The USAF Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown Jr. said on Mar. 7, 2023 the service would likely retire all its A-10 Warthog attack aircraft over the next five or six years. The Department of the Air Force selected Moody Air Force Base (AFB), Georgia, as the preferred location to receive the next active-duty F-35A Lightning II…

data-background-color=”dark–“> The Show Isn’t Over for the U.S. Air Force’s F-16 Fighters Anthony Jarvis Senior Contributor News The F-16 has undergone a steady series of upgrades that will allow it to remain the backbone of the Air Force for another twenty years to come. According to a recent interview in Air Force Magazine, the venerable F-16 fighter…

The Mangusta (Mongoose) was Agusta’s answer to the Italian Army’s requirement for a tank-busting attack helicopter. In service with the Italian Army since 1990, The Agusta A129 Mangusta is the first attack helicopter designed and built entirely in Western Europe. Conceived in the late 1970s, the Mangusta (Mongoose) was Agusta’s answer to the Italian Army’s requirement for…

Thanks to the rather far-fetched mid-1970s TV series Black Sheep Squadron, the bent-wing image of the Chance-Vought F4U Corsair is no doubt one of the most vivid of the World War II fighters in the minds of most Americans. The dark blue forms of the squadron’s Corsairs came on the screen every week, thrilling millions who…

The so-called YF-12C was SR-71A 61-7951, modified with YF-12A inlets and engines and a bogus tail number 06937 belonging to an A-12. Taken in 1975, the interesting photos in this post show NASA Blackbirds carrying the so called ”coldwall” heat transfer pod on a pylon beneath the forward fuselage. The Blackbirds portrayed in these photos…

The CH-53K King Stallion is the most powerful helicopter in the U.S. military and provides the Marine Corps with a significant capability. The Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion, the U.S. Marine Corps’ newest heavy-lift helicopter, broke new ground by taking part in a fleet exercise for the first time. In a Marine Corps statement, Lt. Col.Adam Horne, the HMH-461 commanding…

Is it America’s most capable fighter, or America’s most expensive headache? Why not both? Refueling under cover of darkness, a massive formation of U.S. Air Force, Royal Air Force, and Australian Air Force aircraft prepared for combat. Fourth-generation fighters hailing from all three nations—including F-16 Fighting Falcons, F-15 Eagles, and Eurofighter Typhoons—coordinated with E-8 Joint STARS command-and-control…

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has not been kind to the attack helicopters participating, with more than 60 lost since the war began. In the last 20 years, attack helicopters have proven themselves vulnerable to ground fire, especially shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles. Attack helicopters must change with the times—or become obsolete. Perhaps one of the most motivational sights on the modern battlefield…

The B-2 is a technology marvel, and even today, many years after its first introduction, it remains one of the most feared aircraft in existence. The idea of an aircraft that could avoid missiles and interceptors was something that was first considered by the American military aircraft designers in the mid-1970s. A few years later,…

Because of its versatility, the F-14 served as an air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor, and even tactical reconnaissance platform. Here’s What You Need To Remember: Though it made its first deployment in 1974, the F-14 Tomcat continues to be used to this day, including by Iran. During its three decades in service with the United States…