Helicopters Had Saigon Ties

Pictures of helicopters evacuating the U.S. Embassy in Kabul have already become an iconic image of the NATO withdrawal from the country. Among them were CH-46 Sea Knights – affectionately View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Aviation, History

There Is No Escape From the Thermobaric Bomb

Fire needs three things: oxygen, heat, and fuel. Conventional explosives, like black powder, use a mixture of fuel and oxidizer. On the other hand, a thermobaric bomb uses fuel, a View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Video, Weapons

The Venerable B-52 Bomber: Why the Air Force Just Can’t Let Go

Before Americans had the ability to watch color television, the Air Force had the ability to drop nukes on the Russians and fly back home, thanks in large part to View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Air Force, Aviation, Expert Analysis, Military History
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