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Putin is failing. NATO is waiting. USAF F-15 Strike Eagles now forward deployed to Eastern Europe (Credits- UK Aviation Movies)

Finally : America's New F-22 Super Raptor is Coming & After Upgrade (Credits- American Tactical Fighter)

XB-70 Valkyrie: America’s Mach 3 Super Bomber Ever Built (Credits- US Military News)

All Types of Military Aircraft Explained (Credits- Not what you think)

US Testing Super Fast Robots to Clean Dirty Fighter Jet (Credits- The Daily Aviation)

The world's most powerful A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft in action (Credits- MIL3010)

CH-53K KING STALLION LOGS FIRST SUCCESSFUL FLEET MISSION || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHOG DEFENSE)

Gigantic 265 Ton US Aircraft Takes Off With Full Thrust in Middle of the Desert (Credits- The Daily Aviation)

What It Takes to Fly The $340 Million C-17 Globemaster III | Boot Camp (Credits- Business Insider)

How the US Air Force is Parking its Largest Aircraft ? (Credits- The Daily Aviation)

LEGENDARY: MEET THE UNIQUE (AND DEADLY) F-111 AARDVARK || 2021 (CREDITS- WARTHOG DEFENSE)

U-2: All About America's Secret Spy Plane • FULL DOCUMENTARY | Forces TV

E-6B Mercury, Deadliest American Aircraft probably you have never heard before

USAF E-6 Mercury ( Credits- Wikimedia Commons / USAF) United States Air force has many types of Aircrafts. But one of the least known but one of the deadliest is the E-6B Mercury, which acts as a command post in the event of a nuclear attack, tasked with communicating with launch platforms including submarines. The National Interest has an interesting article on this amazing bird. (To read the article, click here ........)

The X-37B: America's Amazing Space Plane (That Russia and China Fear) ( Source- The National Interest)

USAF X-37B ( Image credits- Wikimedia / NASA) Source- The National Interest The mysterious USAF X-37 B space plane built by Boeing is giving sleepless nights to the Russians and the Chinese. What it is doing up in space is a mystery. The National Interest delves deep into the project to find a credible answer.  ( To read the entire article, click here ......)

Revolutionary F-35 Fighter Reaches Its Most Important Milestone ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Loren B. Thompson)

USAF F-35 in flight ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / USAF) Source- The National Interest Author- Loren B. Thompson Fifteen years after development began and ten years after it first took flight, the F-35 fighter is operational with the U.S. Air Force.  This week's announcement of initial operational capability for the F-35A is arguably the most important milestone in the tri-service fighter's evolution, because the Air Force will buy over 70% of the plane's domestic production run (1,763 of 2,443 aircraft), and its variant is the version that the vast majority of overseas allies will acquire. (Editor's Note: The U.S. Air Force IOC announcement is anticipated for Aug. 2 - DM) So it is no exaggeration to say that the Air Force buy is the linchpin of the whole program.  Without it, the cost of Navy and Marine Corps variants would be prohibitive.  The economies of scale generated by purchasing three variants with high commonality to meet the future t

Why America's Enemies Still Fear the F-15 Eagle ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Kyle Mizokami)

USAF F-15 Strike Eagle ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / USAF) Source- The National Interest Author- Kyle Mizokami For nearly three decades, the F-15 Eagle fighter was considered the undisputed king of the skies. Until the debut of its replacement, the F-22 Raptor, the F-15 was the U.S. Air Force’s frontline air superiority fighter. Even today, a modernized Eagle is still considered a formidable opponent, and manufacturer Boeing has proposed updated versions that could keep the airframe flying for the better part of a century. The F-15 traces its roots to the air war in Vietnam, and the inauspicious showing of American Air Force and Navy fighters versus their North Korean counterparts. Large, powerful American fighters, designed to tackle both air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, were performing poorly against their smaller, less powerful—but more maneuverable—North Vietnamese counterparts. The 13:1 kill ratio American fliers enjoyed in the Korean War dropped

