Russia’s slew of ongoing missile initiatives have seen mixed success during the past few years. Some platforms, like the Zircon hypersonic cruise missile, have apparently performed well enough to soon View More ›
With the terrorism danger perpetually high in both the United States and Europe, Special Operations Forces (SOF) are always honing their counter-terrorism (CT) capabilities, whether in a ground or maritime View More ›
At the close of 2018, it seemed that 2019 might finally be the year Lockheed Martin’s flagship F-35 Joint Strike Fighter would start beating back the critics and proving the View More ›
Could small, loitering munitions be the future of close air support (CAS)? The U.S. military has been experimenting with the notion for some time. The first-ever loitering munition to enter View More ›
The latest Pentagon assessment of the F-35 program has reached the media, and with the long-delayed fighter finally entering combat operations with the Marine Corps late last year, one would View More ›
In separate incidents, two medical transportation aircraft went down in Ohio and Alaska–one rotor wing and one fixed wing. In total, all six of the flight crew members involved in View More ›
Earlier this week, a Boeing 777 commercial aircraft landed in Caracas, Venezuela. The plane, which belongs to Russia’s Nordwind Airlines, had never made the journey before, and according to local View More ›
As soon as word hit the media about the Pentagon applying pressure to the U.S. Air Force to look into procuring new F-15X aircraft, defense officials and even defense industry View More ›
Radar absorbant coating is an important element of any stealth aircraft’s ability to avoid detection. Air platforms that were purpose built with stealth in mind already offer a limited radar View More ›
Working as a defense journalist usually means making it your business to read, study, research and then opine. Your job is to try your best to understand not only what’s View More ›