Six Names: The Human Cost of Keeping Epic Fury in the Air
Six names. That is what the U.S. Air Force released on March 14, 2026, two days after a KC-135 Stratotanker crashed in Iraq. Maj. John Klinner. Capt. Ariana Savino. Tech. Sgt. Ashley Pruitt. Capt. Seth Koval. Capt. Curtis Angst. Tech. Sgt. Tyler Simmons. Investigators...
Mines in the Street: America’s Secret Weapon Against Iran’s Missiles
They looked like canned food, Iranian villagers said. Small cylindrical objects scattered across the streets and fields of Kafari, a village on the southern outskirts of Shiraz. Within hours, Bellingcat had identified them: BLU-91/B scatterable anti-tank landmines,...
Missile in the Mirror: A Super Hornet Escapes Iran
The video is grainy, shot from the ground near Chabahar — a port city on Iran’s remote eastern coast. A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet screams low overhead, its 20mm cannon blazing. Then a streak of smoke rises from below. The aircraft breaks hard left. The...
Japan’s EC-2 Electronic Warfare Jet — Nicknamed the ‘Platypus’ — Takes Its First Flight
Japan’s newest and most unusual-looking military aircraft — the Kawasaki EC-2 stand-off jammer, nicknamed the “Platypus” for its ungainly but purpose-built shape — completed its maiden flight on March 17, 2026, lifting off from Gifu Air Base at 11:30...
B-52 Spotted Testing America’s Next Nuclear Cruise Missile — The AGM-181 LRSO
A B-52H Stratofortress has been photographed in flight over California carrying two inert examples of the AGM-181 Long-Range Standoff (LRSO) missile — the nuclear-armed weapon system designed to replace the United States’ aging AGM-86 Air Launched Cruise Missile...
The Captain Dangling at 17,000 Feet: How a Crew of Heroes Saved British Airways Flight 5390
At 7:33 in the morning on June 10, 1990, British Airways Captain Tim Lancaster was sitting in his seat at 17,300 feet over Oxfordshire when his windscreen exploded outward — and he went with it. What followed in the next twenty minutes is one of the most extraordinary...
Mystery in the Sky: RQ-180 Stealth Drone Photographed Over Greece
What appears to be the United States’ most secretive unmanned aircraft — the classified Northrop Grumman RQ-180 — was photographed over the city of Larissa, Greece on March 18, 2026, providing what analysts are calling the clearest public imagery of the...
Half a Plane, Whole Crew: The True Story of WWII’s B-17 “All American”
On February 1, 1943, a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress flew home from Tunisia with its tail section barely attached — connected to the rest of the plane by little more than a few metal longerons and a strip of aluminum skin. The ten men inside didn’t know if the...
Closest Look Yet: F-22 Raptor Flies with Stealth Tanks and IRST Sensor Pods
Aviation photographer Jarod Hamilton captured the sharpest images yet of an F-22A Raptor flying with both stealthy external fuel tanks and specialised sensor pods at Edwards Air Force Base on March 21, 2026 — providing the clearest look to date at a significant...
The Ghost Plane of WWII: How a Crewless Bomber Flew 1,300 Miles Alone
On February 9, 1943, a fully fueled American military cargo aircraft took off from Florida with a crew of eight — and landed in Mexico four and a half hours later with a crew of zero. No hijacking. No remote control. Just the most incredible solo flight of the Second...
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