Author: Michael

The A-10 Warthog Looked Like It Was Headed for Retirement. Then The Iran War Started
The A-10 Warthog has been revered for generations by grateful ground forces who credit the famous “flying tank” for saving them from enemy fire.

And, to be honest, we can’t get enough of the A-10. As you can see, we visited the A-10 Warthog on display at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force just last year.

Although the future of the combat-tested aircraft has been debated for years, there is little question about its combat performance.

Too Big, Too Easy to Kill: Why the U.S. Navy Abandoned Sky Aircaft Carriers
America’s military development over the last century has been both a tale of amazing advances and a story of “what ifs.” One of those “what if” stories comes in the form of a 785-foot-long, helium-filled dirigible airship. Billed by many as a “flying aircraft carrier,” the United States Navy was attempting to fuse airpower with its power projection platforms.

Inside the “Airborne Carrier” Concept 
Ultimately, the Navy would build aircraft carriers to achieve this goal.

🚨GOAL OF THE TOURNAMENT?

A B-52 Bomber Accident Turned Into a Nuclear Crisis 
The theme of lost, missing, or stolen weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)—chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons—has unsurprisingly been the subject of many fictional thrillers. And when it includes a B-52 bomber, you know it can’t be good, as we will get to in a second.

During the Cold War, you had bestselling novels from authors like the late great Clive Cussler and Tom Clancy (both gone but not forgotten), e.g., “Vixen 03” by the former and “The Sum of All Fears” by the latter.

The two are U.S. Citizens – but may be dual citizens. The brother has fled to China. The mother is now detained and being processed for deportation, being found to be an Illegal Alien.

An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was placed near the Visitor Center of MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida.
A very bizarre set of circumstances. Were the brother and sister operating on behalf of China? Were they Iranian sleeper agents? Were they triggered wokesters?
MacDill hosts two major commands, U.S. Central Command and U.S. Special Operations Command.

A recent claim circulated in Chinese state-linked media that a Chengdu J-20 “Mighty Dragon” stealth fighter transited key airspace undetected sparked new debates about China’s growing fifth-generation combat aircraft capabilities and what it could mean for regional defense planners.

The report, which referenced operations over the Tsushima Strait and near Taiwan, attracted Western commentary that focused primarily on the aircraft’s impressive speed – but that may not be the most important part of this story.

A Chinese People’s Liberation Army Air Force J-10C lightweight fighter has engaged an aircraft from an unnamed foreign country, after being locked onto by the aircraft’s radar. Shi Luquan, a pilot from an aviation brigade under the PLA Air Force Central Theatre Command, is reported to have quickly responded to radar illumination, recalling: “This is a kind of provocation. If he were friendly, he wouldn’t turn on the radar.

For decades, the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) was a visible symbol of American maritime power – and while for many years it served as an operational flattop, it later became a news story as the Navy grappled with the difficulty of retiring a ship of this size.

On January 16, 2025, the decommissioned carrier departed the U.S. Navy’s Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia to be towed to Brownsville, Texas, where it will be dismantled. “The ex-John F. Kennedy (CV 67) began its final journey this morning as it departed from the U.S.

The U.S. Air Force has lost at least one E-3 Sentry airborne warning and control system (AWACS) and three KC-135 Stratotanker airborne refuelling aircraft at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, after the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched multiple ballistic missile and drone attacks on the facility. The strikes on March 27 have caused considerable casualties, with conservative estimated indicating that ten U.S. airmen were wounded, although some estimates have been significantly higher.

The U.S. Air Force has begin its first permanent deployment of F-35A fifth generation fighters to Misawa Air Base in Northern Japan, following in January that the service was preparing to transition the facility to support a permanent presence 48 F-35A fighters to replace 36 aging F-16CJ fourth generation fighters. This will represent the largest concentration of permanently deployed U.S. Air Force fighters in East Asia, with the transition away from the ageing F-16 expected to revolutionise the combat capabilities of the U.S.