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Mysterious Massive Plumes Of Chaff Cloud Are Lighting Up Radar Over Maine, Midwest, and Florida Meteorologists, and anyone else watching weather radar in southern Illinois, southwestern Indiana, and western Kentucky, noticed an unusual formation drifting through the area. Two days after more plumes have now appeared over Maine and Florida. …

America’s Super Submarine Aircraft-Carrier (AN-1) could be held again. The U.S. Navy Could Have Had a Submarine Aircraft Carrier (AN-1) that could launch 8 fighter jets in 8 minutes During the 1950s, the advent of the atomic age forced the U.S. Navy to look at a number of alternate basing …

Watch: F-22 Raptor chases down an A-4 Skyhawk – A-4 runs for the hills as an F-22 hunts it down This was a routine combat air patrol including 4 F-22s and 4 F-15s. The single raptor descended from 40,000ft to engage 2 low flying A-4s. If you look closely around …

1 rescued, 6 Marines Missing after 2 US military aircraft crash off Japan Rescue operations were underway Thursday for six US marines missing after two American military aircraft crashed during a refueling operation off the coast of Japan, the Japanese defense minister said. U.S. Marine Corps C-130 & F/A-18 crash …

Spain Set To Join Franco-German Stealth sixth-generation fighter jet Spain has formally announced its interest in joining the Franco-German stealth fighter project, commonly referred to as the Next Generation Weapon System, or NGWS. Spanish Defense Minister Margarita Robles “requests that the Spanish incorporation be formalized, through the signing of a …

DARPA’s New microchip lets one pilot control multiple aircraft in the brain A person with a brain chip can now pilot a swarm of drones — or even advanced fighter jets, thanks to research funded by the U.S. military’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. For the first time ever, DARPA has announced …

Dramatic footage shows 17 ‘hostile’ Russian fighter jets buzzed Royal Navy warship near Crimea. The incident described as the most intense encounter between Russia and NATO forces in 25 years. HMS Duncan, a $1.7 billion Type 45 Destroyer, was leading a NATO fleet through the Black Sea when a mix of …

France MQ-9A Reaper UAV crashed near the Niamey Air Base in Niger. The French Ministry of Defence (MoD) has confirmed that MQ-9A Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle or remotely piloted aircraft has crashed near the Niamey Air Base in Niger on 17 November. The Reaper UAV was returning to Niamey air base …

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 …

Boeing 747-400F suffered a runway excursion after landing. Sky Lease flight GG4854, a Boeing 747-400F, suffered a runway excursion after landing at Halifax International Airport, Canada. The aircraft departed Chicago-O’Hare International Airport, the USA at 07:02 UTC (01:02 local time) and arrived near Halifax at about 09:00 UTC (05:00 local time). …