Last Surviving ATOMIC BOMB FLIGHT Crewman Breaks His Silence Russell Gackenbach was a second lieutenant aircraft navigator and photographer who flew into the heart of Japan on Aug. 6, 1945, as Little Boy, a 9,000-pound uranium-235 atomic bomb was dropped onto Hiroshima, Japan. Russell E. Gackenbach was a navigator in …

1 Million Rounds Per Minute – How The Hell This is even possible. Watch the world’s fastest gun effortlessly fire 1 million rounds per minute There are some pretty fast guns out there and with modern engineering, they are getting faster all the time. Since the 1960s the M134 Minigun …

Two USAF Airmen Hit By Lightning While Working On F-35. Air Force officials told Military.com that Two airmen were indirectly struck by lightning while servicing an F-35 Lightning II at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida The airmen, assigned to the 34th Fighter Squadron at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, were in the process of …

In The below video The mighty Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, aka the BUFF, from Barksdale AFB pulls some vapor while performing a high-speed flyby at the 2008 Scott AFB Air Show. It was again given to us by our friends AirShowStuff videos. Aviation fanatics themselves, they’ve caught something we’ve never seen …

SR-177 Rocket Jet Fighter – A combined rocket & jet engine fighter jet. The Saunders-Roe SR.177 was a 1950s project to develop a combined jet- and rocket-powered interceptor aircraft for the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Navy. It was an enlarged derivative of the Saunders-Roe SR.53, which was itself an …

Russia’s official designation of the PAK-FA/T-50 jet as the Sukhoi Su-57 is just another reminder that the field of fifth-generation fighters is about to get more crowded. The United States, China, Russia, Japan, and Korea are all working on their own fifth-generation designs, but so far only three planes, the …

PAF C-130 aircraft crash lands at Nur Khan airbase – Caught fire and is completely destroyed A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) C-130 cargo aircraft crash landed at Nur Khan air base in Rawalpindi on Friday.   The aircraft caught fire after the hard landing and the pilot and the trainee …

Norwegian Frigate Intentionally Ran Aground After Tanker Collision. A Norwegian warship was heavily damaged in a collision with a Maltese oil tanker in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. Watch this remarkable time-lapse video of the tugs working to keep the ship on the rocky shoal as it sinks. The Aegis …

Norwegian frigate sinking after oil tanker collision. A Norwegian warship was heavily damaged in a collision with a Maltese oil tanker in the North Sea off the coast of Norway. According to Norwegian media reports Thursday, the frigate is in danger of sinking after sustaining heavy damage. The oil tanker is reportedly undamaged. …

Taliban Shoot down U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper UAV in Afghanistan. According to Scramble Magazine, the Taliban has released photos showing the wrecked MQ-9 Reaper of the U.S. Air Force, serial 12-4174, and its AGM-114 missiles. The exact date of the incident is as yet unknown, but a little research …