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The new head of Air Force Special Operations Command has said he's bullish on outfitting part of his fearsome AC-130 gunship fleet with lasers to blast ground targets and is even considering placing such weapons on CV-22 Osprey tiltrotors for his…
In what the participants call a "unique" collaboration, government agencies and aerospace corporations are working together to develop advanced platforms and technologies for vertical lift that are intended to replace virtually all the current ro…
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has allegedly launched a chemical weapons attack on a base…
Known as the "Davy Crockett bomb," America's smallest-ever nuclear weapon packed a relatively small punch when compared to its larger cousins -- between a 10 and 250-kiloton yield. But what it lacked in straight firepower, it made up f…
"Transpecos," winner of the SXSW Film Festival's Audience Award, deals with what happens to a Border Patrol agent when he gets dragged to the other side by a drug cartel. It's an impressive directorial debut from independent filmmaker Greg Kweda…
When Eugene Stoner first introduced his aluminum and plastic Armalite rifle that would later become the basis for the M16 and M4, he scarcely could have imagined his little black rifle would still be in the hands of infantrymen more than 50 years la…
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. --- People are buying drones in droves — from cheapo low-rez toys from Amazon to high-end unmanned planes for commercial surveillance and mapping. And the Pentagon is following suit, with several companies offering …
Think of the most famous starfighters of film and TV. You know them — The X-wing, the Y-wing, the VF-1 Valkyrie, the Colonial Viper, the F-302 — pop culture has gifted us with many famous planes we fly in our dreams… or on our personal compute…
Long before the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber took to the skies, the Nazis built a similar plane. The Horten Ho 2-29 — often called "Hitler's Stealth Fighter" — closely resembles the B-2. It's a single wing aircraft, with smooth round…
Over 200 vehicles provided to the Afghan government by the United States have fallen into the hands of the Taliban in Badakhshan province. That shocking claim comes from a former Afghan intelligence chief who claims that the vehicles include High-Mo…
Over this past weekend, Iran reportedly threatened two U.S. Navy surveillance aircraft operating in international waters. The P-8A Poseidon and the EP-3E Aries II operating in the Persian Gulf received the threatening radio messages but proceeded w…
Matt Baetz is a comedian, actor, writer, and host and a veteran of six Armed Forces Entertainment and USO tours across the world. He's performed his standup routine for the troops in Afgha…
It seems like North Korea is always coming up with a new kind of threat to the South. It seems that way because it's true. Threats are a constant reminder of the nuclear missiles and conventional rockets that would destroy the South Korean capital …
It's Shark Week at the U.S. Air Force Academy. The Falcons paid tribute to Air Force history by donning uniforms featuring the distinctive nose art of the WWII-era Curtiss P-40 Warkhawk and its grandson, the tank-busting, close air supp…
When HMS Queen Elizabeth makes her maiden deployment in 2021, she will be operating the short take-off, vertical landing variant of the F-35 Lightning II. There's just one catch – the planes will not be owned by the United Kingdom.
Every day we purchase antacids and bottled water from local convenience stores and take for granted the ease of getting vaccinated for the upcoming flu season. But this wasn't the case for millions of people in the 18th and 19th centurie…
