on Sep. 17, 1987 KC-10 tanker tail number 82-0190 exploded on the Barksdale ramp while undergoing routine maintenance after a mission. The KC-10 arrived at Barksdale AFB and all 17 crewmembers departed the plane. About one hour later, three ground crew members were on board; one in the cockpit, one …

A drill instructor is a non-commissioned officer in the armed forces or police forces with specific duties that vary by country. For example, in the United States armed forces, they are assigned the duty of training new recruits entering the military. Drill instructors within the U.S. armed forces have different …

Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard successfully managed a surveillance flight over a U.S. aircraft carrier, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported Saturday. The report included footage apparently from a Guard drone that flew over the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and another U.S. warship in the Persian Gulf. The images show fighter …

The Panavia Tornado is a family of twin-engine, variable-sweep wing multirole combat aircraft, jointly developed and manufactured by Italy, the United Kingdom, and West Germany. There are three primary Tornado variants: The Tornado IDS (interdictor/strike) fighter-bomber, The suppression of enemy air defences Tornado ECR (electronic combat/reconnaissance) The Tornado ADV (air …

President Donald Trump Reverses Pentagon & Navy Decision to decommission Super-carrier USS Harry S. Truman 25 years early. He says he has overridden an “order” to retire the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman ahead of schedule on February 28, 2019, Pentagon & Navy decided to retire USS Harry …

A strategic bomber is a medium to long range penetration bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy’s capacity to wage war. Ever since the U.S.A. dropped a nuclear bomb in World War II, nations that possess …

A program to train Afghan attack pilots has been ended after the airmen kept going absent without leave, or AWOL, while training in the United States. More than 40 per cent of the Afghan Air Force students enrolled in the U.S.-based training program to fly the AC-208 Combat Caravan, a …

The Pratt & Whitney J58 was a jet engine that powered the Lockheed A-12, and subsequently the YF-12 and the SR-71 aircraft The photo below was of Last SR-71 Blackbird engine test in full afterburner at Edwards Air Force Base took place on Sept. 12, 2002 To experience a J58 …

On 2 May 1999, Pilot Lt. Col. David Goldfein’s F-16 fighter jets was shot down over western Serbia by an S-125 surface-to-air missile fired by the 3rd Battery of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Yugoslav Air Force. Staff Sgt. Jeremy Hardy, a pararescueman, and his fellow airmen …

According to the report about the United States nuclear arsenal published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The Department of Defense maintains an estimated stockpile of nearly 3,800 warheads. Approximately 2,050 warheads are held in reserve and approximately 2,385 retired warheads are awaiting dismantlement, giving a total inventory of approximately 6,185 …