The Russian Ministry of Defense recently dropped a cache of photos showing service members participating in specialized combat training in the country’s Kaliningrad region on the Baltic Sea
A Russian conscript soldier killed three fellow servicemen on Monday at a military air base after attacking them with an ax and a gun, Russian news agencies reported
Training Scramble during Icelandic Air Surveillance 2018. Airmen from the 493rd EFS and 48th MXG get jets in the sky during an alert training scramble in support of the NATO mission. 1/08/2018. Air Force video / Airman 1st Class Gaspar Cortez)
U.S. Marines across 3d Marine Division, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, and Airmen with 1st Special Operations Squadron, demonstrate expeditionary advanced basing capabilities Oct. 7-8, 2020, as part of Exercise Noble Fury, from Okinawa to Ie Shima and across surrounding waters
Camp Century had a “Main Street,” a chapel, a movie theater, a gym, and 600 nuclear missiles.
The discovery of the “earthquake” bomb forced more than 750 people to evacuate their homes.
Russian state-owned defense corporation Rostec has released footage of a brand-new combat exoskeleton for assault operations
A French fighter jet broke the sound barrier on Wednesday as it scrambled to join a commercial jet that had lost contact with air traffic control, causing a sonic boom that reverberated through Paris and its suburbs, the country’s defense ministry said
Footage first shown by state-run Belarus military affairs broadcaster VoentTV shows members of the Belarusian Ground Forces operating an ATV with three massive wheels and what appears to be a 7.62mm PKM machine gun mounted on its front
A formation of three B-52H Stratofortress aircraft, assigned to the 5th Bomb Wing, Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, depart RAF Fairford, England, to take part in a Bomber Task Force Europe mission over Ukraine on Sep. 4, 2020. The B-52Hs are escorted by Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29s and Su-27s. The strategic bomber missions provide […]
While US pilots like to draw sky penises, the Russians tend to be just plain dicks. Most recently, two Russian SU-27 Flanker fighters got dangerously close to as U.S. B-52 that was flying over the Black Sea on Friday. “The Russian pilots flew in an unsafe and unprofessional manner while crossing within 100 feet of […]
Talk about a rough landing. A Ukrainian Air Force fighter jet collided with a road sign on a highway outside of the country’s capital of Kiev on Thursday, Defence Blog reports. The jet, one of two UAF Sukhoi Su-27 heavy fighter jets dispatched to the region for military exercises, was practicing taking off and landing on […]
A Russian state corporation has released previously-classified footage documenting the development and detonation of the legendary ‘Tsar Bomba’ hydrogen bomb in celebration of 75 years of Russia’s nuclear industry. The footage, which comes during a 40-minute Soviet-style propaganda film, was released on the YouTube channel of the Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation, the state-run Russian nuclear […]
A former Green Beret has been arrested for allegedly serving as an asset for Russian military intelligence agents from December 1996 until January 2011, the Justice Department announced on Friday. Peter Rafael Dzibinski Debbins is charged with conspiring to provide United States national defense information to agents of a foreign government, according to the U.S. […]
A gunshot was fired. Glass shattered and train employees fled the locomotive to the caboose as a shirtless man wielding an AK-47 entered a car with hundreds of passengers. What was supposed to be a relaxing train ride from Amsterdam to Paris for three childhood friends from Sacramento on Aug. 21, 2015 turned out the […]
Kalashnikov Concern is back with a brand new invention. The legendary Russia state-owned weapons manufacturer unveiled a new variant of its AK-12 assault rifle on social media earlier this week, according to Jane’s. Dubbed the AK-19, the new lightweight rifle is chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO compared to its predecessor’s 5.45×39mm rounds. While the rifle is still in […]
"I lost sleep then and I lose sleep now knowing leaders can act this way."
ATHENS (Reuters) – A Greek and a Turkish warship were involved in a mini-collision on Wednesday during a standoff in the eastern Mediterranean, a Greek defense source said, describing it as an “accident.” Tensions have risen this week after Turkey sent a survey vessel to the region, escorted by warships, to map out sea territory […]
Editor’s Note: This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author. In late June, reports surfaced that intelligence operatives from the Russian military intelligence unit known as the G.R.U. had offered bounties to Afghan militants in return for the killing of American troops in Afghanistan. The story had the hallmarks of […]
A U.S. Army soldier allegedly tried to steal a taxi at Munich International Airport but couldn’t carry out his plan because he didn’t know how to drive stick shift. According to Stars and Stripes, a 19-year-old soldier with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, based in Bavaria, was at the airport to fly back to the U.S. […]
The Marine Corps is changing the size and duration of its rotations to Norway, but the move is not related of the drawdown of nearly 12,000 U.S. troops in Germany, said Maj. Adrian J.T. Rankine-Galloway, a spokesman for Marine Corps Forces Europe & Africa. “We are not drawing down and, at times, will have a […]
