US Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin did not identify the type of helicopter or the quantity. The Czech Air Force operates the Mil Mi-24 attack helicopter, which Ukraine possesses…
‘While the RAH-66 was being perfected, the armed drone came along and did the job of the Comanche better, and cheaper,’ Damien Leimbach, former Avionics Technician at US Air Force…
‘AT-ATs have a lot in common with tanks,’ Lynn Taylor, a former A-10 Warthog pilot The All Terrain Armored Transport, or AT-AT walker, from the Star Wars universe, is a…
The F-86D Sabre Dog was equipped with an afterburning engine in the form of a General Electric J47-GE-17 turbojet An intelligence warning in 1948 prompted the US Air Force (USAF)…
Given that US, Italian, and French carrier strike groups have been operating in the Mediterranean for the last several weeks, the position of the cruisers around the Aegean is a…
“These test flights are part of our continuing demonstration of how DEFIANT supports the Army’s missions of massing combat power on the objective area,” Jay Macklin, Director of Business Development,…
There were still a lot of hostilities at the time, so the pilots did what is called a falling leaf landing at Herat airport ‘First flight in Afghanistan, 2002. It…
The Royal Canadian Air Force has determined that cracks that appeared in the tail booms of its CH-148 fleet were due to local stresses caused by the equipment installed there…
These flights validate Defiant’s relevancy to the Army’s mission, providing agility at the objective (also known as the “X”), and increased survivability, all while reducing pilot workload Lockheed Martin Sikorsky-Boeing…
‘Those Japanese choppers hovered all day, just for fun. The kind of fun you only get in the military,’ said Michael Alapaki, a former US Navy enlisted aircrew For a…