On December 5, 2022, the U.S. Army announced the awarding of its Future Long Range Assault Aircraft contract to Bell Textron, Incorporated. Bell Textron’s submission, the V-280 Valor, is a…
Ukraine isn’t content to let its suicide drones strike Russian airbases. Nor are the Ukrainian Armed Forces content with hitting targets in the Crimean Peninsula. Ukrainian commandos have struck a…
Self-propelled artillery is not a new concept. Rather than having to tow a gun with a horse or truck, putting a gun on a mechanized platform simplifies logistics and increases…
The Sikorsky S-55 and S-58 helicopters are perhaps best known for their military service as the H-19 and H-34, respectively. In military service, these helicopters flew with the markings of…
On Sep. 30, 1975, the Boeing AH-64 Apache made its first flight. The Apache was designed to replace the AH-1 Cobra for the United States Army’s Advanced Attack Helicopter program….
Search-and-rescue choppers have become legendary. Remember the Jolly Green Giants and Pave Hawks? Well, it turns out that there was another helicopter …
Helicopters, also known as helos, are one of the most important aircraft for infantry operations. Whenever Marines need to do a hard knock, which is essentially a raid in civilian…
Army Lt. Col. Francisco “Frank” Rubio was selected for NASA astronaut training in 2017. On September 21, 2022, Rubio is scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard…
The Army’s helicopters have a number of names you recognize immediately: Apache, Black Hawk, Kiowa, Lakota, Comanche. They are also known as the names of Native American tribes. This is not a coincidence.
The Vietnam War was long and arduous. It cost the United States a total of 58,220 troops, with 40,934 of them killed in action. The overall number of wounded sits at 304,000. These staggering numbers gave the military time to reflect on how effectiv…