Is America’s Military Slowly Becoming Obsolete? ( Source- National Interest / Author- James Hasik)

Bowing B-52 Stratofortress ( Image source- Wikimedia Commons / Author- United States Air force) Source- National Interest Author- James Hasik In The Australian last November, David Kilcullen argued that “the West’s failed counter-terrorism strategy requires a complete rethink.” Set aside for the moment James Fallows’ screed in The Atlantic last December. Thirteen years of not-quite-winning two wars in the Middle East and South Asia, despite overwhelming material advantage, is not a good track record for national strategy. At this point, the air campaign against ISIS may be holding the line, but it is not rolling anyone back, and cannot do so alone. Frankly, as I argued here more narrowly a few days after Kilcullen (see “Software is Eating the War,” 3 November 2014), the West's whole defense-industrial strategy could use a thorough rethinking too. Ominously, though, shifting economic and technological trends are rendering questionable its hitherto highly successful mas

A Solution to America's F-35 Nightmare: Why Not Build More F-22s? ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Dave Majumdar)

USAF F-22 Raptor ( Image credits- Wikimedia Commons / Author- USAF) Source- The National Interest Author- Dave Majumdar America’s F-35 clearly has its share of problems. Such challenges only compound the U.S. Air Force’s real dilemma: not having enough dedicated air superiority fighters as potential competitors like Russia and China beef up their own capabilities. The problem stems from the fact that the Air Force’s Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor fleet was terminated after only 187 aircraft were built–less than half of the 381 jets the service needed as a bare minimum. Speaking to reporters at the Air Force Association convention in National Harbor, Md., just outside the capital, Air Combat Command commander Gen. Hawk Carlisle said he would love to see the Raptor back in production. “I dream about it every night,” Carlisle said. Indeed, the Raptor has proven to be a formidable warplane with its unique combination of stealth, speed, maneuverability, altitude and senso

The Lethal A-10 Warthog: A Nuclear Bomber? ( Source- The National Interest / Author- Joseph Trevithick)

Image source- Wikimedia Commons / Author- USAF Source- The National Interest Author- Joseph Trevithick Despite what the Pentagon and senior Air Force leaders might say, the A-10 Warthog is far from a “single-purpose airplane.” But dropping nuclear bombs might be one of the things the low- and slow-flying attackers actually can’t do. But the Air Force once briefly considered the idea. In December 1975, Secretary of Defense Bill Clements wanted to know how much it would cost to modify F-15 and F-16 fighter jets so they could carry atomic weapons. Two months later, the Air Force sent back data on what it would take to upgrade those two types of aircraft—or the A-10—with nukes. “For your information, we have also provided similar cost data on the A-10 aircraft,” states an unclassified memo War Is Boring obtained from the Air Force Historical Research Agency. “The estimated cost to make 275 A-10s nuclear-capable is $15.9 million.” The total amount—equivalent to

The U.S. Air Force's Ultimate What If: No F-35 and Many More F-22's ( Source- The National Interest / Author- James Hasik)

USAF F-22 Raptor ( Source- Wikimedia Commons / Credits- USAF) Source- The National Interest Author- James Hasik The idea hasn’t gotten beyond the Duffel Blog and this column, but what if the USAF had long ago dropped the F-35A? As I noted last month, had the Pentagon foregone developing a wholly new fighter jet, the $100 billion it has spent to date on the F-35 project would have bought about 740 Eurofighter Typhoons. Euro-anything, of course, is hardly the USAF’s style, and the War Department hasn’t bought a French fighter since 1918. Doing so today is about as likely as Rob Farley getting a “Friend of the Air Force” award from General Welsh. So what else might the USAF have done? As a first-order vignette in this alternative history, let’s assume that former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wouldn’t have ended the F-22 program in 2009 at 187 aircraft. That said, the answer was never just a lot more F-22s. The first problem is procurement and operating costs. The US