Author: Anie

A 2017 Pentagon report to Congress detailing production retail costs for Lockheed Martin’s F-22 Raptor show that reviving the powerful stealth air superiority fighter would be prohibitively expensive. Moreover, it would take so long to reconstitute the production line that it would not be until the mid to late 2020s before the first “new” F-22s…

The MH-6 and AH-6 Little Birds (nicknamed the Killer Egg) may be coming to the end of their 40-year career, according to some conversations within the U.S. Special Operations Command. This small helicopter has been a hallmark of U.S. special operations, thanks to its small size and brilliant maneuverability, and has become a legend within…

  The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy’s Naval Fighter Experimental program after the collapse of the F-111B project. The U.S. Navy decided to fill the role of fighter attack aircraft with the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, and…

  The U.S. has long led the world in stealth technologies, and for a time, it looked as though America’s love for all things low-observable would extend all the way into rotorcraft like the RAH-66 Comanche attack helicopter The Boeing–Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche is US Army’s stealth armed reconnaissance and attack helicopter designed for the United…

  The F-117 Nighthawk is a American single-seat, twin-engine stealth aircraft that was developed by Lockheed’s secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the USAF. It was the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology. Meet the F-117 Nighthawk: The First Stealth Aircraft  

  The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark is a retired supersonic, medium-range, multirole combat aircraft. Production variants of the F-111 had roles that included ground attack, strategic bombing reconnaissance and electronic warfare. Developed in the 1960s by General Dynamics, the F-111 entered service in 1967 with the USAF. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) also ordered…

The AC-130 is a C-130 cargo plane converted into a gunship. The port side of the AC-130 houses firing ports for an array of cannons, howitzers and gatling guns. The AC-130 is flown by USAF Special Operations, mostly in the close air support role. Other roles include air interdiction, armed reconnaissance and force protection. AFSOC…

Since the Vietnam war, the EA-6B Prowler has been the U.S. Navy’s primary carrier-based electronic warfare aircraft, jamming enemy radars and providing an umbrella of protection for enemy tracking systems for U.S. attack and fighter aircraft.  

One hundred years of naval aviation, from wobbly gliders and the first shipboard landing in 1911, to modern supersonic jets and unmanned aerial vehicles. The film follows young men and women earning their wings by learning to take off and land a supersonic aircraft on the deck of an aircraft carrier in the middle of…

The RQ-4 Global Hawk is a high-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft with an integrated sensor suite that provides global all-weather, day or night intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capability.   Norton Grumman’s GLOBAL HAWK is one of, if not the world’s premier surveillance and reconnaissance unmanned aircraft system—and the Air Force’s go-to eye in the…