Dozens of Warthogs Gear Up for Iran

Dozens of Warthogs Gear Up for Iran

Share this story Flight trackers lit up over the weekend as a formation of A-10C Thunderbolt IIs — callsign TABOR 71 — crossed the Atlantic toward RAF Lakenheath in England. Behind them, three KC-135 Stratotankers from RAF Mildenhall held station, feeding fuel to the...
A Cessna on Red Square: The Matthias Rust Flight

A Cessna on Red Square: The Matthias Rust Flight

Share this story On May 28, 1987, an 18-year-old West German with 50 hours of flying experience took off from Helsinki in a rented Cessna 172. He told air traffic control he was heading for Stockholm. He turned east instead — straight into the most heavily defended...
Hellfire Launchers Hidden in Shipping Containers

Hellfire Launchers Hidden in Shipping Containers

Share this story It looks like a shipping container. The kind you see stacked on cargo ships, loaded onto flatbed trucks, sitting in industrial lots from Rotterdam to Riyadh. Ten feet long, standard Tricon ISO spec, unremarkable in every visible way. Inside it is a...
A $500 Drone Just Killed a Black Hawk

A $500 Drone Just Killed a Black Hawk

Share this story The drone that killed a $21 million helicopter cost less than a decent pair of headphones. On March 23, an Iran-backed militia launched a first-person-view drone at Victory Base Complex near Baghdad International Airport. The target was an HH-60M...
Two Waves Over Minab: What Bellingcat Found

Two Waves Over Minab: What Bellingcat Found

Share this story Related: Mines in the Street: America’s Secret Weapon Against Iran’s Missiles New video evidence analyzed by Bellingcat reveals that the February 28 strike on an IRGC compound in Minab — which also destroyed the adjacent Shajareh Tayyebeh girls’...