The Warthog Just Got a New Probe and the “Angry Kitten” — Six Weeks Old, Now in Combat
The A-10 Thunderbolt II — the Warthog, the Hog, the GAU-8 with wings — has been on death row at the Pentagon for a decade. The official retirement plan has called for the type to be fully phased out by 2028. The Air Force has gone on record dozens of times saying the...
UAE Builds Massive Cope Cages Over Its Oil Facilities
The cope cage is a Russian invention. It started as a piece of welded mesh hammered onto the turret of a T-72 in Ukraine in 2022, a frantic improvisation to detonate Ukrainian top-attack munitions a half-metre above the armour rather than against it. Since then it has...
Pentagon Finally Releases F-16 Cockpit Footage of Lake Huron UAP Shootdown
On 12 February 2023, two days after a Chinese spy balloon had been shot down over the Atlantic and one day after a similar object had been destroyed over the Yukon, a third unidentified aerial phenomenon was tracked at 20,000 feet over Lake Huron. A U.S. Air National...
Pilot Pranks That Crossed the FAA Line: From Bar Bets to Revoked Licenses
Pilots are, by nature, people who enjoy pushing limits. Most channel that instinct into precision flying, tough weather calls, and the occasional perfectly greased landing. Others channel it into decisions that make FAA enforcement attorneys reach for their thickest...
The Funniest Aircraft Names in History: From Goblins to Thunderscreeches
Every aircraft gets an official designation. Some get a dignified name to match. And then there are the ones that ended up with names so bizarre, so unfortunate, or so accidentally perfect that they’ve become legends in their own right — not for what they did in...
It Took Losing an E-3 Over Iran: Pentagon Finally Funds the Wedgetail
It took losing an E-3 Sentry over Iran to make the Pentagon do what it should have done years ago. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has submitted a budget amendment to the White House adding funding for the E-7A Wedgetail to the fiscal year 2027 budget request —...
267 Eagles, a Broken Lightning: Congress Pushes Multiyear Buy for Both
The F-35 can’t deliver on time. The F-15EX production line was kneecapped by a strike. And the Air Force needs both — desperately. Senator Ted Budd of North Carolina is pushing an amendment into the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act that would authorise...
Dragon Cart: Every Cargo Plane Becomes a Cruise Missile Bomber by 2027
A C-17 Globemaster III pulls up to altitude, the ramp drops, and 45 cruise missiles slide out the back on pallets. That is no longer a concept video or a PowerPoint fantasy. The U.S. Air Force just turned it into a funded programme of record called Dragon Cart — and...
RIAT 2026 Cancelled: The Iran War Just Killed the World’s Biggest Military Airshow
The world’s largest military airshow is dead for 2026. The Royal Air Force Charitable Trust Enterprises confirmed today that the Royal International Air Tattoo — the crown jewel of the global airshow calendar — will not take place this July. The reason: American...
Six SAMs, No Flares: Major Tullia’s F-16 Dance Over Baghdad
On 19 January 1991, three days into Operation Desert Storm, the U.S. Air Force launched the largest F-16 strike in history. Seventy-two Vipers, supported by F-15 escorts, F-4G Wild Weasels, EF-111 Ravens, and KC-135 tankers, headed for downtown Baghdad. The mission...
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