Massive US CH-47 Special Forces Extraction at Sea Techniques
The Chinook is an extremely capable and highly versatile support helicopter that can be operated from land bases or ships into a diverse range of environments, from…
Incredible and Awesome: The US successfully landed the biggest plane on an aircraft carrier at sea
What allows the C-130 to do short landings is the reverse thrust capability of the turboprop engines. These engines have the same power in reverse as they…
A New Sixth Generation Stealth Fighter Is Not All That NGAD Will Be
The development of the United States Air Force’s Next-Generation Air Dominance (NGAD) program has steadily progressed and recently reached a new phase of development. Described as a “family of systems,” the…
The SR-71 Blackbird flew from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. in about one hour due to its extreme speed
Aahh, the dear old SR-71 Blackbird, subject of my first-ever article for 19FortyFive. Arguably the crowning achievement of aerospace engineering genius Clarence “Kelly” Johnson and his legendary Skunk Works program at Lockheed (now Lockheed Martin). Still…
The World’s Fastest Jet, the SR-71 Blackbird: What It Was Like to Fly
A veteran pilot explains the intricacies of the fastest jet ever. A veteran U.S. Air Force pilot and current volunteer at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has…
This is the very first image of a stealthy Black Hawk helicopter ever taken
We are constantly on the lookout for more details about the U.S. military’s highly elusive stealthy Black Hawk helicopters, one of which famously crashed during the raid that led…
Fear in Russia as the US Finally Tests the New Super A-10 Warthog
The United States has always been able to design deadly aircraft. But sometimes engineers have managed to exceed even the wildest expectations by practically designing an impenetrable…
Learn More About These Suspicious Russian Fighter Jets That Are Causing US Panic
US Shocked: Meet These Mysterious Russia’s Sixth Generation Fighter Jet The Checkmate from Russia could capture the American king and raze the entire Chinese chessboard to the…
This spy plane was unaffected by 4,000 missiles
SR-71 Spy Plane Able to Evade Enemy Air Defenses Without a Scratch: The SR-71 Blackbird put the capital “E” on evasion. The enemy fired missiles at it at least 4,000…
Meet the Most Durable Tank in the World, Made in Israel
The Merkava tank was designed in the 1970s following the failure to purchase Chieftain tanks from the United Kingdom. The Merkava was designed in the 1970s following…