The First Time an Aircraft Took Off from a Navy Warship Eugene Ely's daring and fortitude paid off, and he eventually ushered in the age of U.S. naval aviation by successfully...
Incidents of Laser Points Aimed at Aircraft Have Spiked, and It Has the Air Force Concerned Personal laser pointers, small beam projectors used for everything from professors during college lecture presentations to...
The Navy Test Pilot Who Shot Down His Own Fighter Jet Not every military test pilot can set records like Chuck Yeager, but what happened to Tom Attridge on Sept. 21, 1956, was...
911 Call Shows Bizarre Circumstances of F-35 Ejection: 'Not Sure Where the Airplane Is,' Pilot Says A military pilot whose advanced fighter jet went temporarily missing is heard repeatedly requesting an ambulance in a...
What We Know About the Marine Corps F-35 Crash, Backyard Ejection and What Went Wrong The crash of an F-35B Joint Strike Fighter aircraft in South Carolina has raised numerous questions about what prompted the...
I'm a Top Gun-Trained Fighter Pilot. I'd Make More Money as an Airline Pilot, But It Wouldn't Be as Fulfilling. The Naval Academy wasn't on my radar in high school, but being a successful swimmer got me noticed by their college...
3 Ospreys Made Forced Landings in Japan. The Marine Corps Said There Were No Indications of Clutch Issues. The Marine Corps says that three Okinawa V-22 Ospreys that diverted from scheduled flight paths due to "caution indications"...
A Look at Recent Vintage Aircraft Crashes Following a Deadly Collision at the Reno Air Races Two pilots died when their vintage planes collided in front of tens of thousands of spectators at the National Championship...
That Missing Marine Corps F-35 Isn't the First 'Zombie' Aircraft to Wander Off Without a Pilot While it might seem hard to believe, this wouldn't be the first time zombie aircraft kept going without a human element.
China Flies 103 Military Planes Toward Taiwan in a New High in Activity the Island Calls Harassment China’s military sent 103 warplanes toward Taiwan in a 24-hour period in what the island’s defense ministry called a recent...
Marine Corps Says Half of Barracks Had Issues, Though Only 118 Marines Moved, After Worldwide Inspection The inspection took place between February and March, a quick time frame for a herculean task that involved looking at...
Temporary Promotions for Army Noncommissioned Officers to End in June The Army will suspend the temporary promotions starting in June in one of the most significant changes to its promotion...
Marine Corps Aims for a New Way of Teaching, Ditching Old Models of PowerPoint Lectures The service will focus on the individual Marine's ability to learn rather than cramming instruction into their heads, whether...
Ukrainian Drone Attack Sets Major Russian Oil Refinery on Fire Oil-processing, one of Russia’s most important industries, has been a target of Ukrainian drone attacks since late January.
Navy's Newest Warship Named for Fierce Marine Corps Campaign in Afghanistan The top leader of the Navy announced Thursday that the service's future amphibious ship, a landing helicopter assault vessel...