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It turns out naval aviators are just like every other sailor.

It's not bravado, it's not some Hollywood publicity stunt, and it sure as hell isn't special effects. Arnold Schwarzenegger not only owns a tank, he knows how to drive it and operate it in every possible way. It wouldn't have done him much good …

Ten years from now, you might be on patrol with new super lightweight body armor. If you feel something tingling, cool it – you aren't Spider-Man, but your vest might be made from spider silk – and you probably just need to drink more water. Th…

If words like foil, epee, and sabre don't excite you very much, now you can imagine the word "lightsaber" joining them on equal footing – at least that's what the French Fencing Federation says. The primary governing body of a sport that appea…

Lt. Giulio Gavotti dropped grapefruit-sized ordnance from his monoplane.

Leonid Rogozov was one of 13 scientists and researchers on the Soviet Union's sixth expedition to Antarctica from 1960 to 1962. One morning in 1961, he woke up feeling general malaise, weakness, and feverish along with pain in his abdomen. He soon …

Oda Nobunaga was a powerful feudal lord in late 16th-century Japan. For almost 200 years, Japan had seen near-constant warfare between daimyo, lords like Oda. Although the emperor was nominally in charge of the Japanese people, his real power was ce…

Few British politicians are as controversial as former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Still, it was incumbent upon foreign governments to protect her when she traveled abroad. When preparing to visit Japan for an economic summit, Thatcher receive…

I wish every veteran could get a makeover from the Queer Eye Fab Five — and before you reach for your beers and bullets, hear me out: the military teaches us to suck it up and prepares us for the worst conditions on earth...and…

Venezuelan Socialist Party Vice President Diosdado Cabello is warning his party that United States Marines are going to be coming for Venezuela soon. This declaration comes after aircraft from the two countries were involved in an airborne confronta…

A Russian-born American has been captured in Syria by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. These anti-ISIS fighters have captured thousands of defeated Islamic State militants in the country since the fall of its de facto capital of Raqqa in 20…

Master Sergeant George Hand US Army (ret) was a member of the 1st Special Forces Operational Detachment-Delta, The Delta Force. He is a now a master photographer, cartoonist and storyteller.There is a saying among the airborne forces…

Here in the United States, we tend to think of nuclear weapons in much the same way we think of the space race and the Cold War: like a relic of a bygone era in which America emerged victorious. Unfortunately, that era isn't quite as bygone as it s…

The internet has been aflutter with memes about a million-person strong raiding party headed for the U.S. government's top secret military installation commonly referred to as Area 51 for weeks now. Sure, the whole thing started as a joke, and some…

The Emmy nominated Amazon series 'Jack Ryan' returns August 31 with season two and the official teaser trailer is here to get you amped."After tracking a potentially suspicious shipment of illegal arms in the Venezuelan jungle, CIA Officer…

Sam Mendes, the Oscar®-winning director of Skyfall, is bringing his World War I epic to the big screen this winter in 1917, the story of two young British soldiers (Game of Thrones' Dean-Charles Chapman and Captain F…

While Black Hawks, Apaches, and Chinooks usually get top billing when the Army comes out to play at air shows and sporting events (plus the occasional MH-6 Little Bird when special operation aviators come to play), the service does have another heli…

"Come and get this goddamned cat!"

Look out, Pakistan – archrival India is getting a slew of brand-new pilots ready to take to the skies to defend the Hindu homeland – at least, in the digital world. The Indian Air Force recently launched a new mobile game for Android and iOS tha…

It's easy to forget that the Vietnam War was originally fought by the French and that plenty more countries came to fight the communists, not just the U.S. One of the other groups deployed to Vietnam was a force of Australian and New Zealand soldie…