It was called the “Ensign Eliminator” for a reason. The Corsair was originally designed and manufactured by the American air craft company Vought with the goal of achieving “maximum speed View More ›
22 American UAVs in the 21st Century Battlefield
Check out the 22 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) engineered and developed in the United States that played significant roles in and changed the battlefield in the twenty-first century (sorted by View More ›
HiJENKS Missile: Bold Innovation From US Navy and Air Force Labs
The newest innovation of High-Powered Joint Electromagnetic Non-Kinetic Strike Weapon, or HiJENKS, is a gamechanger on the battlefield which employs microwave technology to shoot down an opponent’s electronic systems. The culminating View More ›
The little known story of how a US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper shot down another drone with a heat seeking missile
The use of drones has changed the way the U.S. and its competitors conduct combat operations. Yet despite the broad capabilities touted by America’s varied drone aircraft, some combat operations View More ›
Navy to retire USS Truman aircraft carrier 25 years earlier than expected
The U.S. Navy announced on Wednesday the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman would be retired from active duty sometime in the next several years, bringing the total number View More ›
How do you fight China? Stealth aircraft and submarines would dominate the first days of a Sino-American war
The role of military strategists in America’s defense apparatus isn’t to establish policy that leads to war, nor is it to inform the politics that surround one. Strategists are tasked View More ›
Watch Northrop Grumman’s experimental X-47B in action: America’s UCAV UFO
The X-47B may never actually participate in combat operations, but the two technology demonstrators built by Northrop Grumman for the U.S. Navy produced some of the most interesting (and unusual View More ›
Watch: Incredible footage of a massive C-130 landing and taking off from a carrier at sea
For those that haven’t had the opportunity to see carrier operations up close, it might seem like an aircraft carrier is nothing but a floating air strip that ought to View More ›
Drone bodyguards and missile interceptors: The Navy’s plan to defend their unarmed aircraft
Back in May, a Russian Su-27 fighter intercepted an unarmed U.S. Navy P-8 surveillance plane while flying in international airspace over the increasingly contested Baltic Sea. The intercept, like many View More ›
When a Growler’s cockpit systems failed, the frostbitten pilots were forced to land using GPS watches
Navy fighter pilots found themselves in a life threatening situation over America’s Pacific Northwest this past February, when the cabin pressure and air temperature systems failed in their EA-18G Growler. View More ›
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