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Project Kaiju: Giant Monsters or the Air Force’s SkyNet?

September 27, 2021

“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” Or a giant monster. Project Kaiju is a new program by the Air Force to automate some functions of electronic warfare and View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Air Force, Aviation, Cyber Warfare, Drones, Military, Technology
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Watch What Happens When Aircraft Are Almost Hit by Their Own Bombs

It happens so often, it is almost routine. An aircraft is trying to take out a ground target and moves in to drop its bombs. The bombs then leave the View More ›

SOFREP No Comments Air Force, Aviation, Video
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The Green Hornets of 20th Special Operations Squadron Respond at Ground Zero

September 14, 2021

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
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Major Richard Bong, America’s Ace of Aces

September 14, 2021

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

September 9, 2021

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

September 6, 2021

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
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Paul Tibbets, the Ace Pilot Who Bombed Hiroshima

September 6, 2021

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
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Kabul Evacuation Helicopters Had Saigon Ties

September 3, 2021

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

August 31, 2021

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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C-130 Hercules, a Staple of American Air Power, First Flew This Day 67 Years Ago

August 30, 2021

In the early 1950s, the aviation industry was gaga over jets. The U.S. Air Force was no different, looking for high-speed, high-performance jet aircraft that could go toe-to-toe with the View More ›

SOFREP No Comments AFSOC, Aviation, Military History
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