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Iran’s New Fighter Is An Omen Of Things To Come

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Black Hawk flight over Hawaii

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F-35 B-roll

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Black Hawk crew rescues a Honduran child from hurricane floodwaters

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Blue Angels final ‘legacy’ F/A-18 Hornet flight

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C-17 Wedding

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Culture

F-15 Cockpit GoPro B-roll

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An A-10 Thunderbolt accidentally lost a munition somewhere in South Korea

By Jared Keller

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Aerial Refueling

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The Icelandic Scramble

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Navy identifies two aviators killed in plane crash

By Jeff Schogol

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Tech & Tactics

Watch a C-17 pull off a gnarly gear-up landing at Kandahar Air Field

By David Roza

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Navy pilot ejects safely as F/A-18E Super Hornet crashes in California

By Jeff Schogol

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The Navy and Marine Corps are proud to have gone a full year without a fatal aircraft crash

By Jared Keller

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The Army wants a new high-powered grenade launcher to wreck armored targets and drones

By Jared Keller

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An F-16 strafed and killed a civilian contractor during a training exercise. His widow sued the US for millions and won

By Jared Keller

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Culture

Watch this CV-22 Osprey as it generates propeller vortexes and takes a bow

By James Clark

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Tech & Tactics

No, those nuclear ‘doomsday planes’ weren’t in the air because of Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis

By Jeff Schogol

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Intense video shows fiery Marine Corps F-35 crash after colliding with a C-130

By Jared Keller

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Tech & Tactics

A French fighter jet’s sonic boom scared the bejesus out of Paris

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It’s been 80 days since DoD leaders promised to release an investigation ‘within days’ into an Army helicopter buzzing protesters

By Jeff Schogol

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Tech & Tactics

That time an Israeli F-15 landed without a wing

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160th SOAR 35th Anniversary Video

By Empire Engineering

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160th SOAR 35th Anniversary Video

By Task & Purpose

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Tech & Tactics

The MQ-8C Fire Scout

By Task & Purpose

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11 amazing F-16 paint jobs in honor of the Air Force birthday

By David Roza

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Tech & Tactics

Jon Stewart to Pentagon: The F-35 can wait, but troops dying from burn pit exposure can’t

By James Clark

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Trump campaign ad urges ‘support our troops’ with a picture of Russian soldiers and jets

By Paul Szoldra

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Tech & Tactics

Hypersonic Gun Weapon System defeats drone (feat Slayer)

By Task & Purpose

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The Air Force has already built and flown a prototype of its first new fighter jet in two decades

By Jared Keller

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Culture

Capturing a Ghost

By Task & Purpose

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The Air Force successfully tested a mobile laser weapon to protect convoys from enemy drones

By Jared Keller

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The F/A-18 Super Hornet that pulled off the US’s first air-to-air kill in 18 years still has the war paint to prove it

By Jared Keller

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Russian mercenaries are now flying combat missions over Libya

By Jeff Schogol

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Air Force B-52s participate in Bomber Task Force in Ukraine

By Task & Purpose

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The Air Force just awarded a contract to develop a supersonic Air Force One

By Jared Keller

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Crew survives Navy Hawkeye crash in Virginia

By David Roza

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Russian fighters fly dangerously close to B-52

By Task & Purpose

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‘Unsafe’ intercept of a B-52 over the Black Sea is the latest example of the Russians being jerks

By Jeff Schogol

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Army identifies two special operations soldiers killed in helicopter crash

By Jeff Schogol

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Watch a Ukrainian fighter jet nail a road sign during a rough landing outside Kiev

By Jared Keller

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NORAD conducts triple intercept of Russian aircraft amid rise in Alaskan incursions

By Jared Keller

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‘I’m driven by competition’ — What it takes to become the Air Force’s top fighter pilot

By David Roza

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The World Famous Highly Respected Triple Nickel

By Task & Purpose

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China claims the US sent a U-2 reconnaissance plane into a no-fly zone to spy on military drills

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Investigation into why National Guard helicopters buzzed protesters in D.C. stuck in limbo

By Jeff Schogol

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Tech & Tactics

The Nuclear Triad: Bombers

By Task & Purpose

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This could be the Air Force’s future flying car of choice

By Jared Keller

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History

Historic Pearl Harbor PBY Catalinas to fly again for 75th anniversary of the end of World War II

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Not content with F-35 debacle, the Navy is now working on a brand new fighter jet

By Jared Keller

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Meet the Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron

By Task & Purpose

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Tech & Tactics

F-22 Refueling

By Task & Purpose

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Tech & Tactics

F-35 Demonstration Team maneuvers explained: the minimum radius turn

By Task & Purpose

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US military denies Syrian state media report that helicopters attacked a Syrian army checkpoint

By Jared Keller and Jeff Schogol

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Tech & Tactics

UH-1Y Huey Demonstration

By Task & Purpose

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The Pentagon now has a task force searching for UFOs

By Paul Szoldra and Jeff Schogol

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Marines successfully fly first RQ-21A Blackjack in Australia

By Task & Purpose

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An Air Force F-16 pilot will face off against an AI adversary in a simulated dogfight. Here’s how you can watch it live

By Jared Keller

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The Air Force’s first B-21 Raider stealth bomber is ‘starting to look like an airplane,’ official says

By Jared Keller

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Air Force helicopter shot at while flying over Virginia

By Jeff Schogol and David Roza

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A Navy flattop just rolled up in Hawaii laden with World War II-era warbirds

By Jared Keller

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History

WWII-era warbirds arrive in Hawaii on the USS Essex

By Task & Purpose

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News

The Air Force just took a major step towards launching a hypersonic missile from its oldest bomber

By Jared Keller

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Military Life

Here’s why the pilot of Enola Gay had no regrets about dropping the first atom bomb

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