According to Business Insider Article, A detailed report detailed how the F-35 had lost in dogfights with F-16s F-35A Lightning II is prove to be an invaluable asset during Red Flag 17-01, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) premier air combat exercise held at Nellis Air Force Base(AFB), Nevada. The F-35A …
Read More »List of Nuclear Weapons U.S. Has Lost and Never Found
Article Source: mentalfloss During the Cold War, the United States military misplaced at least eight nuclear weapons permanently. These are the stories of what the Department of Defense calls “broken arrows” America’s stray nukes, with a combined explosive force 2,200 times the Hiroshima bomb. Nuclear Bomb Lost Into the Pacific in …
Read More »Video of Diego Garcia Stall and Fall: C-5 Galaxy nearly crashed while Landing
Jay Lacklen is a former C-5 pilot with 12,500 flying hours and the author of two books, Flying the Line: An Air Force Pilot’s Journey and Flying the Line: An Air Force Pilot’s Journey Volume Two: Military Airlift Command. The following story comes from the last book of the trilogy, …
Read More »Video of Close Call for Red Bull Air Race Pilot
In the below video, Matt Hall talks us through an eventful Qualifying day in Windsor, the fourth stage of the Red Bull Air Race World Championship 2010. Matt Hall A former Australian military pilot racing for the Red Bull Air Race bounced off the Detroit River and recovered his airplane …
Read More »No,SU-57 Isn’t ‘Junk: Most Lethal Features of Russian 5th Gen. Stealth Fighter Jet
Russia’s 5th generation fighter aircraft, The Su-57, has been in the news a lot lately. Following are the News Related to SU-57 SU-57 deployment to war-torn Syria late last February India’s decision to finally walk away from the joint program Russia’s delaying mass production of Su-57 stealth fighter jet for …
Read More »Video of F-18 Crash at El Toro Air Show: Pilot Survived 73Gs force after Hornet smashed into the ground
On April 24, 1988, Marine Corps Colonel Jerry Cadick, then commanding officer of MAG-11, was performing stunts at the MCAS El Toro Air Show before a crowd of 300,000 when he crashed his F/A-18 Hornet at the bottom of a loop that was too close to the ground. The aircraft …
Read More »Behind the scenes video of Fast And Furious 7 Skydiving Car Scene from C-130 cargo plane
You know that scene from Furious 7, where the gang drives some cars out of an airplane and parachutes them safely back to earth? (This is how they got the insane Furious 7 skydiving cars shot, step by step.) It’s not just a bunch of CGI dicking around: The film …
Read More »Video of E-2C Hawkeye’s Aircraft Carrier Cable Mishap – 8 Injured
Video of the incident shows a harrowing few moments in which the aircraft disappears off the flight deck and reappears several seconds later. Crew members aboard the flight deck can be seen running. Two sections of the broken No. 4 pendant and purchase cable “recoiled sharply and backlashed,” Eight sailors …
Read More »Video of F-14 Tomcat Spin Out of Control
The legendary Grumman F-14 Tomcat is widely considered the best fleet air superiority fighter the U.S. Navy ever put to sea. But the Navy wasn’t the only one to fly F-14s, NASA had two of the formidable fighters too, and together the planes helped provide valuable flight test research that …
Read More »Russia’s Airborne roll out for rapid assault drill
More than 2,500 airborne troops and 200 pieces of hardware are kicking off a large-scale military drill in Central Russia. They will practice conducting rapid assaults and dropping armoured vehicles from the sky. A video from Russia’s Defense Ministry published on Tuesday shows large Il-76 cargo planes practising landing, …
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