Tag: Air Force, Internet, MILITARY, News, Space
Space Force finds a dead Cold War-era satellite missing for 25 years
The US Space Force located a tiny experimental satellite after it spent two-and-a–half decades missing in orbit. Hopefully, they’ll be...
The Air Force’s big new electric taxi flies at 200 mph
Today, members of the military and an executive from Joby Aviation used a giant pair of scissors to cut a ribbon in front of an electric...
What’s in the US military’s historic lost and found: nukes, jets, and drones
For roughly 24 hours, between the afternoon of September 17 and the evening of September 18, the United States Marine Corps couldn’t find...
Joby’s latest electric air taxi will head to an Air Force base for tests in 2024
Small planes have one propeller, bigger ones have two, and helicopters have a giant rotor on top and a smaller one on the tail. Then...
The Air Force used microwave energy to take down a drone swarm
In the desert plain south of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and just north of the Isleta Pueblo reservation, the Air Force defeated a swarm of...
What to expect from the US Air Force’s sixth-generation fighter jet
On May 18, the United States Department of the Air Force announced that it is looking to award a contract for the Next Generation Air...
A new NASA study will put people through a brain-shaking ride in the Kraken
Pilots can experience forces while flying that punish their bodies, and they can also find themselves in disorienting situations. A...
Watch a giant military drone land on a Wyoming highway
On April 30, an MQ-9 Reaper drone landed on Highway 287, north of Rawlins, Wyoming. The landing was planned; it was a part of Exercise...
How fast is supersonic flight, and why does it create sonic booms?
To fly at supersonic speeds is to punch through an invisible threshold in the sky. Rocketing through the air at a rate faster than sound...
This electric plane’s 2,000-mile journey is over. Now its Air Force tests begin.
On Wednesday, October 18, an electric aircraft powered by a single propeller flew into, and then out of, Joint Base Andrews, the military...
